Evergreen cypress house. Care of the plant.

A little about the plant

Coniferous plants grown at home make the air in the room healthier, increasing the ozone content and reducing the pathogenic microflora. Successfully cultivated some types of cypress and cedar, Araucaria, Thuja, Cryptomeria, cypress room. Care for them in homes with central heating is difficult, but growing is possible.

Kiparisovik (Latin Chamaecyparis) is a monoecious evergreen coniferous tree of the cypress family. Outwardly the shape of the cypress cones resembles cypress. The structure and structure of the needles are more like thujas. It is distinguished by the fact that its branches are flatter, and the cones are smaller. They mature within a year and contain two seeds.

The crown of all types of cypress trees is conical, the bark of a dark gray or brown color is cracked, the trunk is straight. Branches drooping, buds scales, spherical. Wild-growing cypresses reach 70 m, while at the same time in decorative species the dimensions are relatively small.

The most common types: lop-dog cypress, cypress-stupid, cypress-nutcan, cypress-pea beetle. They are distinguished in form, color shades and structure of needles, frost resistance. For the West-European zone, the most unpretentious and resistant to the mild cold climate are the decorative species of Kiparisovik Nutkansky and the peasants. Their content is quite simple. A popular sort for growing at home is the cypress-berry macrocarpa Goldcrest, featuring an elegant bell-shaped crown and upright stems, and the Kashmiri Kiparisik is a weeping form.

Cypress room. Care of the plant

Cypress, room care for which requires an elementary knowledge of its biological characteristics, thanks to its needles, is beneficial for the nervous and respiratory system of man. Intensively producing oxygen, it improves the microclimate of the room.

Kiparisovik is a heat - loving light - loving plant, quite shade-tolerant. Fertile, drained soil is suitable for him. In the droughty period, a cypress tree needs watering.

Kiparisovik, care for which provides for a cool hibernation, it is necessary to keep the winter at a temperature of plus eight to ten degrees and high humidity. For this, the plant must be regularly sprayed or a pallet with wet pebbles is installed. It is also necessary to protect it from drafts. Thus, in winter, these plants need to create a cool temperature regime and a rare watering. At the same time the drying of the earth coma is inadmissible.

To place the cypress is desirable on the eastern and northern windows, creating for him artificial shading in the summer. Cypress is well placed in group compositions, which serve as an excellent background for more colorful plants.

For the reproduction of cypress, springy cuttings are used in spring, and seed reproduction is also possible.

Cypress room, caring for which was carried out correctly, can reach 2 meters. Adjust the growth can be by trimming. Top dressing of cypress is carried out with liquid fertilizers from May to August once a month. It is desirable to dilute the fertilizer, using half the recommended concentration, so as not to overfeed the cypress. Room care should ensure uniform watering, without over drying and waterlogging. When the temperature is high and the humidity is low, the plant discards needles, the branches dry up and do not regenerate.

For cypress, as well as for other conifers, it is important to preserve the earth lump at the roots, so as not to destroy the symbionts that are necessary for assimilation from the soil of nutrients. The plant can be transplanted every three years (in spring), monitoring the integrity of the earthen coma at the root.