Every housewife wants to see in her househouseplants. Flowers on the windowsills give coziness to the living room. Also, many people want the house to have a peculiar nature. Plants make the room beautiful, fresh, in a cold period it's nice to look after them. A flower with red leaves will become an ornament of any house. Decorative plants are easy to breed, the main thing is to know how to properly care for them.
Beautiful poinsettia
A flower with red leaves looks verybeautiful. Such a plant will be an excellent gift for relatives and friends. "Christmas star", or poinsettia, - this is the name of a flower with red leaves. When the New Year comes, the person always wants bright colors (perhaps that's why he was so called). The homeland of Poinsettia is Central America and Mexico. More recently, the Aztecs used a dye from bracts in cosmetology and textiles. Another "Christmas star" was considered curative, it extracted juice and added to medicines for fever.
The name "poinsettia" the plant received thanks toJoel Roberts Poinsett. It was the first Mexican minister, botanist and physician. He was first struck by a beautiful flower. J. Poynsett brought him to South Carolina 189 years ago, began to grow it on his plantations and send it to other gardens.
"Christmas Star"
A real flower with red leavesfound thanks to the emigrant from Germany, Albert Ecke. He was a true fan of plants. In 1911 a lover of the flora founded a greenhouse. Together with his son, he saw that the coloring of poinsettia is perfect for the symbol of Christmas and New Year. The family began to grow a house flower with red leaves already in the sixties. And now for more than forty years the "Christmas star" has been decorating the homes of American families for New Year's holidays. It has become a good tradition to purchase a house flower with red leaves for celebrations in the cold season. At first the poinsettium was grown in the open ground, then in hotbeds, and only then in room conditions. On the eve of the Christmas holidays, a flower with red leaves is the most in demand in the plant market in America. More than fifty million poinsettions are sold in the New Year season. In the Russian Federation, a room flower with red leaves is not yet known enough and is loved. However, every year more and more buyers acquire a beautiful overseas plant. Past such a charm you can seldom indifferently pass.
Care for poinsettia and reviews of gardeners
"Christmas Star" should stand ininaccessible to children. The juice of the Mexican plant is very toxic, at the slightest ingress of it into the eyes or on the mucous membrane, it is necessary to thoroughly rinse this place with water. Also, after working with the flower, you need to clean your hands well.
Poinsettia does not tolerate sudden changes in temperatureand drafts. If something does not work, it will fade and lose its leaves. According to the reviews of gardeners, the plant does not like direct sunlight, it can be transferred to the balcony without drafts in the warm season.
As lovers of this plant say,"Christmas star" should not be filled with water. The liquid should not be cold. You can also spray the flower leaves with warm water. At the end of spring (in May), it is necessary to perform a plant transplant. The pot will fit a little larger than the previous one. Add humus, sand, peat and leaves to the ground.
There are many reviews of gardeners about the beautifula flower with red leaves. Florists say that poinsettia is associated with them in the New Year. Her bright colors raise the mood even in gray, cold days. It is the flower with the red leaves that stands on the tables for Christmas in many families. Comments of gardeners about poinsettia are always flattering. Such beauty can not not be pleased!
Beautiful flowers
In the nature of poinsettia, there is very littlespecies: glittering and globular, coarse and beautiful, "mile". Flowers blossom in the cold season, pleasing horticulturists-lovers all three months of winter. But in themselves they are of no interest. Flowers are not noticeable, but the bracts (this is a modified leaves) on the contrary. They are not only bright red, but also white or pink.
Bracts can be found on the plant up to sixmonths. Therefore, the beauty of a flower man has time to admire. To red "stars" as long as possible remained on the plant, you need to buy it with buds, which have not yet blossomed. So many amateur gardeners write on forums where there are many different opinions about interesting colors.
After flowering, there is a period for poinsettiarest. She sheds all the leaves, and only the stem remains. This kind does not look very nice, but it is a normal condition for this plant. If you do not throw it away, but keep it, then on the next New Year's holidays there will be a flower with red leaves again.
Short description
The Mexican plant belongs to the genus Euphorbia.It blossoms on cold winter days, somewhere by the New Year or Christmas. The whole period lasts about six months. The flowers are small, yellow-green. In room conditions mankind has learned to grow annuals and biennials. The stems of the plant stand straight and branched.
Bracts of the "Christmas star" are notonly a single color (red, pink, cream, white), but also two-color. The shades depend on the plant variety. For example, "emperor" - red, "region" - white-cream, "doroti" - pink.
To poinsettia bloom for the New Year holidays, you need a little trickery. The beginning of the preparatory process should begin in September.
Harmony in the interior
Plants always decorate a person's house, theygive it comfort, purity and beauty. Currently, people are trying to make the interior of the premises as original as possible. For the implementation of such an idea, flowers with red leaves perfectly fit. Photos of plants are full of magazines directly in conjunction with the furnishings or the color scheme of the interior of the house. You can view several options at once. There is also information about the prices of indoor plants, a description of their care. Flowers with red leaves are considered a good and expensive gift. Such a gift will appeal to every person. A piece of overseas nature in the house will only decorate the corner of the living room. There are so many reviews of gardeners about the perfect combination of colors with red leaves and other trifles in the interior of the house. Plants look very harmonious.
Flowers with red leaves
People in the modern world are actively engaged indilution of houseplants. A large number of beautiful flowers allows you to choose the brightest for the interior of your home. People are especially attracted by flowers with red leaves. The names of plants can be asked from florists in a flower shop or found in the literature. In modern times, a lot of information provided.
These are flowers such as the koleus and the previously describedpoinsettia, columbine and croton. Such vegetation is rather unusual for Russian people, so now special attention is paid to it. After all, the flowers are not red flowers, but leaves. This is what they are interesting for the Slavic people.
Red flowers
Amateur gardeners often choose plants forappearance and ease of care. The less a flower is whimsical, the better a person. Indoor plants should please the owner, and not be a burden to him. One of these colors is the koleus. It has more than one hundred and fifty species. Semishrubs grow to eighty centimeters. Their minimum height is about twenty-five centimeters. It is an unusual red flower with long leaves, they are crooked along the edges, like the nettles known to all. He is very fond of gardeners, since he is not very fond of grooming. The people call it "nettles".
Red flowers should be in every house, thisa symbol of material prosperity (according to Eastern wisdom). On the flower market the most popular are still begonia and pelargonium. They have pleased the owner for a long time. Also do not require painstaking care. The shape of the flowers is very beautiful. Often, plants are used in a romantic interior.
Original gift
The more bright colors in a flowerit looks more impressive. There is always a demand for such goods. Flowers with green-red leaves can also be found in homes from Russians. This is no longer a novelty, for example, Croton. The plant has an interesting color and leaf shape, green-red color and carved ends.
To croton remained dark green, it should be kept in a place without the sun. If the sun shines on the flower, the leaves will turn red.
In nature, there is another very interestingindoor plant. Columnea consanguinea is a flower with green leaves, on which there are red hearts. A plant with such romantic spots often presents to its beloved. This is a very original surprise for a loved one. Flowers with red-green leaves look original and unusual.
Plants in the house give not only beauty, but also give freshness. It is always pleasant to look after the greenery in winter cold weather. When the flowers are full of bright colors, then a holiday comes to the house.
