Gatsania is a very beautiful and peculiar, heat-loving plant that migrated to us from distant and hot Africa. In our latitudes, flower growers and gardeners quite successfully grow about 50 varieties of this bright, beautiful and unpretentious flower. At home, it is a perennial flower, but in our climate it cannot exist in a flower bed during the period of winter cold, winds and frosts.
However, it is quite possible to save this heat-loving plant until the next hot season by transplanting it into a pot and placing it on the windowsill, loggia and glazed balcony for the whole long winter.
Growing at home in the winter in a pot or flowerpot, it will demonstrate all its huge potential, and will bloom for a long time, delighting everyone with its bright sunny inflorescences.
After the flowering period is over, the plant will delight with its greenery until spring. How to grow gazania in winter at home so that it retains its beauty and decorativeness?
How to grow gazania at home
After the last warm autumn days are over, you need to take care of transplanting the gazania into a pot. A short-term drop in temperature below 0 does not cause significant harm to the plant, but long-term frosts will certainly cause certain death for it.
If there is a free outdoor flowerpot, you can put gazania for growing at home in it. A deep container is also suitable for this, especially if several flowers are transplanted for wintering. With this method of planting, the plants can be saved and there will be no problems with planting in the ground in the spring. While cold winds and frosts rage outside the window, the flower will delight the household with its bright flowering.
In addition, you can transplant the plant for wintering in a greenhouse, in which the temperature does not fall below +10 degrees. It is important to use containers with drainage holes so that excess moisture does not form and the plant does not die or start to hurt.
Some flower growers also practice the preservation of this beautiful flower in the winter in the garden. To do this, they cover the leaves with mulch or a dense film, however, not all varieties of this plant can endure such a wintering and the bushes die.
Gazan care in winter
It is known that the plant cannot be called too demanding, requiring any special care when grown in beds and flower beds. The same statement is true for plants kept at home. At home, gazania feels great and remains just as unpretentious. The most important thing is to follow the basic recommendations for caring for him.
Properly organized maintenance of gazania in winter at home in a pot or flowerpot will allow the plant to quickly and painlessly adapt to growing conditions after spring planting in open ground.
The soil for transplanting gazania into a pot should be light and nutritious. The success of the entire event will largely depend on how well it is prepared. Expanded clay, fragments of clay pots or vermiculite must be placed at the bottom of the pot.
When choosing a place where a flower will winter, it is necessary to take into account the love of gazania for sunlight and warmth. Therefore, it is best to place a pot with it on sunny windows and balconies. In order for the conditions for growing gazania to be optimal, on cloudy days the flower needs to be illuminated.
In the process of planting gazania in the ground in the spring, you should try to leave the root system of the plant unharmed, since if you accidentally damage it, it will certainly die.
Do not worry that winter flower growing can be difficult. This may seem difficult at first glance. Having completed all the described manipulations once, you will be able to annually save gazania flowers from the winter cold in a pot. If the plants still did not survive the winter, you will have to resort to further growing gazania from seeds at home for seedlings.