Sansevieria (aka Sansevier) is an evergreen stemless plant belonging to the agave family. Deserted and semi-desert territories of Asia and Africa are considered its homeland. The plant can be distinguished by beautiful narrow leaves, which in many varieties end with a spike. Their length can reach 100 cm or more. Their color can vary from different shades of brown to green, often they have spots or stripes.
Recently, a large number of varieties with silver or yellow color have been bred. Sansevieria blooms fragrant with vanilla aroma flowers of a greenish-white hue, which are collected in a cylindrical inflorescence. After flowering, the plant appears fruits - berries, although in home cultivation they can be observed extremely rarely. Interestingly, in the people this perennial is capaciously called "pike tail" or "mother tongue." In this article we will talk about growing a decorative plant of sansevieria. Home care is simple and time-consuming. This beautiful perennial is unpretentious and unpretentious, therefore, it can successfully grow even under the guidance of an inexperienced grower. Sansevieria has been successfully grown as an ornamental plant for more than two centuries. It is widely used in various compositional arrangements for landscaping winter gardens, living quarters and as a decoration for various artificial landscapes.
The hardy plant for your apartment is sansevieria. Home Care
This beautiful home flower prefers a well-lit place, although it can stoically tolerate partial shade. Therefore, you can place a pot with sansevieria not only on the windowsill, but also on shelves or stands in some distance from it. The plant adapts perfectly to the usual climatic conditions of the apartment and feels great at a standard room temperature in the range of 22-25 ° C. In winter, it can calmly withstand a slight cooling up to 15 ° C.
In general, when growing sansevieria, you can not worry too much about creating optimal temperature conditions. It grows quietly in conditions of low humidity, but if you have a household humidifier - it's just fine.
Sansevieria: home care. Watering and feeding
When choosing the soil for this plant, you should focus on a well-permeable and nutritious substrate containing coarse sand. Sansevieria flower is watered regularly, but in moderation. By the time of the next wetting, the topsoil should have time to dry out. Remember that you can not fill the plant, otherwise its roots may rot. Excessive hydration may result in yellowing of the leaves. Also, do not forget that when watering, you can not allow water to enter the center of the outlet, this can lead to disease of the sansevieria plant (photo).
Caring for it implies not only a balanced moistening of the substrate with ordinary tap water, but also periodic wiping of the leaves with a clean damp cloth and spraying. You can feed a flower with fertilizer for cacti. It is brought in from March to October twice a month.
The Pike Tail is Sansevieria. Home care: annual transplant and reproduction
In order for this ornamental plant to grow well and be healthy, it is necessary to transplant it annually. This procedure is performed in spring (or summer). When transplanting, a new wide and low capacity is selected, at the bottom of which a drainage layer is laid. The plant is carefully removed from the old container, its roots are freed from the old substrate, the diseased, dead processes are removed. If necessary, the plant is divided into several parts.
If you want to propagate sansevieria at home, then this can be done with the help of offspring formed on the rhizome. You can also try rooting leafy cuttings. The leaves of the plant are cut in the transverse direction, forming small pieces about 10 cm long, and put them in a mixture of sand and peat.