For its long stems, which grow more than 1 meter is called the Mexican stonecrop Cola de Burro - donkey tail. In cultivation occurs in 1935. The plant brought Eric Walther, botanist Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, when the State Veracrus looking for new types of Echeveria. The award of this plant is related a story when he first saw this plant at the entrance to ......... kávovníkové plantation greeted him with an incredible view of the numerous cans hanging on the wall under the eaves, from which grew pale green plants over a meter long, almost hiding the house. Walther bought several of these plants, but information about its origin from local people yet. After three years the identity of the plant remained unknown until the time when Meredith Morgan, caused the plant to flower. It was the first time the plant bloomed for the first time outside Mexico. Eric Walther plant named in honor of Dr. Moragana - Sedum morganianum.

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The relatively recently discovered species (1988) is a Mexican peppers adorn each sukulentářské collection. Sedum hernandezii in my collection for five years. The plant I received as a small steak, which took root very readily and in a short time created several offshoots. Today this is no proper Sedo huge bunch. Three years ago I planted it in the Square-dish which is now quite tight, but I did not receive the courage to plant transplanted into larger containers and that it was deserved. Cultivation of this species is not too demanding. Just him and planted it to grow happily.

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And we have again an error or negligence rather horticultural companies, perhaps targeted obochodní move which, while ensuring that some kind of plant that sells only one distribution company (because it simply does not exist and that kind of name is invented), but also promotes confusion in the genus Sedum. Last year (2009), I hit the stonecrop offer beautiful dark bronze color. just could not resist a plant I bought for little money. On her nametag read reflexum Sedum 'Chocolate Ball'. Of course that was followed by the first correction to the names of reflexum rupestre. But it just seemed to be wrong, because the linear leaves are very delicate and more flattened than the Sedum rupestre. Following repair of the second, the possible name Sedum montanum, which would have corresponded to plant habit.

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Among the attractive zimuvzdorných group of succulent plants is undoubtedly one genus Rhodiola. Some species are among the growers already widely known, it is mainly a low kind of creepy and Rhodiola Rhodiola pachyclados troll. Stonkovývh of higher species, it is the Rhodiola rosea, which is rare in our Giant and the Slovak Republic in the Little Fatra. But that list does not end with this family. Among the higher species of sukuletních vkultivaci and not too frequent plants include Rhodiola rhodantha, (formerly Sedum rhodanthum), originally from North America.

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I wish you much luck and success in the new year 2010.

Last year I organized a summer Stonecrop first exhibition in the country. Exopzici came to see about 500 visitors who came from the Czech Budejovice, through Liberec, Ostrava to Zlin. From my perspective, this unique event has been great interest and I hope that other classes will be successful. Because the questions I get when the show this year, I decided to publish a provisional date for this season.

Exhibition stonecrop

gardening in the garden palette Ředhošti

18.06 - 18.07.2010

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