How to care for gardenias
For the netizens who are concerned, this elaboration on how to care for gardenias and the correct methods of gardenia maintenance in the field of green plants will definitely bring you help. Let's learn about it together!
When it's the season of blooming, everyone who enters the flower market is immediately drawn to gardenias. This is because gardenia flowers are very eye-catching, white and pure. Especially now, the sweet scent of gardenias and the approaching restlessness are everywhere. This fragrance is not seductive, not strong, but very healing and comfortable. The gardenias in my home are blooming particularly well now, so I have specially compiled some issues to pay attention to when caring for gardenias and share them with everyone.
1. Insufficiently humid environment
Gardenias thrive in a humid environment, so when growing gardenias, we must provide a good living environment for the flowers. However, in the dry climate of the north, especially during the winter when indoor heating is used, gardenias indoors may become dry and withered.
Therefore, when growing gardenias in the north, we must ensure that the gardenias have an adequately humid environment. We can put a layer of plastic bag around the gardenias, which will cause water droplets to form inside the plastic bag, keeping the gardenias in a sufficiently humid environment. If all goes well, the leaves of the gardenias will become greener.
2. Potting soil
Usually, when we buy gardenias from the flower market, they come in plastic pots, so the first thing to do when you bring gardenias home is to repot them. However, you may find the next day that the gardenias become wilted and are close to death. Some friends may find this phenomenon hard to understand, but to me, it's normal. This is because the timing of repotting and changing the soil was not properly managed.
How to care for gardenias
When we first bring the flowers home, we should not rush to repot them, as the flowers also need an adaptation period for a new environment. We should wait until the flowers bought are about to bloom and then transfer them to another pot after the flowers have dropped.
4. Gardenias infested with pests leading to death
Sometimes when we buy gardenias, we may find that the edges of the leaves are yellow and very dry, indicating that the gardenias we bought have likely been infested with pests. How can we determine whether the gardenias we purchased have pests? We can observe the leaves of the gardenias. If white spots appear on the leaves, it means that the gardenias have pest infestations. We can also dig into the potting soil of the flowers. If many white small balls are found in the potting soil, it also indicates that the gardenias have pests.
At this time, we need to move the gardenias outdoors for pest control treatment, which will quickly kill the small pests.