2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The abundantly blooming and elegant pelargonium is often called "Geranium" by the people. Although this is an absolutely independent plant, and it unites them with geraniums only by referring to one Geranium family. Geranium grows freely in the wild, and lovers of indoor flowers and summer cottages cherish pelargonium
Listen, you fool, stop eating the master's geranium
The confusion with the name of the flower begins from early childhood, when the mother reads Samuil Marshak's "Cat's House" to the child and points her hand at the pelargonium blooming in a pot.
I doubt that the taste of the flowers and leaves of pelargonium resembles a cabbage leaf, as it seemed to the goat when he chewed the leaves of the cat geranium-pelargonium (for some reason, there is no desire to make sure of this). After all, pelargonium has a rather pungent odor, which, according to the USDA, is toxic to some pollinating insects, for example, the Japanese beetle that lives in our territories, on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. This smell is a repellent (that is, repels, repels) for flies and mosquitoes. Therefore, the shrubs of pelargonium, planted around the summer gazebo, will greatly reduce the intrusiveness of insects during the evening family tea.
Conditions for growing pelargonium
Pelargonium mainly grows in South Africa, which shaped its character. It is photophilous, resistant to drought (this does not cancel watering if the earth begins to dry out. Moreover, water quality is very important for pelargoniums), does not like stagnant water (when growing in pots, high-quality drainage is needed) and does not tolerate winter cold. Therefore, her loving housewives drag pots and flowerpots into the house when autumn frosts are approaching. At temperatures below 12 degrees, it stops growing, and at zero, it dies.
Prepare the soil for the plant based on 3 parts of compost, one part of sand and one part of clay.
To form the shape of the bushes and abundant flowering, pruning is carried out, as well as pinching of young shoots. In spring cuttings, after rooting the plant, it is sufficient to remove the growth point once. In autumn, pruning is undesirable, since it stimulates the formation of new branches, which will stretch strongly over the winter. There are varieties of pelargonium that do not require pruning.
Pelargonium is propagated by seeds or cuttings. Moreover, the cuttings are not placed in water so that they take root, but are immediately stuck into the ground. Out of ignorance of this feature, I somehow ruined the bush that my friend gave me. I put it in the water and waited for white fresh roots. The leaves gradually began to fall off, but there are no roots and no roots. So she threw away, in the end, a stocky bush, or rather, the bare stem left from it.
Capricious Royal Pelargonium
Among the many relatively unpretentious pelargoniums, Royal Pelargonium stands out for its more capricious character. But for her stunning beauty of flowers, which bloom for a shorter period of time than other varieties, lovers of pelargonium forgive her for her whims:
* doesn't like heat
* in winter, the room temperature should be no higher than 15 degrees
* you need to be careful with pinching the tops, so as to ensure splendor, and not leave the plant without buds.
Reunion island
East of the island of Madagascar, which is difficult to miss on the map, a small dot of Reunion Island is drawn. It is this small, barely noticeable point in the vast Indian Ocean that is the largest supplier of geranium scented essential oil extracted from the leaves of geranium pelargonium. Geranium oil is obtained by steam distillation of the green part of the plant.
Geranium oil is non-toxic, non-irritating to the skin and non-phototoxic, that is, it does not burn the skin under the rays of the sun, such as the juice of hogweed or parsley. It is used in perfumery and aromatherapy as a sedative. This oil is not very expensive, so it is rarely falsified. However, the CIS market cannot boast of this, so here you can come across oil in which there are unnecessary additives.
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