According to the authors of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia,ferns do not have much economic significance for mankind. But we well know that they inspired many great poets and artists to create wonderful works of art. It is known that their history on Earth lasts for four hundred million years, and once their thickets covered most of the land. Today, scientists have described more than ten thousand of their species, two of which grow on the territory of our country.
Apart from the charming beauty, the ferns haveand some biological characteristics. For example, they reproduce, like mushrooms, spores, not seeds. But the main thing, what they fascinate people, are chiseled leaves, which, according to the poet, have the outlines of "the worlds of the unearthly". Perhaps for this reason, the plant is attributed magical properties, it is told about in legends and legends and is closely associated with the traditions and customs of antiquity, when young people came out on a special summer night in the forest to find its flower for the sake of finding happiness.
It is indisputable that without it life on Earth would bemuch poorer, so since the time of the Victorian era, the nobility has a fashion to breed a fern at home. In the XIX century, they decorate the royal chambers, boudoirs and living rooms, in which aristocrats spend their time. This tradition was passed on to us. Nowadays ferns are home and favorite plants that can be found in many city apartments and country cottages. They like to decorate their flower collections with representatives of the modern beau monde and the intelligentsia, not to mention the interior designers, for whom they are a wonderful means of decorating space.
Firstly, ferns are domestic - these are plantshygrophilous. They need moist air and always a wet clod of earth in the pot. For this reason, those who breed them at home should, in addition to regular watering, spray its fluffy foliage daily from the spray gun.
Secondly, ferns home require strictlya certain temperature regime, sustained in the range of ten to twenty-two degrees. It is important for them and the location of the windows in the apartment. They must go either to the east or to the west.
Particular attention should be paid to ways,which multiply ferns home. For example, there are such florists who are adherents of exclusively natural methods of plant breeding. They put a lot of effort and labor and with great love receive seedlings, withdrawn from the dispute. The rest of the world of fern lovers simply separates from the main root of a small offshoot, which has two or three green leaves, and from it receives a new plant, transplanting it into another pot and creating favorable conditions for maintenance.
