How to succeed with krukväxterna - Bosse Rappnes best tips

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Now when the gardening season is coming to an end, it may be time to look to their potted plants and maybe find some new ones. Gardeners Bosse Rappne at Ulriksdals castle garden offers tips on how to take care of them in the best way.

– Yes, now is the summer is actually over, " says Bosse Rappne, gardener at Ulriksdals castle garden. The houseplants that are trendy right now have large leaves and a lot of character. It is stamfärger, leaf designs and contrasts.

Photo: Lotte FernvallBosse Rappen tells us about trends and how you take care of your houseplants.

– Something that is inside right now is palettbladen, they grow something incredible and is jättelätta to take cuttings from. Put a leaf in a glass of water and it starts to grow like a just hell, " says Bosse Rappne.

Look carefully at the plants ' colors and shapes. Revbenskalateans burgundy nerves matches nicely to the palettbladen. Contrasts can be matched in various ways as large–small, bright–dark, matte–shiny or patterned–plain. Find the contrast you like best.

Photo: Lotte FernvallPalettbladet matches nicely with the revbenskalatean.

Bosse Rappne shows up a real beauty, zebrasköldens strains are beautifully patterned to the big green leaves. Just next door is an orchid that matches the zebraskölden fine with its yellow color.

Photo: Lotte FernvallZebrasköld and orchid in nice färgharmoni.

– I think that you begin to take now, " says Bosse Rappne. It is the seventies that is back again, it is flower power and the very djungligt. And with fredskallan is with again. And common to all these plants is that they are very easy to care for.

Photo: Lotte FernvallFredskallan has become popular again.

– A plant consists of two parts, one half is underground and the other half is above ground, and these always live in balance with each other, " says Bosse Rappne. A root need two things, water and oxygen, and the root is constructed so that the are actively looking for water.

Photo: Lotte FernvallEn plant consists of two parts, the root and bladmassan.

Often you get to hear the expression that ”Krukväxterna to dry up easily between waterings”. How should you water really?

– It has to do with the fact that when the plant knows that it must start to look for water, then start the stretch. And grows to the root where it grows above the soil. Is the soil saturated by the water get to the roots no oxygen and then, it happens not so much, in the worst cases, the roots to rot. A large proportion of our potted plants at home watered simply death.

Photo: Lotte FernvallRötterna suck up water and nutrients through the ”hair growth” on them.

– Many believe that the roots suck up the water with rotspetsen, like a straw. But looking a little closer at the roots so you can see that they are a bit hairy and on this kalatean for example, it is very clear. It is the this rothåren that take up water and nutrients, an extremely finmotoriskt small body of it there, " Bosse Rappne.

How often should you water then?

– Here at the garden centre, we know almost never with your finger on top of the soil if it is time to water. It can actually be so that it is dry up here but wet further down in the pot, " says Bosse Rappne. We raise instead, the pot and feel the weight of it is time. Then you can learn how heavy the plants should be. Purely general and a simple rule could be that if bladmassan is heavier than soil and roots when usually it absolutely has to be time to water.

In the autumn and winter, you need, of course, not watering as often as in the summer, and you will always have a little fertilizer in the water so gives you at the same time are less fattening because you are watering more often.

– Often, so waters it, and then go from there. But look to the krukväxten after about twenty minutes, slosh the water in the group so lavish you remove it, otherwise it will be for bllött and then the roots get no oxygen and krukväxten is not feeling good.

So check out the beautiful kalateorna, palettbladen available in a variety of variations. Not to mention begoniorna available in really cool styles.