If you raise a pot of flowers, you can leave fragrance and sleep in your home.

Geranium, not only a wide variety, beautiful flowering color, but also can absorb chlorine and nitrogen dioxide in the air, but also resistant to sulfur dioxide and hydrogen fluoride. In addition, the scent of pelargonium flower has the effect of calming nerves, eliminating fatigue and promoting sleep, which helps to treat neurasthenia. Put 1-2 pots in the bedroom, which can urge people to sleep and improve the quality of sleep.

Potted geranium, when planting, the pot soil can be mixed with rotten leaf soil and rice chaff ash with a small amount of bone powder. The pot should be changed once a year and the new culture soil should be replaced to facilitate growth and flowering. The basin change should be carried out from mid-August to early September. Before changing the basin, the plant should be trimmed and shaped, and the basin should be changed after the basin soil and cut are dry. When changing the basin, trim some longer and excessive fibrous roots appropriately.

In the middle and late April of every year, the geraniums are placed in a well-ventilated sunny place for maintenance. In order to make it blossom continuously, flower friends should frequently apply thin general-purpose organic fertilizer for flowers, which should be applied every 10 days and diluted 500 times to irrigate the root.

Usually maintain the geranium, watering does not need too much, otherwise it will cause leaves yellowing, plant growth is poor, it is difficult to form robust buds. Generally speaking, the leaf tip should be watered again when the leaf tip is wilted, and it must be watered thoroughly. From late June to early August, the climate is hot and pelargonium is in a semi-dormant state. Fertilization should be stopped and watering should be controlled.

High temperature, direct sunlight and stagnant water in the basin after rain can affect the dormancy of geraniums and even the death of rotten roots. Therefore, flower friends in the dormancy period of geraniums should be placed on the shady balcony, windowsill, or courtyard shelter from light and rain, which can also shorten the dormancy time.

Autumn is the peak period for the growth and flowering of geranium, which can be combined with watering and topdressing the organic nutrient solution of flowers several times to promote flowering. Pedicels, old stalks and old and weak branches should be cut off in time after flowering, or short pruning should be carried out to promote more branches.

In winter, the room temperature should be kept above 5 ℃. Watering should be strictly controlled so that it can be fully exposed to light and properly ventilated. At noon on a sunny day, it can be moved to the outside to see the light, so that it can pass the winter safely.

The picture is from the flower friend: chouwa9