The presbyopia tells you four kinds of colorful foliage plants suitable for growing in the living room.

There are numerous plant varieties in the world, and the ones suitable for growth and planting vary from region to region, country to country and region to region. And some of these plants become potted and enter the family, and the places suitable for furnishings are also different according to their habits. So do you know which plants are most suitable for breeding in the living room?

Below, we would like to invite an experienced florist to tell you the four most common colorful foliage plants that are suitable for growing in the living room on the market, and see if there are any varieties you want to grow and breed.

I. variable-leaf wood

Changing foliage into perennial shrubs or small trees of Euphorbiaceae, which can grow up to 2 meters in the wild, is also known as discolored laurel. Its branches are hairless, there are obvious leaf scars, and the leaves are rich in color, which contains a lot of anthocyanins, including green, white, red, pink, bright red, purple and so on. Variable leaf wood due to its different varieties, the leaf shape is also different, there are long linear, lanceolate, egg-shaped or leaves with deep cracks and so on, the leaves are generally leathery, with metal-like light. Leafy trees can blossom, racemes axillary, bisexual, male flowers white, female flowers yellowish, capsule subglobose, slightly flattened glabrous. This kind of tree is suitable for planting in fertile clay loam with good water retention, and pot planting is suitable for mixing culture soil, rotten leaf soil and coarse sand. Changing leaves like plenty of sunshine, except for appropriate shade in summer, other seasons can accept full light, the suitable temperature for growth is between 10 Mel and 30 degrees, like warmth and fear of cold. During the growing period from May to October, it can be fully irrigated, while it decreases in autumn and winter. In terms of fertilizer, the growth needs can be met by topdressing rotten liquid fertilizer every two weeks, in which nitrogen fertilizer should not be too much.

2. Hanging bamboo plum

Dioscorea przewalskii is a perennial creeping trailing herb of the genus Prunus of the family Dactylaceae. Because its leaves are similar to bamboo and the leaves are very beautiful and ornamental, it has become one of the most common breeding species in modern homes. The stem of Diaozhu plum is weak, the color is green, the leaf blade is fleshy, oval, the leaf blade is sessile, the apex is acute, the leaf surface is purplish green with silver white, the middle edge has purple pattern, the bottom is purplish red, the branches are drooping, with branches, and there are adventitious air roots on the nodes. The small flower color of Diaozhumei is white axillary, usually clustered in a large and small terminal in bract-like leaves, the fruit is a capsule, the florescence is uncertain. It likes warm and humid climate, more shade-tolerant, not cold-resistant, water-wet-resistant, suitable for planting in fertile, loose and well-drained humic loam, and barren, but not drought-resistant. The cold tolerance of Diaozhumei is not strong, and the minimum temperature in winter should not be lower than 10 degrees. It likes light, insufficient light will affect plant growth, summer shade. The growing season needs to wait until the surface soil layer is 2.5 cm dry before watering, and in winter it is equal to half of the soil dry before watering. During the growth period, the application of nitrogen-based compound fertilizer every half a month can meet its growth needs.

Third, colourful leaf grass

Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Coleophora of the family Labiatae, belonging to typical foliage plants. The old plant can grow into a sub-shrub, but the plant type is ugly because it can be cultivated for one or two more years as an ornamental plant. The plant height is about 50 mi 80 cm, the whole plant is hairy, the stem is quadrangular, the base is Lignification. The leaves of colourful grass are simple, opposite, oval in shape, apex long acuminate, with obtuse teeth at the edge, the main color of the leaf is green, with pink, scarlet, purple, yellow and other bright markings, terminal raceme, flowers small, the color is light purple or blue. After the flowers fade, the nutlets are smooth and shiny. Colourful leaf grass is a kind of plant variety with strong adaptability in our country, which is more common in the south. It likes warm growth environment, the temperature in winter should not be less than 10 degrees, it likes sufficient light, the more abundant the light is, the richer the leaf color is, but it needs proper shade in summer. It is suitable for planting in sandy loam with rich humus, loose, fertile and good drainage, and the suitable temperature for growth is 10 Mel 25 degrees. The growing season needs to keep the basin soil moist, not too dry and stagnant water, breeding should pay attention to timely heart-picking to shape it.

IV. Purple velvet

Purple velvet is a perennial herb or subshrub of the genus Panax notoginseng of Compositae, with stout and branched stems. Its leaves are opposite, the shape is long ovate, and the leaf margin is thicker and doubly serrated. Its name comes from the fuchsia hairs of stems and leaves. Purple velvet shows trailing shape, stem juice, erect when young, sagging or creeping trailing after growing up. Its leaves are very characteristic among foliage plants and can blossom. Head, axillary, orange or yellow in color. However, because of the unpleasant smell of this kind of flower, the buds are often removed and the leaves are mainly viewed. It is suitable for planting in vegetable garden soil, slag and other mixed loam soil with good air permeability and good water absorption. the suitable temperature for growth is 18 ~ 30 degrees, avoid cold and frost, and the minimum should not be less than 10 degrees in winter. Purple velvet likes the growth environment of semi-shade, and it needs shade because it is afraid of bright light in summer. The growing season likes to be moist and the air is humid, so it can be fully watered. Purple velvet is a fertilizer-loving plant, and the principle of fertilization is "light fertilizer applied frequently, less and more times, and complete nutrition".

What is needed in the living room is color, and these foliage plants are as brilliant as invincible flowers in their senses, and they do not have to face the decline of the flowers, and they are always full of vigor and vitality. so that you can feel happy and happy when you first enter the house, it is really the first choice for breeding plants in this area.

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