The main attributes of any holiday are, of course, flowers. Mostly, various bouquets are given as gifts, but do not forget about potted indoor plants. They are more durable than cut flowers, and they will decorate the school’s classrooms, and the students themselves will take a direct part in landscaping the school. In the future, teachers can contribute to the development of love and respect for living nature in children by teaching them to care for donated plants. You can appoint a main flower grower in the class or create a duty schedule for caring for flowers.
Use bamboo or wood washes and avoid metal. Tomatoes. Wonderful reds fit into the category of vegetables that can be grown in pots. You can grow both classic and cherry tomatoes in pots and containers. The depth of the vessel should be about 35 centimeters. You can grow two nests in large containers and one in larger containers. They need strong spirits and should be watered every day while flowering. The secret is to pick tomatoes as soon as they are good for consumption, because picking the fruit stimulates the productivity of these plants.
It is known that flowering plants improve mood, create an atmosphere of comfort, decorate the interior, and ennoble it, which is so necessary for school corners.
Plants enrich the air with oxygen, refresh it, clean it of toxic substances, kill viruses, bacteria, microbes, and optimize humidity. All this contributes better absorption material, concentration, reducing the incidence of students.
Of all the potted vegetables, peppers are the most demanding because they need tall pots and their root is deep and regular. Ideal depth 50 cm, gravel bottom. The ideal temperature for sowing in pots is 20 degrees Celsius. The good part is that you can form two or three nests in one pot. They need a lot of TLC and should be dipped every day while they bloom. You can grow different varieties or different colors of peppers in one dish.
This is not only practical, but also aesthetically pleasing. Potato. Although it seems strange, they can also be grown in pots. The depth of the vessels should be at least 25 centimeters. Potatoes are productive if there is ample tuber space. Ideal to stop new potatoes if you decide to plant them in pots!
When selecting indoor plants for school, you need to take into account the possibility of proper maintenance and favorable conditions for their development.
The best plants for growing at school are simple and undemanding plants, beautifully flowering and decorative foliage plants, which children themselves can care for. These are, for example, chlorophytum, balsam, tradescantia.
Chlorophytum crested is popular in schools for a reason. Several of these plants are capable of completely purifying the air from harmful impurities (nitrogen oxides and compounds heavy metals) in a room of 10 m2.
School lobbies are often landscaped with large tubs of ornamental plants. A necessary condition is their durability and ease of care. For warm rooms - these are palm trees, monstera, ficus, aspidistra, sansevieria. Aloe, cypress, cissus, nephrolepis fern, hibiscus, agaves - suitable for cooler rooms.
Medicinal houseplants(Kalanchoe, narrow-flowered basil, aloe vera) have bactericidal properties and strengthen the immune system. They are capable of reducing the level of harmful microflora in the air by 70% at a distance of 2-3 meters.
However, you need to be careful with Kalanchoe, since this plant, along with other representatives of the Crasula family (Crasula, Echeveria, Sedum) can cause severe allergic reaction on a person's skin.
What plants should not be given as gifts to school? After all, indoor plants, donated for good purposes, can bring not only benefits, but also harm, for example, cause allergies in both adults and children.
Among the plants that can cause an allergic reaction in humans, those most often noted are those containing essential oils, biologically active substances (alkaloids, etc.).
Allergies can also be caused by trivial dust that accumulates on the leaves of living plants, on dry decorative phyto-compositions or bouquets.
We must not forget that allergies are caused by pollen from flowering plants and scattered mature spores of ferns.
The poisonous juice of a number of plants of the aroid family (Aglaonema, Dieffenbachia, Colocasia, Alocasia, Philodendron) when it comes into contact with the skin and mucous membranes (for example, during the transplantation process) causes their damage. Agave juice can also cause skin burns if you are sensitive to the plant. But the volatile secretions of agave perfectly clean the air of the room from pathogenic microorganisms.
The caustic milky sap of plants of the euphorbia family (euphorbia, acalypha, codenium) can cause an allergic reaction when replanting or when washing the leaves.
Care must be taken when caring for these plants.
Cyclamen juice can cause severe burns to the mucous membrane. Although, this plant itself is not an allergen.
At school, plants with bright fruits (nightshade, aglaonema, annual pepper), as well as cacti, should be excluded.
Highly ornamental plants from the Kutrov family (catharanthus, oleander, alamanda) are released into the environment during the flowering period a large number of fragrant substances that cause an allergic reaction in the body, which is expressed in difficulty breathing, tachycardia, and severe headaches.
The essential oil contained in geranium leaves can be perceived as either a pleasant aroma or a suffocating odor. It depends on the individual’s tolerance.
Eucharis and crinum flowers (Amaryllidaceae family) cause an allergic reaction in some people due to the constituent essential oils.
Placement indoors should be very limited to plants such as kirkazon or aristolochia (family Aristolochiaceae).
We list some plant families from contact with representatives of which no cases of an allergic reaction have been reported:
- Begoniaceae (begonia);
- Bromeliads (bromeliad, pineapple);
- Impatiens (impatiens or impatiens);
- Palmaceae (butia, carioca, trachycarpus palms);
- Ericaceae (azalea, heather);
- Commelinaceae (tradescantia, zebrina, rheo, arbutus, golden mustache, dichorisandra, setcreasia), etc.
This is probably due to the fact that for normal growth of plants of these species, high air humidity is required, which sharply reduces the amount of dust particles in the air.
Anastasia Rogach
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garden center "Your Garden"
Creating an environment in a school classroom that makes the classroom look beautiful and the students and teacher feel comfortable is a feasible task.
Indoor flowers at school will make every classroom cozy and add originality and originality.
Parents and schoolchildren carefully select indoor plants for their class, take care of their well-being, and are happy to see “their” flower after the holidays. But in order for the growth and development of indoor flowers at school to proceed safely, you need to know which plants should be given preference, which color combinations are allowed, and which plants are not recommended to be purchased for school.
Let's figure this out so that when you visit school, children and flowers will bring you joy.
“It’s a beautiful flower, I’d like to have one.” Most often, it is the type of flower that becomes the main motive when purchasing it. We will learn about the features, methods of care, and uniqueness of a particular representative of the plant world later. When buying a flower for your home, you can do this.
But when thinking about what flowers would be appropriate at school, you cannot be guided only by the pleasant appearance of the plant.
Before purchasing, you should study the information about the flower. When choosing a plant, you need to take into account information about the important properties of flowers.
- Safety of indoor flowers for children
You should make sure that the plant is not poisonous and cannot cause allergic reactions.
- Unpretentiousness of the plant and ease of care for it
Children are introduced to caring for indoor flowers at school. And the children, under the guidance of the teacher, happily water the plants, wipe them, and remove dry leaves. However, one cannot ignore that plants that are too capricious and require special care will not be able to get this at school.
- “Healing” effect on the atmosphere of the room
A classroom is a room filled with groups of children every day. Moreover, several such groups change during the day. It will be useful to plant flowers in the school that can have a beneficial effect on the atmosphere. Plants that affect:
- reduction of radiation from electromagnetic waves,
- increasing humidity levels;
- purifying the air from harmful substances released by various plastics;
- antibacterial treatment of the environment
Useful indoor flowers for school
Plant growing conditions
Buying indoor flower to a specific class, ask which side the windows of the office are facing, what is the lighting in the classroom, and whether nearby trees or neighboring houses are creating a shadow.
Consider where the plant will be located. Please note that according to sanitary requirements and standards, nothing should be placed on the window sill of the classroom that will become an obstacle to natural light. This means that only the shortest flowers can be placed on the windowsill. For the rest, you need to prepare stands, hanging flowerpots, and find a place on the cabinet shelves.
Choosing plants for the class
When wondering what flowers you can grow at school, select plants from one of the following groups.
Decorative foliage
Beautiful plants with original form and the coloring of the leaves will transform any office. Will fit into the classroom interior:
- aspidistras, which do well in the shade;
- dracaenas and ginurs, which purify the air from harmful substances;
- fat women, attractive for their originality;
- Sansevieria, undemanding and unpretentious.
Beautifully flowering
But in addition to useful plants, you also want beautiful ones; representatives of beautifully flowering plants will become a real decoration:
- cheerful balsams,
- delicate multi-colored Saintpaulias, which we more often call simply violets,
- , not only pleasing to the eye, but at the same time having a bactericidal effect.
Ampelous
Hanging hanging plants are ideal for decorating walls and partitions between windows:
- chlorophytums, combining decorative properties with disinfecting functions,
- scindapsus with shiny glossy leaves;
- burgundy ginurs,
- traditional tradescantia,
- evergreen philodendrons.
Curly
Climbing plants can also be placed in classrooms:
- ivy, which is especially loved by all gardeners because of its unpretentiousness,
- openwork, performing the important mission of purifying the air in the classroom.
Bulbous and tuberous
Bulbous and tuberous flowers in the classroom and at school will be able to please young flower growers and their mentors with bright blooms:
- spectacular
- colorful gloxiñas.
Of course, you should not place all the flowers from this list in one room. A sense of proportion will tell you how many plants will fit well into the interior of the classroom, leaving the main space of the room to its owners - the students and their teacher.
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Not all plants are for school!
The world of indoor plants is so rich and diverse that it cannot be limited to any complete list. By observing the requirements for indoor plants for school, you can choose other flowers for school. But you should remember: among indoor plants there are flowers that are prohibited at school.
- Plants containing juice that is toxic to the skin.
The juice of some plants contains substances that, when in contact with human skin, can cause painful reactions. Such plants include monstera, spathiphyllum, euphorbia, cyclamen, etc.
- Plants with fruits, thorns or needles
It is not recommended to keep plants that have bright fruits in rooms intended for children: nightshades, peppers, fatsias, polyscias, etc. Various cacti, whose sharp needles can injure a child, are also undesirable.
- Plants with strong aroma that cause allergic reactions
Some indoor plants emit a strong aroma during the flowering period. They can trigger an allergy or asthma attack, or cause severe headache or heart pain. Therefore, such plants cannot be kept in school. This group includes representatives of the cucumbers: oleanders, strophanthus, etc.
For the same reason, you need to be careful when growing pelargoniums and geraniums. These flowers sometimes cause allergies in some people, although most do not experience this reaction.
Flowers are prohibited at school
Knowing the features of choosing indoor plants for a school classroom, you will be able to turn a boring room into a classroom where your child will spend many interesting moments!
