Flowers for the kitchen: purpose, variety, choice and placement

Plants in the kitchen help create a cozy atmosphere, give the room freshness, help relieve stress after a busy day. Some flowers absorb not only carbon dioxide, but also various harmful compounds that enter the room through a window.

Modern stone jungle, stuffy subway, cold offices take a lot of energy from people. To restore strength, living plants come to the rescue. Not every person has the opportunity to be alone daily with nature in the park or in the forest, but there is the opportunity to green his own home to his liking.

Flowers in pots bring a lot of aesthetic pleasure, but they must be resistant to changes in humidity and temperature, because the kitchen is quite extreme conditions during cooking. Indoor plants carry not only an aesthetic function, but also purify indoor air.

You can start gardening with one flower, develop the most convenient care algorithm and practice for several months. With the successful development of events, it will be possible to create a paradise garden in a single kitchen. In the kitchen, climbing plants look very nice.

Artificial plants in pots do not have any practical benefit, although they are the most unpretentious: it is enough to rinse them off the dust a couple of times a year. This option is suitable for allergy sufferers and lovers of frequent interior changes.

A universal and useful solution is to plant edible greens in the kitchen in beautiful miniature boxes: onions, dill, parsley, arugula, basil. You can even plant beans, which will curl a beautiful vine. Such plants will not only decorate the interior, but will also please the whole family with their fresh taste and pleasant aroma all year round. Some plants are recommended for cultivation in the kitchen, but can be very moody in the care.

• For instance, ficus benjamina It needs frequent spraying and regular watering, it is worth watering once after the due date, as it immediately drops the leaves.
• If the kitchen is sunny, it’s best succulents: all varieties of aloe and Kalanchoe, as well as cacti. They need a minimum of moisture, they can rarely be watered (1 time in 2 weeks). Children and domestic animals are almost not interested in such plants. They are safe for allergy sufferers and look beautiful all year round, unpretentious to any kind of soil.
• Hibiscus chinese Needs good lighting, moderate watering, tolerates moist air, has beneficial effects on other plants.
• Begonia - This is a beautiful plant blooming almost all year round. Do not forget that begonia is poisonous, but it disinfects indoor air no worse than a quartz lamp, loves partial shade, but needs diffused sunlight for at least 2 hours a day.
• Crassula (the so-called money tree) needs good drainage, as it has a rather weak root system. It is unpretentious to the composition of the soil and can withstand irregular watering. As it becomes dirty, it is necessary to rinse the dust leaves with a slightly warm shower of medium pressure.
• If there is not enough sunlight in the kitchen, you should pay attention to such plants: dwarf ficus, dieffenbachia, anthurium, dracaena, fern, hedera (ivy). However, be careful: the juice of their leaves contains poison.
• Sansevieria (mother-in-law's tongue) grows equally well with an abundance of sunlight and partial shade, loves humidity, needs annual transplantation for the first 3 years.
• Unpretentious to any conditions are golden mustache, cyperus, tradescantia, chlorophytum. Such plants resemble ordinary grass in appearance, which attracts cats.
• A coffee tree (not to be confused with coffee bean topiary, despite the similar name) it grows well, needs a drainage layer, it requires an annual transplant for the first 3 years. In the third year after planting, it begins to bear fruit, but after 8 years the beauty of such a plant fades, leaves become rare, the number of fruits is significantly reduced.
• Decorative pepper fruiting year-round (some varieties with edible fruit), loves a temperature of about 25 ° and scattered sunlight.
• Geranium Fragrant brings many benefits: it disinfects the air, but is a very strong allergen.
• Bamboo grows very quickly, it is suitable only as a hedge between the dining and working areas in spacious kitchens.

Choose plants for the kitchen is not difficult, just study the conditions of detention and stay on the most unpretentious options. Before buying, you should definitely consider some factors.

• The amount of sunlight entering a room through a window. Some plants love the sun and bloom better in such conditions, while other species, on the contrary, prefer the shadow. If necessary, you can correct the deficiency or excess of sunlight through the installation of special fitolamps.
• The presence of drafts. Some flowers begin to hurt and may even die from a draft.
• The minimum air temperature in the kitchen (especially if it is a summer kitchen in the country), which should not fall below 15 °, otherwise the plants will die.
• Features of the plant growth and life cycle: some flowers bloom only 1 time per year and at the same time need peace for a long period of time, while others are constantly covered with blossoming and new buds.
• Features of care: the need for frequent dressing, flushing, water baths, transplants.
• Presence of young children in the house: some plants are poisonous.
• Accommodation for pets who like to nibble leaves and young shoots. It is necessary to think over where to place flower pots so that they become inaccessible to pets.
• The presence of allergy sufferers in the house. In this case, you need to choose plants without a pungent smell.

Indoor plants for the kitchen should be as simple as possible to maintain, so as not to take too much time from their owners.

You must correctly select the location of the flowers in the kitchen and always keep the pots with plants in place. Some species of flowering plants can get sick even from turning the pot. Gardening of the kitchen is best done in the spring, at which time most of the plants in pots need replanting and are most easily taken root. You can rearrange only in case of emergency: illness or deterioration of the appearance of the flower. A universal solution - placing flowers on a free wall in a flowerpot at a convenient level for watering away from the stove and sink.

Curly specimens are best placed at a distance of 50–80 cm from the ceilingas heat builds up and can harm plants. If the kitchen is on the sunny side, it is not recommended to put flowers on the windowsill, even the most heat-loving flowers in pots can die from direct sunlight.

The dimensions of the room should be taken into account: large plants, such as a decorative palm tree or rapidly growing ones, such as a birch, will be inappropriate in a small kitchen, and small (violets) will be lost in a spacious room or on a wide windowsill. For a small kitchen, decorative pepper, a coffee tree are suitable, and for a large kitchen - orange and lemon trees. You can plant a small tree of lemon or orange in a beautiful tub, but floor options are not suitable for a standard kitchen. They will only look good in the dining area of ​​the spacious kitchen.

Vertical gardening is also very popular today.

• Fitostena - A vertical floor-to-ceiling structure filled with plants. It can be attached to the wall or act as a partition in the room. Tradescantia and peperomia are best suited for this.
• Fitokartina. It may look like a fragment of a phytowall enclosed in a frame on a regular wall. Its size varies at the discretion of the owners. Plants can be used the same as when compiling the phytowalls, and the composition is made of stabilized moss of different shades.

This planting method allows you to significantly save space by placing flowers on shelves, used when zoning the room. The vertical arrangement of plants requires the installation of a strong frame, since one shelf of a rack with a width of about 1 m can accommodate up to 10 plants. The main load on the structure gives the earth and drainage.

Flowers in pots can not only create coziness, purify indoor air, but can be a separate design element in a kitchen decorated in an ecological or ethnic style. In order for harmony to prevail between plants, you need to select well-coexisting species and not overload the room with greenery. It is very problematic to decide on the location and selection of flowers in pots, so you can use photos of beautiful examples:

• greens for cooking various dishes.

• succulents and cacti.

• pepper.

• lemon tree.

• ivy.

• palm.

• phytocart.

• phytowall.

• peperomy.

About which plants are suitable for growing in the kitchen, see the next video.