CARE FOR TRADESCANCE – MONTHLY DESCRIPTION

GLADIOLUS IN POTS (POT CULTURE) Once a friend invited me to her garden plot When I saw her flowers, then gasped: in huge pots grew delicious… 

ORCHID FRAGMIPEDIUM – CARE AND FEATURES OF GROWING

Fragmipedium photo

The shoe fit right

When I saw the bloom of this orchid - a relative of papiopedilum (venus shoe), then fell in love with her forever. Now I can't imagine my collection without these luxurious, relatively unpretentious and willingly flowering plants.

FRAGMIPEDIUM – LANDING

Young specimens are recommended to be replanted annually at the end of winter-spring, mature - every two years, better after flowering. Fragmipedia, usually, transplant well. The plant is shaken out of the pot, examine the roots, remove rotten and damaged ones and plant in a new container with fresh substrate, after laying drainage on the bottom.

The mixture for planting phragmipediums is based on the bark of the medium and fine fraction, charcoal, perlite, pieces of lava. Also, the composition may include fragments of the roots of tree ferns. Plants are planted in a pre-moistened substrate. It is important to tamp it well, the pot by weight must be heavy. The soil is kept moist all the time, a little water is left in the pallet at the bottom.

During transplantation, orchids can be propagated by dividing the rosette, but experience shows, that undivided plants are stronger and more resistant to disease, bloom long and profusely. So it is undesirable to bother them with such a procedure without unnecessary need..

Fragmipedium – cultivation