Indoor flowers and plants
Crotch family. Homeland Africa, Madagascar and Pacific Islands, Asia, Cuba. About 15 species are common in nature. Stephanotis floribunda is an evergreen vine whose shoots become woody over time and reach 5-6 m in length. The leaves are oppositely arranged, oval in shape, at the end a small sharpening, dark green in color, on short petioles. The leaves are dense, juicy, about 10 cm long and 5 cm wide, slightly bent along the central vein. Inflorescences - axillary scutes, carry 8-10 fragrant flowers.
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Succulents - from Latin succulentus - juicy. This is a group of drought-resistant plants capable of accumulating moisture in their organs (stems, roots, or leaves), and storing it for a long time, thus safely surviving the dry season. Popular: sansevieria, stoneware, euphorbia, lithops (living stones)
How to buy flowers and keep them healthy. Indoor plants bought in the store experience double stress: such flowers are grown in greenhouses, where high humidity, temperature and appropriate illumination are maintained. Transported in any weather and any season. Ends the action of fertilizers and stimulants, new hands and new care.
Purchase of Marant. What to pay attention to, inspection, acclimatization.
Cacti occupy a special place among all the variety of houseplants and differ from them in appearance. Cactus is a succulent, it is able to store water in fleshy stems. And for their successful cultivation, it is required to reproduce the conditions of growth in nature as accurately as possible: drained soil, dormant period in winter with cool maintenance, good sunlight and fresh air in summer. Find out what types of cacti are popular and how to care for them.
This is a method of growing plants without soil, in which all the substances necessary for nutrition are obtained from an aqueous solution. For home hydroponics, a substrate of fine expanded clay is usually used, as it has a better water-holding capacity. Vermiculite and perlite, glass substrates, etc. may also be used. Here you will also learn how to make a hydroponics solution.
They are bulbous plants, many of which are domesticated, naturally common in tropical and subtropical climates. The main reason for the popularity of amaryllis is the chic inflorescences, which can consist of one or more flowers.
Classification of the Amaryllis family Articles about hippeastrums
If you are interested in how to properly vaccinate citrus fruits or care for a coffee tree, grow pineapple, strawberries, or maybe medlar, avocado or even figs at home, then you will find answers to these and many other questions in the forum "Fruit Garden."
How to choose a bonsai for your home. Not every plant is suitable for forming a miniature tree in a pot. The most valuable coniferous trees: pine, thuja, cypress, as they are quite hardy and a piece of the world around us looks unusual in miniature. Although, these plants are difficult to survive in room conditions. But there are many other plants suitable for the formation of bonsai: pomegranate, myrtle, ficus, azaleas, citrus, hibiscus.
Uzambar violet or senpolia is one of the favorites among indoor flowers. Senpoli amaze with a huge variety of forms and colors. In addition to the usual violets, there are miniature violets with tiny bush sizes, and small mini-violets, ampel senpoli (trailers), variegated violets, with simple and terry flowers, wasp violets. And these wonderful plants, despite their external unpretentiousness, have their own preferences for care (watering, air humidity, requirements for soil and fertilizers).
You bought an orchid, but for some reason it doesn't grow or doesn't want to bloom. Namely, because of flowering, they are popular. You need to decide how to properly care for the orchid at home. Learn more about orchid soil and transplants. How to keep flowers healthy, cure root rot on phalaenopsis, and understand why leaves turn yellow in an orchid.
Mulberry family. It is one of the most common houseplants. Fikus lyre-shaped, Fikus bengali, Fikus dwarf, but especially Fikus benjamin, striking with a variety of varieties and amazing color of leaves, are very popular. Ficuses are not only beautiful, but also useful - they cleanse the air in apartments from harmful impurities and moisturize it.
All ficuses do not tolerate drafts, dampness in the soil and direct sun (ficuses of variegated forms are more photophilous, tolerate direct sun, but shading is necessary in the hottest hours of the day).
Photos of the most common and some random pests, signs of damage on the leaves. Ticks, shields, worms, thrips, whiteflies - how to get rid of them, what means to use to protect plants. But some "worms" must be remembered and not frightened - these are the larvae of lacewing and ladybug.
Symptoms, photo, prevention and treatment. To establish the cause of the disease, it is important to collect as much information as possible about care, observation of damage, changes in growth and development. Susceptible to diseases, primarily plants weakened by adverse conditions, violations of care conditions, for example, excess moisture or fertilizers.
