Indoor plants: homeland, species, care

Green home friends are in every home. Among them there are tree, shrubby and herbaceous plants. Each of them has a unique shape, unusual colors.

From the homeland of houseplants, the rules for their successful breeding come to us.

Home plants: properties, usefulness and harmfulness

Many years of practice and experience confirm the sanitary, aesthetic and hygienic role of most indoor plants. They help cleanse the air of carbon dioxide. His, as a rule, in the room more than 23 times than in the open air.

Thanks to the colors, the air is enriched with oxygen. The leaves of indoor plants evaporate moisture, moisturizing the air and lowering its temperature.

Natural green color has a beneficial effect on the nervous system and psyche. Improving the mood of people and their performance.

Especially valuable are plants that produce essential oils and volatile, with the ability to kill pathogens. There are currently about 50 species of such indoor plants known. Doctors are studying their properties along with chemists and botanists.

There are also “doctors” among them (for example, aloe and Kalanchoe, golden mustache and geranium).

Poisonous plants should not be planted at home, and if they are, be careful. These include euphorbia, oleander, alocasia and acalifa. If such houseplants do like and look good, it is advisable to put them out of the reach of children, and be careful in contact with them yourself.

Kinds

Indoor plants by their decorative properties are usually divided into 3 large groups. The plants of the first two are decorative leaf and decorative flowering indoor plants that do not lose their attractiveness throughout the year. The third group is decorative flowering plants that attract attention only during flowering periods.

In addition to all this, among the plants grown at home, there are separate groups: palm, orchids, bromeliads, cactus and succulent, fern, bulb, and also fruit-bearing.

Houseplant Care: Rules

1. Roots need not only water but also air. Overmoistening of the soil leads to death or to the occurrence of diseases.
2. In winter and late autumn, indoor air, mainly with central heating, is dry. You need to learn how to properly maintain its humidity.
3. Almost all indoor plants need a certain period of rest. At this time, they should be watered less often and fed slightly less. And you also need to provide lower air temperature than during the period of active growth.
4. A couple of years after planting, most of the plants lose their attractiveness. In this case, it is enough to simply transplant the flower into a larger pot.
5. When caring for plants, the following tools are needed: a watering can with a narrow long nose, a sprayer, an old fork and spoon, secateurs, a soft sponge. Good soil, pots, props, pallets, liquid fertilizers in bottles - this is all that is necessary for proper flower care.
6. If the plant is flooded for a long time, it may die. Also with pests. If a pair of shields or any other insects appeared, it is easy to deal with them. And when they cover the whole plant, they cannot be defeated. So, you should be in time to recognize any future troubles for the plant and take the necessary measures to successfully deal with them.
7. When choosing flowers for growing indoors, it is imperative to consider the conditions provided for them. There are light-loving and shade-tolerant plants .

News from the homeland of indoor plants: what you need to know?

Where did home plants come from, where do they grow in nature? Let's consider some of them.

1. A flowering ornamental verbena plant is a perennial from the verbena family. Her homeland is America. It is used both in pot culture and in the design of flower beds on open ground.
2. The evergreen shrub gardenia is a jasmine-like plant (180 cm) from the Marenov family. Its homeland is the subtropics of China, Africa, Japan, Asia.
3. Gerbera from the Asteraceae family - originally from South Africa. It is also grown both for cutting and at home.
4. Hibiscus (Malvaceae family) hails from the tropics and subtropics of southeast Asia (Southern China), Polynesia, northern India. Its entire genus has approximately 300 species. It should be noted that this plant lives more than 20 years.
   
5. Hydrangea (the Hortense family) naturally grows in China. It has been in culture since the end of the 18th century.
6. Primrose from the family Primrose, uniting about 20 genera, is distributed mainly in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Japan and China are the birthplace of the flower. In total there are more than 600 species.

The world of indoor plants is amazing and beautiful. Flowers not only decorate the design of any room and give it comfort, but also delight the eye all year round, reminding in the snowy winter of the variety of colors of nature.