Hypoesthesia plant care at home
In order for your hypoesthesia to be healthy, you must follow a number of rules for caring for this plant, let's take a closer look at each point.
First steps after purchase
The hypoesthesia plant is quite unpretentious and perfect for growing in an apartment. After 2 weeks in quarantine, the flower needs to be transplanted into a small pot. Immediately you need to take care of the availability of drainage and fresh soil.
Place the hypoesthesia flower on east or west windows.
A pot with hypoesthesia is best placed on a window facing east or west. If the plant faces north, the leaves will become faded and the shoots will become very long.
Necessary lighting for the plant
As mentioned earlier, hypoesthesia grows best on the southeast or southwest side, as it grows best. on the north side, it fades quickly, and on the south, shading is necessary. The hypoesthesia flower loves bright diffused light, therefore it is necessary to provide it with ten hours of daylight.
Optimum temperature for a flower
A comfortable and optimal temperature for a hypoesthes plant is 21-25 degrees.
The best temperature for hypoesthesia is 21-25 degrees. In extreme heat, it weakens and abundantly evaporates moisture, so you should spray the hypoestes with water as often as possible. In autumn and winter, it is necessary to ensure that the temperature regime is not lower than 17 degrees. Low temperatures threaten hypoesthesia with the fall of all leaves, sometimes even death. At any time of the year, the plant must be protected from drafts, cold air and sudden temperature changes.
Watering hypoesthesia
At any time of the year, the hypoesthesia plant requires significant watering, because the homeland of the flower is the tropics. Watering should be done as the top layer of the earth dries up, it is unlikely that it will be possible to fill it, but you should still be careful. A flood of hypoesthesia can cause root rot and plant death. In the cold season, the plant is watered every 1-2 days.
Complete overdrying of the earth must not be allowed. This will lead to the leaves drooping and dropping to a greater extent.
Air humidity
In order to reproduce the tropical climate so native to the hypoetset, high humidity must be maintained. The plant needs daily spraying (several times a day in summer). For this, it is worth using exclusively settled or filtered water. If there is so often no opportunity to moisten the plant, you can place the flowerpot in a wide tray filled with moistened sphagnum, moss or expanded clay. Alternatively, you can place a hypoesthesia pot near your room humidifier.
Soil and top dressing
Choose a pot for Hypoestes wide and the soil is loose and slightly acidic.
The pot must be selected wide enough, of medium size (given the size of the plant itself), with low walls.
The best soil for hypoesthesia is a light, loose and slightly acidic substrate of 2 parts of leafy soil, 1 part of humus or sand, and 1 part of peat soil. You can buy this mixture at a specialty store (mixture for variegated indoor plants). In addition, it is imperative to pour drainage on the bottom so that the water does not stagnate.
Hypoestes is fertilized every 3-4 weeks (from spring to autumn). Potassium should be included in the top dressing, it will contribute to the bright color of the leaves. The fertilizer should contain as less nitrogen as it is. its excess will lead to tarnishing of the leaves.
Arrowroot
Arrowroot with red veins on the leaves is a tropical perennial of the Marantov family.
It is of value to gardeners due to its unusual foliage color - symmetrical red veins and dark green spots along the central veins.
Arrowroot has also been called the "prayer plant" due to its unusual reaction to light. If a beauty with red leaves lacks light, then her leaves rise to a vertical position, if the lighting is normal, they straighten out. At night, the leaves are picked into rosettes, in the morning they open.
Care features
- The beauty of arrowroot loves humidity, so it can be safely placed near aquariums.
- In summer, flower growers make sure that the arrowroot's earthen lump is always moist.
- Water the indoor flower carefully so that water does not get on the delicate leaves.
- She needs diffused light, additional lighting is done in winter. Young specimens are transplanted annually.
Other varieties of purple flowers
Royal begonia
Irezine Linden
In the collections of experienced flower growers, you can often find such types of indoor plants, whose leaves are decorated with intricate patterns, spots and stripes of purple.
Royal begonia is a very effective representative of the Begonia family, which has gained wide popularity in indoor plant growing. In the wild, this unusual flower is found in the eastern part of India. The plant has strong creeping roots, asymmetric rounded leaves with a heart-shaped base.
Chocolate Cream is a hybrid variety of royal begonia with intricately shaped and colored leaves. The plant forms a compact bush up to 25-30 centimeters high. Leaves are rounded, with a pointed apex, twisted into a flat spiral at the base. The center of the leaf, veins and scalloped edges are colored burgundy purple. A wide spiral strip running in the middle of the leaf plate has a silvery-green color.
Stained Glass is a compact royal begonia with asymmetrical elongated leaves. The height of an adult plant varies from 25 to 30 centimeters. The central part of the leaf plate is decorated with a large ruby-violet spot repeating in its outlines the shape of the leaf. The spot is surrounded by a wide gray-green stripe with a mother-of-pearl sheen.
Zebrina purple is an unpretentious perennial houseplant, which is a member of the Kommelin family. The homeland of this plant is considered to be the tropical regions of North America. Zebrina has long, creeping shoots, covered with succulent rounded leaves with a pointed tip. The central part of the leaf plate is decorated with a longitudinal violet-purple stripe.
They mean:
- abundant but diffused lighting (not direct sunlight);
- regular watering (once every 2-3 days);
- periodic spraying of the plant;
- loose nutritious soil.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with Feeding flowers with yeast Iresine is an ornamental perennial plant of the Amaranth family. In the wild, this exotic is found in Brazil, Ecuador, Australia, and the Antilles. The plant is a compact, multi-stemmed bush covered with large rounded leaves. The color of the leaves ranges from purple-cherry to red-violet. The upper side of the leaf plates is decorated with bright pink veins.
Irezine belongs to unpretentious plants that can easily tolerate drought, moisture deficit in the soil.
For the flower to feel comfortable, it should be provided with a sufficient amount of soft, diffused light throughout the day, a stable temperature at 20 ° C and weekly spraying. It is recommended to transplant this perennial every 2-3 years.
You can get acquainted with the peculiarities of caring for irezine in the following video.
Delphiniums are mainly colored in a dark shade of purple and have lush terry inflorescences.
Irises have a huge number of shades, and in most cases we are talking about purple, combined with other (usually contrasting) colors.The plant is not very demanding and feels great with minimal maintenance.
In the middle of summer, the following plants begin to actively bloom purple:
- campanula;
- violets of Wittrock;
- salvia;
- aconites;
- aquilegia;
- phlox.
A purple rose is still a rare phenomenon in our flower beds, but meanwhile there are several very pretty varieties suitable for mid-latitudes.
Buddleya David is still quite an exotic plant. Its Black Knight variety produces velvety large purple clusters of very small buds. The flowering period is quite long - and all the time the buddleya pleases with a scent very similar to honey. As a result, moths always hover around the bush.
Catnip has small, light purple, tube-like flowers. It is famous for its delicate aroma. To enjoy the longest flowering possible, it is necessary to cut off wilted inflorescences in a timely manner.
Many varieties of lilies are purple in color. They usually grow quickly and open buds early. Sometimes they turn out to be very large - up to 20 centimeters in diameter.
Clematis is a climbing plant that is quite popular in Russia. With proper care, it blooms very abundantly and luxuriantly.
Wisteria of the Multiyuga variety belongs to lianas. This perennial in favorable conditions is able to grow rapidly to a very impressive size (up to 18 meters). It has huge inflorescences reaching 0.5 m in length. They appear mainly in early spring or at the end of May (in more severe regions).
Types of clerodendrum
Before learning how to care for clerodendrum at home, you need to familiarize yourself with the most popular varieties and choose the right type for yourself.
Thomson's Clerodenrum (K. thomsoniae) is a climbing liana with thin, fast-growing shoots, gorgeous gorgeous white-red flowers with "bloody" droplets on long stamens. Sheds leaves for the winter.
The most beautiful clerodendrum (K. spesiosissimum) is an evergreen shrub, reaching 3 m in height. Large glossy leaves, heart-shaped, pubescent with villi. The inflorescences are collected in pretty red panicles.
Fragrant Clerodendrum (K. fragrans) - grows up to 1-2 m tall in indoor conditions, has pubescent shoots. The flowers are white, with a magnificent aroma, in which notes of violet and citrus are guessed. The variety is valuable because it blooms almost without stopping, all year round.
Clerodendrum Ugandan (K. ugandense) - liana with wide lanceolate leaves, with purple-blue inflorescences with long stamens. The flowers are very similar in shape to butterflies, and one of the petals in each of them is special - painted in a different color, long, shaped like a boat.
Dieffenbachia species and varieties
Dieffenbachia spotted (Dieffenbachia maculata). Leaves are green elliptical, wide with a heart-shaped base on long green petioles with white spots and stripes. From it, forms were obtained that differ in the color of the leaves and are superior in decorativeness.
Dieffenbachia seguine (D. seguine) - wide ovate leaf plates with a rounded or heart-shaped base, sharply tapering apex and a moderate amount of white spots. It was this species that served as the original form for many cultivars.
Barraquiniana on snow-white petioles, dark green leaves with rare irregular white spots and a white midrib.
The Bowman Dieffenbachia (D. bowmannii) has especially beautiful spotted leaves 70 cm long.
Jenmani has bright green leaves with white stripes on the lateral vein and sparse white spots in between.
Irrorata has a white-speckled petiole and yellow-spotted leaves.
In Camille, the central part of the leaf is white and turns green over time.
Dieffenbachia Leopold (D. leopoldii) - purple spots on the leaves.
Liturata has dark green dull, with a yellow border around the edge.
Nobilis has dark green leaves with emerald green spots.
Mars with a white central vein on the leaf, in spots of light green, white and dark green colors.
Manifika - light green between veins and white spots are scattered.
Memoria Corsi has wavy bluish leaves with a dark edging, with white and dark spots, and the bushy Compact has leaves in a spray of white spots that merge into central part of the leaf plates.
dieffenbachia memoria corsii
Rudolph Rers light yellow-green leaves, decorated with a dark middle vein and the same color edging, dark green and white spots of various sizes are scattered throughout the leaf blade.
dieffenbachia rudolph roers
Tropic Snow (Tropical snow) - along the central vein on a dark green background, a pattern of merged light yellowish-green spots and specks that diverge to the edges along the lateral veins.
dieffenbachia tropic snow
The Super Tropic has a pattern with sharper outlines.
Companion plants
Medium varieties are combined with most other green plants, larger ones are grown separately.
Neoregelia
This representative of the Bromeliads family also deserves the attention of indoor designers.
A beautiful neoregelia with red leaves releases a flower, but she attracts attention to herself with the bright red coloring of the crown. The perennial has no stem, it consists of several rosettes placed one above the other
The perennial has no stem, it consists of several rosettes, placed one above the other.
Neoregelia purely outwardly looks like a palm top, its leaves are belt-shaped with serrated sides and a pointed end.
Care features
- In order for a perennial with red leaves to grow comfortably, you need to provide it with conditions close to natural.
- It must be placed in a bright room, shaded from direct rays.
- To extend daylight hours, it is supplemented with an ordinary lamp.
- She needs to provide sufficient air humidity.
- In the summer they give her frequent watering, in small portions, in winter the amount of liquid decreases.
Poinsettia
The flower belongs to the euphorbia family. The second name of this plant, which has red leaves at the top, is "Christmas Star".
The new year is coming, at this time a person wants more bright colors, it is by the onset of this magical holiday that poinsettia blooms with red leaves.
In vivo, an unusual flower with red leaves grows in Central America and Mexico. In the last century, the Aztecs used it as a dye for cosmetology and textiles. Poinsettia is known for its medicinal properties and has been added to effective allergy medications.
Care features
Experienced flower growers note the following features of caring for a beautiful pounsettia:
- It is susceptible to temperature changes, so you should not place it on poorly insulated windows, where drafts often occur.
- It prefers a stable temperature regime, during the flowering period it should not exceed 18 degrees, intense heat and dry air are the reasons for the early wilting of the flower.
- It requires maximum illumination, does not tolerate direct rays of the sun, while in winter, you can direct sources of artificial light at it.
- Periodic spraying of red leaves with warm, settled water is a prerequisite for its development, this is especially true in rooms with increased dry air.
- When the soil dries up, we provide good watering, during flowering, the volume of incoming water is increased.
Do not be afraid when the once beautiful poinsettia begins to actively shed red leaves, a period of rest has come for it. After dropping the leaves, a bare stem remains, which must be preserved.
Tiger
Begonia "Tiger"
The homeland of this species is Mexico. It gained popularity due to the exquisite beauty of the leaves, the compact shape of the bush and the simplicity of care.Small white flowers appear in winter, but growers usually remove them so that they do not take away strength from begonias and food from leaves. (The same is done with old leaves). The aboveground stem of tiger begonia is practically absent, long hanging leaves grow directly from the root system. The bush reaches a height of only 30 cm.The color of the leaves is remarkable: green, with spots of light green, brown or black. On the reverse side, the leaves are pubescent. This species is rarely found in nature. But many of its hybrids are grown with pleasure by flower growers in indoor conditions. Tiger begonia is unpretentious, grows well in shade and partial shade.
Bowerae
It is a hybrid of tiger begonia. This is a small houseplant, up to 15 cm high. It has heart-shaped, velvety leaves with rounded edges, of an unusual tiger color: light green, bronze spots stand out sharply against a dark, almost black background. The edges of the leaves are framed with milky white cilia, and the veins stand out very clearly. The leaves are attached to long red cuttings. Peduncles appear in spring directly from the rhizome (creeping), on which basal rosettes are formed. Flowers are collected in brushes - umbrellas. Bauer's begonia also has its own hybrids:
Begonia "Black Velvet"
Grows in the form of a bush. Its stem is creeping, spreading over the soil surface. Leaves in the shape of a star. They are dark chocolate, almost black, velvety around the edges. The petioles are pubescent with a light pile. It blooms with inconspicuous whitish flowers, which, surprisingly, mesmerizingly look on the black velvet of the leaves.
Begonia "Cleopatra" (American Maple, Boveri, Maple-leaved)
This begonia reaches a height of 50 cm. It has a thin, erect, branching stem, covered with hairs. The species is prized for its unique leaves. They are large, on top they are olive-colored with white veins, and red-burgundy on the back. The leaf plates are finger-shaped and covered with small light hairs. During flowering, a high peduncle appears on the bush, in the lower part of which small inflorescences of white and pale pink color with a yellow center are formed.
What does a begonia flower look like: plant characteristics
The begonia plant (Begonia) belongs to the Begonia family. Behind these words lies the richest and most diverse world, uniting about 1000 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, shrubs and dwarf shrubs, growing both terrestrial and epiphytic. The number of all kinds of hybrids and varieties, according to experts' estimates, exceeds several thousand. Thanks to this variety, begonias are popular in both gardening and indoor floriculture.
All kinds of begonia flowers are native to the tropical regions of both hemispheres. Named after the 17th century Governor of Tahiti, Michel Begon, a great lover and gatherer of flowers.
The first thing that should be noted when describing a begonia plant is the variety of forms: these can be shrubs (occasionally climbing), dwarf shrubs, and most often herbaceous plants with erect, creeping, sometimes ampelous shoots. The seeds of all begonias are extremely small. The fruit is a capsule.
A common characteristic of the begonia plant is the presence of succulent fleshy stems with asymmetrical leaves on the petioles, unisexual flowers, located 2-3 in the leaf axils. Luxurious flowering and decorative leaves made begonias very popular houseplants. When describing the flowers of begonias, they are conventionally divided into three groups, depending on the nature of the underground part of the plant: leafy, tuberous and bush.
Blooming begonia is a wonderful decoration for a summer balcony or veranda.
Begonia has an interesting Russian name, indicating that this plant was widespread in Russia as early as 1812. During the flight of the French from Moscow, begonia was called "Napoleon's ear".Indeed, in outline and on the lower red side, the begonia leaf looks like a large frostbitten ear.
Decorative-leaved begonias naturally grow in the tropics and subtropics of Asia, Africa and America. Begonias are valued for their leaves of magical beauty - their ornament, unique color: from bright red with painting to brown, purple, silver-green. Flowers have no decorative value.
See what a begonia flower looks like in these photos:
The flowers of many begonias are non-pollinated and do not produce seeds. Begonias should have died, but they cover many places in the rainforest with an almost continuous carpet. Let's take a closer look. Here beautiful leaves have fallen on moist soil. The delicate sheet does not dry out. The freshness of the leaf depends on the good wettability of the leaf surface, as well as the presence of aquiferous tissue in the leaf petiole (similar to the aquiferous tissue of succulents).
Further you can familiarize yourself with photos, names and descriptions of begonias of different types and varieties.
We follow the simple rules of caring for Coleus
It is easy to care for the Coleus flower, although you need to remember that they come from the tropics, therefore they are quite disposed to warmth, moisture and good lighting.
This species is a semi-shrub reaching a height of 80 cm, and you can grow a Coleus flower from a small cutting in just six months. It is enough just to pick up a large pot, set aside a sunny spot and water regularly. In summer, the pot can be taken outside, but the plant will survive the winter only in warmth.
Interestingly, the color of the leaves largely depends on the amount of sunlight. For example, even being on the windowsill in winter, the flower will become less bright, and the width of the green edging on the leaves will increase. But this should not be scared, because as soon as the sunny spring comes, the riot of burgundy colors will come into force again.
If you want the flower to look like summer and in the cold, then you need to select the lightest place for the plant on the southern windowsills. In summer, intense rays can leave burns on the leaves, so it is better to place the Coleus in a darkened place, or for example, under a tree.
- Watering and humidity.
It is better to place a pot with a flower in a pallet with moss or expanded clay, since the Coleus needs humid air to feel good. Spraying more often. Watered only with soft, settled water, somewhat abundantly (at high temperatures) to avoid leaf fall.
The ideal air temperature is 18-23 ° C. At a lower temperature (below 16 °), the plant can shed its foliage, and if the soil is waterlogged, it can even lose it altogether.
- As for fertilizers.
Coleus flower needs feeding only in spring and summer. A generic and alkaline fertilizer will do. After the transplant, feeding begins in a month, since the soil already contains the necessary trace elements. If necessary, in winter, the concentration of the solution is reduced by half, fertilizing once a month (or not fertilizing at all).
It is better to use potassium-containing solutions with a concentration of 0.3-0.5 grams per liter of water. The more nitrogen the fertilizer contains, the less pronounced the pattern on the leaves and the "greener" they are. Sometimes it is even advised to crumble a little laundry soap into water and water it once a month.
- How does Coleus bloom?
During flowering, the plant produces a small twig with small purple flowers that do not present any special aesthetic qualities. However, in the future, Coleus flowers give barely noticeable seeds, which can also be used for propagation.
Nondescript flowers will seem superfluous against the background of incredibly beautiful, brightly colored leaves. So that the plant does not deplete from flowering, and the leaves do not lose their decorative effect, it is advisable to remove the peduncle.
- Trimming and pinching.
To create the most beautiful shape, it is recommended to pinch the coleus, otherwise it will stretch out, and the beautiful tops will be located on the "bare" unremarkable branches. Transplanted in the spring after cutting the stems.
The overgrown bush is cut off, almost at the root, leaving 1-2 nodes on each shoot. In the summer, they are exposed to the balcony or any well-lit place (you can take it out into the garden). It grows almost instantly.
With good care and maintenance, the leaves of the Coleus flower will be bright, and the bushes will be compact.
Decorative leafy begonia: red-leaved variety (Erythrophylla or Feastii)
Begonia Red-leaved. This plant has another name for flower growers - "Fista". It has a slightly shortened stem, erect, with nodules. Long cuttings and round leaves whole or cut into several segments, the surface of which is dense, smooth, almost glossy. The front side of the leaves is green, and the back is red, brownish or purple with well-traced white veins. The edge of the leaf is serrated or wavy. Flowering occurs from December until the onset of spring. The color of the flowers is white, pink, yellow, red with frames of various shades.
Perennial flower with red leaves
Coleus Bluma is a perennial flower with red leaves in the middle
The velvety leaves with finely toothed edges can be painted in all colors from cream, green, pink and purple to fiery red. The patterns on them are as varied as the shapes. Almost exclusively garden forms and hybrids of Blum's Coleus are grown as indoor plants. This flower with red leaves in the middle blooms with inconspicuous blue flowers.
Check out this indoor flower with red leaves in the photo and remember the name of the culture:
Family: Lamiaceae (Lipoids).
Homeland: Tropical Asia and Africa.
Location: A perennial flower with red leaves prefers a sunny location, otherwise the leaves will not be beautifully colored.
Temperature: room temperature, in winter not lower than 12 ° С.
Air humidity: the warmer the room, the higher the air humidity should be.
Substrate: flower soil mixture.
Watering: Plentiful in summer, more economical at low temperatures; do not allow the earthen coma to dry out.
Top dressing: In the summer, weekly.
Transfer: If necessary.
Reproduction of Coleus Blum: Cuttings in water.
Pests, diseases: Red tick.
Important! Break off the tops of the shoots regularly for more luxuriant growth. In the summer, expose the coleus to the air, but in damp and at the same time cold weather, bring it indoors
Criptanthus - home flower with red leaves
Cryptanthus acaulis has wavy red, pink or brownish leaves covered with gray scales in star-like rosettes. Cryptanthus bivittatus is characterized by wavy leaves with two white or pink longitudinal stripes.
Family: Bromeliaceae (Bromeliads).
Homeland of Criptanthus: Brazil.
Location of home flower with red leaves: Semi-shade, sunny in winter.
Temperature: Not lower than 18 ° С. The ground should be warm.
Air humidity: Carries dry air, but prefers 60% humidity. Do not spray.
Substrate: Flower potting soil with styrene chips or something else.
Watering: Economical - in a funnel.
Top dressing: In the summer, every 2 weeks with fertilizer of 50% concentration.
Transfer: If necessary.
Reproduction: Offshoots the size of half of the mother plant.
Pests, diseases: Rarely.
Important! Do not plant Criptanthus on a tree trunk like an epiphyte, it will die. In the "bottle garden", cryptantus looks very attractive and finds a variety of uses.
Carefully! Contains substances that irritate the skin
