Homeliness, Gardening
A useful and beautiful plant for your home is sansevieria. Home care
Sansevieria (aka sanseviera) is an evergreen stoeless plant, belonging to the family of agave. His homeland is considered desert and semi-desert territory of Asia and Africa. To distinguish a plant it is possible on beautiful narrow leaves which at many grades end in an edge. Their length can reach 100 cm or more. Their coloration can vary from different shades of brown to green, often they have spots or stripes.
A hardy plant for your apartment is sansevieria. Home care
This beautiful home flower prefers a well-lit place, although it can stoically tolerate penumbra. Therefore, you can place a pot of sansevierium not only on the windowsill, but also on shelves or coasters at some distance from it. The plant perfectly adapts to the normal climatic conditions of the apartment and feels great at standard room temperature within 22-25 ° C. In winter, it can safely withstand a slight cold snap to 15 ° C.
Sansevieria: care at home. Watering and top dressing
When choosing the soil for this plant, you should stop on a well-permeable and nutritious substrate containing coarse-grained sand. Water the flower of Sansevieria regularly, but moderately. By the time of the next moistening, the top layer of the soil must be able to dry out. Remember that you can not fill the plant, otherwise its roots can be rotten. Excessive moisturizing can be manifested by yellowing of the leaves. Also it is worth remembering that when watering it is impossible to allow water to enter the center of the outlet, this can lead to the disease of the Sansevieria plant (photo).
The "ponytail" is sansevieria. Home care: annual transplant and reproduction
In order for this ornamental plant to grow well and be healthy, it is necessary to transplant it annually. This procedure is carried out in the spring (or summer). When transplanting, a new wide and low capacity is selected, at the bottom of which is laid a layer of drainage. The plant is carefully removed from the old container, its roots are freed from the old substrate, the sick, dead processes are removed. If necessary, the plant is divided into several parts.
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