Sodinė heichera (alūnė) – Heuchera x brizoides hort.

Sodinė heichera

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Sodinė heichera (alūnė)
Latin plant name	Heuchera x brizoides hort. Heuchera x brizoides
English plant name	Rock Geranium
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Clump, beds (mixborder) Flowerbed, parterres Groups Rockery, retaining walls Cemetery Wild plant parterre Pods
ASSORTMENT	supplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	average wet soils
Lighting	Half heliophobic
Spacing, cm	From 30 to 40
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	tall - 61-80 cm
Habitus	flower with expressive habitus, for design as accent
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	green purple variegated
Blossom color	white red, red tints
Blooming time	spring - April Second Decade - June First Decade
Blooming period	2 months
General ornamentality	decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	5
Group	logn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: seeds, rhizome and scrub division. Seeds are sown in pots before Winter or Spring. Seeds are very small. 25000 seeds per 1 gram, 1000 seedlings per 2 grams of seeds sown Seedlings are pricked out in hotbeds when 2 true leaves appear. If temperature is very low hotbeds should be covered with leaves. Seedlings grow slowly; begin blooming in 2-3 years. The flower is propagated by 58 cm long rhizome parts and rooted in hotbeds or beds. Leaf rosette with rhizome piece is rooted in hotbeds.