Long ago have despaired to decorate the house with greens because for day you vanish at work? Or just you forget to water plants in time? Forget about whimsical flowers – give the heart to modest and unpretentious house plants which will survive even at the most absent-minded owner.
Aloe
Aloe leaves often compare to sword or other pricking tool. Leaf strong, fleshy, with toothed or smooth edges. Leaves of plant are located on spiral in the dense socket. Its flowers are small, are located on long peduncle.
Recommendations about leaving:
- well grows in sand, peat, cespitose soil;
- demands abundant watering only during growth;
- room temperature perfectly will be suitable for the normal growth and blossoming;
- the plant very much loves light, especially solar;
- normally transfers dry air, but prefers fresh in the summer;
- breeds shoots on each side.
Monetary tree
Perennial plant with treelike stalk. Leaves at it opposite, are often collected in the socket. Small flowers, white, hardly noticeable.
This plant breeds shoots or too often sheet shanks which take roots pretty fast. The soil optimum suitable for plant is sand with the cespitose and sheet earth. Change can be arranged approximately every two years. The plant loves light and perfectly transfers dry air, without demanding frequent watering.
Havortion
The trunk at plant is almost absent, leaves fleshy, small, are collected by the socket at the basis. Cylindricity flowers, light, with pink or green shade.
Watering of plant depends on season:
- in the winter – watering weak;
- in the spring, all summer and early autumn – moderated (water soft);
- in the fall – watering gradually decreases.
Havortion easily transfers droughty climate and does not need humidity. It is better to choose lighting for it bright with diffused light. The plant loves the soil from sand and humus, time in two – needs three years change.
Euphorbia
Columned plant with deciduous upper part, leaves medium-sized, thin. The trunk is rather strong and fleshy, sometimes with prickles.
Unlike many houseplants, is not afraid of direct sunshine, and on the contrary – loves bright light and at its shortcoming changes coloring. Room temperature for it is optimum, but can take out also the lowered temperatures. Watering of plant – moderate, during the summer period is even better to minimize moisture supply. Though the plant is very unpretentious, it does not transfer draft, turns yellow and fades on draft. Replace it, as a rule, in the spring.
Ivy
Has long twisting stalk, light sinewy leaves with several blades, blossoms the small flowers collected in umbrella.
The plant this shade-enduring, however, gains full beauty at good scattered lighting. Comfortable temperature is from 15 degrees in the winter up to 25 degrees in the summer. The ivy does not love dryness and needs spraying. Watering intensive during the summer period, the earth has to be constantly damp, in the winter – in process of drying. Also demands infrequent fertilizing in the summer.
Geranium
Plant with leaves on long legs. The leaf is various on section, myagkovoloknist. Flowers are located on peduncles from one to three. They are large, the correct form, with variation of flowers from white to violet. The plant possesses characteristic smell.
The plant loves light, however it is better to save it from direct beams of the sun in the summer. Loves temperature room from 10 – 15 winter to the 25th in the summer, also in summertime it can be taken out on fresh air. The soil approaches only with good drainage properties, most often it is mix from 5 – 7 views of soils. Needs rather abundant moistening, demands watering in process of drying of the soil.