Flowers for March 8

Many, probably, thought that it would be nice to give a friend, teacher, mother, daughter, sister not a bouquet of flowers, but some plant or flower in a pot for March 8. And many more of those gifted in 2-3 weeks, after March 8, begin to search the network for answers to questions, which ultimately boil down to one thing: what to do with the flower?

So it turns out that they choose potted flowers as a gift from those that they liked more, seemed prettier, brighter, more colorful. And few people think that a loving person will want to preserve, grow and make it bloom again by all means. And not everyone succeeds, sometimes it is impossible.

Sometimes the disappointment is even greater than from a faded bouquet, because it seems to a person that a plant in a pot should live a long time! Therefore, before buying flowers for March 8, or any other holiday, think about how your friend will react to it. If she is one of those people who do not fan of growing flowers, then feel free to buy the most beautiful flower to your taste, it is unlikely that a person will be upset if he wilts in 2 weeks or 2 months.

If you are going to give flowers to a person who has just started to get involved in growing flowers, then choose flowers intended for permanent, year-round growing in pots, rather than seasonal ones. Seasonal plants or potted flowers are hyacinths, gerberas, crocuses, primroses - they will survive in the apartment until June at the most, then they need to be transplanted into the garden. The problem is that many are trying to continue growing them in the apartment, are unwilling or unable to drop them off in the garden. As garden flowers, these flowers are also not the lightest and undemanding, they need to be really looked after.

Therefore, so that your beloved or girlfriend gets a real gift and can keep it longer, give only flowers for March 8 that do not require special and special conditions of content.

In short, here's what you have to face when you receive some popular flowers as a gift:

• Azaleas - require light, cool, do not tolerate drying, do not like watering with hard water.
• Hyacinths, crocuses, primroses, gerberas - will live in a pot until the end of flowering, the hotter and darker in the apartment, the faster they fade.
• Senpoli (violets) - require very good lighting in autumn and winter (additional lighting), special soil and uniform irrigation (without extremes of overfilling and waterlogging).
• Cyclamens - they love coolness, do not tolerate overdrying, but are quite unpretentious.
• Roses are prone to gray rot, do not tolerate excessive watering, are very often carriers of ticks or instantly become infected with the onset of warm days, require a cold room in winter.
• Phalaenopsis - require a special substrate and pots for planting, do not tolerate waterlogging (categorically), otherwise undemanding, but for re-flowering they need a light windowsill. Only a girl who is ready to read orchid care literature and devote some time to them is suitable.
• Anthuriums - more unpretentious, easy to grow, do not tolerate waterlogging - will not die, but are covered with brown spots.
• Gardenia is beautiful, but capricious to the point of impossibility - pour only soft water (boiling is often not enough), does not tolerate waterlogging, is often already flooded in the store.
• Cacti - require special soil, cold (or very cold) wintering and sunny windowsills.
• Echmea, guzmania, vryesia - require watering only with soft water, otherwise unpretentious, but you will have to read about growing bromeliads.
• A bottled garden is an expensive gift that requires very careful care (pruning, transplants), in its original form it exists no longer than 2-3 months, then the plants stretch out, clog each other or grow too much.

There are plants that are quite unpretentious, but you need to understand that minimal care will be necessary from the very first day. Some plants can stand on the windowsill for two weeks, in quarantine and acclimatization, while the happy hostess reads about its cultivation in a book or on the Internet. There are plants that will require immediate transplantation, almost immediately after purchase - for example, orchids (phalaenopsis and others) very often come to our house flooded, albeit in bloom. If you leave them for a week or two, the orchids will rot.

What to look for when choosing flowers as a gift

1. Choose the healthiest flowers in sight. For example, if you choose an orchid, then in a transparent pot, carefully examine the roots, they should be light green or gray-green, but not gray-brown.
2. Try to buy plants that have been in the store for 2-3 days - no less and no longer. Here's why: if the plant was carried insufficiently insulated, the result of freezing and hypothermia (and in March it is still cold) will appear in the first 3 days - brown spots will appear. If the plants stood in the store for longer than 3-5 days, there is a possibility that they were transfused by compassionate saleswomen , or infected with thrips or ticks from bouquet flowers.
3. Do not give plants that have poisonous juice if the girl has a child or cat (they can accidentally stick a leaf in their mouth or eat, get burned or poisoned).
4. You can choose a simple-looking flower, but choose a beautiful spectacular pot for it.

What flowers in a pot to give on March 8

For the holiday, it is worth giving enough unpretentious plants that will stand for a long time, give the new hostess a head start of several weeks so that she can love them and prepare (she read about leaving, acquired new pots, land).

15 best plants as a gift

If your friend is an avid collector of houseplants, for example, grows varietal violets, succulents, or a big lover of citrus fruits, has been doing this business for more than one year, then it is very difficult to guess with a gift, if you yourself are far from floriculture, then it is almost impossible. In this case, we can advise you to buy not fresh flowers in a pot as a gift for March 8, but something from the floriculture inventory:

• flower pots included (3-5 pots in the same style)
• hanging planters or braided pendants (e.g. macramé)
• mini-greenhouses and terrariums
• decorative pebbles or figurines in pots with flowers
• humidifier
• flower rack
• cute lights for lighting plants
• accessories for hydroponics
• water treatment facilities (e.g. water softening)

And the last recommendation: when buying flowers and plants as a gift, ask the seller to write down the name of the flower so that the one who receives this beauty can immediately find all the necessary care information.