Every hostess wants to make unpretentious beautiful flowers for the house. Which are the best to choose? How should I take care of them? Today we would like to tell you about gardenia and geranium, about some of the most popular plants among the female population.
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Gardenia jasmine belongs to the family of madder, its homeland is Japan, China. The plant, exquisite in its beauty, is an evergreen shrub with dense dark-green shiny large leaves growing opposite. Gardenia grows to 0.6-1 m, blooms from June to September. In the flowering period, at the ends of adult shoots, inflorescences with buds of 2-5 pieces appear, large terry flowers, waxy ones up to 8 cm in diameter, with an amazing color from pure white to cream shades, which varies with them depending on the stage of flowering.
Gardenia is a little whimsical, demanding to the conditions of the maintenance of the plant. Although the plant likes heat, light and moisture, it should be protected from direct sunlight. If the lighting in the room is weak, then you should provide the plant with additional lighting, creating a 10-12 hour light day. For the correct maintenance of the plant should adhere to an average temperature of + 18-22 ° C, in winter not less than + 16 ° C. The temperature of the soil and air must be identical, which is difficult to control. During the formation of buds, it is necessary to maintain the temperature at 17-19 ° C in the daytime, at night - 2 degrees below. The temperature of the room where the plant is located should be constant, and watering carefully, otherwise the gardenia will discard the buds.
Particular attention should be paid to the humidity of the air and the correct watering of the plant. Water for irrigation should be acidified, with a pH value of up to 5, the plant is very demanding for waterlogging and drying the soil, once a month it is necessary to add citric acid to the water. During budding, the humidity of the air should be higher, to maintain its pot with a plant put on a pallet with a moist substance, for example, moss and periodically sprayed. After the flowers are dissolved, the spraying is stopped to avoid occurrence of brown spots on the petals.
For fertilizing the plant, a mineral or organic fertilizer without calcium is used, which is added 2-3 times a month. The plant is very sensitive to the composition of the soil, especially to the lack of iron and the excess of chlorine that come with water.
For the propagation of gardenia, apical lignified cuttings are used, which take root in the spring or autumn time in a mixture of peat and sand. During the rooting period it is necessary to maintain the air and soil temperature of about 25 0 C. The capacity for transplantation increases with the growth of the plant, but insignificantly.
Of pests that attack the plant, one can note aphids, spider mites, scutes.
GERAN (PELARGONIUM)
Geranium refers to a large family of geranium, having South African roots. The plant is an erect, leafy bush with herbaceous stems, with a total height of 1-1.5 m. The main feature of geranium is leaves with a peculiar aroma and slightly pubescent hairs. Geranium is an unpretentious light-loving plant, loves abundant watering in summer and limited-in winter. Perfectly feels on the windowsill in normal conditions, in the spring-summer period it is desirable to add mineral fertilizing to the water.
For a beautiful plant formation, the bush needs to be pricked or pruned, but not often. Sometimes it is enough to pinch a plant growth point at the plant, that it would give new young shoots. For the reproduction of geraniums it is enough to cut off the apical stem and plant it in a separate semi-dry substrate, slightly podvyavy before landing. The best time for cuttings of a plant is the end of winter - the beginning of spring and during the summer.
Transplantation of geraniums is required annually, in spring time before the beginning of growth. It is not necessary to transplant geranium in a large container, otherwise the plant will actively develop shoots without buds. The best soil for geraniums is a mixture of sand and composition, which includes humus, leaf and turf (1: 2: 2: 2).
GERAN IS SOUL (PELARGONIUM IS SOUL)
One of the most unpretentious species of geraniums, does not require special conditions of detention, grows well on the north side. The plant can perfectly decorate the room, since its leaves, in contrast to other varieties of geraniums, have an interesting shape and color, and a pleasant fragrant smell, something remotely resembling a lemon. Small flowers have different shades from pink to purple.
GERAN ZONAL (PELARGONIUM ZONAL) - a plant with green, with a red-brown rim and slightly wavy leaves. Flowers have different colors and number of petals, collected on peduncles in hemispherical umbrellas.
GERAN ENGLISH (PELARGONIUM LARGE-COLORED) - the most beautiful kind of geranium, mainly decorates the rooms, thanks to large folded leaves of sharp-lobed form and finely toothed edges. Flowers are large, have a variety of shapes and colors, from white to burgundy. English geranium is whimsical, loves cool light rooms, where it blooms beautifully and abundantly.
Now it remains only to choose what flowers in the house you need!