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Indoor plants: home, species, care

Green home friends are in every home. Among them there are saplings, shrubs and herbaceous plants. Each of them has a unique shape, unusual colors.

From the native land of houseplants to us the rules of their successful breeding come.

Home Plants: Properties, Utility and Harmfulness

Many years of practice and experience confirm the sanitary, aesthetic and hygienic role of most indoor plants. They contribute to the purification of air from carbon dioxide. He, as a rule, is 23 times more indoors than in the open air.

Due to the colors, the air is enriched with oxygen. The leaves of indoor plants evaporate moisture, moistening the air and lowering its temperature.

Natural green color has a beneficial effect on the nervous system and psyche. Improves the mood of people and their performance.

Especially valuable are plants that emit essential oils and phytoncides, which have the ability to kill disease-causing microorganisms. There are about 50 species of such houseplants nowadays. The study of their properties involved doctors, along with chemists and botanists.

There are also "doctors" among them (for example, aloe and calanchoe, golden mustache and geranium).

Do not plant poisonous plants at home, and if they are, be careful. These include spurge, oleander, alocasia and acalifa. If such plants like and like, and look good, it is desirable to put them in a place inaccessible to children, and be yourself in contact with them attentive.

Kinds

Indoor plants in their decorative properties are usually divided into 3 large groups. The plants of the first two are ornamental and ornamental flowering houseplants, which do not lose their attractiveness during the whole year. The third group is ornamental flowering plants that attract attention only during flowering periods.

In addition, among the plants grown at home, separate groups are distinguished: palm, orchid, bromeliad, cactus and succulent, fern, bulbous, and also fruit-bearing.

Care of houseplants: rules

  1. Roots need not only water, but air. Overmoistening of the soil leads to death or to disease.
  2. In winter and late autumn, the air in the rooms, mainly with central heating, is dry. You need to learn how to properly maintain its humidity.
  3. Almost all indoor plants need a certain period of rest. At this time, they should be watered less often and slightly less fed. And still need to provide a lower air temperature than in the period of active growth.
  4. A couple of years after planting, most of the plants lose their attractiveness. In this case, simply replant the flower in a larger pot.
  5. When caring for plants, the following tools are needed: a watering can with a narrow long spout, a sprayer, an old fork and spoon, pruners, a soft sponge. Good land, pots, supports, pallets, liquid fertilizers in vials - this is all that is necessary for proper care of flowers.
  6. If the plant is flooded for a long time, it may die. Also with pests. If a pair of scabbards or any other insects have appeared, it is not difficult to wrestle with them. And when they cover the whole plant, they can not be defeated. Hence, it is necessary to recognize in time any problems that are coming to the plant and take the necessary measures to successfully combat them.
  7. When choosing flowers for growing indoors, it is necessary to take into account the conditions provided for them. There are light-loving plants and shade-tolerant plants .

News from the homeland of indoor plants: what you need to know?

Where did the home plants come from, where do they grow in nature? Let's consider some of them.

  1. Flowering decorative plant verbena - perennial from the family Verbena. Her homeland is America. It is applied both in pot culture, and when decorating flowerbeds on the open ground.
  2. Evergreen shrub gardenia - a jasmine plant (180 cm) from the family of the Marenovs. His homeland - the subtropics of China, Africa, Japan, Asia.
  3. Gerbera from the family of complex flowers - comes from South Africa. It is also grown as a cut, and at home.
  4. Hibiscus (the family of Malva) comes from the tropics and subtropics of southeast Asia (southern China), Polynesia, northern India. The whole genus of it has about 300 species. It should be noted that this plant lives more than 20 years.
  5. Hortensia ( Hortensian family) in nature grows in China. In culture it was from the end of the XVIII century.
  6. Primula from the Primrose family, uniting about 20 genera, is distributed mainly in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Japan and China are the birthplace of the flower. In all there are more than 600 species.

The world of indoor plants is amazing and beautiful. Flowers not only decorate the design of any room and give it coziness, but also pleases the eye year round, recalling the snowy winter in the diversity of colors of nature.

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