If you prefer beautifully flowering plants, room azalea - this is certainly your choice.
Varieties and types of azaleas
In the wild lives many representatives of this beauty. Among the room azaleas there are two kinds. Azalea Indian (or Rhododendron Simsa) is an evergreen shrub up to 50 cm high, dotted with broad-winged flowers about 3-5 cm in diameter. Azalea Japanese (or rhododendron obtuse), also a small shrub, covered with small flowers up to 2-3 cm in diameter.
As for the varieties of azalea, they are numerous:
- with red buds - Appolo, Ilona, Florida, Simon;
- with lilac flowers - Ostalet, Temperance, Flamenco;
- with white buds - Heidi, Elizabeth, Snowflake, Mary, Shnee;
- with raspberry flowers - Orange Boven, Helmut Vogel, Cosmos.
How to care for room azalea?
We want to immediately warn that the rhododendron is a capricious culture. Nevertheless, a little what a florist will give up a luxurious azalea as a gift.
Lighting. Place the pot and flower in a place where there is partial shade or diffuse light. Direct sunlight is dangerous for the room beauty.
Temperature. To the temperature regime azalea also makes special demands. In winter, it suits rooms with air temperature in the range of 12-15 degrees, a maximum of 18-20 degrees. In the summer, it does not tolerate the heat, it must be transferred to a room with a 20-degree air temperature.
Moisture and watering. That's what exactly likes azalea room, so it's almost daily spraying. When flowering, the water is sprayed near the plant, but does not direct the jet to it. If we talk about watering, then, no doubt, it should be regular. Rhododendron grows well when its earth clod does not dry up. For irrigation, water is used at room temperature. Experienced plant growers recommend for azalea in the room conditions once a month to organize watering, which is mixed with a couple drops of lemon juice.
Transfer. The first transplant should be made after the flower bought or given to you has ceased to bloom. To do this, prepare the soil from
Top dressing. In a warm period azalea is fed weekly with a complex fertilizer for azaleas. In autumn and winter, she needs superphosphate.
In order that the azalea blossomed luxuriantly, in May it is pricked, leaving up to five leaves on the shoot. Faded buds and seed boxes are recommended to be removed.