Hydrangea is a plant originally garden, representing a perennial shrub, covered with large spherical inflorescences during flowering. Hydrangea loves moist soil and a not very cool climate. It is generally accepted that it is grown on open ground (in the garden, in the flowerbed) but not in the room.
At the beginning of its flowering, hydrangea has pale green flowers, which are then often colored in white, blue or red. This plant in our regions sometimes does not tolerate cold weather, so it is often grown in pots.
Hydrangea indoor. Summer and winter care
In summer, the flower needs abundant watering (it is better to use rainwater), and in winter it is advisable to water it with melt water. When indoor hydrangea blooms , caring for it involves mandatory fertilizer once every two weeks. In this case, the flowering will be more magnificent and longer.
Like many other indoor flowers, hydrangea loves open air. Therefore, it can be placed right in the pot, dug a little, in a box with the earth, and while there are warm days, let it "live" in this state on the balcony or loggia. When hydrangea grows noticeably, it is necessary to rid it of lateral shoots and basal shoots.
Indoor hydrangea, the care of which meets all the above rules, in the fall can please you with quite mature shoots. Upon the arrival of autumn, watering should be reduced (frequency and amount of water). In turn, this will enable her to ripen and acquire apical buds, which will form flowers next year.
Hydrangea can be on the balcony until the leaves fall. Then it should be moved to the basement, where it will be all winter until distillation. If you do not have a basement, try not to disturb the plant for three months, except for minimal watering to avoid drying of the roots.
Before hydrangea blooms, and this is approximately January-February, the pots (for transplanting into new soil) from the basement must be taken out to a warmer room. Favorable for it will be the conditions under which the new soil will contain heather, clayey sod land and sand. If there is no heather land, you can use a leafy mixture. This requires a proportion, which consists of two parts of a leafy mixture, three parts of a mixture of peat, as well as one part of sand.
At the same time, it is necessary to prune hydrangeas, while getting rid of weak stems. Leave it worth only two to five stems, which you seem stronger. This is done in order to get larger flowers. The stalks that you leave should not be pruned, because later they form shoots that emerge from the upper buds. You can leave the shoots cut by you as cuttings for subsequent plantings.
By the arrival of April - May, you may already have flowering hydrangeas. Those plants that will not be involved in distillation can be left in your basement until May.
At the end of the transplant procedure, you can take them out to the street or again bury them directly in pots in a box for subsequent placement on your loggia (balcony). Plants should be abundantly watered and shaded from the sun. Direct sunlight is contraindicated in a plant such as hydrangea. Planting and care, as you see, are not complicated, so you can safely acquire this blossoming beauty in your estate.
Fulfilling all the above recommendations, you can easily grow a beautiful flower called hydrangea potted. Even a novice lover of flowers can arrange caring for him, but it is very important to adhere to the rules for transplanting and do not forget to water and fertilize the plant in time, which will thank you with lush flowering.