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Even a modestly furnished room will take on an elegant look as soon as indoor plants appear in it. And if you don’t have time to take care of your home flora, you can pick up unpretentious indoor flowers that will delight you with flowering all year round.
Advantages and disadvantages
Having decided to settle blooming indoor flowers in the house, you should study the varieties you like in advance, carefully familiarizing yourself with their strengths and weaknesses. Indeed, some plants require careful care and strict adherence to the conditions of detention, but they delight with magnificent and unique flowers, while others, on the contrary, grow successfully with a minimum of attention.
Some species need an obligatory period of winter dormancy in order to be reborn and develop with renewed vigor in the spring.
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Popular species
Indoor flowers blooming all year round are not at all uncommon. In fact, there are quite a few such cultures, and not all of them need special care. Let’s look at the most popular and unpretentious flowering crops.
Balsam
Balsam, or touchy, was also loved by our grandmothers. The plant is beautiful and unpretentious, prefers heat, moisture and abundant light. There are many varieties of culture, each of which blooms in different shades. The plant is moisture-loving, prefers to grow in not too voluminous pots.
Balsam can be propagated using cuttings or seeds. The peculiarity of caring for the touchy is that it is necessary to regularly and carefully inspect the plant for damage to the shoots – due to one small injury, it can die.
Begonia
This is an indoor culture, in which both flowers and leaves are decorative. Today, about 1 thousand varieties of begonias are known, which are successfully used for decorative landscaping both indoors and loggias, verandas, arbors. All of them can differ according to several criteria: be bushy or ampelous, bloom all year round or separate seasons.
Hibiscus
This perennial is a distant relative of garden mallows, but in Our Country it is known rather as a pot culture. These flowering large houseplants are grown as an ornamental shrub or small tree.
If the hibiscus is provided with proper care and suitable conditions, the hibiscus is quite capable of growing up to 2,5 m in height, as well as regularly delighting with bright and beautiful large flowers.
Fuchsia
The plant loves intense diffused light and a sufficient amount of moisture. If hot weather sets in, do not forget to regularly spray fuchsia from a spray bottle. It blooms with colorful flowers from early spring to late autumn.
With the advent of winter, fuchsia can be removed to a cool, dark room and watering can be significantly reduced. Winter is a period of rest for the plant, when it gets rid of the foliage and gains strength.
Azalea
In fact, the culture is a dwarf form of rhododendron. The whimsical beauty does not lend itself to every grower: she loves a lot of diffused light, needs protection from drafts, and does not like high temperatures.
Adhere to moderation in watering and top dressing, do not forget about the annual autumn transplants.
Do not place a pot of azalea near radiators, spray regularly.
Spathiphyllum or flagolist
This culture is very loved by flower growers for its unpretentiousness and charming flowers, slightly reminiscent of callas. The plant is thermophilic and moisture-loving. Don’t place it in direct sunlight or you risk serious leaf burns. Reproduction of culture occurs by dividing the bush.
Kalanchoe
It is difficult to argue with the decorative qualities of Kalanchoe: the plant blooms for a long time and luxuriantly, and in the short intervals between flowering pleases with its waxy leaves. Growing a crop is easy – Kalanchoe is a succulent, so it does not require intensive watering, but loves high temperatures.
Clevia
Clivia is an evergreen plant with a well-developed rosette of leathery large leaves. When the time of flowering comes, the culture knocks out a large peduncle with an umbrella from bright orange flowers.
In an apartment, a flower can “live” for about 3 weeks. This culture feels great on eastern windowsills, but does not like bright sunlight. Needs moderate watering, does not tolerate transplants.
Pelargonium
Another common name for this plant is geranium. It is characterized by the absence of a pronounced dormant period, so pelargonium is able to knock out flowers almost all year round.
Widely used for landscaping balconies, verandas and loggias, ampel varieties look great in hanging planters. He likes moderate watering, good lighting and systematic top dressing.
Ruellia
This is an unpretentious fast-growing culture that propagates easily and does not require special care. The plant has drooping stems that root easily when in contact with the soil.
Ruellia is rarely found in the free market: the plant grows quickly, therefore, from a commercial point of view, it has a low attractiveness.
The intensity of flowering directly depends on the lighting – the better it is, the longer the plant will bloom.
Anthurium
Anthurium has become increasingly popular in recent years. The plant is distinguished by heart-shaped dense glossy leaves, bright white-pink flowers with yellow cobs. With a sufficient level of lighting, anthurium can delight with its flowering almost all year round, sometimes fruits are formed during pollination – bright yellow berries.