Tolstyanka: flowering - not an indicator!

From time immemorial, flowers adorn the human dwelling. How many thousands of years ago the first favorite was grown, in what cave - is unknown. Even in Ancient Egypt indoor floriculture reached high altitudes. And now, in our stone jungle, popular indoor plants give us a little communication with wildlife. For beginners, the most unpretentious ones are recommended here.

Tolstyanka

Crassula is a succulent plant, hence unpretentious. The Tolstyank family numbers more than three hundred and fifty species, most come from Central and South Africa. A significant part of this variety may well settle in your home. Externally, too, a lot of thick-skinned. Blooming is not so often, but from this, strangely enough, the less beloved she did not become. If you form the crown, the tree is very decorative. There are individuals from two centimeters to four meters in height. Usually it is perennials with shoots. Leaves are plump, cute. Hence the Russian name. We do not only love her, she is revered before her. It is believed that the plant is magical, attracting well-being. Another name in everyday life is a money tree, quite a few fans of indoor plants and have not heard its correct name - a fat girl. Blooming is not necessary. All the same, it remains a symbol of wealth.

Care

Tolstoyanka always needs light. But you can not leave it in the sun, there will be burns. In summer, you can transfer to fresh air, in a bright and shady place. And it is necessary to turn from time to time, so that the crown does not stretch to the sun one by one. Leaves wash from time to time. If they fall off - a bad sign. The plant fell ill from an overabundance of moisture. Do not water it often. Under good conditions the tree blossoms abundantly. Particularly pleased with a fat woman, whose flowering is in full swing. The flowers are white, yellowish, sometimes red and very rarely - with a bluish tinge. You can not eat fatty leaves and decorate the children's room with it - it's dangerous, the leaves contain arsenic.

Gardenia

Gardenia - in this case in the picture view Gardenia augusta - an exceptionally beautiful houseplant. Grow it is not so difficult, the main thing - to observe the constancy of temperature and humidity, then gardenia blooms profusely and long. Skvoznyaki, climate change can ruin buds. Shading from direct sunlight is necessary. The temperature of gardenia is absolutely normal, room: about twenty degrees in the afternoon and seventeen or eighteen at night. Water only with dormant or rainwater, soft. Lime stone do not like gardenia. And do not rearrange it, please, often from place to place, do not turn the other side to the sun, it's not fat. Flowering can stop from the slightest inconstancy. In summer, you need to fertilize a balanced liquid mixture for flowering plants. In winter, water less. Hydrangeas are not only indoor. The plant in the garden reaches three meters in height and width. And it blossoms like that! However, you can also grow a fairly large bush.

Isolepsys

Isolepsis - Isolepsis cernua - or cane drooping - the best decoration of a home in a minimalist style. The mass of pointed thin shoots with tiny flowers gives the impression of an unidentified object lost by aliens. That's about to fly away. The plant is unpretentious. The only requirement is wet roots. Put the pot in a pot of water - and all problems are solved. Water with soft water. Energetically grows in bright light. Heat does not like, but the flower is not so sensitive to cold. With plus fifteen grows much faster than when plus twenty-five. To drafts is indifferent. Earth, the most comfortable for this reed - a mixture of leaf land, peat, sand, you can add clay silt or sapropel. It reproduces by dividing the bush during transplantation in the spring. Young growth is easy to take root, a new bright green bush appears quickly. It is not necessary to divide it finely, it grows for a long time. Rejuvenate regularly.