Rooms of different orientation

The room conditions are known to be very different. Therefore, before you begin to collect a collection of plants or just pick your favorite flowers, make sure that your house will become a good home for them.

The arrangement of rooms in relation to the sides of the world plays a decisive role in the natural light mode. Here also the size of windows is important.

Rooms with large windows facing south, will be well lit, therefore, they can grow light-loving plants. Southern small windows with artificial shading will suit shade-tolerant heat-loving plants.

In rooms with windows facing east or west( especially with small windows), less light, they are good for plants with moderate requirements for light and heat.

Rooms with small windows facing north, will be most favorable for growing and keeping shade-tolerant plants. Cold northern with large windows - for photophilous representatives of a cooler climate.

So, plants for southern windows( names are given in alphabetical order).

Abutilone, agapanthus umbellate, azalea indian *, balm *, begonia ever-flowering and tuberous, flew hyacinth *, bougainvillea, vallota *, hemanthus Catarina, hibiscus *, hymenocallis, hipescutus *, hydrangea, jasmine Sambac *, zephyranthes *, Kalanchoe Blossfeld *, calina Tinus *, calla *, calceolaria *, saxifraga sermentoza *, cleavage * and **, Murin crinus, lantana *, feathergrass, pankration, passionflower blue *, pelargonium, pittosporum Tobir * and **, poinsetia, plumbago Cape, rhododendronPontic *, fuchsia, cyclamen *, tsimbidium, Jacobinia and some others.

Icon * indicates plants that can feel good not only on these windows, but also on windows oriented to the east or west. The icon ** indicates plants that can feel good on the northern windows.

Plants for the eastern and western windows( besides those noted above).

Ahimenez, begonias: royal, Krednera, sizolist and Fista **, bilbery drooping **, voltgeymia **, Venus slipper, hybrid hybrid **, hoya( wax tree), jacinth holotvetkovy, isoloma, camellia Japanese, bell, Ortgeza, Colerius, Columia, Mannetia, Ophiopogon **, Rouellia Formoza **, Senpolia **, Synningia, Streptocarpus, Stephanotis, Cologin, Cymbidium, Cirtanthus, Eupatorium Blue, Eucharis, etc.

Plants for northern windows.

As already mentioned, in the event that the windows are still small, this list includes primarily shade-tolerant plants.

The shade lovers include the aukuba, alocasia, araucaria, aspidistra( "friendly family"), greenwood golden tree, laurels, laurel cherry, myrtle, ferns: an adianum, a nomad, a nephrolepus and an eagle, a resinous seedling, plumage asparagus, some ivy,yew, datea, tradescantia, thuja, date palm, elastic ficusia, fatsia, hederops, chameuropsy low and fan, chlorophytum, zigokactus, etc.

Alocasia, plumage asparagus, "friendly family", golden tree, noble laurel, ivy and yewDo not just prefer a shadow, but they can also sufferm excess illumination.

The requirements of ferns and some other plants are ambiguous: they can carry a large amount of light, but the rays falling on them should in no case be straight.

In the part on the assortment of plants, you can find information about the individual requirements for illumination for each plant.

In most residential areas, air humidity is significantly lower than in a greenhouse or outdoors. It depends mainly on the heating system. In furnace heating, room air will be more humid than with central water and especially with steam heating. The latter type of heating is often the cause of plant death. This should be taken into account when selecting plants.

Some plants that originate from the humid tropics and subtropics grow poorly in ordinary room conditions( many types of orchids), contain them better in special indoor teplichkah( florariums).However, some of them( for example, alocasia) are well established in the kitchens of small apartments, where high temperatures and humidity are not provided specifically, but due to the specifics of the room itself: the microclimate necessary for them arises from the evaporation of pots and kettles boiling on the stove. Other plants, on the contrary, are not too whimsical.

Do not forget that if you increase the illumination is very problematic, then reduce - it's easier, for this it is enough to tighten the bottom of the window polyethylene!film or place the pots not on the windowsill, but next. Almost half of the daylight of the street is reflected and absorbed by the window panes, as the distance from the window into the interior of the room and to the sides, the intensity of light falls sharply.

So, at a distance of 50 centimeters from the window, the illumination is a little less than 30%, at a distance of one meter - 18%, and two meters from the window only 7.6% of the daylight of the street, that is, in the latter case it is almost 12times less. With such lighting, only the most shade-tolerant plants can be tolerated.

And that with a choice of a place for certain not to be mistaken, it is necessary to not forget about the main reason of predilections of plants to those or other conditions - their origin and to introduce corresponding amendments. This will be helped by the "climatic matching table".Knowing the rules, it's easier to remember exceptions.

For some plants it is desirable to change the location: in order to avoid undesirable manifestation of the effect of phototropism( growth of the aerial part towards the light source), the pot itself rotates, others( for example, senpolia) are moved to the more illuminated southern windows for winter. However, some types of such "travel" are contraindicated.

One more thing to remember: consider the purpose of the rooms. In the bedroom and children's plants should not be too much, and species with spines in the children's room should not be at all.