MULTI-COLORED PALETTE OF HORTENSES

HOW TO CHANGE THE COLOR OF HORTENSE

Is it true?, what, pouring water over the hydrangea with various additives, you can get flowers of different colors? How to keep a plant in winter? What species can be grown in the house?

Tatyana. g Alapaevsk

At home, they usually grow large-leaved hydrangea, since it is compact, blooms easily and early, besides the most thermophilic. Repaired varieties of this species give inflorescences on last year, and on young shoots, which makes flowering abundant and long lasting. Other types of hydrangeas (paniculate, tree-like, serrated) Are wonderful unpretentious garden plants, but for the house they are too large and would require special maintenance.

MOST large-leaved and serrated hydrangea varieties can change the color of the flowers. They are grown in pink, blue, blue and purple.

Petal color mainly depends on pH (acidity) soil and the presence of aluminum in it.

Pink inflorescences in hydrangea form on neutral and alkaline soils (pH 6,0-6,5). To increase the saturation of this color, the soil is deacidified, adding dolomite flour, a piece of chalk, ground limestone, fluff lime. But don't get carried away: acidity higher 6,5 will be harmful to the plant, as it causes iron and magnesium deficiency, necessary for the full development of the plant.