azalea
Azalea allows you to see your ideas implemented by
For people of creative professions
Azalea is unpredictable, as the creative process itself - for a long time buds on the plant can remain tightly closed, and suddenly blossom all at once - the flowers are so tight that they can not even be seen behind them.
The plant stimulates in people the desire to create something beautiful. Helps in a new way, an unbiased assessment of their own work, liberates, gives strength to overcome uncertainty. If you want to be original, start this plant. To its owners, azalea makes it possible without any doubts to go from dream to business. Everyone who keeps it in the house more often sees their plans as embodied.
If you have been creating "on the table" for a long time, you will immediately acquire several azaleas - white, pink and bright red. Give plants a few days to "work" and boldly call the authorities: a personal exhibition, a prestigious concert or a creative evening you are provided.
Features of care
Azaleas do not like to be disturbed. Do not often loosen the ground. Instead of transplanting, it's better to transfer to a larger pot. When creating a substrate for azalea, add a little bit of coniferous litter to it - the plants prefer acid soil. In addition, the needles will improve the structure of the soil, make it more loose, air-permeable. Watering is preferable abundant. Azaleas respond well to frequent spraying. But during flowering it is important to use a fine sprayer, so that the drops do not spoil the flowers - from the water they form stains. If you are very dry in the apartment, you can put the pot with azalea in the pots and the space between the pot and the pot filler with damp coconut fiber, peat or claydite. Keep azaleas under the scorching rays can not, but in the shadows they will be bad. Lighting should be uniform and sufficient.
Family heather. Rod rhododendron. Natural climatic conditions are the humid subtropics of Southeast Asia, but some species come from Europe, North America or Australia.
Evergreen shrub with large bright flowers of various colors, in some species collected in the corymbose inflorescence.
The most common azalea is cultivated in India and Azalea is Japanese.
Azalea Indian A polyhybrid species( about 1000 varieties!) With flowers of the most diverse color, both monochromatic( from white to dark purple; color), and mottled-splashy and further variegated;flowers can differ and the degree of terry. Grades: early-springing( RC) - October-November, mid-late( SP) - November-January, late P)-February-March, less often April:
With white flowers: "Weisse Sheme"( medium-sized flowers half-marble, diameter up to 8 cm, RC);"Verveniena amba"( tall, terry flowers with a greenish tint, diameter up to 8.5 cm: , SP);"Marseilles da Pap"( alternating,; terry flowers, diameter up to 9 cm, RC);"Mad. Petrik alba "(short, terry flowers, diameter up to 7 cm, RC);"Niobe"( tall, flowers terry, diameter 8 - 9 cm, RC);"Sakuntala"( tall, terry flowers, diameter up to 10 cm, P);"Snegbaltite"( undersized, non-primary flowers, corrugated petals, diameter up to 8 cm; joint venture);"Snegparela"( medium-sized, non-primary flowers, rounded petals, diameter up to 7.5: cm, joint venture);"Tukuma Pearl"( alternate, terry flowers, corrugated petals, diameter: 8 cm, P);"Shnee"( tall, terry flowers, diameter up to 9 cm, P).
With pink flowers: "Avenir"( tall, salmon-carmine bright color, iolu terry flowers, diameter 8-11 cm, joint venture);"Adolphe Grille"( tall, salmon, terry flowers, petals elongated, wavy along the edges, diameter up to 9 cm, RC);"Aldis Ieva"( medium-sized, pink with white specks, flowers are terry, diameter up to 8 cm, P);"Albert Elizabeth"( tall, pale pink with a salmon rim along the edges of petals, flowers are terry, diameter 8-11 cm, joint venture);"Verveniven mitterfuh"( tall, eosin-pink color with stripes or speckles in the throat, flowers half-mahogany or double, diameter up to 8 cm, joint venture);"Verveniana pink"( short, gently pink, terry flowers, diameter up to 7.5 cm, joint venture);"Ginta"( short, purple-pink color with red-violet specks, flowers are non-primary, diameter up to 9 cm, joint venture);"John Herens"( medium-sized, bright pink, terry flowers, petals with a wavy edge, diameter up to 9 cm, joint venture);"Ilva"( medium-sized, salmon-pink, flowers with a double corolla, diameter up to 7.5 cm, joint venture);"Caprice"( medium-sized, tender pink with dark specks, flowers half-marble, diameter up to 8 cm, RC);"Madame van der Kruisen"( tall, bright pink with a faint crimson hue, flowers are non-marble, diameter up to 9.5 cm, P);"Madame Petrik"( short, gently pink, terry flowers, wavy along the edges, diameter up to 9 cm, RC);"Mad. Petrik superba "(short, beetroot pink, flowers half-marble, diameter up to 7.5 cm, RC);"Max Shem"( medium-sized, loso-blue, flowers half-marble, strongly wavy along the edges, diameter 9-9.5 cm, RC);"Professor Walter"( tall, bright pink with a white border on the edges of the petals, a crimson spot in the throat and crimson specks, flowers are non-primary, diameter up to 10 cm, P);"Sartais Dzintars"( medium-sized, salmon-red, terry flowers, corrugated petals along the edges, diameter up to 8 cm, joint venture);"Sarta Niobyo"( tall, salmon-pink, terry flowers, diameter up to 8.5 cm, P);"Saulrients"( short, salmon-pink, terry flowers, wide-open, slightly corrugated petals, diameter up to 8 cm, P);"Erie"( tall, gentle-eosin color, white edges around the edges of the petals, half-marble flowers, diameter up to 8 cm, RC);"Erica Sander"( tall, pink, terry flowers, diameter up to 8 cm, joint venture);"Esmeralda"( medium, pink, flowers are non-primary, diameter up to 5 cm, P).
With red flowers: "Advententsloken"( tall, saturated bright pink with raspberry hue, flowers are non-marble, bell-shaped, diameter 6.5 - 7 cm, RC);"Scarlet Flower"( srednerosly, bright scarlet color, flowers are not large, wide-open, petals wavy along the edge, diameter up to 11.5 cm, joint venture);Ambrosiana( tall, dark red, terry flowers, diameter up to 8.5 cm, RC);Apollo( medium-sized, brick-red color, semi-double flowers with petals, wavy along the edge, diameter up to 8 cm, joint venture);"Memorial Sander"( short, bright crimson-pink color, terry flowers, diameter up to 7 cm, RC);"Rheingold Ambrosius"( tall, red, terry flowers, diameter up to 9 cm, P);"Ritenitis"( tall, purple-red, flowers with a double corolla, diameter up to 8 cm, joint venture);"Rubis de Mairelbek"( tall, bright crimson, flowers are non-marble, wide-open, diameter up to 9.5 cm, P);"Sarkangalvite"( short, brick-red color, terry flowers, wide-vortex, petals corrugated at the edges, diameter up to 7 cm, joint venture);"Celestine"( medium-sized, bright crimson color, non-primary flowers, petals pointed, diameter up to 6.5 cm, P);"Eggebrehti"( short, bright pink color, flowers are non-marble, diameter up to 8 cm, P);"Eldze"( tall, crimson-red color, terry flowers, diameter up to 6 cm, joint venture);"Elsa Kerger"( medium-sized, dark red color, terry flowers, diameter up to 8 cm, joint venture).
With lilac or purple flowers: "Violacea multi-flora"( short, dense lilac, terry flowers, diameter up to 7.5 cm, joint venture);"Heroes of War"( medium-sized, pink-lilac color, flowers are not full-grown, wide-open, diameter up to 10.5 cm, joint venture);"The Kiev waltz"( medium-sized, tender-lilac color, non-primary flowers, wide-open, diameter 10-10.5 cm, joint venture);"Kon-tsinna"( tall, lilac, flowers are non-marble, wide-open, diameter up to 7 cm, joint venture);"Suzirya"( tall, wine-lilac-red color, half-marble flowers, funnel-shaped, diameter up to 7 cm, joint venture).
Azalea Japanese * Smaller flowers, pastel tones and more. Azaleas can bloom in the winter.
Demand for moisture: very hygrophilous, need abundant watering and spraying, atmospheric humidity for azaleas it is desirable to artificially raise or contain them for this purpose in floraria: the natural room conditions for them are too dry.
Temperature regime: requires medium-high temperatures in summer, preferably not higher than 13 ° C in winter. Japanese azalea is more cold-resistant.
Light mode: the plant is photophilous, but does not tolerate direct sunlight.
Requirement for soil: prefer acidic soil( pH 4-4.5), peat, heather or needles containing ground mixtures. Responsive to mineral fertilizers. Very often suffers from a lack of iron.
Reproduction: poorly reproduces. Seed propagation is used for breeding purposes, propagate azalea and cuttings, but this is a slowly rooted species( often requires the use of heteroauxin for rooting).The process of rooting is better if you make a lower cut under the crowded seated leaves. Petioles can be transplanted into pots only after 4 to 5 months and necessarily with an earthen lump. As soon as they started growing, cuttings or other covering materials or objects should be removed from the cuttings, and before that every day. A couple of weeks after the growth begins, the cuttings should be cut, leaving 5-6 leaves. To make the plant more powerful, trimming is done three times( after the first time - at the end of summer and in March-April next year).
Features: Slowly growing view. In the spring, it is necessary to form the crown and pinch. After flowering it is advisable to transfer to colder places. You can keep the summer on the balcony or in the front garden, having dug the earth( or wet sawdust in the box) along with the pot in a shady place.