Room ivy - a beautiful interior decoration

Ivy is the most ancient ornamental culture from the family of the Aralievs, known even to the ancient Romans. A native plant from the subtropical and tropical regions of Eurasia. Distributed in Southeast Asia, Africa, southern regions of Europe. In Russia it is found in the Crimea, along the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. This evergreen plant in nature is able to climb high in the trees, using its air-sucking roots.

Ivy is mainly used for vertical gardening, but it can be grown in hanging baskets, like an ampel plant, or as a ground cover. The plant blooms rarely, beginning with the age of ten. Flowers are small, unattractive, yellow-green colors are umbellate inflorescences. The berries are poisonous in ivy, but they serve as an excellent food for birds, which then spread the seeds with their litter. Leaves are small, dark green, glossy, 3-7-lobed, with a heart-shaped base. Sometimes the leaves have specks, a mesh of light veins or edging.

Indoor ivy is derived from common species of common garden ivy. The best green and curly species for indoor growing are:

• Ivy deltoid;
• Pastukhov's ivy;
• Ivy arrowhead.

The deltoid plant has stems high and thin, and leaves - with 3 protrusions. Ivy Pastukhova - with thin, curly whips and elongated, with three prongs, olive or black-green leaves, with light spots. Strelolystny - the most small-leaved species with thin and short stems.

A beautiful climbing houseplant - wax ivy. This species belongs to the family of lavender. More than 70 species of this plant grows in Malaya, India and China. It is a climbing or climbing plant with fleshy leaves, as if covered with a wax coating. Ivy forms beautiful inflorescences. The best garden forms for indoor growing are the following: waxy beautiful and waxy fleshy-leaved.

Room ivy wax beautiful is a small bush with thin stems. Its leaves are fleshy, light green in color, small, oblong-oval. Blooms in summer white, with a red center, flowers.

Ivy waxy fibrous occurs from Australia and China. Leaves are elongated (5-8 cm), oval, fleshy, glossy, green, 3-4 cm wide. Five-pointed flowers, with a delicate aroma. The corollas of the flowers are white, large, with a reddish center. This room ivy has beautiful shapes, blooms annually - in spring and summer.

Ivy is a houseplant that, in addition to being beautifully fitted into the interior, also perfectly cleans the air in the apartment. The plant belongs to the shade-tolerant. Poorly tolerates direct sunlight, but prefers bright, well-lit places. Does not like the change of location. In the summer requires abundant watering, in the winter - moderate. Requires frequent spraying, especially in the summer, it is possible to periodically wash it under the shower (if the plant is small and can be transferred). Propagated by ivy cuttings, and they already have their air roots. To cuttings better rooted, they cover with a glass jar.

If you want to make room ivy in the garden, then it is better to do it in the beginning of summer, since the plant takes time to adapt and temper. Moved to the ground in winter, the ivy will die during the first freeze.

Another beautiful, luxuriantly branching houseplant with luxurious flowers is abutilone from the Malvian family. He is called a room maple. It grows very quickly and can grow up to 3 meters in height. Blossoms abutilone from May to October. The flowers are quite large - 6-8 cm, can occur in the form of a bowl, a bell or a Chinese lantern. Colors are very bright: red or pink, yellow or snow-white.

The room maple is light-loving. He prefers direct rays of the sun for several hours a day. In winter, the minimum temperature is allowed around 5 ° C, during the growth period - about 22 ° C. In the summer the maple tree needs abundant watering, the land of the plant should not dry out. When drying, as well as when waterlogging, the plant falls buds and leaves. He does not like drafts, may be affected by aphids, whitefly, red spider mite and cyclamen mite.