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19 life hacks for home flowers

Women love to take care of indoor flowers in city apartments or a country house. Flowers make the house more comfortable, saturate the air with oxygen.
Many people attend special flower shows, buy varietal plants in specialty stores or from individuals. Many earn extra money by growing or importing unusual plants, such as flycatchers or varietal violets. They are given for sale to stores, sold using free classifieds sites or on city portals and forums.

life hacks for home flowers

Flowers will make the interior more comfortable

In our article, we will show you little tricks, useful tips for indoor flowers.

1.Many plants love moisture. Not a single plant likes to be flooded - this leads to rotting of the root system and the flower dies, so we put ordinary drink caps (or a large cream cap) under the pot. That is, this is a layer between a flower pot and a cache-pot (tray).

life hacks for home flowers

Make a layer between the pot and planter

2. With frequent watering of a plant in a pot, the earth settles, decreases. You need to loosen it periodically. For this, Chinese chopsticks for sushi (for large plants) or skewers for barbecue (for small ones, such as violets) are suitable.

life hacks for home flowers

You can loosen the earth in pots with chopsticks for sushi

3. For your flower to be noticed. If you cooperate with flower shops and give flowers for sale or give as a gift, then it is better to decorate the flower beautifully. Put a butterfly inside, decor, pack the pot in beautiful colored paper and tie it with a satin ribbon.

life hacks for home flowers

Decor of flower pots

4. An empty egg is suitable for growing seedlings. Inside, with the help of a teaspoon, pour the earth and plant the seeds. When they germinate, we plant them in the ground at their summer cottage right in the egg. The plant will grow, the root system will increase, the shell will crumble. For a summer cottage - it is also an excellent fertilizer.

life hacks for home flowers

Growing seedlings in empty eggs

5. If there is no container at hand in order to transplant the plant, then you can use a container for sour cream, yogurt, plastic containers for mayonnaise or cabbage. We make holes so that the water flows out of the pot and put it in the pan.

life hacks for home flowers

Sprouts can be transplanted into yogurt jars

6. The lid of the cake will serve as a container for growing seedlings. We plant seedlings and cover with a cake lid on top - this is a mini greenhouse. Or put small pots inside the lid and cover with glass or a bag on top.

life hacks for home flowers

Seedlings in a cake lid

7. For flowers, it is better to use transparent, deep flowerpots. The water level will always be visible (for example, if the plant is poured). There are no such flower pots on sale at the moment, so we use transparent food containers.

life hacks for home flowers

Transparent pots allow you to control the level of moisture

8. For small plants, such as violets, a deep tray, such as a pet tray, food container, or deep baking tray, will do. We water the violets, excess water flows into the pan, later evaporates.

life hacks for home flowers

Violets tray

Also, the convenience is that you do not have to take each plant separately for care or to clean up the windowsill.

9. Zip bags (zipped bags) are suitable for transporting leaves, rooting leaves.

life hacks for home flowers

Use a zip bag to root the leaves

10. In order not to forget that they planted in the ground, we stick a disposable fork, with the leg down and the teeth up. We write the name, grade on a piece of paper and insert it into the teeth of the fork.

11. Do you want a lot of flowers in the house, but are limited in funds? Then plant fruit seeds in the ground: lemon, orange, tangerine, avocado, medlar, etc. Take care, wait for the first sprouts.
Another option is to buy bags of seeds, which are on sale from 8 rubles and grow them yourself at home.

life hacks for home flowers

Plant fruit seeds

12. To add fragrance to the room, you can drop a few drops of your favorite oil (lemon, orange) into a pot of earth or water in a planter.

life hacks for home flowers

A drop of essential oil in a flower pot will freshen up the room.

13. If there is no top dressing for flowers, then you can dissolve any vitamin and mineral complex in a glass of hot water.

life hacks for home flowers

Ordinary vitamins are suitable for home flowers

Mix, let cool and add a little bit to each plant with the help of an apothecary rubber bulb.
You can pour the miracle solution into a watering can with water or a plastic bottle of water.

14. If the pot is black, brown, and you want colors, then you can paint it with ordinary paint, use decoupage technique (glue a napkin) or tie the pot with knitting threads.

life hacks for home flowers

Decorating plain pots

15. A manicure bath, which is used in beauty salons, is perfect for rooting leaves.

life hacks for home flowers

Use a manicure bath to root the leaves.

16. For the beauty of the plant, you can paint small stones with bright paint and decorate a flower pot with them. This option is best suited for cacti and succulents.

life hacks for home flowers

Decor pot with stones

17. Decor for plants in pots. Broken earrings, brooches, large bright buttons, small bows - everything will fit for a flower decor. We glue the decor on a barbecue skewer or a thin stick from a tree and insert it into the ground.

life hacks for home flowers

Decor for pots on sticks

Kinders, small toys are inserted into the ground. Most suitable for colors are toys - animals. Often they are used to make florarium (flower arrangement in glass).

life hacks for home flowers

Kinders are suitable for decorating florariums

18. If water was poured and it filled the entire pan, then we take a pharmaceutical rubber pear (which is used for various human procedures), press it and the water is drawn in.

life hacks for home flowers

Excess water from the pan can be pumped out with a pear

19. A thin baseboard is an excellent support for heavy and branchy plants such as spurge, tomatoes, ivy and others. We cut a piece longer than the plant, insert it slightly away from the plant so as not to damage the root system. Can be tied with a satin ribbon.

life hacks for home flowers

Use a thin baseboard as a support for plants

Work with plants only with gloves - this way you will save your hands and nails.

Bring seeds from plants from other cities and countries and plant them in pots with earth, wait for seedlings!

life hacks for home flowers

Gloves protect your hands and nails

Flowers do not like direct sunlight, because of this the leaves become lighter, sometimes burns appear. Windows must be darkened.
No need to feed home flowers: the remnants of tea, banana peel, shells - this causes midges to start in the ground, which are difficult to remove later.

Here are some useful hacks for your favorite houseplants!