Flowering feast for the eyes: 3 Secrets lush geranium in your home
Geranium (official name - pelargonium) - Traditional Russian plant for the home and garden. Flower, so to speak, with a soul and a national flavor! Personally, I associate it with a grandmother's home village ...
But to grow the perfect pelargonium, painted bright caps, can be in a normal city apartment. The plant as a whole unpretentious, if not to take into account the need for a winter vacation. In this article I joined 4 secret care geraniums. By following them, you grow the perfect houseplant, and many will rejoice umbrellas.
To geranium bloomed magnificently, we need a lush bush
Here the calculation is simple: new and fresh flower stalks need to grow something. Therefore, do not neglect pruning. That crop, rather than topping. So we will form the "backbone" of geranium, which will be covered with caps of colors. When the time comes.
Geranium, which is the owner of "sorry" to cut the strong shoots will grow ugly: 1-3 "sticks" with peduncles only on the tips of branches. When more and lower leaves fall off, the picture will not the most pleasant. About this situation, saying: "Pelargonium izroslas"
So be sure to cut the geraniums, not only in early spring, but during the growing season until the autumn. Define for itself a certain pitch (for example, 15 cm), after which the crop will each twig. And after a month you will see a green ball. He will be the result of your work is!
sun flower
Geranium loves the sun and it's a fact. Excellent growing even in direct sunlight. The maximum that it can happen bad - is a fast drying of the soil (easy to fix attentive watering) and reddening of leaves (only cosmetic defect).
But the lack of light causes a lot more harm:
- in such circumstances, pelargonium throws new buds are not so readily, like a flower on a sunny windowsill;
- in decorative essentially loses himself bush - the stalks are drawn, and he laid bare bulb becomes very... loose or something.
Therefore, to enjoy the magnificent flowering beauties, please provide geranium enough sun.
care Basics
Oddly enough, but the most important for the rapid growth and flowering geranium beautiful - it's just... watering. The plant can be called a drought-tolerant, but at the time of recruitment of flowering buds and make sure that the land does not dry up completely.
But spraying geranium to anything. Better to occasionally arrange a warm shower!
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