Plant decorations for interiors
Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine a private apartment or public utility premises without plant decorations.
For this purpose, flowering potted plants or plants with decorative leaves and all kinds of cut flowers are used.
Decorating with potted plants. When selecting plants for interior decoration should be taken into account: lighting of a given room (bright or dark premises), heating and humidity, as well as the purpose of the premises (private apartment, common room, office, coffeehouse, train station etc.).
Plants from the shade-loving group will be suitable for the northern exhibition, hence the aspidistra (iron leaves), ivy, philodendron, cissus, ferns and Sansevers (coil). Not bad, but not as good as the previous ones, begonias also grow there, laur, to die, fuchsia and threefold.
Almost all species of cacti grow well in rooms with high sun exposure, although they also feel good and in diffused light, and also oleander, pelargonia, ficus, gale, maranta, lak, dracaena, possiflora, palm trees and asparagus (asparagusy).
Most of the potted plants mentioned require a constant temperature in the range of 15-18 °.
Almost all plants, except for cacti and other succulents, they do not tolerate the atmosphere of a centrally heated room quite well. So keep in mind, to sprinkle more delicate ones.
In private apartments, in addition to the above-mentioned species, you can grow more delicate plants, because some amateurs are able to devote more time and effort to them. For public utility premises, where constant nurturing cannot always be ensured, However, species and types that are more resistant to unfavorable growing conditions should be selected. For durable, and worthy of recommendation due to its decorative value, you can include sansevera, triplicate, herbaceous plant and various succulents.
Also, it is absolutely necessary to pay attention to the size of the plants in relation to the room, in which they are to be a decorative element.
Plants are not used for low and small apartments, which grow quite quickly and take up a lot of space. On the other hand, all kinds of climbers are perfect, which are placed in special holders, on shelves or on higher pieces of furniture. The most common climbing plants are: ivy, cissus, I honored (wax iron), roicissus, philodendron, and from the dangling ones: the herbivore, a flat-leaved bell, asparagus and triple.
Large common rooms, exhibition halls and representative rooms are decorated with magnificent plants, how: palm trees, ferns, iilodendrony, oleandry, sansewierie, ficuses, but also the creepers stretched on specially adapted metal grates look very effective.
An important thing when decorating rooms with potted plants with decorative leaves is their correct placement. Please note, that plants generally do not like constant rearrangement; so they are placed in such places, so that they do not disturb the users of the flat or common room, and at the same time they have to be set like this, that they have the best conditions for development, which is necessary to maintain their ornamental value. Also, do not force a large number of various plants into a small room, better to limit yourself to a few small ones, and really ornamental.
You cannot forget about potted flowering plants, which - although they bloom only for a certain period of time - nevertheless create an irreplaceable element of decoration; they will belong to such: cyclamens, African violets, hyacinths, tulips, azalie, gloxin, cynerarie, kalceolorie, primules and geranium.
Decorating with cut flowers. A very popular method of interior decoration is placing cut flowers in vases.
Flowers will be the main decoration here, however, the ornamental value of the vessel cannot be ignored, in which they will be placed. Therefore, it is important to choose a suitable vase when using cut flowers, as well as skillfully arranging them in a vase. The rule is, that large flowers on long stems should be placed in large and tall vases, smaller and shorter - in low.
Today, you have a wide variety of flower pots: glass, porcelain, from stoneware, cops, as well as wood and bambu-su. Sometimes a less showy vessel can be hidden in a wicker one, baskets-vases specially adapted for this purpose.
The dishes can be in the shape of vases - tall, narrow, wider, as well as low vases, bowls or plates. For larger flowers, more expensive (usually greenhouses) more decorative dishes can be used, for more modest flowers, dishes of simple shape are used.
So for larger vases, roses are inserted, cloves, gilding (chrysanthemums), lily, tulips, gerbera and other greenhouse flowers.
All ground flowers are placed in simpler vases, how: zinnia, asters, marigolds, maki, delphiniums, gailardie, narcissists, and all kinds of flowers and field plants, wildly growing.
In principle, all cut flowers look best in a one-color pot, so gray, white, green, black or glass colorless.
All woody or lush foliage plants, e.g. perennial delphiniums, sunflowers, lilaki (bzy), peonies and gladioli, can be inserted into large jugs, and they look most effective in simple ones, ordinary folk gray hair. For this type of decoration, shoots of ornamental shrubs are also suitable, like forsythia, tawuły, full-flower almond, blossoming cherry and apple trees, as well as evergreen shrubs or branches with fruit in the fall.
All bouquets look the most effective then, when they are made of flowers of one color, only in exceptional cases, multi-colored combinations are pretty, e.g. multi-colored freesia or gerbera.
Recently, decorations similar to Chinese and Japanese - the so-called. ikebana. Low pots are the most suitable for this purpose, in the form of bowls or vases with a spiked one inside (the so-called. kenzan), attached with plasticine or permanently embedded.
So that the composition is made properly, some proportions should be kept, which were developed by Japanese floriculture schools. The compositions are most often used, in which the highest point is at a height equal to twice the height of the receptacle or twice the diameter of the low receptacle; if e.g.. the height of the vessel is 30 cm, is the tallest plant placed in this vase should not exceed 60 cm in height.
To keep the proportions of the composition in its entirety, the next plants should be placed at a height - one on 2/3–1 / 2 the other on 1/3 the height of the main plant (i.e.. the highest point). The rest are placed in the lower parts, never use large amounts of plants, and the rule of thumb is to put an odd number of flowers.
All flower arrangements are suitable for decorating the interior of private apartments, also common rooms, library, offices, waiting room etc..