Gardenia / gardenia

It belongs to the family Rubiaceae. Motherland - China, India, Africa.

General Description: Normally indoors diluted form of Gardenia jasminoides (Gardenia jasminoides). This shrub about 50 cm high above. He speaks broadly bright green leaves up to 10 cm long. The white flowers is very beautiful, with a flattering smell, terry or semi-double, single or collected gabled inflorescences. It blooms in summer and autumn.

Gardenias are capricious, they need to ensure a stable and error-free care.

Recommendations for the care of a plant Gardenia:

Lighting: light-requiring, but summer does not tolerate direct sunlight.

Irrigation mode: Abundant in the growth period, a mild winter. Watered with warm soft water. She does not loves not overflow or drying out the land.

Humidity: At what time of the plant does not bloom, sprayed it daily and regularly wash with cool water. During flowering time in order to not spoil the flowers, the humidity of the atmosphere support, placing the pots on the tray with pebbles or expanded clay, which incessantly moistened.

Temperature: Moderate in the warm time of the year (not above 25 ° C.). In winter, optimally 16-18 ° C. Guzman does not likes drafts and extreme temperatures.

Soil: Requires good drainage. The acidity of pH 4.5 - 5.5 must be maintained by checking the litmus test. When on the surface of the white ground plaque top layer need to be replaced, make a couple of times per season iron supplements.

The recommended soil mix: 1 proportion of sod land, 1 share of leaf soil, peat 1 share 1 share of softwood land and 1 share of sand. Suitable for a hodgepodge of azaleas.

In the period of growth needs a dressing 1 every two weeks with liquid potassium fertilizers for flowering plants or conventional in a concentration of 1/2 on the package.

Breeding: In the spring, cuttings with soil heating and the use of plant hormones.

Transplanting: Once every two or three years in the spring.

Pests: amazed spider mites (in dry atmosphere, leaves and stems braided webs), scale insects (on leaves and stems appear brown patches, leaving a sticky discharge), thrips (the leaves appear grayish dots), aphids (they form a sticky discharge on the tips of shoots, buds).

With a slight infection of the plant allowed to help finish a soap solution and washing the warm.

In severe cases recommended insecticide spraying solution.

Gardenia - gardenia