The house is not rare breed houseplants, potted flowers are full members of the family almost anywhere. Caring for them requires special efforts: each plant needs its own temperature and light mode, literate watering, regular fertilizing, transplanting. To the house always grow green flower garden, you need to carefully select houseplants, caring for them in accordance with their mode of development, nutrition, flowering.

Temperature range

One of the important components of a comfortable indoor plants is the thermal regime. Before you buy a plant, it is important to know the natural area of ​​origin. The vast majority of indoor plants - the representatives of the tropics and subtropics, which is why they find it difficult to endure the changing seasons. The negative reaction to the changes in temperature may be expressed in defoliation, the appearance of spots on the leaves, flowers and stems. Many plants are the most important phase of development only under certain thermal conditions.

To find out what the temperature for one or another inhabitant of the vegetable kingdom on the windowsill is most appropriate, only need to carefully read the terms and conditions of the indoor cultivation of the flower. This will help the book, Internet and professional advice Florist florist.

Watering houseplants

Without water, no plant can not survive for long, even the most hardened succulents. The higher the room temperature, the lower the humidity, the more abundant and needs watering potted flowers. When indoor air is dry, you can help to survive a pet regularly spraying them with warm boiled water. Plants with hairy leaves (Begonia, Saintpaulia, maidenhair) do not like it when the water goes directly to the leaves, so manual irrigation should be carried out under them, around the roots.

Land in pots should always be kept in a moderately moist, as drying of the soil leads to the death of plants, and excess moisture leads to root rot, mildew. The golden rule of watering is better to pour more and more slowly than the rare and abundant. Irrigation mode is selected individually for each plant, depending on the capacity of the root system, the structure of the leaves and flowers.

Light regime

Before you bring a new plant in the house, you must know the lighting conditions and their own capabilities. The best side of the world where many survive potted plants are southeast and southwest. Plants on a window sill will highlight these in the morning and all day. Windows facing east and west, at different times of the day will be delivered to plants enough light and shading is not needed. South windows are best delivered light plants during the winter, while in summer in the afternoon, they can burn the leaves. In this case, it recommended during the hot sun to shade room flowers, closing the blinds or curtains. For windows facing north, it is better to buy plants, loving the scattered light, the list of colors is quite long.

Feeding plants

Without regular fertilizing land in the limited capacity of the pot quickly exhausted. However, this issue is needed expert advice as fertilizers applied at the wrong time or in large amounts, in the abundant concentration can cause irreparable damage to a living organism. For tropical houseplants can be a good preventive therapeutic mineral water irrigation. This dressing helps to get rid of limescale forming on the walls of ceramic pots.

Another popular means of dressing may be water left from the boiled potatoes. It contains starch, which activates the soil organisms and helps the plant to quickly collect the sap. Incubate for three to five days in the water eggshells helps with watering plants strengthen their roots and stems. Enough to pour a "egg" water indoor plants once a week. Coffee grounds and tea sleeping also helps the flowers to grow faster, to fight disease.

It is interesting

Everyone can spend nemudreny experiment with some plants when watering for a week or two, you can talk as with human beings, to praise, to thank them for clean air, for the beauty and bloom, the flower of the soul for the environment. At the same time some one plant rogue curse, yell at him and regularly pour their negativity. The result of the experiment will numb: pets, plants will grow faster, more beautiful, colorful flowers bloom How to wear bright colors: 7 Tips   ahead of time. Poor zahireet, ill and can even die. Flowers - creating a lively, subtly responsive to the emotions of the owner.

Different houseplants react to pollution. For example, in a room, where ever smoke, asparagus, clivia, Impatiens will feel quite comfortable. This Marant, cyclamen, ferns, Saintpaulia, orchid on tobacco smoke respond yellowing leaves and fading fast.

Jeanne Pyatirikova

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