Care for gardenia at home, photo

Flowers can be either single, or collected in a bundle of several pieces. Their color is gently milky or white with a slight pink tinge.

Care for gardenia at home

Care for gardenia should be enoughliterate, because this plant is capricious. For its breeding at home, flower growers make a lot of effort and patience. But all this is justified by the beauty of blossoming buds and the magnificent fragrance that they radiate.

So, it must be said that gardenia is verylikes to be outdoors, that's why it is recommended to sprinkle it with water every day, even several times a day. Although it is important that water does not fall on buds or flowers, as this leads to their drying and death. In summer and spring the bush should be watered abundantly, but it is not necessary to fill it completely, the soil should be slightly moist, but not wet.

When the soil is "soaked", the roots of the plantbegin to rot and, accordingly, lead to death. Overdrying is also terrible. So in the watering should be respected. Water is better to take a warm, slightly above room temperature, filtered (without the impurities of chlorine and other substances). Gardenia does not tolerate sudden changes in temperature.

The optimum temperature of its content is from 16 to 22° C. As for lighting, this beauty can be called a light-loving lady. For its normal growth and development, very good lighting is needed. But the direct sunlight hits on the plant should be avoided, as they lead to burns of the leaves.

In the winter gardenia you need to provide the mostIlluminated place in the house. Excellent fit southern windows. The fertilizing of the flower is carried out during its active growth (March-August) and during the flowering period, approximately every 2 weeks. Liquid fertilizer with the content of potassium and iron is suitable as a fertilizer.

Gardenia is transplanted every two years inspring season, better in acidic soil without lime. On the bottom of the pot, drainage is laid, which significantly reduces the stagnation of water in the soil. Extra twigs and leaves are cut off during transplantation, and a bush is formed.

Propagate mostly room gardenia cuttings. To do this, they are rooted in warmed soil (25-27 ° C) and periodically sprayed. You can use phytohormones in breeding, as rooting takes a very long time.

Major diseases and treatment of gardenia

As already noted above, gardenia isvery capricious plant. And it often happens, so that flower buds, densely covering the whole bush, for some reason cease to develop and begin to fall off actively. In order to prevent this, the plant needs to be provided with an optimal temperature regime, without any changes and drafts.

Watering should also be fairly accurate. In the event that the leaves begin to lose their color and become whitish, this indicates that the plant was ill due to lack of iron in the soil. That is why several times a year in the ground recommend to make special solutions with this microelement. Pests can also lead to the disease and death of tender gardenia.

The most dangerous of them are the scab,spider mite, mealybug. The first time they are detected, you need to immediately treat the flower with insecticides, which the modern market provides in a wide variety: Decis, Inta-Vee, Phytoverm, Actellik, and others.

Author: Katerina Sergeenko