Lately, quite often treat the question of how should be properly planted with dry stone wall. Walls, as such, I like it. Not the modern, concrete precast what looks like real stone, but the real, what line the country lanes, arise from the old tumbledown walls, now nonexistent home. Walls are formed as people worked their fields, and collected stones stacked along the boundary. Walls which are hidden lizards and insects, which nest in small birds. In Finally, there are also new walls that arise from our gardens as a decorative element and are fitted with different kinds of hardy alpine plants. For me personally the most beautiful walls of the old marl stones on which they signed the ravages of time. They are slightly weathered, cracked and covered with interesting plants. Last year I had to save one such wall and decided that the most natural way. Planting resistant species of plants, whose roots solidifies gradually slumping walls.

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Rod Prometheum is a small, distinct, monophyletic (natural) group of 8 species having a common origin. The group evolved from the genus Sedum subgenus Gormania in Iranian - Turkish area. Some species are closely related genus Rosularia, which differ from the absence of developed caudex, shaped cyme inflorescence instead of panicles, less connected petals. Seven taxa are recorded from areas in Turkey, three species are endemic in Anatolia - P. chrysanthum, P. muratdaghense, P. sempertinicum var. serpetinicum and P. serpetinicum var. giganteum. The remaining four species are distributed in the Caucasus, Iran and Iraq - namely, P. Aizoon, P. pilosum, P. and P. rechingeri sempervivoides.

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