"Eternal Blossoming" apartment: 12 flowers per year

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

A few years ago I was grieving: why do my indoor flowers "sleep" in winter and bloom together in summer, just when my family and I live in the country. And the thought came to my mind: why not try to "share" this joy for all twelve months? Collect a flower collection in which the flowering of one flower would be replaced by the flowering of another. I hasten to share my experience.

Of course, for each house, for each apartment and for each, as they say, "hands" the list of recommended plants can and should vary. Windows to the north will "oblige" to make a collection of shade-tolerant plants, facing south - from "heat-resistant", and there is also the microclimate of a particular room and apartment …

Of course, I did not manage without failures: flowers are living creatures, and for various reasons they "got out" of the schedule. But is it really that scary? I think no. I hope you agree with that. Or you will improve my developments and create your own collection, another one, blooming without failures. Until then, check out my floral collection.

January

This, of course, is the month of poinsettia - you can't find anything better for a New Year's apartment. But to be honest, I didn't bother with the safety of the plant after flowering. If you love difficulties - for God's sake, the technology of "putting to bed" and "awakening" poinsettia has been developed and is freely available on the same Internet. But I advise from the bottom of my heart: do not waste time on nonsense. Buy a new plant next year, and that's it. Although, of course, if you make the beauty a second time, in a year, cover herself with red clothes - honor and praise to you. And even an honorary diploma.

February

Usually at this time I have Ripsalidopsis (read about it below) and violets are raging. But the February exclusive is indoor calla lilies. The leaves are beautiful, the flower is indescribable. Flowering usually lasts until March, in June-July the calla lilies have a dormant period (do not water!). Calla loves coolness. (And calla lilies are spider mites. Examine the leaves more often, and if anything - with their "chemistry"!)

March

Ehmeya blooms. Depending on the species, this plant may have slightly different care; for example, Walbach's echmea needs a "medium" light, for the rest - bright, but shaded at midday. The rest is simple. Sometimes, however, ehmeya is capricious - who knows why, she has a female character … But, as a rule, it blooms regularly.

April

Everything is beautiful in pachistachis: a funny name, flowers, and a "light character". In winter, he is usually a little sad: he will drop the leaves, he is “all in himself”. But with the first rays of the sun - oh, started playing! He straightened his shoulders, swept out the buds. If you love and groom him, it will bloom like a groovy one. Root the cut cuttings and give them to your friends, they will say thank you.

May

Well, in May, the competition begins: who is prettier, brighter, more powerful. In May, staples, fuchsias and hoya bloom.

Hoya blooms somewhat … excessively. You have to keep the window open - the aroma is too strong. (The older child, in whose room the liana lives, flatly refuses to part with it. Loves, you see!) If the hoya does not bloom, then it is in the wrong place. Experiment: remove it from the wall, put it closer to the window, or, conversely, move it away from it … If the plant is preparing

to flowering, in no case touch the formed buds, do not break off and

do not cut off faded inflorescences, do not move the flower along the windowsill and do not twist around the axis - the buds will fall off.

June

Clerodendrum time. Not familiar with this flower? Hurry to rectify the situation. There is practically no care for him, so pinching and the direction of the shoots. (Pinching is the removal of the tips of the shoots. This is done so that the plant begins to grow in breadth). It blooms vigorously, very effectively, the faded inflorescences adorn the plant for several more months.

July

Around this time, my escinanthus blooms. Once I bought a tiny wick, it has grown - a marvelous wonder. Leaves are leathery, even when not blooming, and that is good. But again: frozen in admiration, do not "pat" the spider mites and whiteflies. Aeschinanthus feels good on the balcony, and that's where his pests find him …

August

Callistemon was given to me by a friend. At first I refused: what are you, I don't have time to take care of exotics! Then she resigned herself. Well, I fell in love with him, of course. It blooms … "dish brushes". Fantastic sight! Loves fresh air. And in general, for all its exoticism, this plant is for lazy people like me.

September

At the beginning of autumn, indoor jasmine begins (or continues) to rage. And it was in September that my bougainvillea bloomed. The last one is a complete mystery! It begins to grow in winter, and in summer it freezes, then it gives a frantic increase, then the year sits quietly. All in all - lovely. It blooms with luxurious lilac "lanterns".

October

Reo blooms, a funny plant, which the British call "Moses' cradle": its white flowers, peeping out of the bracts, really look like the head of a swaddled baby. A relative of the old familiar Tradescantia, reo is unpretentious and looks amazing in composition with this ampelous relative. Do not fill in the reo, but do not dry it either, spray it more often - and rejoice!

November

Cyclamens bloom at the junction of October and November. They are called "ice" because they love the cold. If the room is hot, place ice cubes on the ground in a pot. Cyclamen can bloom without stopping almost until spring. Do not be sad if it withers, new plants are inexpensive.

December

Anyone can say that this is the time of the Decembrist. Scientifically, this forest cactus is called zygocactus. Another cactus, Ripsalidopsis, which usually blooms in February and April, is terribly similar to it. They are distinguished as follows: zygocactus has serrations on the leaves, ripsalidopsis does not.

Another masterpiece of December is ardisia. It blooms in summer and is covered with bright red berries in December.

… I'm sure a little experience, and balsams and ruelles, coleria, jatropha and violets, as well as ever-flowering begonia will bloom on your windowsill all year round. Or maybe you can "tame" someone else. In any case, I sincerely wish this to everyone. Collect your flower collection.