People have always loved living plants on windowsills, especially with colorful and vibrant flowers. They decorate, refresh, sometimes even disinfect the premises. This is one of the beautiful and original gifts that does not have to look for practical use. An exotic flower or plant in a pot can be presented to your boss, girlfriend, future mother-in-law and even a little-known person whose addictions you do not know anything about.
The only thing to consider when buying rare specimens of indoor plants is the tendency of some specimens to release toxins and allergens.
How to choose a houseplant as a gift
What matters is the size of the house, the amount of light entering, the height of the ceilings. If you are going to present the owners of a spacious apartment, feel free to buy dracaena, to the chef, fatsia, dieffenbachia, araucaria, cordilina... These beauties will complement the interior. They can easily decorate the space or disguise minor flaws, cover defects with leaves. They have every chance of becoming the favorites of home greenhouses, large busy offices.
It is customary to give interior flowers to new settlers, landscape designers, summer residents, who can transfer tubs with pets to the site in the summer.
Owners of small rooms with narrow window sills will enjoy the green neighborhood asplenium, calatheas, arrowroot tricolor (popular name praying grass). Women who love to bring miniatures, sculptures, decorative fountains to their homes, to like pseudo-laurels (euonymus) of various types, purple rheos, cyperus.
It is worth taking a closer look at the abundantly blooming gift options. Here the championship is occupied by begonia, Saintpaulia, camellia, cyclamen, spathiphyllum... Tall and dwarf forms are equally graceful, unpretentious with a long period of bud formation.
What indoor flowers can not be given
A huge number of signs, beliefs, both positive and negative, are associated with flowers. It is believed that some green friends can charge the family nest with bad energy, lead to divorce, quarrels, and stop the flow of money.
This "black list" includes all the vines with curly, creeping, hanging branches. For instance, hoya with its waxy white stars, it emits droplets of juice, nicknamed widow's tears. Ivy was awarded the title of "muzhegon", that is, it has the power to drive away gentlemen. Not a welcome guest in private ownership and date palm... Such names spoil the reputation of the gift and it is not clear how the birthday people will be perceived.
Flowers for various celebrations
Wedding arrangements: varieties of high presentability with large white or cream petals.
On the anniversary of married life, a miniaturepot rose, violet, chrysanthemum, anthurium... Containers are designed accordingly (wooden, porcelain, with gold, silver painting).
Christmas surprise will be poinsettia, Decembrist.
They will fill the hearth with Easter joy daffodils, primroses, cacti of yellow, orange shades.
Moreover, when visiting specialized stores, you will have to decide on the spot, buy an adult, a blossoming flower or a young shoot, so that the new owner has a chance to grow it himself and wait for beautiful fruits.
How to maintain aesthetics on the way home
The painful moments of difficult choices are over. Now the main task is to preserve the fragrance, tenderness, brilliance to the threshold. The ideal way for short-term carrying on a frosty, windy street is to wrap in several layers of cellophane. You can neatly put the purchase in a tight plastic bag or form an impromptu dome over the stems.
In one of the articles, I read that flowers are chosen with special attention, since it is important to do this for every grower and lover of these plants. When I buy or they give me a bouquet of flowers, I took into account some things so that the bouquet will last for a long time, and how to let the flowers stay fresh as long as possible. Just a few factors must be taken into account so that the water is settled, it was a few days and the temperature in the room was up to 20 degrees - then the flowers can stand for a week. Beware of those sellers trying to sell far stale, dying flowers. Be careful with this.