Have you ever held flower seeds in your hands? It's really amazing
feeling! That's why many people grow house plants and try to make
their life a bit greener with beautiful indoor plants, such as violets
or orchids. While flowering plants produce delicate scent, decorate
your house and perform oxygen improving environment.
Both pot plants and vase plants look good enough to fit any kind of
interior design, but potted plants generally flower better and this is
the main reason why we keep houseplants in pots.
Here you can find answers for harder questions and improve your plant
care skills rapidly. Give your favorite indoor plant a new life,
let's grow flowers & plants together!
Published 6 February, 2009
CULTIVATION of TULIPS
The tulip has received its name according to a similarity with an eastern headdress and comes from Persian ‘toliban’, that means the turban. This flower basically is intended for flowering in a garden, but it is possible to make to blossom these plants and in room conditions. This process refers to – turning out of the tulips.
The best conditions for turning out of the tulips can be created only in hothouses, but, with efforts, tulips can be grown up and in rooms with a success. The best tulips are sellected. Turning out will be successful if you carry out a number rules.
Published 6 February, 2009
Pelargonium
The Pelargonium is widespread in room culture. It comes from Southern Africa. These are rather unpretentious grassy or bush-kind plants which blossoming since spring till autumn and even the winter, therefore them still name “blossoming Geraniums”. All kinds Pelargonium which grow up in the house, are united by one name – a room geranium. A room geranium has close wild relatives which are an ordinary geranium which grows as a weed on kitchen gardens and roadsides and a meadow geranium, growing on glades in a wood, meadows and on the slopes of mountains.
Published 6 February, 2009
You‘re like fragile flower of orchid
Calling by cleanliness of the lines
Leaning on strong glass of your seat
You blossom with no loving signs
… The Edge
ORCHIDS.
Totally there exist more than 35 thousand kinds and grades of orchid flowers (including the well-known vanilla) in the nature they are widespread in both hemispheres, but only an insignificant part of the variety could be considered as room orchids. Thus some orchids can quite easily adapt for room conditions and do not demand special leaving, and some orchids demand experience and special knowledge for their cultivation.
Published 6 February, 2009
Cultivation of cactuses.
The cactuses are considered to be extremely easy for cultivation without none difficulties and there is an opinion that it is better for these plants, if to not look after them at all, but it not so. Cactuses are peculiar plants. They grow well in deserts among the sand heated by the sun. These plants got used to reserve a moisture in stalks during rains and to spend it during droughty time.
Published 6 February, 2009
Begonia
The BEGONIA comes from the tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, America and Africa. The plant received the name after Michel Begona – the governor of Sait-Domingo (the western part of an island Haiti) which was the notable appreciator of the flowers. Totally in the family of begonia there are about 1000 species. The begonia is extremely popular as an indoor plant because of the big variety of leaf’s painting and form, also beautiful colors.
Published 6 February, 2009
Dracaena.
The plant dracaena came to our homes from tropical and subtropical woods of Southern Asia and Africa. By this general name we usually plant both dracaena and cordelia in rooms and mistaken in shops selling them often as the same plant. Both have narrow, extended leaves of green color or bright leaved. It’s easy to distinguish these plant by their roots: the dracaena doesn’t have rhizomes, with yellow long-term roots, veins on leaves are located in parallel and converge by the ends of leaves; cordelia differs by forming of underground thicken stalks – rhizomes and underground germs with kidneys from which new plants grow. It has white annual roots, which die off to the spring, but simultaneously grow new ones. Both dracaena and cordelia a called false palm trees for their leafless trunk with a bunch of leaves on a top.
Published 6 February, 2009
Violets
Saintpaulia. Uzambarian Violets. The plants, we name “Indoor violets”, have actually only similar flowers to the violets growing in a wood or in a garden. In fact this indoor plant comes from East Africa and is called Saintpaulia or Uzmbarian violet. The Uzmbarian violet appeared in the Europe in 19th century.
Published 2 February, 2009
FICUS.
In 50s-60s the ficus was one of the most common room plants. Later its popularity decreased. Now it interests a lot. The motherland of ficus are the tropics of Asia. In natural condition the plant of ficus includes nearly 1000 kinds. They belong to the family of mulberry. If damage a ficus allocate milky juice. Using some sorts of the juice it can be produced rubber. All ficuses, except relish, are evergreen. The relish is
throws foliage, it also provides with delicious and extremely useful fruits.
The flower of ficus (sykony) is very interesting, it resembles a pee or burry. Theirs leaves are considered to clean an air in locations so they do not only please esthetically but do a considerable good.
