Beautiful strelitzia. Care at home for the "bird of paradise"

An exotic miracle, a crane in a flower pot, a bird of paradise is represented by the strelitzia. Care at home for this African beauty is not particularly difficult, but still requires compliance with certain rules. In nature, there are five species of this plant, but not all of them are grown in our region. In countries with cold winters, royal strelitzia is common , it is grown in a container. But in warm regions with mild climate it is used as a garden plant. Although it has very beautiful large leaves, but keep it mainly because of spectacular colors.

With what only does not compare strelitzia. Care at home does not scare the exotic lovers at all, just to get such a wonderful miracle and admire the flower resembling an arrow or the head of a flamingo with a tuft. The combination of colors is very unusual and colorful - bright blue, yellow-orange and red shades look original. The plant pleases with flowering about 1.5 months. Cut flowers are often used to create compositions, they stand for a long time in the vase, they perfectly transport transportation.

Reminiscent of the oars, dark green on long cuttings leaves has a strelitzia. Care at home provides annual flowering, although if you create certain conditions, then the plant can please "paradise birds" twice a year: in spring and autumn. Strelitzia loves space, a lot of light and moisture. The flower can be placed on the southern window. But in the summer it will be too hot there, and the leaves can be cauterized under the scorching sun. Ideally he feels himself on the eastern window, where the sun's rays illuminate him only in the morning and are not yet so hot.

Flowers shoots only when they are grown. For abundant flowering, it should be kept for some time in a room with a temperature of about 15 ° C, so arrows appear mainly in late February - early March. If the plant provides such conditions in the summer, then it will bloom repeatedly in October-November. From the beginning of spring and to the end of summer it is necessary to carry out feeding two times a month. Use the best liquid fertilizer for beautiful flowering plants.

In the summer, it is ideal for shooting in the garden or on the balcony. Care at home requires regular watering. From spring to autumn, it should be abundant. With the onset of the rest period it is necessary to limit watering, but still the earth clod should not dry up. Humidity does not play a big role, but if the plant is in the garden in summer, then from time to time it should be sprayed and wipe the leaves from dust.

The transplant is carried out approximately every two years, when the flower grows from the old pot. You need to choose high flowerpots, because the root system develops in length. Cultivation of strelitzia requires caution, because it has very fragile roots. It is best to do the transshipment in a larger pot, without shaking the ground. The plant multiplies by division and seeds. Separate the rhizome should be very carefully, on one part there must be at least two points of growth. Strelitzia is resistant to diseases and with proper care is not sick.