5 most "useless" indoor plants: cheerleaders and disappointed. Sorry time

Want to know a list of my family's grievous disappointments? Then a fiery salute, comrade curious florist! Today on the agenda is a selection of indoor plants, acquaintance with which turned out to be a waste of time.

I strongly recommend not to take my complaints seriously. Being an adequate person, I understand that perhaps my Dearest wife and I have screwed up somewhere with the conditions and care. But, Lenin sees, we really tried to rectify the situation. Alas and ah!

1. Cypress from a pot

I don’t know which marketer came up with the idea to shove a coniferous seedling into a tiny pot. And bring them to city supermarkets, shamelessly speculating on the New Year's feelings of citizens.

It was on the eve of the holiday that the son brought us a potted cypress tree. For a long time I looked at the "little tree" in bewilderment until it began to fly hopelessly around.

The cypress survived until spring, but only moved to the coolness of the glazed veranda (it was about 10 degrees in winter). In the spring the poor fellow recovered, and even seemed to be glad to be landed in the garden - his side turned green. However, a year later the cypress was safely "burned". I crossed myself.

2-3. Gardenia and camellia - beautiful and short-lived

The sinful thought of taking home a jasmine gardenia from the store shelf came to me after the memory that such a flower grew at my teacher's. Oh, those wax petals rolled into a rose, and a bright aroma! A pensioner with red beads from leaving only liked watering, and from top dressing - a solution of chicken droppings. Forgive God. So I presumptuously assumed that I wouldn't have any problems!

Not at all. Neither the acidic soil, nor watering with soft water, nor taking it out into the street in the summer, after which the most capricious ones wake up, did not affect the gardenia. She just threw off the leaves one by one, and then dried all the branches.

Exactly the same story happened with the camellia. Only the case came to its logical conclusion even faster than with gardenia. If the latter bloomed at least once, the camellia threw off the buds immediately after the move.

Comrades! Do not think that I bought this miracle. Taught by gardenia, I swore. But his wife clung to the pot in Leroy Merlin like a magpie in a teaspoon.

4. Thompson's Clerodendrum: Light Difficulty

Another "exotic" from the happy Soviet era. Refusing to behave in my capitalist home.

Did not disappear and even bloomed periodically. But he was worn out by eternal chlorosis (yellowed leaves), constantly demanded pruning and from time to time completely flew around. Clerodendrum is not worth the trouble. Not worth it!

5. Eucharis: how long can I wait for you

"Amazon lily", as Eucharis is also called, has shaken my soul for 6 years. She cheerfully released leaf by leaf, but flatly refused to bloom. After the transplant, they immediately fell off, however, then they quickly grew again and... continued to do the same.

Later I found advice to arrange a dry dormant period for eucharisa. And eucharis really gave 2 arrows. But I was no longer happy after 6 years of silence. In short, I took the pot, already completely filled with bulbs, to the nearest store. It does not bloom there either.

If you also had a flower disappointment or the story about mine was interesting - click, comrade, "Thumbs up"! Sincerely yours, Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin, whose wife is already looking at the azalea.