Being optimistic is not easy - you might say, and it is - the truth. Not everyone is able to build its own state of mind so that it does not hurt to live you or others. I, for example, helps to be optimistic about my new hobby tillandsiyami - plants that require minimal maintenance.
The cozy little nests Green "hedgehogs" felt comfortable and started to bloom and multiply
I met with him, or rather, with them, for the first time exactly a year ago in Philadelphia Flower Show. These small fluffy lumps caught my attention the fact that just lay on the counter. The seller did not bother to put them in water or planted in pots with soil. These plants, unusual-looking and unusual view of the layman, rather like the green and gray ezhat, but not in the cactus, though sometimes grow on them and have similar flowering. Cacti and other plants, these babies are exclusively used to secure a space and do not cause harm or damage, though, and adapt to them as parasites. Also battled the fact that these plants do not require special care. Without hesitation, I bought my favorite green lumps and brought home. They picked up all sorts of cozy "nests" - clay, glass, earthenware, and so was to take care of them and at the same time to study but to watch. When bloomed the first "hedgehog", my surprise and joy knew no bounds. After flowering, and the Forest - the tiny baby struck me that began to multiply - they got babies! I love these plants with all your heart, they create something and my good mood. And now I know that they are to their liking, and what is not. It turned out that my unusual lumps or other than tillandsii - representatives of the largest family of Bromeliads, named after the Swedish botanist E. Tillandsa (1640-1693), its diversity and quirkiness is no limit. Homeland tillandsy - South and Central America (southern states), the nature of their spread of about 550 species, and only some of these plants have unique odor during flowering. The smell is very strong, especially when you consider that the flower tiddly. I also still live in the most common tillandsii.
Ionanda with the children
Strikta has a hard protruding leaves bright green color. Here it is once and cheered me - on the street in December, all the snow and the green hedgehog just bloomed for Christmas is quite a large pink flower. He grew up just over a week and increased with each passing day. I watched him carefully and diligently watered it and all my tillandsii. Although these plants and they look as artificial, but I did know that they are alive, present, and need to consume water, like any other plant. The confusion is due to the application to them of the word "atmospheric", which is used because such plants do not need soil or substrate, as expressed by professional florists. But like a good tillandsii watering, so that the water dripping from them. In warm and dry weather, they can even be soaked overnight it will nourish their moisture much more effective than spraying or shower.
I have my green hedgehog in the heating season bathing suit twice a day - morning and evening."Atmospheric" tillandsii love moisture. At low humidity area you can moisturize every four hours, with one prerequisite - carefully shake the water from them, and they can die. This helps ventilation and air conditioning American buildings. So, once I overdid - shakes the water from my strikty so hard that it had broken right at the base. Disappointed ... Everyone thought it would be weakened, sick, and if not will perish. An, no! Zhivehonka and zdorovehonka ... And all because, as I later learned that the absence of a root system for tillandsy almost nothing. They absorb moisture and nutrients through the small scales on the leaves called trichomes, which are many times and give the "weather" tillandsiyam their silvery-gray color.
On the window ledge on the left to right: ionanda and fuchsia
So, when my other hedgehog, named ionanda, wilted purple lilac tubular flowers with yellow center, and sired offspring, I easily separated from the mother mounted Cossack, not waiting until it take root, just gave her a little to grow up and grow strong. It turns out that the roots can be cut even if they interfere, and the plant does not fit in your choice, a fun "pot", which, for example, has a yellow chicken, which you see in the picture. In essence - it's support for eggs, but my Fuchs it feels good, and the cutting of roots did not affect the viability of the plant itself. So far none of my Fuchs did not flower. I look forward to! It should produce some kind of boom, and even a red one, which subsequently dissolve the purple flower with yellow center, and maybe two.
Composition in pots topped abdita
Tillandsii breeding and seed. Maturation, boll opens, and the seeds begin to germinate, gaining access to moisture. To grow plants from seed takes a lot of patience and time - from four to seven years, depending on the species. Someone who will do this, do not be sorry, before it will now show. Tillandsii good that you can place them anywhere - at home and on the street if there is no frost, hanging on a tree or on a porch, patio or poolside. They need to maximize light place, but not in direct sunlight. When they do fall under the rays of the sun, it must be early in the morning. They love the movement of air, but not stuffy enclosed space. And remember that they need to hydrate and moisturize, soft, sprinkling water at room temperature."Atmospheric" tillandsii can be grown and attached fishing line or a special glue to a piece of bark or root of the bizarre, the candlesticks or other suitable containers. But I prefer the whimsical "pots" that can be installed on the windowsill and the shelves or directly on the dinner table. From these plants do not have dirt and debris from their land and does not smell of stagnant water, such as from live flowers and plants, planted in a pot with soil. My composition is crowned abdita in pots - a large plant with a long elastic leaves, it is a bit like aloe.
To complete my joy, I dream to purchase albertianu - a small plant, the size of a matchbox, very rare - a real treasure for the grower. Blossoms albertiana all day and gives only a single flower or a bright red juicy cherry color.
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