It's cute when you look closely.

Of succulent plants, probably Usyuki mannengusa (scientific name Sedam hispanicum). Probably because it grows naturally in the land here. But it is not a Japanese kind but a foreign kind. It seems that it was brought to Japan a long time ago and spread to the Okhotsk region of Hokkaido. I found not only the land here but also in Kitami City, collected and compared with the local one, I can confirm that it is the same thing.

One plant is very small, and the way it grows is basically a seedling, but even if you chop the grown ones and sow them, they will root and increase.

Basically, if seeds are made like biennial plants, the stock will die. Conversely, if seeds are not made, branches will increase and it will survive for a long time. One stock is really small, but if it is suitable, it will be in a dense planting state and it can grow in clusters on a considerable scale.

The land of this house, the abandoned railway track and the station building used to be nearby, and it seems that it has grown on the premises because it is unexpectedly close to the cargo storage place. In the garden of the shop that used to sell food and stationery, which seems to have been often used by people who walked from the original station building to work and school, it was like a Persian carpet on the ground. It was a wonderful sight when this was growing and the leaves were autumn leaves and Hana blooming and bearing fruit.

The place where the store was located is one step higher from my home site and sandy land with good drainage. It seems to be the best place for growing succulent plants.

The national highway that the road was made from the development period passes through the site of my home, and the drainage condition is not very good because my home side is a low land one step down from the national highway. Still, it seems that a stream used to be used as an irrigation channel in the site in the past, and now the flow has been changed from the upstream and the water is flowing to the side of the mountain far away, but probably from the upstream before the development The remains of the riverbed made of pebbles and sand that have been continuously carried and accumulated remain as a "registered wilderness" like a cat's forehead (it seems that there were too many stones to make it a field, so a barn was built here) If it is close to there, this Usuyuki Mangusa grows and grows.

Perhaps it seems that this was crowded in the riverbed when the stream was flowing.

Perhaps from the time after the railroad was built, the seeds of this plant were brought to the riverbed from people who went on the national highway to commute to work and school, or from soil stains attached to the luggage of carriages. Until the country sold it to the private sector, it was a place where many people used it as a playground for children and fishing.

A long time ago, when people settled here, this was the land of the base, and at that time it was owned by the country. There was also a proper well in the village of the tenement owned by the country, which was nearby, but if it was laundry, the stream would probably have been used, and it should have been used as a resting place and a drinking place for horses in carriages that transported goods from other places to the base and unloaded.

It is said that the indigenous family lived until the building of the current house was completed, and the long and narrow road only to the house which was in the land far away from the road is located, and it seems to be a remnant of the passage that everyone used to go to the stream until a small bridge to go to the back.

As proof of this, when I dug the soil to plant and bloom daffodil bulbs on the edge of the flower bed of the trail of the road on the site, it was almost river sand and pebbles were mixed abnormally, and it was only stones with round corners similar to the gravel floor of my house, so I threw the stones that came out while digging towards the gravel floor.

So, in the area where the stone that I threw away the following year fell, this Usuyuki Mangusa grows densely...

Seeds like powder of this plant were stuck to the fine sand that was stuck to the surface of the stone.

Even so, just sticking to the stone is quite a seed... How much of this seed was contained in the soil... Probably before the flow of the stream changed and the river bottom was reclaimed, it was quite a long time on the riverbed that this kind grew in large clusters and made a large amount of seeds and dropped them into the soil, and it could not germinate, but it was a thing that survived and dormant as a seed for decades in the soil...

Most of the land here is an untouched wetland except for the stream until the indigenous people bought it and opened up the wilderness and turned it into rice paddies, and I heard that it has been about 60 years since they settled in this land because the indigenous people's main family knows.

I have already experienced some other types of wild grass here, but seeds of wild grass can continue to go for at least decades if they can lie dormant in the soil, and for some reason they can grow all at once if they come out to the surface and are suitable for germination.In addition, wild azumai stew suddenly grows from the edge of the national highway, and it has been growing at a considerable speed in the last few years alone. Even when this flower is blooming, it is cute and I love it, and the leaves become red copper in time, so make use of it as a color leaf Personally, I am very happy that this has grown on the premises 💕

It is a surprise unique to this land that Hana grows cute and edible wild grasses. It is a great option with a great deal 💓

In addition, in the spring, wild mitsuba (which also grows suddenly and grows in large groups), Yamaudo and Hosta are all you can eat. It is the best garden for me to enjoy wild grass mixed with planting.

By the way, this Usu Yuki Mannengusa. There is a sedum paridam (Japanese nameless) that looks just like it.

In the growing season, the characteristics of silvery slender leaves are the same and it is not distinguishable at all. However, there is only one clear way to distinguish.

When Hana blooms, the number of petals is different. Paris Dam has five petals, and Usuyuki Mannengusa has six, which is one more.

Personally, both types are plain white Hana but have many petals, so Usuyuki Mannengusa looks more cute than the star-shaped Hana of Paris Dam.

The way the stock grows is also unique, and it may be limited to varieties that grow in Hokkaido, but the branches that grow and increase are always Mitsumata.

In other words, when it grows from the ground first, it is divided into three from the root, and three branches are born again in each. When the stock itself grows in a dense planting, it rises up and grows densely. This feature does not come out even if you examine it variously, so it seems that it is not well known.

In my garden, there are many former wetlands, so this type is almost never kept in clusters, and even when it was a cluster made from dormant seeds, when Hana bloomed all at once in two years, the cluster disappeared. It often grows alone from Achikochi, and even if it is carefully protected and raised, it does not grow as a whole by drying with gravel and grows tightly as a whole, so it does not grow large, and most of the width of the plant is not even 5 cm.

It seems that the soil quality of the soil used for the height away from the ground and potted plants fits, and it grows relatively well if it is there.

In a dry environment, if it does not rain satisfactorily, the leaves turn red regardless of the time and turn dull light pink, and when it rains a lot, the leaves increase and the fine leaves swell and the silvery green looks beautiful, and it looks pretty cute at this time as well.

As shown in the image, the fruit that can be made after Hana has a strong red color with a sheath divided into 6 pieces per ring, and it looks like Hana again, it is a little cute, it is a really small plant, but the real thing is unexpectedly pretty cute.

In the parking lot of the former home center in the neighborhood, the seeds seem to have been mixed in the soil caught in the groove of the tire of the car coming from another place and carried, and the yellow Hana blooms on the asphalt.

It is a kind that is strong in the shade, so I purposely grow it in the shade of a tree and grow it for a long time, then replant it in a fashionable pot with legs and hang it for a long time to make Hana bloom.

In addition, from the place I found, it seems that the car that my family drives for work and goes far away has been carried from other places, Tight Gome is growing in a pot now to grow more.It is unique to Hokkaido, which is a foreign plant paradise, that succulent plants that can overwinter are spreading and growing there.

In foreign countries, it is called "Garden Sedum" that has cold resistance and can be cultivated outdoors. It is often used as a color leaf.

In foreign countries, most varieties have been improved, but in Japan, this Usuyuki Mannengusa is also sold at home centers as a color leaf of succulent plants.

Although there are some types of garden sedum planted in my home, this Usu Yuki Mannengusa exists inexhaustibly in my home (because it grows as much as you sow the soil mixed with seeds) You don't have to be careful not to cut it off like other types, and it's a succulent plant for outdoors that you can enjoy easily even though you can handle it easily without having to grow too much.