Plant selection

 

As a rule, a variety of flowers and plants can be found in the room and on the windowsill of an amateur flower grower. Among them you can find decorative-flowering and decorative-deciduous plants .

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As you might guess, ornamental flowering plants are distinguished by beautiful flowers, while some have leaves of little value, and some have very beautiful green foliage. Most ornamental flowering plants require very good lighting and love fresh air. There are flowering plants that are only decorative for a while (spring-summer), and in winter require a dormant period, usually in cool conditions. The most unpretentious are hibiscus, hoya, pelargonia, gloxinia, eschinanthus, amaryllis.

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Ornamental-deciduous plants usually rarely bloom at home, do not bloom at all or bloom, with nondescript flowers. The leaves have a wide variety of colors and shapes. Plants are usually covered with leaves all year round, but there are also deciduous ones. Variegated forms are usually more photophilous than plants with pure green leaves. If you are looking for the most unpretentious plants, pay attention to ficuses of benjamin and elastic, philodendrons, ferns, aglaonems, crotons, caladiums.

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Cacti and succulents with fleshy leaves should be included in a separate group. Virtually all cacti have no leaves, and most have spines. Among them there are spherical, cylindrical, large (prickly pears grow at home up to 1.5 m) and very babies. Many cacti bloom with very beautiful flowers. Among leaf succulents there are many plants that are not difficult to grow and worthy of attention: havortia, gastenia, stapelia, sediments, flowering adeniums, spreading agaves. But many cacti and succulents need very good lighting.

After you have decided what your plant should look like, see what conditions it needs. First of all, decide on the possible temperature in the room, and with the lighting. Below is a table with the temperature range. But these are not temperatures for constant room content, but temperatures that may be in the natural habitats of some plants, i.e. permissible temperatures. Under such conditions, plants can stay during the dormant period with a reduction or complete cessation of irrigation, for several days or weeks. Moreover, most plants do not need such wintering at all, but are able to tolerate it. These readings can come in handy if flowers are on the balcony to navigate when they can be brought indoors.

But still, there are plants that need a cold period of rest, otherwise they may not bloom, because in the cool they have flower buds, or to get sick, drop leaves if they are not light enough in winter. But there are few such plants, these are indoor acacia, cypress, pomegranate, myrtle, oleander, jasmine, clivia, calceolaria, hyacinth, Japanese fatsia, Canary date, cicas, etc.

Grouping plants by temperature

Temperature from 6-7 to 10-12 ° С

without watering

 American and small-flowered agave, calamus, indoor acacia, obese adenium, aloe, orange, aporocactus, araucaria, ardisia, ariocarpus, aspidistra, astrophytum, brovallia, brugmansia, bouvardia, venus flycatcher, pomegranate, gasteria, hyacinth, hydrangea, dixonia, darlingtonia, jasmine, kalanchoe tubular flowering, calceolaria, cypress, southern cordylina, calamondin, callistemon, camellia japonica, cassia, kleistocactus, clivia, corinocarpus, cotyledon, crassula, kufea, lanthanum, lachenalia, lily, lemon, lobelia, lophophora, mammilaria, myrtle, neoporteria, ophiopogon, stoneware, oleander, prickly pear, garden rose, Washington palm, parody, passiflora, pelargonia, ivy, racquetlike, rapis, rebucia, cycad, sarracenia, piglet, sparmania, trachycarpus, trichocereus, faucaria, Japanese fatsia, feijoa, date Canary, ferocactus, ficus dwarf, fuchsia, chamerops, chamecereus, chlorophytum, cereus, cestrum, cymbidium, cirthonium, cissus antarctic, eonium, echeveria, echinocactus, echinocerius, yucca.

Temperature from 10-12 to 13-15 ° С

with very rare irrigation

 abutilone, avocado, Queen Victoria's agave, anigosanthos, allamanda, alloplectus, alocasia, asparagus, achimenes, balsamine, ornamental-flowering begonia, brunfelsia, bougainvillea, veltheymia, hemanthus, gerbera, hymenokalis, hyperastrum, hypocorta, gloriosis, grevillea, guernia, davallia, zamioculcas, zamia, zantedechia, zebrina, iresina, calanchoe, saxifrage, Japanese camellia, cataranthus, lycasta, lithops, mandevilla, manettia, melocactus, micania, milkweed Mil, muraya, nertera, nolina, notocactus, pachypodium, primrose, poinsettia, radermachera, ripsalidopsis, ripsalis, Sims rhododendron, selenocereus, stapelia, strelicia, streptosolen, tetrastigma, tillandsia, tolmeia, tunbergia, fatshedera, fenestraria, benjamin ficus (with green leaves), havortia, hamedorrhea, coelogine, ceropegia, cephalocereus, cyclamen, cineraria, cyperus next leafed, rhombus cissus, scheffler, espostoa, echinopsis, jacobinia, jatropha.

Temperature from 15 to 18 ° С

with moderate watering, only after complete drying of the earth

aglaonema, Raddy's adiantum, akalifa, amorphophallus, pineapple, anthurium, asplenium, aphelandra, banana, begonia Bauer, Mason and royal, begonia coral and hogweed, brainia, beloperone, blehnum, gardenia, gedichium, hibiscus Chinese, gloxinia, wanda, vryesia, hemigraphis, hibiscus dissected, hymenocallis, ginura, hypoestes, globba, hoffmania, gusmania, dendrobium, doriopteris, dracena bordered and derem, jacaranda, diffenbachia, dichorizandra, dioscorea, doritaenopsis, dracena derem, fragrant and bent, jasmine, morning glory, caladium, calanchoe Blosfeld, calathea, calliander, callisia, cardamom, cattleya hybrid, clerodendrum, cordilina apical, coffee tree, large-tongued crossbill, crossandra, ktenant, calanta, caryote, codium, coconut, coleria, columneas, costus, cryptanthus, leia, medinilla, shameful mimosa, monster, mast milkweed, maranta, miltonia, sparkling milkweed, nepenthes, neorelegia, nephrolepis, nidularium, oncidium, liviston palm, pandanus, paphiopedilum, pachyra, pachystachys, pellea, pellionia, pentas, peperomia, pereskia, pepper, pilea, platicerium, plectranthus, pteris, pisonia, polyscias, pseuderantemum, raphiodophora, reo, senpolia, sansevieria, selaginella, synningia hybrid, smitianta, solandra, sofronitis, streptocarpus, tevetia, tradescantia, sanhesia, setcreation, siderasis, syngonium, spatiphyllum, stromanta, tillandsia blue, ficus benjamin, rubbery, philodendron, date Robelen, fittonia, chrysalidocarpus, hovea Forster, hoya, juanulloa, cyperus, scheffler, cissus multicolored, schlumberger, exacum related, epipremnum, episcia, eschinanthus, echmea.

Most plants are photophilous, and they need a lot of light for good growth and bud formation!

Plant Selection (Part 2)

By the way

Flower growers lovers very often in conversation give plants such a concept as endurance. Hardy plants include plants that tolerate shade, are not demanding on the soil and the frequency of watering, and rarely suffer from waterlogging. For example, aspidistra, asparagus, monstera, ivy, syngonium, sansevieria, most succulents, chlorophytum, etc. There are also very whimsical plants, which include akalifa, calathea, gardenia, etc.

By the way

An experienced florist strives to have accurate knowledge of the different needs of his plants. And before choosing a plant, you need to decide which plant you would like to see at home, and whether you can create the appropriate conditions for growth and development. In addition, for flowering, some plants need a special climate and care for flowering.

By the way

It should be said that there are plants that belong to both ornamental-deciduous and ornamental-flowering. These are most bromeliads, saffron calatea, hoya, etc.

By the way

In the table, you can see that some plants find themselves in the heat-loving group and in the cool room group. This is only because some plants, which tend to be unpretentious, can grow well in both warm and cool conditions. However, these plants, like all others, need to be transferred from a cool to a warm room gradually, accustoming them to temperature changes.

Deciduous plants at home

Achimenes, some types of azaleas, wisteria, hydrangea, gloxinia, some types of magnolias, some varieties of roses, etc. These plants are only ornamental for a few months of the year. These plants need to be properly maintained during dormancy. As a rule, this is the storage of rhizomes, bulbs or tubers, at low temperatures in a dry, shaded room. Tubers or bulbs are either dug up or stored directly in the ground, without watering.

Plants with variegated leaves

Not only flowers decorate plants, in many species there is such a beautiful, colorful and diverse color of leaves that the absence of flowers is not noticed. The variegated color of the leaves attracts abutilone, various types of begonias, sansevieria and chlorophytum.

The most beautiful variegated forms in ficus. This is primarily a ficus of Benjamin, its leaves so colored in white and yellow tones that the green is almost invisible. No less attractive are diffenbachia, rare variegated species of monster and pisonium. Among cacti and succulents, there are also variegated forms, such as aloe variegated, white-spotted euphorbia. The multi-colored leaves of marant, codiums, crotons, cordylines and coleus are also good.

For all variegated forms of plants, light is of particular importance, since in low light they lose brightness and variegation of color, become faded and depressed. In addition, most of them prefer higher containment temperatures.

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