Popular houseplants

Murraya is one of the most popular tropical exote plants that can be grown on your windowsill. The attractiveness of muraya is obvious: openwork spreading crown, abundant fragrant flowering, responsiveness to attention and care (abundance of berries), fairly easy rooting of cuttings.

How to get murrai seeds, prepare them for sowing. Seed sowing technique, cultivation and crop care.

Studies on neutralization of volatile organic compounds (benzene, toluene, formaldehyde, etc.) by indoor plants. Data on the most popular indoor plants is presented - find out what indoor flowers should be in the house...

We will tell you what affects the ability of indoor plants to effectively clean the air, how many plants are needed in the house to make the air cleaner and which plants can be recommended to novice florists.

With the inclusion of heating in the cold period, the air in the premises becomes dry. People are looking for different ways to moisturize the space in their home. One of the natural sources of moisture is plants. There are 9 indoor flowers that significantly increase humidity levels and help maintain health.

Let's say you have several plants belonging to the same species. I tell on the example of my stromanta. We put all three (or how many of them you have there) pots with flowers next to them and determine by eye the one where the most leaves are. If the most magnificent turned out to be the most spoiled, you have to choose from the remaining least painful and tenacious at first glance. If after such a technique you have one rastishka - the job is half done, no - look further, and, analyzing choose less between two evils, look not miss...

And you need to do so that this beauty and health do not disappear overnight. Therefore, we carefully pack or control the packaging process.
Feel free to ask to pack more carefully if it is winter or autumn outside the window. The plant must fully reach the house alive and healthy. In many stores, plants are brought in cellophane bags on which the name of the plant is written. But even if your flower turned out to be without a bag, feel free to demand to pack in it, and then two layers of paper (of course, if the seller himself did not do this)...

If a maranta, ktenante or calatea plant collects leaves, then everything suits it in care, and if this does not happen, then you need to think about what is wrong. It is advisable to feed marants (ktenante, calathea, stromantu) with a complex fertilizer containing not only Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium, but also a set of trace elements in chelate form. The need for watering, more precisely in their frequency and abundance, directly depends on the humidity of the air and the rate of drying of the soil. The faster the earth dries up, the more often you need to water...

Outwardly, adenium does not look like a rose, of course, but its second name fully justifies it - it is one of the most beautiful desert flowers. The natural habitat of ChaOman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, as well as Central and South Africa. However, the "desert rose" is very successfully cultivated in the humid tropics - Thailand, India, Malaysia, the Philippines. It is there that enterprising producers experiment, cross, breed more and more varieties and spread adeniums to other countries and even to other continents...

Gloxinia is photophilous, but in direct sun it is better not to put it, especially in the flowering phase, the flowers fade quickly, and the duration of flowering is greatly reduced. In spring, when the sun is not too hot, it will feel good on the southern window, but with the onset of June-July (depending on the climatic zone), the plant will need to be rearranged on the eastern or even western windows, or shaded from direct, sunlight...

First of all, I try to buy a healthy plant. I inspect the store for pests. The size of the flower depends on the size of the wallet at one time or another. In principle, you can quickly collect a collection of different roses by buying tiny pots for 100 (or even cheaper) rubles. Rose is a fairly fast-growing plant, so you don't have to worry about size. In a couple of months - the plant can reach quite decent sizes...

Brighamia Insignes is a botanical name - Brighamia insignis, a pahicual trunk succulent, belongs to the subfamily of lobelian bell-bellied family (Campanulaceae), growing on the coastal cliffs of the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago. In culture, brigamies are rather not demanding and not whimsy, they grow up to 1 m in height...

Fuchsia can be proud of his truly noble origin. The first plants were brought to Europe from Chile at the beginning of the 19th century, and since then flower breeders have bred hundreds of varieties, most of which are combined with both simple and double flowers under the name hybrid fuchsia (F. x hybrida). The source material was several wild species, including fuchsia magellanic (F. magellanica) with small but very beautiful flowers....

That shank my beauty grew out of was apical from a little basal shoot. Any segments of the trunk, no matter with leaves or without, would be rooted in diffenbachia, there would be a pair of kidneys on them.
As experience has shown, it is precisely such cuttings from the middle of the trunk that most quickly (in about a week) give roots in water...

Ampelee, climbing plants and creepers are those plants that have soft, usually long branches that need support. If there is none, then they just hang down freely. Actually, creepers differ from ampel plants in general in that their shoots are directed upward, and air roots (like philodendrons, syngonium) or special devices - antennae (like passiflora) help to keep them in a raised state...

Bulbs are selected large, healthy, tight to the touch. For early distillation, planting begins in September-October (flowering by the New Year), and for late - in November (flowering by Christmas ).
You need to find a spacious, preferably clay pot, 2-3 times the height of the onion. Mandatory with drainage holes. Drainage is poured on the bottom. The substrate for bulbs is taken as for seedlings, with a neutral or slightly acidic reaction, be sure to sterilize! Deciduous humus or peat with sand is good. There is an opinion that the bulbs should be screwed into the ground compacted in the plate. Other flower growers categorically dissuade from this. In fact, there is an optimal option: Drainage and land are poured into the area. Then it is compacted, pressed, rammed to get half the height of the pot, bulbs are placed...

Ferns are considered unpretentious plants in culture, probably, this opinion has developed due to the ability of many species to tolerate overdraft. Another plant would simply die, but the fern, after pruning all the dried leaves (wye) and moistening the earthen coma, will grow again. However, the ability to survive in extreme conditions and still have an attractive, decorative look is not the same thing. For a fern, it is necessary to create certain conditions so that one could say about it - handsome! Fern is one of the oldest plants on earth. In nature, it grows under the forest canopy, where it is always humid and where direct sunlight does not penetrate, so ferns do not have any devices to preserve moisture and protect against the scorching rays of the sun. Based on this, it is necessary to create appropriate conditions for their detention...

Hoyi are climbing evergreens with wicker-like shoots, on which numerous beginnings of subordinate roots can be seen. Fleshy leaves sit opposite, on short petioles. The star-shaped flowers are usually fragrant, collected in drooping umbrella-shaped inflorescences. In the center of the flower is a five-membered crown, which is actually a modified stamens and pistil, it abundantly secretes nectar. More often it is painted in reddish tones. The petals are white or with small shades - cream, greenish, yellowish, there are species with yellow and purple-red flowers...

This wonderful plant, known to florists under the botanical name plumeria, is also known under the name frangipani, in honor of the Marquis Muzio Frangipani, an Italian who lived in Paris and is fond of perfumery. It was he who first used the aroma of plumeria in creating perfumes, and then body creams.
Most species of plumeria are trees or shrubs that branch well, with a spreading crown and a powerful root system. A certain unpretentiousness...

One of the common and favorite deciduous houseplants. All crotons sold in the store belong to the same species: Codieum (Croton) variegated Codiaeum variegatum. But suppliers of imported plants often omit the species name, leaving only the genus name: Codiaeum and varieties, for example, 'Curly Boy'. But in addition, the names on the imported plants may not match the names given to this variety by its author.
The range of distribution of codieums is quite wide, and climatic conditions differ somewhat in different places, this led to intraspecific changes, and within varieties, in turn, to the formation of new forms. The forms arose as a result of even greater ecological and geographical isolation of individual representatives of the croton...

In winter, in January, I ate persimmon, planted bones in a temporarily empty (before that, coleus grew there) planter, and a little later, in a planter for amaryllis. The land in both planters is ordinary, bought in the store - universal. Both planters stood on the northwest windows: in the room and in the kitchen. The temperature in the room is 18-19 degrees, near the window is slightly lower, in the kitchen the window is slightly open almost all the time, even in winter. Watering - once every 10-12 days. About a month later, in early February, two growths of persimmon appeared on the window in the kitchen...

The main feature by which vallot can be distinguished from other amaryllis is the saturated purple color of the base of the sheet. The bulb is elongated-ovate, sometimes pear-shaped pink-brown in color with a massive neck, which on some plants does not have a clear border with the bulb body. If you remove the upper scales, you can see an interesting color game: it changes from almost white at the bottom of the bulb to dark pink at the neck...

Anthurium cannot be called a very capricious plant, but just like the herb-tradescantia, it will not grow and bloom. It needs a special approach - special soil, moderate watering, good lighting.
One of the most important conditions for the successful cultivation of anthuriums is the correct choice of substrate. It should hold the plant well, retain moisture and nutrients, dry out easily and let air through. At the same time, it should not quickly decompose, cake and compact. Here are some recipes for earth mix...

Shelves and racks for flowers, stacks, pendants - we do it with our own hands .
Sooner or later, but in the life of many flower growers the question arises: "Where to put?! The place is over!" Indeed, green pets have flooded all available places and planes, and threaten to evict the owners from the legally occupied bed. Households in indignation shout that plants could be smaller, but who will listen to them? How can you refuse cacti, violets, ficuses and other handsome people cherished by such labor and love? And there is no need to refuse, because relatives are making noise, most likely, just for the sake of sight, and they themselves secretly admire the green kingdom and proudly say to their friends: "And we have such a monster! In half a room!" And casually consider these acquaintances less well-groomed specimens...

Cyclamen is one of the rare plants that bloom from late autumn to spring. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, entire fields of cyclamen appear on all major sales and trading floors - from Auchan to OBI, and at a very modest price.

These cyclamens are grown by manufacturers specifically for the New Year and Christmas holidays. And they are intended to please us for a very short time - 3-4 weeks. Then most plants die...

Myrtle is one of the most beloved plants by florists: a noble species, easily malleable to the formation of wood, huge possibilities for choosing the end result - the appearance of the tree. Myrtle is growing rapidly and the only problem is the regulation of irrigation, without drying and without waterlogging.

On this page, read how to grow a beautiful myrtle tree, how and when it is better to root cuttings, how to choose the size of the pot, etc...