Chrysanthemums in a pot. Care and growth features

If you want to be happy, grow chrysanthemums. So they say in the Land of the Rising Sun. Fine and sad flowers of autumn can please at other times of the year, if you try to grow chrysanthemums in a pot. Care for them is an art worthy of a whole study.

Once the Greeks called this flower "golden-colored" ("χρῡσανθής"). Perhaps it was a very long time, because today the plant has about one hundred and fifty species and up to two thousand varieties of all conceivable and unthinkable colors. Chrysanthemum has come to us from the East, for the right to be called its homeland, China and Japan compete. In both countries, this flower is considered a national treasure, special days are established in honor of it, festivals are held. In Japan, chrysanthemum is generally considered a symbol of imperial power. The practice of awarding the highest award - the Order of Chrysanthemum - also exists in Japan.

Chrysanthemum is a long-term decorative culture of the family of astroves. It is a half-shrub in height from 20 to 80 centimeters - depending on the variety. The flower invariably evokes associations with the autumn landscape, but you can see it from the flower growers and sellers at any time of the year: it has long been learned how to grow chrysanthemums in a pot. Care of them, of course, needs a special one. First of all, it should be borne in mind that this is a flower of a short day. Receiving light for more than ten hours during the day, the plant will not bloom or will give single flowers. Therefore, when deciding to plant this spoiled eastern princess in a pot , one must be able to provide her with a favorable lighting regime. And the temperature regime should be no higher than 17-18 degrees for the chrysanthemum in the pot.

Care Behind the leaves - protection from dust, spraying - is very important. They are even more sensitive to differences in conditions of detention than flowers. If something does not like the plant, the lower leaves begin to fade and crumble - a familiar picture for those who grow street varieties of chrysanthemums "oaks". For small-colored varieties, it's enough to pinch the tops to get a thick bush. And if you need large flowers, you can grow them only one-stem method.

Watering also has its own characteristics. These flowers remain true to their whims: they do not endure neither dryness, nor waterlogging of soil or air - these are chrysanthemums! In the potty care They are much more troublesome than in natural conditions. In the open air, for example, they can easily tolerate high temperatures, even the sun. It may be easier to survive the rain that pours the roots, and then - the dryness of the soil. Naturally, within reasonable limits.

Growing chrysanthemums in a room - in a room or a greenhouse - certainly differs from keeping them in an open flower garden. At least because on the street the root system is preserved, it hibernates and gives new flowers year after year, whereas in the room conditions they are grown as annuals. And this is from ignorance. Chrysanthemums after flowering can be cut off at the root and put in a dark cool place - for the winter. In spring, take it out, start watering - and wait for a new flowering.

But what many certainly do not know about is that chrysanthemum is a medicinal plant. Not only that the very presence of these flowers in the room, admiring them, inhaling fresh tart aroma can give a full sense of happiness and peace - tea from their petals acts toning, raises mood, favorably affects the cardiovascular system, and is also recommended for colds As an anti-inflammatory and antipyretic.

And how then do not like chrysanthemums - flowers of autumn?