Recommended: Garden flowers and plants, dwarf drowning varieties! Drowning is a deciduous shrub in the genus Saxifrage family. Large deciduous shrub, up to 3 m tall. The bark is flaky and flaky, the twigs are hollow, reddish-brown

Recommended: Garden flowers and plants, dwarf drowning varieties!

Drowning is a deciduous shrub in the genus Saxifrage family. Large deciduous shrub, up to 3 m tall. The bark is thinly flaky, the twigs are hollow, reddish-brown, there are star-like hairs when young, and the old branches are smooth. Leaves opposite, short stalked, leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5–8 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, apex pointed or tapering, base slightly rounded, margins dentate, thick green, stellate hairs on both sides, rough. erect panicles with white or pinkish spotted flowers; sepals cup-shaped, lobes triangular, early falling; petals oblong, with star-like hairs on the outside; capsule nearly spherical, flattened apex, 2–3 mm diameter, dark brown surface, with three shallow grooves, mostly white spots, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, with sepal shedding marks or residues; The peduncle is yellow pubescent, the exocarp is thin, easy to break, and 3 chambers are visible in cross-section, each chamber is filled with black seeds, the seeds are extremely small, kidney-shaped. The flowering period is from May to June, and the fruit ripening period is October.

Common varieties, large flowers and double-petaled thinning.

The main flowering period is concentrated in late spring and early summer, and the blossoms are as gorgeous as cherry blossoms. Most of the loose flowers have a light fragrance, single-petal varieties bloom star-shaped, clusters bloom, flowers full of branches, and double-petaled varieties are more like elves flying on the branches, graceful and moving.

At present, there are new hybrid dwarf varieties in the flower market, and their mature plant height and crown width are only about 50 cm, so they are especially suitable for potted plants or small space gardens and balcony planting. Among them, "snow cherry blossom" is a pink dwarf variety with leaves that take on a distinctive burgundy color in autumn and winter. "Edelweiss "is a white dwarf variety with flowers blooming like snow, and when viewed from afar, you can see no leaves in the flowers. These two dwarf varieties bloom earlier than other drowning varieties, and can bloom in late spring, the branches naturally curve and droop, and the whole plant is a dense clump, forming a natural ground cover, which is very recommended as a potted plant, or as a beautiful flower blanket, or planted on a low wall, allowing the flowers to hang down like a waterfall, creating the beauty of falling cherry blossoms.

"Strawberry Field" is a relatively new hybrid drowning variety with single-petal star-shaped flowers, white pollen, mature plant height and crown diameter of about 2 meters, and is known as one of the best varieties of pink flowers. The "strawberry field" blooms slightly earlier than the double-petaled cultivars, and the early summer is full of pink flowers and clusters of pink and white petals.