When the windowsill of the apartment is decorated with hydrangea in a pot, the atmosphere of the whole room acquires a special positive. Gorgeous bright, colorful inflorescences cheer you up, helping to forget about the difficulties experienced in the past day. The room where they decided to plant hydrangea immediately takes on a cozy look and clearly indicates the presence of a stylish housewife who is happy, satisfied with herself and successful.
For everyone who wants to have a colorful windowsill, who wants to decorate their home, the best choice will be hydrangea home care at home for her is quite powerful for an ordinary housewife. The color of the buds can be chosen according to your own preferences:
- light pink;
- rich raspberry;
- blue;
- lilac;
- beige.
The color that hydrangea will delight depends not only on the variety, but also on the composition of the soil. By smoothly changing the acidity of the substrate with fertilizers, you can achieve the desired shade in a short time.
Hydrangea grows well in containers at home
Additional Information. Breeding room hydrangea significantly improves the emotional state of the hostess, is able to increase self-esteem.
The origin and appearance of indoor hydrangeas
With the organization of proper care, the plant can reach a meter height. Indoor or outdoor hydrangea is a shrub. The potted specimen differs from the garden relative only in smaller size. During the flowering period, many see the similarity of this type of bush with the bride - the tender lace of the holiday dress is immediately remembered.
Some subspecies with small foliage look especially impressive during active growth and flowering.
Spherical inflorescences of tree hydrangea
The leaves are juicy green, oval in shape, thickened to the handle. They are located on the stems and have a serrated edge. Often the inflorescences are in the shape of a ball, sometimes it seems that someone had their hair cut so that they acquired such a regular shape. One bush blooms at once with several lace balls, which makes the appearance even more festive.
Flower description
Inflorescences themselves can be of three types: corymbose, racemose and spherical. Larger flowers are located on the edges of the scute, they are barren. Closer to the middle - small, but it is after their flowering that seeds will appear. Each stem, along the entire length of which the leaves are located, is crowned with a bright and magnificent cap during flowering. With an annual transplant, the plant pleases with more violent colors. Hydrangeas usually bloom from June to October, with individual differences characteristic of each variety. However, in case of an untimely transplant or due to the lack of a well-prepared wintering, the flowering regime can go astray for a homely beauty, because of which the dormant period will shift to summer, and the phase of active growth and flowering will fall in January.
Attention! A similar shift in the phases of plant growth and development will adversely affect riot and flowering colors.
Types and varieties of hydrangeas for indoor breeding
Several dozen varieties with their own characteristics and distinctive features were bred. The aim of breeders is always the appearance and shape of the inflorescence. The green part of hydrangeas has almost no differences between varieties, except for the size of the leaf.
The most exotic variety was jasmine, which can be distinguished by flowering - it is very similar to the plant of the same name.
Compact
The name of the variety was for the restriction on the height of the bush. Under the most favorable conditions, this species will not grow above 50 cm. It belongs to the panicled class. The first inflorescence appears in the first third of summer, has a white color with a pearly tint. By the end of summer, coloring pigments are gaining strength and acquire a pale pink hue, which will delight until the first frosts.
White hydrangea
Interesting. The foliage of the variety also has a smaller size than that of other representatives of the beautiful plant.
Madame E. Muyer
The variety is famous for its winter hardiness, for which gardeners of the northwestern region and central Russia love it, planting it in their gardens. The house relative of large-leaved Madame Emily also has a green part of considerable size. The upper part of the leaves is glossy, the lower one has a fine hairiness. Spherical flowering, appears in the second half of July and lasts until September.
Europa
A variety of this variety of home hydrangea is also large-leaved. The leaves are covered with medium-sized fringe. Depending on the acidity of the soil, the color of inflorescences can vary from purple to purplish red. Most often it has unevenly spreading blue tones.
Attention! A very moisture-loving variety, it is advisable to mulch the pot with a decorative bark so that moisture does not evaporate quickly from the upper layers of the soil.
Souer tharese
The variety is famous for its white inflorescences, which under certain conditions can acquire a lilac or pale blue tint. To preserve the snow-white colors, you should carefully monitor the acidity of the soil. If the PH level begins to indicate acidic soil, the inflorescences will begin to change their snow-white hue to pink.
Red sensation
The variety got its name for the bright colors of magic balls: from burgundy to juicy raspberry. With a high acidity of the soil, the flowers acquire saturated wine tones, close to purple. The red sensation will place its emphasis on any windowsill.
Ramars mars
This variety is loved for the lilac-blue color change during the flowering season. Over time, the balls darken, with certain fertilizers, they can acquire a purple hue.
It should be noted! The age of the plant also affects the color - the older the plant, the closer it will turn to purple.
Airlie blue
Flowering of this variety attracts with a beautiful smooth transition from light green to juicy blue. Color change occurs smoothly, during one summer season.
Hydrangea Airlie Blue
Goliath
Large plants are characterized by winter hardiness, cone-shaped inflorescences. Potted hydrangea is a miniature copy of its large relative, its flowers form the same elongated cones, one on each shoot, mostly white in color, which can acquire a pink tint.
Transplant after purchase
Hydrangea can be transplanted only after it has flowered, and annual pruning has already been done. At this time, the plant prepares for a dormant period, stops its growth. If the plant was purchased in the fall, two weeks after the hydrangea appeared at home, it can be carefully transplanted into a permanent pot. A two-week rest is required for her to adapt to a new room, temperature and air movement mode.
What you need for landing
The new pot should be 3-4 cm wider than the previous one. The roots of any hydrangea cultivar develop more horizontally than in depth, so deep pots are not suitable for her.
You need to increase the capacity every autumn, allowing the root system to grow and nourish the plant during the period of active flowering.
Optimal place
To ensure abundant and regular flowering, the flower should stand in a sufficiently lit area, while not being exposed to direct sunlight. If the room where the hydrangea will live has eastern or western windows, it should not be placed on the windowsill, but near the window, on the outside of the tulle. So she will get enough light, and her leaves will not suffer from the aggressive sun.
On the north or south window, a room beauty can be set without fear for the leaves directly on the windowsill.
Step-by-step landing process
Transplantation should begin with the preparation of the earthen mixture. The soil should contain sand and peat, their total share should not exceed 1 part, in relation to the turf land, which requires 2 parts. Be sure to put drainage at the bottom of the new pot. It is unacceptable to include humus in the composition of the substrate.
Step-by-step transplant process:
- Prepare a pot covered with drainage.
- Watering the soil with a plant still in the old pot will facilitate the transshipment process, preserving the earthen lump.
- Turning the flower pot over, carefully remove it, holding the stems, and then immediately lower it into a new pot.
- Fill the voids between the rhizome and the walls of the container with a substrate so that no air gaps remain.
- At the end of the transplant, water abundantly.
Additional Information. Transplanting hydrangea in the spring can affect its flowering, for which the plant was bought. Having lost its biological rhythm, hydrangea transplanted in spring will blossom only by the next winter.
Propagation of indoor hydrangeas
New plants can be obtained by both cuttings and seed germination. The first method will make it possible to get a ready-made daughter sprout in 3 weeks, the second option is suitable for those who want to receive many new copies at the same time.
Hydrangea can also multiply by dividing the bush, which is especially true for an autumn transplant. The separated part can be planted in a small pot, corresponding to the size of an earthen coma.
Cuttings
Cuttings of hydrangea at home need home care, under the same conditions as an adult plant. You can get the stalk by cutting off the tops of the stem 5-6 cm in size. The resulting future shoot is placed in a moistened sand mixture and covered with a film cut with a transparent bottle or a jar, creating the effect of a greenhouse.
Propagation by cuttings
It can take from two weeks to a month to root, after which the sprouts can be planted in pots.
Seed cultivation
Deciding to get a plant from seeds, you need to be prepared for the fact that the germination of hydrangeas is often close to only 60% of the total. The seed is not soaked in water and is not deepened into the soil, but laid on top of the prepared soil, the composition of which is suitable for an adult plant. Sowing is covered with glass or dense transparent polyethylene. Every day, seedlings must be opened for ventilation, in order to prevent rot, damage by a fungus or the death of sprouts. After the appearance of two real leaves, seedlings can be planted in pots.
Attention! Watering should be carried out strictly by spraying from a spray, daily.
Breeders note that sprouts germinated from unhardened seeds are more susceptible to disease than others.
Care for indoor hydrangeas
To care for hydrangea in a pot, as well as for a free relative in the garden, you need to ensure complete isolation from the drafts, otherwise the foliage will begin to wither, until the death of the plant, without the possibility of any resuscitation.
Watering mode
It is necessary to water any grade of hydrangea regularly, preventing the soil from drying out. Water needs to be defended at room temperature. During the flowering period, watering should be monitored especially carefully.
In winter, moistening the soil is also necessary, because the roots, even during dormancy, should not dry.
Top dressing
In the summer, hydrangea is in dire need of mineral fertilizers. Additionally, during watering, you can make a small amount of potassium permanganate, which will protect the roots from infection. Without fertilizers, the plant may not go into the flowering stage and remain just a green shrub.
During flowering
Blooming hydrangea can not be transplanted, so as not to disrupt the natural life cycle of a flower. The air temperature in the room where the flowering beauty lives should be maintained within the range from + 18 ° C to + 22 ° C. This is a comfortable indication for all varieties.
During rest
When hydrangea is at rest, it must be moved to a place where the air does not warm above +9 and does not cool below +5. If you leave the flower on the windowsill for the whole winter at room temperature, it will not feel wintering and will not bloom in the new season. For apartments, the place where the pot will stand all winter with the benefit of future flowering can be a balcony or an unheated staircase.
Hydrangea does not bloom
Winter preparations
Before wintering, all diseased or weak shoots are pruned, leaving no chance to infect the entire plant, because treatment is a complex process and does not always end with a positive result. A cache-pot with a plant of any grade and age is transferred to a cool place where the shoots will not be blown by the winds and subjected to frost.
During dormancy, hydrangea needs pruning of dead inflorescences
To cultivate hydrangea of indoor varieties means, to put joy and bright colors on the windowsill. Indoor hydrangea does not require complicated care at home and is ready to surprise with its shades. Observance of simple rules on the temperature regime and frequency of irrigation will provide lush flowering almost all summer and all autumn.
