Some plants are grown for chic buds, large or small, but covering the bush in abundance. Others have become popular due to their foliage, namely, its original multi-colored coloration. If you also have a variegated stranger, it will not be easy to immediately find out the name of a flower with colored leaves. There are such originals both among indoor and among garden crops. All of them are most often ornamental - deciduous plants, but some even bloom. However, in comparison with the gorgeous bright foliage, in most cases, the buds are only a minor addition to it. Against the background of leaves playing with different colors, they are lost, unless they are located on high petioles.
Today we want to present a small selection of variegated flowers from both categories. Perhaps among them someone will find their own mysterious plant.
Abutilon hybrid: growing from seeds, home care
Perhaps abutilon (indoor maple, cable car) is not one of the most popular ornamental plants, but more and more people are beginning to notice the beauty of this small bush. Undoubtedly, the hybrid cable car will decorate not only the apartment, but also the terrace and garden. Its decorative appearance is due to its large, vibrant flowers as well as leaves.
Hybrid abutilon (Abutilon x.
Ehmeya sparkling
This plant does not like greedy and boastful. It tries to neutralize and dispel such bad energy that disrupts sleep, excites the nervous system, and reduces performance. It is better not to put ehmeya in the bedroom, it is better to place it on the desktop in the office. The long presence of echmea in the apartment contributes to an increase in the iron content in the blood of people, a person wakes up easily, drowsiness disappears, improves muscle condition and helps maintain physical tone.
Similar plants:
- Indoor Guzmania
- How to grow pineapple at home
Agave
Agave is native to the desert areas of North America. Species belonging to this type have different sizes, leaves, as well as flowering period. Agaves are grown mainly for their decorative leaves, although their inflorescences are also beautiful, however, agave blooms after a very long time (tens of years). Worst of all, it dies after flowering. Fleshy, thick leaves, collected in rosettes with spicy.
Ehmeya care
Location
Ehmeya needs a lot of light, but staying in direct sunlight is contraindicated. It is recommended to reduce the illumination during the flowering period. The ideal temperature for development is 20-27 ° C in summer and 14-18 ° C in winter. Low temperatures in winter stimulate the formation of peduncles.
ehmeya flowers
Watering
Watering the plant, it should be borne in mind that with large accumulations of moisture, bromeliads are prone to rot. Water regularly in the funnel and soil in summer, lowering by fall and moderate in winter while keeping the funnel dry. Make sure that there is no stagnant water at the base of the plant. Since Ehmeya is accustomed to humid environments, it is recommended to spray the leaves daily with water in summer.
The soil
It is recommended to choose small flower pots for planting, since this plant has a poorly developed root system. Use porous soil to help drainage.The ideal mixture is peat, moss and shredded fern roots. Top dressing is recommended in summer - in small portions of liquid fertilizer, applying it directly to the leaf outlet or to the leaves.
Adenium obese - Desert rose
The correct name for Adenium grown at home is Adenium obesum, or Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) - an unusually interesting plant, impressive in the structure and color of flowers and the original form characteristic of bonsai. Grown as a houseplant, in summer it can decorate a terrace or garden. Find out more about the unusual.
Ehmeya and Feng Shui
Ehmeya will be useful to indecisive and absent-minded people who have many plans and desires, but it does not come to action. A strong Mars plant develops independence. With loneliness, the sparkling ehmeya will strengthen the soul and help you see the good sides.
ehmeya plant
Ehmeya is especially useful for men, because Mars is a male planet, it strengthens qualities in a person that are considered the property of a man. But ehmeya can make women rude, harsh and overly businesslike, especially if there are no other plants in the apartment besides ehmeya.
Maidenhair: types, varieties, home care
Among the types of ferns, it is worth paying attention to the fern, also called "hair venus" - maidenhair. The flower is cute, delicate and elegant, but due to improper care, the maidenhair will have an unattractive appearance. Varieties of maidenhair are characterized by fans with fronds, with the shape of a slightly rounded triangle. The stems are thin, visually similar to hair. Maidenhair are suitable for.
Croton. CODIEUM. (CODIAEUM).
Codiaum belongs to the euphorbia family. The homeland of this plant is Melanesia, Polynesia and Northern Australia. Florists codiaum are most often called - croton flower... Quite a lot of varieties of this plant are widespread in nature, but indoor croton is most often the variegated codiaum (C. variegatum pictum).
Croton flower is an evergreen shrub with tough leathery leaves. In natural conditions, it grows up to 1.5 meters. Indoor croton is more modest in size (35-70 cm). Croton leaves are bright, of various colors and shapes. They can be wide or narrow, most often like enlarged laurel leaves, but they can also be ribbon-like, twisted, and intricately carved. Croton flower looks bright and colorful, as the leaves are painted in a variety of colors. Young green and yellowish croton leaves are located in the upper part of the bush, but as they grow, they change their color, become variegated: with pink, red, orange spots. The codiaum blooms with yellowish-white flowers, which are most often cut off so as not to take away the strength from the plant, since all the beauty of this plant is in the leaves.
Croton flower (codiaum) is well suited for spacious, light rooms, halls, showcases.
Aichrizon: home care
The species grown at home - Aichryson x domesticum, called the "tree of love" and "flower of love", belongs to the Crassulaceae family. A small branched shrub succulent similar to Aeonium domesticum, differs in ellipsoidal leaves, in Aichrizon species the leaves are more diamond-shaped. Aichrizon home is easy to confuse with another.
Diseases
Despite the fact that the large oak has a very durable wood, it is susceptible to infectious diseases that are caused by various fungi and bacteria. For example, necrosis (the process of irreversible cessation of cell activity) kills the plant in a very short time, and powdery mildew caused by a fungus is one of the most dangerous diseases, however, noticed at an early stage, after spraying with special solutions, it quickly disappears.
Also, gall midge, an insect pest, does considerable harm, which pierces the skin of the leaf and lays eggs inside it. The grown larvae form dense spherical growths of yellow color and live in the leaf until they turn into an adult insect, which cannot but affect the general condition of the plant.
Alocasia (elephant ear): home care
Alocasia is native to the Malay Archipelago, and its leaves grow from rhizomes. A beautiful variety is Alocasia Lowe, which has shiny, dark green leaves with white veins. The leaves reach a length of 60 cm. The tubers of the plant reach up to 4 kg in weight, they are food for the inhabitants of Asia (only a boiled or baked fragment is suitable for consumption - raw poisonous).
Gloxinia varieties and their photos
Gloxinia hybrid
(Gloxinia hybrida)
- a tuberous plant with large bell-shaped bright flowers of various colors. Leaves are green, velvety, on juicy petioles.
Gloxinia "Burgundia Queen"
- has a compact rosette, short peduncles and double purple flowers with a white border.
Gloxinia cultivar "Scarlett"
- double flowers, bright red with a dazzling white border.
Gloxinia "Silvana Blue"
- Gloxinia flowers of this variety are double violet-blue, petals with bleached edges.
Gloxinia variety "Laura"
- Terry flowers with a complex transition of shades of purple-violet, lilac, lavender from the base of the neck to the edge of the petals.
Gloxinia "Ramona"
- very large multi-petal velvet flowers. The petals and neck are from deep crimson to black. The edges of the petals are bright red, the middle is in light red spots.
Gloxinia variety "Blue Perfect"
- very large soft lilac double flowers with velvet petals and a soft blue wavy border running along the edge. According to the description, this variety of Gloxinia is similar to "Silvana Blue", the leaves are covered with small dark specks and subtle patterns of the same shade.
Aloe: types, description, home care
Aloe is a genus of hundreds of plants, although the most famous species of the genus are Aloe vera and Aloe arborescens. There are more species and varieties that should be paid attention to, the species are characterized by high decorative values. Aloe tree and aloe vera famous for their healing properties
, in this article first.
Perennials with beautiful leaves
Decorative-leaved perennials - top ten
Ornamental perennials can be conditionally divided into two groups. The first one is shade-loving and shade-tolerant plants... The second is sun-loving and sun-tolerant... Most plants adapt to light conditions, but healthy and beautiful specimens can only be grown under the right conditions. When planting, carefully study the description of the plant.
1. The host is so multifaceted that it will easily fit into any garden composition: in a forest corner with ferns, podofilas, hellebores and hoofs, a coastal flower garden bordering the water surface. Or in shady thickets with Astilbe, Volzhanka, Brunner, Kupen.
2. One of the best companions of flowering crops - Heuchera. "Tamping" tall perennials, masking bald spots over faded bulbs, creating permanent color accents in compositions - all this can be entrusted to her. The inclusion of geychera helps to balance compositions that use many bright colors, plants with openwork or, conversely, smooth foliage.
3. Similarly to Heykhera, its close relatives, Heykherells, are also used. (interspecific hybrids) with colored and green leaves. They thrive on cultivated garden soils, in light or partial shade with medium watering - their needs are about the same as most of the most popular garden flowers, which makes it easier to combine in flower beds.
4. Geranium dark (red-brown) is often used in plantings where the beauty of the leaves is important. It successfully complements combinations of purple and green plants thanks to the contrasting ring on the leaf blade, which is clearly visible before flowering. The plant is unpretentious, beautiful until autumn, does not need care.
five.An excellent ground cover plant - tenacious. Of the ornamental-leaved varieties, the purpure-leaved Purpurea is the most widespread, but there are also plants with a complex color - spots of different colors Burgundy Glow, Arctic Fox and others. The survivors can grow in sunny and shady areas, tolerate drought and waterlogging, as well as soil poverty. They feel great with any neighbors: they will go around the powerful and large ones and will grow in an empty place, and they can crush the small ones for themselves.
Another hypostasis is an excellent cover for bulbous. In the spring, the tenacious blooms, then large bulbous ones appear, then, after their flowering and withering away, a bright rug remains. The varieties Arctic Fox and Metallica Crispa, when planted in Spartan conditions, form a dense turf and creep very slowly, not aggressively. They are suitable for planting in rock gardens and among rather delicate plants - they will not crush them, and they only benefit from the neighborhood with a stone.
6. Evergreen periwinkle ground cover looks elegant from early spring to late autumn. It grows well both in the shade and in the sun, on almost any soil. The most important advantage is the ability to cover the ground, completely eliminating the growth of weeds and soil erosion. Periwinkles decorate the boundaries between flower beds and paths, knock out shrub plantings, plant where lawn grass does not grow.
7. The lungwort is very beautiful. It has large leaves of various colors. There are pure green, silver and even spotted, as if splashed with a careless brush. In addition, it blooms early and is distinguished by delicate inflorescences - the first flowers - bells are pink at first, then turn blue-violet or blue. The main advantage is shade tolerance. Can compete with the recognized queen of the shadow - the host.
8. Ferns are irreplaceable in dry shade under trees, especially kochedyzhnik as the most drought-resistant. In the Chinese and Nippon kochedezhniks, purple petioles look very impressive in spring, when the leaves (more correctly, fronds) unfold. The most popular are the varieties of Nipponsky kochedzhnik: Pictum, Ursula's Red, Burgundy Lace.
9. Tiarella (species) quickly forms a dense green carpet. After flowering, each plant produces more than a dozen daughter rosettes on long whiskers, quickly braiding the soil surface. To save planting material, you can plant bushes 40–50 cm apart. In this case, the decorative effect, of course, will have to wait until next summer, but sometimes there is no other way out. Tiarella can be planted in the shade as well as in the sun.
10. Horny Goat Weed is distinguished by the ability to get along with large trees. It forms dense clumps next to the trunks, above large roots - where other perennials have absolutely nothing to cling to. She's also very beautiful.
What to plant near the reservoir
Attractive plants that prefer moist and swampy soils (hygrophytes) are planted along a shady pond, channel or stream with a bridge thrown over it. They are not afraid of a certain excess of moisture: large-leaved brunner, thyroid darmera, marsh marigold, ferns (chitus and ostrich), daylilies, hosts, mountain dwellers and sedges.
Black cohosh and simple black cohosh with a basal rosette of luxurious leaves, over which narrow dense clusters of inflorescences rise, benefit from the proximity to water.
A little away from the water, a great place for varietal Rogers - Chocolate Wings (with chocolate-bronze leaves and pink buds) and Superba (with large emerald leaves).
Aloe Vera: Home Care
Medicinal plant, Aloe vera or, Aloe real, also called Aloe barbados... An easy-to-grow indoor plant. Aloe has been known since antiquity, mentions of the plant were contained on Sumerian clay tablets, donated 3,000 BC. Alexander the Great reportedly recommended giving leaves to wounded soldiers to help the soldiers' wounds heal faster. A plant, probably.
Ehmeya bloom
In summer or late winter. Flowering is facilitated by bright light. The flowers themselves are small, attention is drawn to large pink bracts with spiky edges.Flowering can be stimulated by placing a plant with ripe apples in a transparent bag for one to two weeks, the apples emit ethylene - a gas, which contributes to faster ripening of flowers. After 4 months, ehmeya will bloom.
Ehmeya bloom
Aloe tree: cultivation and medicinal properties
Aloe arborescens is one of 350 species belonging to the genus Aloe. This interesting succulent at home usually does not exceed several tens of centimeters in height (approximately 0.8-1 m), but in nature it can grow up to 5 meters. Its homeland is the tropical regions of Africa, therefore, in our climate, the outdoors can be found only in the summer and in the season.
Reproduction and rooting of cuttings
For propagation of hypoesthesia, only apical cuttings of 3-4 leaves, 8-10 cm long, are used. Shoots are cut in spring or early summer. Dip the end of the cutting into a growth stimulator (root). They are planted in a mixture of peat and coarse sand. Cover the pot with plastic wrap and place in a bright, warm place. When the cuttings of hypoesthesia begin to grow, pinch the top of the growth.
It is not recommended to plant each stalk separately, as hypoestes loves "neighbors". You can even plant several species in one pot and this friendly family will present an amazing rainbow palette.
Description
Pineapple is a representative of the Bromeliads and has been known for about five centuries. In addition to decorative advantages, it has advantages in the form of fruits that are edible, but rarely grow at home. Pineapple is native to South America and in vivo, its leaves reach more than 1.2 m, and form a root rosette up to 2 m in diameter. Species that are grown at home are not.
Lianas and ampelous plants occupy a special place in the assortment of indoor flowers, being an irreplaceable material for decorating interiors. Any plant has its own, only characteristic of it: the structure, color of the flower, the shape and structure of the leaves inherent in this plant. Houseplants have been used as an element of the interior for a long time. Climbing plants can stretch up a cord, wire, bamboo stick, rail.
Landing
Kaleria in the wild grows on rocky poor soils, so it is not very demanding on the soil. Transplant it if the rhizome has already completely filled the pot.
The best time for transplanting (more precisely, for transshipment) is spring. For a plant, you should take a shallow and wide container.
Calories are transplanted by transshipment method
A mixture of earth: 2 parts of leaf land, 1 part of peat, 1 part of sand, 0.5 part of humus, a little charcoal (to absorb excess moisture). You can also purchase ready-made soil for Saintpaulia or Gloxinia. At the bottom of the pot, it is imperative to place a 2-centimeter layer of drainage - pebbles, expanded clay, brick.
It is not necessary to clean the root from the ground, you can immediately place it in a new container by transferring it and sprinkle it with fresh substrate.
Video: planting kaleria
Types of climbing and ampelous indoor plants
Lianas are divided into curly, climbing and climbing.... For climbing vines, a support is required, around which they twine. Climbing vines can be raised with antennae, bristles, thorns, etc. However, in practice, plants with long shoots that need support are called curly, and plants with hanging shoots are called ampelous... In this article, we will talk about plants that can be used for landscaping in offices, institutions, schools and kindergartens.
Clerodendrum
Among the vines there are beautifully flowering ones, these include the clerodendrum, or wolkameria, from the vervain family. The most popular is the beautiful climbing plant Clerodendrum fragrant... His homeland is Japan. Clerodendrum has red-purple double flowers, collected in bunches. The plant prefers a sunny location and fresh air.In the summer, he needs abundant watering, otherwise the leaves of the plant begin to crumble.
Plants grown from cuttings bloom until autumn. They must be transplanted annually into a sod-peat mixture with an admixture of sand. In the summer, clerodendrum must be sprayed and fed. Clerodendrum can be beautifully shaped by spreading its stems on trellises.
Scindapsus golden
A well-deserved success was received by such a type of creeper as golden scindapsus. Scindapsus from the aroid family. His homeland is tropical Asia. Scindapsus is extremely unpretentious, grows well not only in illuminated places, tolerates temperature changes (but not lower than 15).
The leaves of the scindapsus are leathery, heart-shaped, the plant loves spraying from a spray bottle, especially in the summer. Scindapsus in spring and summer needs additional feeding, when transplanting, add a mixture (leafy earth, humus, peat and sand in equal proportions). The plant reproduces by stem cuttings, both apical and the rest, throughout the year. To make the plant more decorative, you need to plant several cuttings in one pot.
In culture, hypoesthesia are represented by numerous varieties and forms.
The original color combination is no longer the only one. You can find almost completely pink or white leaves with small green spots, border and contrasting veins ... The most popular are the low varieties of the ‘Confetti’ and ‘Splash’ series.
In the photo: Hypoestes phyllostachya "Confetti White" - white-greenish with green veins ...
Hypoestes
Evergreen, semi-shrub. Widely distributed in Africa and Madagascar. In indoor conditions, only one species is grown - leaf spike hypoesthesia. The leaves of this species are brown with a red tint and a lot of white round spots. The spots can be pink or light red and are located randomly on the upper side of the plate.
It looks like a low, highly branching bush with dense, straight branches pressed against the stem. It grows well not only in the room, but also in the open field. Due to the small height of the shrub, they are framed with flower arrangements and flower beds in the garden and in the local area.
Fat woman (money tree)
The money tree belongs to the Tolstyankov family, flower growers love it very much for its unpretentiousness, ease of cultivation and appearance.
Did you know? To ensure the abundant flowering of the money tree, it must be placed in a well-lit, warm and ventilated place.
The fat woman very often looks like a small tree: a tree-like trunk, small plump leaves. An unpretentious and graceful plant with the scientific name Crassula. He is credited with the properties of attracting wealth and happiness to the house, harmonizing space.
In summer, the ideal temperature for plant growth is between + 20 ° C and + 25 ° C, and in winter it is necessary to provide a temperature of + 15 ° C. Crassula is very fond of well-lit places, it is best to place it on the windows facing the southeast side. In summer, you can take it out to the balcony - there the tree will have enough light, and warmth, and ventilation.
The fat woman grows well in the soil, which is intended for cacti. This composition includes sod and leafy soil, with a neutral reaction of sand, some parts of clay, humus and ash.
Home flower with red flowers
The genus Guzmania includes 130 species and hundreds of different hybrids of epiphytic and terrestrial plants of the bromeliad family. The genus got its name in honor of the botanist Guzman and was first described in 1802. The homeland of the guzmania plant is the rainforests of Central and South America.
The plant is found in forests, and on mountain slopes at an altitude of about 2400 meters above sea level, where the flower grows not only like epiphytes on trees, but also takes root in the soil. Funnel-shaped rosettes of gusmania leaves, depending on the species, can reach a height of about 50 cm and the same diameter.
The leaves of the guzmania flower are whole-edged from green to variegated shades, very clearly differ from the brightly colored adherent leaves that form in the center of the rosette to the flowering period. The plant blooms for 3 years of its life, it can bloom for more than 3 months, after which the mother plant dies off.
Among amateur florists most often occurs guzmania reed... The plant is epiphytic. Numerous green leaves about 30-40 cm long, 4 cm wide, pointed, broadly linear, whole-edged, forming a rosette.
The peduncle of this gusmania is straight, thick, shorter than the leaves with orange, yellow, red or white bracts. The inflorescence is multi-flowered, simple, corymbose.
Other types of gusmania are usually collectible.
Green peas
Seeing Rowley's groundwort, most people think that there is an artificial plant in front of them. The fact is that its foliage is so unusual and amazing that it is difficult to believe that nature created it. Instead of plates, the respiratory organs of the wild rose have acquired the shape of peas, which are strung like beads on the stems drooping down. For such an appearance, Rowley's peasant has another name that is common among the common people - "pearl threads".
The spherical shape of the respiratory organs arose in order to accumulate a large amount of water inside, since in nature, Rowley's groundwort grows in the mountains of Namibia, where the climate is changeable and there are long periods of drought. In houses and apartments, pearl threads do not need to store moisture, here they often act as an exotic "curtain" on the windowsill or at the door.
Scindapsus
Scindapsus (golden epipremnum) is a tropical vine that needs support for growth.
Has several types of roots:
- air - for fastening to the support;
- air - to extract moisture from the air;
- underground - to obtain nutrients and moisture from the soil.
Scindapsus has oval leaves that differ in a wide palette of shades with options for white, yellow, silver. In indoor conditions, the plant blooms very rarely. Liana is planted in pots, allowing the shoots to fall down, braid arches with branches, and decorate the walls.
If you want to get a dense bush, plant several cuttings in one pot.
Scindapsus with spotted leaves:
- golden - varieties "Golden Queen", "Marble Queen", "Tricolor", "N-Joy";
- painted with asymmetric leaves - varieties "Exotic", "Trebi", "Silver";
- Siamese.
All species grow quickly, fill the space allocated to them, make it possible to create decorative elements in the interior.
Possible difficulties and diseases
Guzmania is easy to grow, because it perfectly tolerates even adverse conditions. However, this plant has its own risks:
- The main peststhat can infect Guzmania are: spider mites, scale insects, scale insects. If parasites are found, wipe the leaves with soapy water, and if the infection is serious, use insecticides.
- Regular waterlogging can lead to decay of the root system.
- The plant can get sick fungus, as indicated by gray spots on the leaves. To get rid of it, you need a fungicide.
The fungus began its destructive work from below.
We transplant Guzmania - when it is needed
The roots of the plant develop extremely slowly, and therefore it does not need regular transplantation. But it is still worth replanting Guzmania if:
- You have purchased a flower in a shipping pot... It is necessary to prepare a wide, up to 15 cm deep pot and place a drainage on the bottom. A suitable soil mixture is a combination of coarse sand, sphagnum, peat and turf.Handle the roots carefully when replanting. Lightly fill the displaced plant with soil, and then water it.
- You separate the "baby" from the old bush... The transplanting process is the same, but you will have to carefully divide the root systems of the plants. The mother plant after flowering is not viable and is thrown away.
Mosaic look. The transverse stripes on the leaves resemble a pike's tail.
Velvichia
Amazing Velvichia (lat.Welwítschia mirábilis) is a relic gymnosperm plant, the only modern species of the Velvichia order of the Oppressive class. Velvichia grows in the southwest of Angola and in Namibia - within the rocky Namib Desert, stretching along the Atlantic coast.
Basically, the area of its distribution is limited to a narrow coastal strip along the western coast of Africa - from the vicinity of the city of Mosamedish in the southern part of Angola to the southern tropic in Namibia. The plant is rarely found further than a hundred kilometers from the coast. This roughly corresponds to the limit reached by fogs, which are the main source of moisture for Welwitschia, since precipitation here is extremely irregular and very little.
Only a few specimens of Velvichia are found in the interior regions of the Namib Desert, settling in the upper reaches of the dry channels of temporary streams, where there is more rainfall. Here, after heavy rains, water is collected in wide shallow depressions and the earth is moistened to a depth of 1.5-2 m. The leaves of the plant grow extremely slowly, growing up to 8 meters over the centuries.
What is useful and dangerous for euphorbia
Euphorbia, like every plant on earth, enriches the atmosphere with oxygen and reduces its carbon dioxide content. Plants create a good microclimate in the apartment and do an excellent decorative function.
Some types of milkweed are used in folk medicine to treat the digestive system, skin diseases, are used as anti-inflammatory and tonic agents.
When growing euphorbia, it should be remembered that there are euphorbia and poisonous - the juice of the room milkweed Tirucalli, getting into the eyes, causes acute pain, because of this, temporary blindness may occur, which can last a whole week. If this juice gets into your eyes, you need to rinse them with clean water for at least a quarter of an hour, and then consult a doctor. If it gets into the mouth, milkweed Tirucalli juice can cause severe poisoning, burning the tongue and lips. Fatal poisoning has been reported.
Other types of indoor milkweed are not poisonous, but they contain milky juice in their stems, and it, getting on the mucous membranes or damaged skin areas, can cause an allergic reaction or irritation. When purchasing an indoor euphorbia, you need to remember how dangerous it is, and choose places for it where it will be inaccessible to small children and pets.
Victoria amazon
Often referred to as Victoria Regia. It is a large herbaceous, aquatic tropical plant; species of the genus Victoria of the family Water lilies (Nymphaeaceae). The largest water lily in the world and one of the world's most popular greenhouse plants. It is the national flower of Guyana and is depicted on the coat of arms of this state. The leaves can reach up to 2 meters in diameter.
Milkweed appearance
The homeland of many indoor milkweed is the subtropics. In nature, these plants are found in America, Africa, on the island of Madagascar and on some other islands. The appearance of the milkweed is very diverse and at the same time unusual. Some euphorbia resemble ribbed cacti with powerful spines, others have bright red bracts on the top, and still others are decorated with small but cute inflorescences. There are plants from this family with a more familiar appearance - with stems without thorns and ordinary leaves on them.
All euphorbia are characterized by erect stems, most often they are weakly branched, but there are species with many branches.Stems in indoor milkweed can be bare or covered with thorns, in the form of thick columns or cactus-like. The height of mature plants varies from a few centimeters to two meters. Rhizomes are vertical or creeping.
Subtleties of choice
In practice, the purchased bush blooms for 2-3 weeks, after which it will face the fate of the New Year tree. What does a flower look like that will last for a long time:
- The size of the crown is 2-2.5 times the size of the pot.
- Flowers without pollen, green or reddish. If they are yellow and carry pollen, the flowering phase is in full swing, and soon the flower will shed the bracts.
- Bracts are evenly colored. Blotches of green - disease or loss of varietal traits.
- The plant has no yellow, twisted, withering leaves.
- Flower without packaging.
In order for the flower to linger after the holidays, it is exposed in a sunny place. Water abundantly, excluding stagnant water, protect from drafts.
Advice! When using branches in a festive setting, the cut ends are held for a couple of seconds over an open fire: this stops the release of juice.
Report Leaves Post
The leaf is the most and basic organ of various higher plants. Probably everyone knows that the leaves from different trees are not alike. But, despite this, you can distinguish where they have a leaf blade and a petiole.
If you look at their shape, they can differ in round, oval, needle-like, heart-shaped and many others. In addition, each of the sheet forms has its own edges. The epidermis is the outermost layer of the multi-layered structure of cells. This structure covers the entire sheet completely. In addition, the epidermis has a huge number of functions. With these functions, the sheet is protected from various vapors. In addition, they can be used to regulate gas exchange in the environment. They can release various substances and also absorb water.
The epidermis is transparent. Chloroplast is usually either completely absent or partially absent. And on top of each sheet there is a special protective layer. Usually the bottom of the leaf is much thinner than the top.
The leaf is green only because it has chlorophyll in its structure, as well as photosynthetic pigments that are found in chloroplasts. Of course, there are plants that have very little chlorophyll in their composition and therefore cannot be synthesized.
After the leaf has blossomed, after a while it falls off. And at this place a scar appears, on which after a while a new leaf blooms again. In autumn they turn yellow.
Throughout the leaf there are veins along which not only air passes, but also organic matter. And all these veins converge at the core of the leaf.
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Of course, not all plants have all of the above functions. Many simply do not and cannot have them. Some do not have petioles, while others have a leaf structure in the form of a plate. Leaves can appear in a spiral. It can be clockwise or counterclockwise. In pelargonium, the leaf has an average size and reaches only six centimeters. The shape of the leaf is rounded, the edges are slightly indented throughout the leaf.
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Caladium
Caladium attracts attention with beautiful leaves with a bright color. For its unusual leaves, the flower was nicknamed the heart of Christ and elephant ears.
Caladium leaves are covered with a colorful, amazing pattern of spots and veins, smooth color transitions. The border of the leaf is often green. Leaf mosaic includes white, light green, silver, crimson, purple, pink colors. The birthplace of the plant in the Amazon Valley in Brazil.
Caladium belongs to the aroid family.
Description
A large herb has a tuber and arrow-shaped leaves of large sizes. In the tropics it grows up to 5m. Locals extract starch from the tuber.The pointed leaves are triangular or heart-shaped and grow up to 30 cm. The plant has no stem.
Caladium
The flowers of the plant are not worthy of attention. Form cobs, enveloped in a greenish-white blanket. The familiar indoor flowers with red leaves were obtained by selective crossing. Each hybrid is endowed with its own pattern and color.
Care
Calladium belongs to seasonal plants, with a pronounced period of activity and rest. The period of activity lasts from late spring to autumn.
When the leaves of the plant begin to dry and crumble, then it's time to rest. The pot is removed to a dark place until spring. Water it periodically as the soil dries up.
In the spring, a flower with red leaves is taken out and the tubers are examined. The affected areas are removed, and the sections are treated with charcoal. Healthy tubers are placed in a new nutrient medium combined with charcoal. The depth corresponds to the size of the tuber. The earth is moistened and covered with a film until sprouts appear.
Pink Symphony
Caladium loves bright, diffused lighting. He will be comfortable on the northwest or northeast windowsills. The plant is thermophilic. The temperature of the content is not lower than + 15 °, the optimal mode is + 20-25 °. For normal development, the home caladium needs humidification of the air around it. The pot is placed on a pallet with damp moss or gravel. Watering is moderate, without falling on the leaves.
Razor herb
Pampas putyang grass grows in New Guinea. The name from the local dialect translates as "sharp stakes", and there are understandable reasons for this: the foliage of this herb is so strong, hard and sharp, like a knife made of high-quality steel, that the Papuans used it for a long time during battles and hunting.
The cuts made by the brace can easily penetrate to the bone, because the sheet is very thin and hurts quickly. Such wounds heal for a long time, so the Papuans themselves avoided the thickets of this grass, and sometimes planted it around their settlements as protection from unwanted guests.
A little later, the inhabitants of the Pacific island began to use putyanga leaves when shaving, and assured that such a disposable razor shaves cleaner and faster than a real one.
Pests
Guzmania can be affected by mealybugs, scale insects, spider mites. They settle on both sides of the leaves, then the leaves turn yellow and die off. Remove pests with a sponge and soapy water.
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General information about Guzmania
Care features
Reproduction and transplantation of guzmania
This exotic beautiful flower of the Bromeliad family has conquered many flower growers. Outwardly, guzmania is a bunch of dense leaves, similar to a fountain, from the center of which the same leaves grow, but red, yellow or orange.
Popular talks
There are a great many Russian discoverers. Some mastered and learned the ocean, bumping into new continents and islands. Others were interested in the life of other peoples, discovering new settlements and different cultures.
The Middle Ages, or Middle Ages, is a historical term that reflects a period of history in Europe and the Middle East. It began after the period of Antiquity, and was followed by the period of the New Time.
Voronezh is not only a regional center. It is also called the capital of the Black Earth Region. And the number of museums here is such that you can't get around them all in a week. Therefore, for a start, you should choose a few, and devote time to visiting them.
Nature has endowed plants with amazing organs - leaves. Small children in the drawings often depict them in the form of hands, and adults compare them with lungs. The students are told that plants also have respiration at school, but the fact that this process takes place in the leaves is still striking every time, as if you are learning about it for the first time.
Everyone knows that people appreciate greenery: just look at how many non-flowering, but green-saturated indoor plants are present on the windowsills. Winter gardens and greenhouses are considered a place of rest and relaxation, therefore, even in the most severe frosts, people who want to feel the unity with nature come with pleasure. The forms, types and colors of foliage are so diverse that it seems as if a large-scale competition was held in which participants had to show the most daring, unusual and original ideas.
Transfer
If the gusmania is cramped in a pot, it must be transplanted in the spring into a mixture consisting of leafy, humus, peat soil, with an admixture of sand. You can also use a commercially available orchid mix. Gusmania has poorly developed roots, so it is best to use pots that are shallow, but wide enough.
Or a transplant is not needed at all, since the guzmania plant has a short lifespan of about three years before flowering, after which the plant dies off after about 6 months.
Watering mode
The correct watering regime is one of the main conditions for growing bastards. From spring to autumn, they are watered sparingly, after the topsoil dries up. During the period of active growth, plants require feeding with special fertilizers for succulents. They are brought in once every 10 days. With the onset of warm days, the plants can be taken out into the garden or on the balcony.
In the fall, plants are transferred to limited watering and no longer fed. This helps to avoid the growth of weak, elongated shoots. At the same time, it is important not to allow the earthen coma to dry completely.
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Unusual relic
Velvichia is a flower that appeared on Earth before the era of mammals. This plant lives in the dry Namib desert, where it almost never rains. For this reason, Velvichia cannot afford the lush foliage. All her life she lives with 2 sheets that appear and die with her.
Their function is to collect the precious moisture contained in the morning air. The holes that are located on the leaf plate accumulate water and transfer it further along the veins. Its respiratory organs continue to grow slowly throughout its life (1200 - 1300 years), so their size can reach 6 m in order to collect as much dew as possible over a huge area. While new tissues grow at the base, the old ones dry out smoothly at the ends.
In some photographs, you can see that the leaves of the velvichia are much more than 2. This is easily explained: in order to shade the roots from the heat, the flower divides the leaf into narrow ribbons, which, twisting, reliably cover the ground from the scorching sun, helping the plant to survive ...
It is also interesting that Velvichia lives all its life at the seedling stage, therefore its leaf plates are large germinated cotyledons.
Bimarkia
Bismarckia (Latin Bismarckia) is a monotypic genus from the Palm family. Named after the Reich Chancellor, the unifier of Germany, Otto von Bismarck. The only species is Bismarckia noble, or Bismarck's Palm (Latin Bismarckia nobilis) - a tree with large fan-shaped leaves of silver or green color, originally from Madagascar. Its deciduous part sometimes reaches 3 meters.
The most inconspicuous
The fact that cacti have modified organs that help them to exist in hot conditions, everyone knows from the time of school biology lessons. These organs are needles that prevent excess moisture from evaporating. It was difficult for scientists to understand how thorns can perform all other functions of leaf plates. Several years ago, it ceased to be a mystery.
The fact is that on the thick trunk of most cacti there are microleaves that are not visible to the naked eye. Their size ranges from 30 to 2000 microns, so it was impossible to see and examine these organs with the naked eye.They remained unnoticed for so long, because most often they took samples from the middle or upper part of the cactus, where more active growth takes place. Now botanists know that at the base of the thick stem of most cactus species are densely located microlaves, which are considered one of the smallest on Earth.
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The star of Bethlehem or the triumph of marketers
For the first time, the star of a Christmas flower lit up in Los Angeles. In 1906, on the eve of the holidays, the gardener Paul Ecke offered the poinsettia branch to the wealthy Hollywood public instead of the mistletoe branch traditional for the Old World. The exotic was to my liking, and Hollywood fashion is the law. The "New Mistletoe" from Sunset Boulevard became famous throughout America. Soon, the fashion of giving it to Christmas reached Europe, and took root here.
Ecke turned out to be a genius marketer - this is how American dreams come true. Thousands of Americans travel to Encinitas, where the office of the already giant Ecke corporation is located. Not for a Christmas flower: the day has become a national holiday, Poinsettia Day. During the two pre-holiday months, the company sells more than two hundred million flowers - about 80% of the world turnover of poinsettias comes from Encinitas. The flower trade did not bring such profits to anyone, except for the Dutch during the tulip rush.
Garden thorny plants
The main advantage of thorny plants is their unpretentiousness. This is what attracts the attention of many gardeners. We will find out what types of plants with thorns can be used for growing in the garden.
Karlina (stemless thistle)
A very bizarre exotic plant. Karlina blooms unusually - its inflorescences are like large baskets (up to 12 cm in diameter) with a bluish-lilac shade.
The flowers of the plant are hard and rough, it seems that they are made of thick cardboard. Karlina has an amazing property - at night, as well as in cloudy weather, its flowers close, forming dense large buds.
The flower is actively used to decorate the garden interior. Unusual dwarf inflorescences grow on long stems, so the plant can be combined in a flower garden with other low-growing flowers.
Karlina belongs to unpretentious plants. She perfectly tolerates drought and hot weather. The flower grows ideally on rocky areas or in a rock garden. If you use carlin as a flower arrangement, then it goes well with alpine asters, juniper, wormwood and fescue.
Eringium (erythematosus)
Eringium is an amazing plant with thorns. In recent years, landscape designers have been actively using it to decorate the interior and make the garden graceful and unusual.
Eringium is a small shrub (about 70 cm in height), on which numerous inflorescences of blue and bluish shades grow.
Varietal variations of eringium:
- Flat-leaved eryngium. The height of the bush is 100 cm. The plant has small (compared to other varieties) inflorescences of a bright blue or pale green hue.
- Variegated eryngium. The height of the plant is from 70 cm. The inflorescences of the flower are small, bluish or purple in color.
- Plain eringium. A low (up to 70 cm) shrub with a lot of sharp thorns. The plant blooms with small inflorescences of a deep blue or light blue hue.
Arrowroot
Arrowroot is an indoor flower with variegated leaves, a spectacular decoration for a residential or office space. Arrowroot is a compact shrub of upright shoots covered with broadly oval leaves.... All varieties differ in color.
Indoor varieties:
- White-veined - the upper surface is dark green, decorated with light green patterns, with prominent white veins. The underside is painted in burgundy purple.
- Bicolor - a leaf blade with a wavy edge, along the central vein there are oval dark brown spots that stand out against a green background.
- Maranta Gibba - a rare variety. The velvety light green upper surface is adorned with dark green stripes parallel to the central vein.
Breeders have bred a large number of varieties of arrowroot varieties with multi-colored veins and spots.
