The blossoming plants in pots – a fine alternative for not fans of cut flowers. In shops these pots make out also smartly, as well as bouquets so it is very worthy gift. But if you want to make really original gift, buy … a cactus. It blossoms very beautifully, smells sweet not worse than a rose, a jasmine or a freesia, and it is simple to look after it. Only it is necessary to choose carefully.
It is required to you
- - the illustrated encyclopedia of cacti;
- - thematic websites and Internet forums on a kaktusovodstvo;
- - beautiful cactus.
Instruction
1. Before doing purchase, try to learn preferences of your donee. If there is an opportunity, tell a story that presented to your some acquaintance a cactus. At once it is possible to judge by reaction of the interlocutor whether also the similar invention will be pleasant to him, whether he will consider it inappropriate. Surely learn whether there are in his house houseplants, whether he has an idea that they need to be watered, fed up, replaced, etc. The cactus is unpretentious in leaving, but sometimes and to it the attention is required.
2. Find specialized shop and tell sellers for what you need a cactus. They will advise the most beautiful, often blossoming and pleasantly smelling.
3. Check books about cacti, for this purpose it is possible not to buy specialized literature, at least thumb through the illustrated encyclopedias in shop or find editions in electronic form, many are in network in free access. Write down names of the pleasant cacti, those which, in your opinion, can become a good gift. With this list go to shop. You will not be lost in variety of products any more, and to represent accurately: that you want. It is optional that all names from your list will be submitted on sale, but it will be much simpler to choose from remained.
4. Communicate at thematic Internet forums to skilled kaktusovoda, those can make even more qualified recommendations, than the sellers interested in the client, or with deep arguments will dissuade you from an invention.
5. If the person to whom you decided to give such original gift himself is an inveterate fan of cacti, better directly ask: what prickly flower is still necessary to it in a collection. Without having made it, you can not please or you present a plant which for a long time it has in the house.