Decorative salleolia: home care, reproduction, photo

This delicate ornamental plant, oddly enough, is a relative of the nettle. It was discovered by seafarer Soleiro in the 19th century. The name of this scientist is immortalized in the name of this plant. It is also called helix.

This article represents the plant soleryrolya. Care at home is not particularly difficult. More on this later in the article.

It should be noted that some amateur gardeners are considered a solitary species as a weed. However, many grow it at home. There are great advantages in it, besides decorativeness. Despite the seeming tenderness, this rather strong and hardy plant is able to tirelessly spread.

Before we will be more closely represented by solerolia (home care is also considered), we will give general information about the plant growing in natural conditions.

general information

This plant is found in wild nature on the rocky, shady and wet parts of the territories of the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Mallorca.

It is a herbaceous creeping plant with very small leaves - perennial. Its stems with leaves grow quite rapidly and rapidly, forming reservoirs. In them they also sprout, forming forms, similar to beautiful openwork balls of a saturated green color.

The leaves of soleryerolia of small diameter (0.5 cm) have a rounded shape. Peduncles in his solitary, small and the appearance is not very attractive.

Application in design

In ornamental gardening they are usually grown in vases or in low pots, similar to a bowl.

Due to the fact that solerelia is a ground cover plant, it possesses a unique quality: when planted in the same pot with other large plants, sooner the solery salt can completely cover its entire soil with its leaves. It looks great in any composition in general.

The flower, which is (as noted above) to some extent a relative of the common nettle, is a magnificent ornamental plant with an interesting name - solerelle. Care at home (the photo is presented below) is not very complicated, but there are some special moments. It should be borne in mind that soleryrolya can strangle stunted plants, located next to the flower arrangement.

Features

Soleirolia attracts not only its decorative qualities. It also has the following special qualities: neutralizes harmful emissions from modern electrical appliances and office equipment; Is highly sensitive to the atmosphere of the room (it will not normally grow in gassed and smoky rooms).

Soleilia: home care, photo, types

The genus soleyroleia (gelksiny) has one species. This is Soleirolia soleirolii. Most often there are just his bright green shiny leaves. But the breeders brought out more varieties of solerolioly:

• Argentea with silver leaves;
• Variegata with leaves with a thin snow-white border;
• Aurea with yellowish or golden foliage.

It should be noted that varietal differences are well manifested in bright light.

Very quickly growing, the flower covers a solid carpet of green all the soil surface in the pot and beautifully hangs a light green cloth.

The flower growers artificially cultivated several more varieties of this plant, openwork decorated with leaves of other colors: golden, silvery.

When growing soleyrolya, the first thing you should observe is the appropriate temperature regime: in summer the temperature should not be above 20 degrees Celsius; In winter - not less than 10 deg. In the summer, the flower prefers areas that are inaccessible to direct sunlight. In winter, more light is needed for solery salt.

Care at home includes abundant watering only in spring and summer, and in winter, moderate moisturizing is necessary.

The best time for fertilizing is the period from March to September every two weeks. However, top dressing is not required in the case of an annual plant transplant.

Appropriate air humidity is also welcome, for which it is necessary to spray the plant repeatedly with warm water several times a day at temperatures above 20 ° C and about once every 3 days at temperatures below this value.

As you can see, it is not so difficult to grow solerelle. Care at home, reproduction - all this is available even for beginners florists.

Transplant and reproduction

For soleryrolyn transplant is almost not required, but if necessary, you can do it in any period of the year, but it is desirable in the bowls are wider.

For reproduction, it is sufficient to separate from the old plants a couple of small clumps of earth containing the stems of the main mother plant and place them on a previously prepared (with a filled moistened substrate) dish. Very soon, the green tender leaves of solery salt will cover the whole surface of the pot's soil again.

Conclusion

Almost no pests plant soleryrolya. Care at home, except for the above actions, provides for and combat some other possible difficulties.

1. Withering, drying and withering away of deciduous cover. The possible cause is dry air in the room.
2. The plant ceases to grow, the stems are stretched and the leaves turn pale. The reason is a lack of mineral substances in the soil or a lack of light.
3. Appearance of brown silvery spots. The plant was exposed to the sun's rays.