Primula primrose - caring for a beautiful plant

Primula is a perennial plant that pleases its beauty in the flowering period. There are more than 500 varieties, but for rearing at home, the backcall and backlosset primrose are best suited. Care and cultivation are possible both in the open ground and in room conditions.

The variety of shapes and colors of flowers, reaching 6 centimeters in diameter, is very impressive. Pale lilac, dark red, pink, orange, sometimes supplemented with white ornaments - this is not a complete list of the variety of species. Petals of primroses have wavy edges, and inflorescences are collected in an umbrella. Rosette light green leaves are located on petioles or are in a sitting position. Elegant flowering plants reach 30 cm high, on each of them can develop up to 10 peduncles.

Wishing to start a plant there is a natural question: how to care for the flower of the primrose? Below are some tips, thanks to which you can grow healthy beautiful flowers.

Primula primrose: care and development features

Buy primrose is not difficult: it is sold all year round in the horticultural societies or in flower shops. When choosing a plant, it is necessary to buy the one whose flowers have not yet blossomed, and there are no spots on the leaves.

It is necessary to determine the place in the house where the primrose room will stand. Care for her does not pose any difficulties: the plant is unpretentious and will develop beautifully in the garden, on the terrace and in the room. Primrose does not like heat, and the best place for it will be the gap between the window double frames in a cool room. The plant should be well illuminated, but it is necessary to pritenyat it from direct sunlight. Flowers growing in the open ground, in conditions of very frosty and snowless winters need shelter. At the onset of cold weather, they must be insulated, covered with a spandbond or other material.

The vegetative period of the plant continues from germination to the loss of leaves. As a rule, it ends at the end of spring. In summer, the primrose should be in a state of rest in a cool, well ventilated room.

The soil in which flowers grow should be moderately moist. If the plant is in the garden in the shade, then watering can be reduced. During flowering, the soil must be constantly moistened. Before watering, water can be checked with a litmus indicator for alkali - if it turns blue, then this liquid will not work. To water has a neutral environment, it is added to the liquid mineralized fertilizer or citric acid.

With the observance of agrotechnics from autumn to April, the primrose blooms in the room. Care of the plant is simple, if you follow the recommendations described above. The primula is propagated by seeds, which, for better germination after sowing, must be kept at a constant temperature of 18 degrees, ensuring high humidity. After germination of shoots, humidity and temperature can be gradually reduced.

It is necessary to regularly remove dried flowers and leaves in order to maintain the decorative nature of the plant. This procedure is necessary for all beautifully flowering crops, is no exception and the primrose is indoor. Care in this case is to cut off the yellowed and wilted parts.

When working with the primula, it must be remembered that the plant is poisonous. Some gardeners after the treatment procedures get itchy rashes. An allergic reaction is caused by a priming, a poisonous substance released by the hairs of the terrestrial part of the primula. True, the beauty of flowers negates this deficiency, especially since the allergy is not found in everyone.