Arends’ saxifrage Purple carpet, seeds Search 0.01g

An excellent ground cover. Winter-hardy perennial plant up to 15 cm high. Forms dense thickets of small rosettes of leaves, strewn with many purple-pink flowers on thin pedicels. Blooms in May-June. Indispensable when creating a base on rocky slides. Agrotechnics. The plant is cold-resistant, prefers fertile, fairly moist soils and semi-shaded areas. Propagated by sowing seeds in March in boxes. The seeds are not covered, only lightly sprinkled with sand. At a soil temperature of + 20 ° C, seedlings appear on days 14-20. Seedlings dive in the phase of the first true leaf. They are planted in open ground in July, keeping the distance between plants 20-30 cm. You can sow seeds directly on site in April or autumn. For the winter, the plants are covered with a 10 cm layer of leaves.