When choosing pre-spring plants to decorate your home, be guided by your own well-being. If the gray days outside prevail over the sunny days, let's try to enliven them with warm colors - yellow, orange and red flowers. Primroses, for example, are perfect for welcoming spring at home or on the balcony. Romantic compositions can also be made of snowdrops with delicate porcelain flowers, blue sapphires, multi-colored hyacinths or daffodils. All these caviar can be bought blooming in containers at this time of the year.
Care for the heralds of spring
When transplanting purchased plants into decorative pots, we should remember about good drainage. At the bottom of the container, first pour expanded clay or gravel (the drainage layer should be 3-5 cm thick). Then we fill the pot with the substrate. In order for it to have sufficient permeability, it should consist of two parts of flower soil and one part of sand. In this way, we will not expose the roots or bulbs to rot in too moist soil. If we put the containers in which we bought the plants in decorative casings, do not forget to pour out the excess water flowing to the bottom each time. On the balcony or terrace, pots with flowers should be placed to protect them from rain.
Bulb plants are quite hardy. String scythes and sapphires will bloom again next year, if we care for them after they have faded, until the leaves wilt and dry. Remember that early spring flower arrangements set in warmer parts of the apartment quickly fade.These plants and others that stay fresh longer, after flowering, can be planted in the garden, where next year, at a time appropriate for the species, they will bloom again.
If the weather forecast predicts night temperature drops below 0 ° C, protect delicate early spring plants placed on a balcony or terrace from frost by wrapping the pots with fleece or newsprint. When the weather is likely to get worse for a long time, it's best to move the floral containers to a cool room at home.
