Thursday, July 5, 2007

Assortment of plants for a winter garden

Monstera delightful - powerful long-term just as liana a plant in height 1 - 4 m. the Stalk naked, climbing with air cord roots. Leaves large with long stalks, reach length 10 - 50 sm, coriaceous, at adult plants they or made a hole or divided. Fine flowers are collected in a cylindrical thick ear. The plant prefers a penumbra or a diffused light, but water-resistant plants. In the summer plentifully water, often spray and feed up liquid fertilizers of times in 10 days. Cording roots монстер are recommended to be lowered in flowerpots with water that promotes faster development of leaves and growth. In living rooms it is better to grow up in the form of the low upright plant attached to a support. Replace annually in the spring, large copies - time in 2 years, but annually replace the top layer of the ground fresh. It is made multiple copies by shanks, т. е. A part of a stalk with 1 - 2 fine leaves which take roots in water. Cuts be strew charcoal. Substratum make of the turfen and sheet ground with addition of sand (3:1:1). At the bottom of utensils the drainage from shards is necessary.


Monstera delightful

Pelargonium (geranium) - one of few plants, capable to blossom practically the year round in conditions of a light and warm winter garden. Flowers large, collected in umbrella-shaped inflorescences of various painting. The plant reaches height 20 - 60 see Kinds of a geranium are incorporated in 4 groups: zone, petals flattened out, fragrant. The plants often named by a geranium concern to the first group, with rounded green leaves, with brown, yellowish or white border on a circle. Flowers simple or double with white, pink, red, crimson painting. Petals flattened outthe group includes plants with strongly jagged folded green leaves. Flowers are collected in umbrellas - white and pink with is dark-cherry spots on all petals or only on top. - plants with drooping stalks and green pentagonal leaves, on the form reminding leaves of an ivy. Fragrant pelargonium with deep divided leaves with a smell of roses. Flowers fine, pink or lilac with dark specks on the top petals.


Pelargonium (geranium)

Make multiple copies pelargonium shanks, and at deducing new grades - seeds. Matrix plants hold at light windows at temperature 12 - 15С heat. Shanks cut off in the spring, slightly them dry. The taken roots shanks feed up quarterly a solution of mineral fertilizers. Shanks blossom in 4 months. Land in a nutritious mix from turfen, sheet or compost the grounds with addition of sand (4:4:1). Water moderately. At watering leaves do not moisten. Withering leaves because of an excessive moisture and a cold is possible. Contain at 8 - 10С heat in the winter. It is necessary forming crones for what old stalks cut, using the removed branches not shanks in the spring. In small pots blossoms better, and in spacious well develops.