There are about 100 species of annuals, biennials, mostly evergreen mat or cushion forming perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur in the mountains of the Northern Hemisphere. \u00a0\u00a0The small rosettes produce hairy leaves and produce stemless or short stemmed tubular based small white or pink, 5 petalled flowers in spring in summer with flat or cup shape lobes held singly or in umbels. \u00a0Favorite for rock gardens.<\/p>\n
If grown indoors plant in pans in full light with good ventilation very sharply drained mix of equal parts of soil based potting mix and grit with a collar of grit around the neck of the plant. \u00a0Best watered from below.<\/p>\n
If grown outdoors, plant in moist but gritty well-drained soil in a trough in full sun. \u00a0In hot areas with hot summer provide shade from afternoon sun.<\/p>\n
Prone to\u00a0downy mildew, leaf spot, rust <\/i><\/em>and aphids.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Androsace sempervivoides<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This mat forming evergreen perennial derives from Kashmir and Tibet and grows 1-2\u201d tall and slowly spreads to 6-8\u201d wide. \u00a0On reddish stolons it produces open rosettes \u00bd-1\u201d across of oblong to spoon shaped leathery hairy edge mid green leaves \u00bc\u201d long. \u00a0In mid and late spring it produces umbels of 4-10 pink to mauve pink scented flowers 3\/8-1\/2\u201d across with yellow eyes sometimes turning red atop of \u00a0\u00be\u201d-3\u201d long stems.<\/p>\n Zones 5-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Androsace \u2013 Douglasia \u2013 Rock jasmine There are about 100 species of annuals, biennials, mostly evergreen mat or cushion forming perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur in the mountains of the Northern Hemisphere. \u00a0\u00a0The small rosettes produce hairy leaves and produce stemless or short stemmed tubular based small white or pink, 5 petalled flowers in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[30,21,55,28,16,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160251815"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}