While decorating our homes, many of us turn our attention to a careful selection of plants for each room. Tradescantia indoor is perfect for creating accents on a wall or ampel partition. The plant can fall in soft waves from a hanging planter or play the role of a branchy decoration of a decorative crate. The thick greenery of decorative leaves will be a wonderful decoration, both in a sunny room and in the shade. And it will be a great background for beautifully flowering plants.
Tradescantia potato belongs to the Hammelin family and is an ampel plant. The marshland of the tropics of America is rightfully considered its homeland. It is in the native climate, it can show itself in all its glory. The tradescantia room got its name from the famous botanist John Tradescant, who not only found it in the rainforests, but also classified it and gave a full description.
Currently, there are more than 90 different species of this plant, differing from each other by the color of the leaves. The houseplant - tradescantia of Lodges became widespread. The most beautiful plant is a large rosette from which weaving stems grow, adorned with large pubescent tender green leaves with a silver stripe in the middle. The length of the leaves reaches 20 centimeters.
Tradescantia room has a high decorative effect due to the coloring of the leaves. A beautiful decoration of the room will be the river tradescantia with a two-tone coloring of the sheet. The front side is cast with emerald greenery, and the reverse side is reminiscent of a purple-red sunset. In residential and office premises, you can see a variety of this plant with leaves having white or pink stripes.
Such an unpretentious plant as a tradescantia is indoor, it does not require special care. The plant feels excellent both in the sun and in the shade. But if you want to have a more juicy color of the leaves, then place the plant in a sunny place, but without direct sunlight, with high humidity. It is desirable that this was a warm room, with a temperature not lower than +12 degrees. When choosing a plant for the shaded place, stop at the white-flowered tradescantia.
The plant requires abundant watering, especially in the hot summer. Do not allow the complete drying of the earthen coma. With a lack of moisture, the leaves lose their color, becoming very pale. The plant needs to be fed with a solution of mineral fertilizers with a frequency of two weeks.
Tradescantia perfectly propagated by cuttings. Every year, in the spring, the plant should be rejuvenated, as it grows. Stalks starting to dry from the root should be cut off. Take from them a small top with 3-4 leaves and put in a container of water for root formation, and then plant in a pot. You can plant cuttings directly in the wet sand or damp ground. Tradescantia can grow in any land, but especially loves light deciduous soils with the addition of sand. To rejuvenate the plant, it is required to plant at least five cuttings in one pot.
An excellent composition is obtained by mixing several types of tradescantia in the plantings. In this case, it turns out to be a particularly magnificent and beautiful hanging planter that can decorate not only the room, but also a terrace or a veranda, a loggia or a balcony. In hotter climates, you can watch the flowering of tradescantia. On each brush, white, pink or purple inflorescences are formed, depending on the species. Each flower lives only one day, but due to the large number of buds on one brush, flowering is long.