INDOOR HYDRANGEA FLOWER - HOW TO CARE IN THE WINTER?

Hydrangea leaf - a popular houseplant, in its beauty in no way inferior to its garden relative.

It is much easier to care for the homely variety of this flower, but there are some nuances here too, especially concerning the cold season.

How to care in the winter?

Hydrangea room is deciduous plant, therefore, it is characterized by dropping leaves before the period of its rest. This phenomenon occurs once a year, before the onset of extreme cold.

In order for her to safely survive the hibernation regime and thanked the following year for their owners with abundant and long blooms, she needs to provide a number of necessary conditions.

Preparing for winter should begin in the fall. It includes making some changes in the care of the plant.

Before the cold season comes at a gradual pace shrinking the intensity of watering hydrangeas stop feeding.

Rest period

The dormant period begins soon after the end of flowering and lasts approximately 2-3 months. When the hydrangea ottsvetet, the plant is pruned and moved to a cool and dry room.

Light mode

She is not demanding on the light. Important: This plant is sensitive to direct sunlight, so this factor should be immediately eliminated.

Hydrangea can well grow in partial shade, and in the winter season light shading she just is necessary for a good rest and a set of forces for the upcoming bloom. In rest mode, the lighting for this flower is not significant.

Temperature conditions

Room hydrangea prefers cool. If in the warm season it is recommended to keep it at a temperature from +15 to +22 degrees, and at the same time take care of sudden changes in temperature and drafts, in the winter it will feel fine itself at 5-9 degrees with a plus sign.

The best place to keep in winter is dry and ventilated basement and semi-basement rooms.

It is recommended to transfer the hydrangea to the apartment or to the house, to the familiar place at the end of winter or early spring (February-March), when the plant begins to germinate. kidneys.

Important: the temperature in the room where the flower is placed after wintering should not be too high, otherwise it can respond dropping their leaves.

Watering

As noted above, the preparation of hydrangeas for wintering begins with a reduction in watering. During hibernation should receive minimum of moisture. Water the plant should be occasionally, and then only with the aim of preventing the drying of the soil mixture in the pot.

If it is moved to the basement for the winter, its need for obtaining moisture is significantly reduced, therefore watering at this time is possible and completely stop.

Manipulations in the winter

In winter, when in rest mode, the hydrangea should try to disturb the minimum and minimize as much as possible all kinds of care and maintenance manipulations.

if the plant is contained in an apartment, it needs to provide a cool temperature regime, rare moisture (as the surface of the soil dries out).
if the pot is moved to the basement, it is not necessary to touch it at all during the entire period of hibernation.

Important procedures for this plant - transplanting and pruning - are not carried out in winter. Separate time they need to be given in the fall or spring.

Important: it is impossible to feed up hydrangea in the winter!

during the autumn pruning leave only a few of the strongest shoots. Partial pruning (in order to remove weak shoots) takes place in the spring, after the plant is awakened;

transplantation is best done in the fall, after flowering. Young plants are transplanted every year, old plants - once every 2-3 years.

Important: room hydrangea prefers a sour soil with good drainage characteristics. Soil mixture for this plant should consist of humus, leaf soil, sand and peat.

How to keep in a pot until spring?

Care of a flower in a pot consists of the following points:

carrying out all manipulations preceding the rest period (gradual preparation of the plant, pruning and, if necessary, transplanting);

observance of all conditions necessary to a plant during a sleep mode.

She just needs dark and cold wintering. During this time, she manages to recover and gain new strength for the appearance of future colors. If this condition is not followed by the following flowering, the plant will be able to please the hosts only after a year, or even more.

Ggortensia - an unpretentious plant, but its flowering is a magnificent sight. So that after a long winter she can give life to new flowers, it is necessary to provide her with optimal conditions. They will not require any special knowledge and great floriculture experience, and the beautiful hydrangea will be sure to thank with magnificent balls of beautiful inflorescences.