Each of us is trying to make our home more comfortable and cozy. The undoubted cosiness of any apartment or house is given by flowers, moreover, it is also useful, because indoor plants perform the function of purifying the air.
Archaeological science, according to pollen found in caves, proved that even in the era of the Stone Age, people decorated flowers with their homes. Today, indoor floriculture is a separate science, and from the variety of domestic plants we present the most beautiful indoor flowers.
Clivia
The beautiful evergreen plant is named after the Duchess Charlotte Clive, who was the governess of the future Queen of Great Britain, Victoria.
This flower arrived in Europe from South Africa, easily took root in the northern latitudes and became the favorite of most gardeners.
An unpretentious plant will decorate any home or office space, but you need to try not to move the pot, and water it once a week.
Crassula
The round leaves of this plant are like coins, therefore, among flower growers, the crassula is often called the “money tree”, or “fat girl”.
When it blooms, it is covered with small white flowers, sometimes red, and very, very rarely the flowers can be blue.
One of the most unpretentious indoor residents. Even a leaf that has fallen to the ground can grow into a separate plant.
Lithops
Translated from the ancient Greek language, the name of the plant is translated as “stone appearance”, maybe because it comes from the stony and sandy deserts of Namibia Botswana.
That is why lithops learned to retain moisture, and it is easy to tolerate heat and arid climate.
Flowers from a desert resident who migrated to apartments, white or yellow, very rarely there are species with orange petals.
Croton
This species, growing in tropical and subtropical zones, has long been popular among flower growers around the world.
Its bright leaves will bring variety and originality to your home, or will become a real decoration of the office. For its shape has become very popular among amateur gardeners.
The plant is unpretentious, and some species grow up to 80 centimeters in height.
Bromeliad
They named the indoor flower and the whole genus in honor of the Swedish biologist Bromelius. This tropical beauty is a distant relative of pineapple.
The leaves are lancet in shape, they are collected in a kind of rosette from which the peduncle grows. It requires watering only once a week, but bromeliad should be placed in places where sunlight falls.
Flowering lasts from 3 weeks to several months, delighting the owners and guests of the house.
Geranium
A beautiful indoor plant also has bactericidal properties, so it will not only decorate the room, but will also be useful.
In order for the geranium to bloom constantly, it is necessary to pluck already blooming flowers.
The plant is unpretentious, does not require spraying and frequent watering.
Due to its beauty and originality, geranium is one of the most popular inhabitants of apartments and offices.
Alocasia
The exotic queen of the tropics has just begun to win the hearts of sophisticated gardeners. Unusual, original form of leaves of alocasia will become an adornment of any room.
In addition, it is unpretentious and does not require special care. Interestingly, different species have different numbers of leaves, but many plants have only one leaf during flowering.
In nature, some species grow up to 2 meters in height, but home relatives from 20 to 40 centimeters.
Spathiphyllum
According to legend, this beautiful homemade flower helps girls to meet their fiancée and find female happiness.
But attention to yourself, with such abilities, requires special, and you can not say that these are unpretentious indoor flowers. He does not like drafts, but it is better to water with the method of circulation of the settled water.
During its flowering period it requires more moisture, but the sun is not so important for it, so it can grow on windows facing north.
Indoor rose
What can be more beautiful than a rose, especially when it blooms on your windowsill. But this queen of flowers requires special care.
Home rose just loves the sun, so it is better to put it in the lighted places on the west or east window.
If you take care of them correctly, then roses will delight you with flowering all year round, with a frequency of 7-8 weeks.
Fuchsia
Once upon a time, flowering houseplants took in their family and a native of Australia and Latin America, fuchsia. And, notably, she immediately took a leading position in home floriculture.
This flower was revered by the Indians of America, and the Incas considered it sacred and decorated flowers with houses and places of worship.
Fuchsia is unpretentious, and the only thing that it loves very much is the diffused sunny color.
Hibiscus
But this is not quite a flower, but a shrub that came to the Old World from the hot tropics. Evergreen hibiscus, blooming from early spring to late autumn, will be the decoration of the room.
It should be kept in the southern part of the house, where there is a lot of light, and watered regularly and better with well-maintained, not cool water.
The only thing that the most beautiful of shrubs does not tolerate is sudden changes in temperature and drafts.
Hippeastrum
Often this representative of room fauna is mistakenly called Amaryllis, in Greek it is a combination of the two words "rider" and "star."
A flower with a romantic name loves bright light and is very thermophilic. This is not surprising, because he arrived in Europe and America from the warm latitudes of South Africa.
When flowering, throws magnificent bright red or pink corolla-shaped flowers.
Hyacinth
This homemade flower from a large family of asparagus can bloom in different shades from bright red to white and purple.
Recently, due to the original form and beauty, it has become a fairly common type among flower growers. In addition to the house, there are species that get along well on the plot.
Hyacinth flowers have been widely used in the perfume industry, and it itself has a pleasant aroma during the flowering period.
Cacti
Whatever it was, but the thorny flower during the flowering period, even if this happens very rarely, just do not take your eyes off them.
A flowering, he can please only with proper care and compliance with irrigation requirements. Everyone, perhaps, knows that in winter cacti do not water.
This is a heat-loving plant, therefore, loves bright light, and prefers to be in the southern part of the house.
Begonia
The graceful and majestic begonia has long won the hearts and souls of gardeners and lovers of the beautiful. It is noteworthy that the leaves and flowers can take a variety of, and sometimes quite bizarre, forms.
He loves sunny color and regular watering. With proper care, it will delight the flowering of beautiful multi-colored flowers.
This genus is the most common and numerous in the large Begoniev family, and somewhere in space asteroid travels, named after this flower.
Poinsetia
The first Spaniards who arrived in South America met a beautiful flower in the tropics, and local ethnic groups spoke about its healing and magical properties.
The second name simply screams about the magnificence of the plant - Euphorbia most beautiful, and today it is widespread, like a room flower in any corner of the world.
For a long time there was an erroneous opinion that the plant is poisonous, but this is not so. It is harmless, and even useful, ionizing the air in the room where it grows.
Schlumbergera
A flower with such an unusual name belongs to the cactus family, but among flower growers there are many names: “Decembrist”, “Christmas cactus” or just “Christmas tree”.
When it blooms, it blooms usually very luxuriantly and for a long period of time.
It is better to place it in bright places, but without direct sunlight. Like all cacti, it requires moderate watering, but during the flowering period it is necessary to water abundantly and maintain high humidity.
Primrose
We complete the review with a representative of the Primrose family, a beautiful and original Primrose flower. The name in Latin sounds like that - "first."
Solid, carved leaves form a basal rosette. But primrose blooms with colorful flowers of a bizarre shape, and an incredible aroma.
It is best to mix primroses in brightly lit places, but without the rays of the sun, in the southern part of the apartment or house.
Finally
So we met some representatives of beauties, saw in the photo and the names of many became a real discovery. Indeed, many people who contain flowers sometimes do not suspect their origin and real name.
Article author: Valery Skiba