House notes

Longer to enjoy beauty and an aroma of flowers, carry out the following:
• change water in a vase every day (water should be a room temperature, but not cold);
• before water replacement properly wash out a vase;
• daily wash out pure water stalks and update cuts (necessarily under water);
• break leaves which have appeared in water, and that they will quickly decay, and water it will be bad to smell.
For prolongation of a life of colours put them in slightly acidified solution boric, ascorbic (vitamin C) or lemon acid (0,1-0,2 grammes on water litre), having added in water sugar: for carnations - 50-60 grammes, for roses - 30-40, for tulips - 70, for lilies - 120 grammes.

In England aspidistru name “a pig-iron plant” - so it unpretentious. She is the close relative of a lily of the valley and reminds its wide foliage of is dark-emerald colour. Its violet-yellow flowers grow directly from a rhizome and are lost in dense listjah which can “be both monophonic, and motley, with yellow strips. Plants with motley foliage, by the way, more exacting to light - in a strip shade can disappear. And it is more aspidistra anything to be afraid - a cold, a heat, a dust

Here some signs which will help to understand that occurs to plants.
• If at the basis leaves turn yellow, means, in the oldest roots located in the bottom part of a pot, surplus of a moisture has accumulated.
• If leaves turn yellow on all length of a stalk, means, soil pereuvlazhnena.
• If leaves droop, are braided, do not reach for light, it means, that on a soil surface the crust was formed and it became difficult to roots to breathe.
• If leaves twist up - the plant requires in moderated polive.
• If leaves dry along the edges or become too fragile, it means, that air in too dry.
• If on leaves there are yellow and brown stains, means, plant roots are amazed by a fungus.

It as if prepares for fight: wide light green leaves with cross-section silvery strips densely covered with thorns. Not casually in a translation from Greek "ehmeja" means “a tip peaks”. The Most widespread - ehmeja striped. At it very beautiful red flowers. In others ehmej flowers happen pink and even blue. Ehmeja unpretentious also will easily present to you such militant proud flower. Time of its flowering - from May till October, but each socket blossoms only once. Let it does not afflict you, as on replacement to a remote flower soon there will be new "children". Ehmei photophilous, but require

Tolstjanka belongs to sukulentam - to close relatives of cactuses, therefore absolutely unpretentious: unless it is necessary for it of more light and direct solar beams. Add it seldom, in process of ground drying, to spray not necessarily. In house conditions plant tolstjanku portulakovuju more often, which else name a monetary tree. By sight it actually reminds a small tree: at it a firm trunk, and on it - branches with thick fleshy foliage. Consider, that tolstjanka - “to money”, but not everyone, but only from the stolen sprout. To grow up a monetary tree, it is necessary to tear off a leaflet and to put it in a glass with water.

The plant native land - South East Asia. For its cultivation it is desirable for flower grower to have a certain experience.
Evergreen bushy tree to 150 sm in height (in room culture usually much more low). Ardizija will please not only wonderful tsvetkami, but also decorative fruits - orange-red roundish berries to 1 sm in diameter.
The plant well grows at a room temperature.
In the winter when ardizija forms fruits, the temperature should make approximately +14-16 With, differently they are quickly wrinkled. At dry air having watered it is necessary to increase a little, but not to suppose hit of dry hot air from the battery on plant foliage. Likes bright