Anthurium: Meet this dazzling flower for your garden

The anthurium is a beautiful flower that can be used both outdoors and indoors. It looks great in pots or gardens and requires little care, requiring only a well-lit spot with no direct sunlight.

It is important to point out that this plant is toxic because it contains calcium oxalate, so the ideal is to keep it away from children and animals. By taking this care, your anthurium can safely decorate your home.

How to care for anthuriums

To take good care of an anthurium, you must leave it in a bright place, but without direct contact with the sun's rays, as they can burn the plant. To bloom, it must remain in the shade and away from air-conditioning.

Another important tip is that the anthurium prefers humidity, so it must be watered every other day, under normal conditions. On humid days, it is only necessary to water the plant once a week, but always avoiding that the soil becomes dry. Check out more tips in the videos below.

Tips for growing anthurium

In this video, Nô Figueiredo gives several tips on how to cultivate the plant and also brings some cool information about it. It is worth watching!

How to Water Your Anthurium

A short and useful explanation of the characteristics of anthurium, and also talks about the correct way to irrigate.

How to prepare the soil for planting

Learn how to prepare the soil for planting this flower in the right way, so you can accompany your plant to bloom.

How to make it bloom

See gardeners' tips for fertilizing anthurium with the best substance and making it bloom beautifully.

Anthurium seedlings

Learn the best way to repot an anthurium, changing its substrate and making some seedlings without harming the plant.

With these tips from anthuriums' caretakers, you already know how to care for, replant, and make your flower much more beautiful and well cared for. Now see more about the coloring of anthuriums, which is obtained with the practice of crossing colors (grafting).

Anthurium Colors

When it comes to landscaping, the anthurium is very well suited for the entrance of companies and condominiums, because it is maintenance-free. The only requirement is to be in a place that has adequate light.

When you see the plant, you might think that the flower is the colored part, but this is a mistake. The flower of the anthurium is the small yellow part that grows on the spike. The colored region is a trick of nature to attract insects. So, learn more about the diversity of this plant and the meaning of each color.

• Red Anthurium: The color is associated with intense passions and desire for action. It stimulates activity and energy in your home.
• Green anthurium: The color is reminiscent of health and harmony, so it is great to have this plant to bring an effect of security to the place.
• White Anthurium: As such, a white anthurium conveys peace to the room.
• Black anthurium: The color black speaks about neutrality and sobriety, so a black anthurium brings a sense of stability to the room.
• Pink Anthurium: The color pink reminds us of love, affection, and companionship; therefore, this flower attracts a romantic atmosphere to the place.
• Yellow Anthurium: The color yellow speaks of excitement, joy, and fun, so the plant helps to bring more life into the house.
• Purple Anthurium: The color purple has always been used by nobles, so an anthurium of this hue speaks of a noble environment.
• Chocolate Anthurium: The color brown is reminiscent of fertile soil that is safe to walk on, and therefore offers an air of confidence to the location.

There are several other colors of anthurium, such as tangerine, blue, and mixed, so you can opt for the one you find most attractive and pleasing.

Meaning of anthurium

Anthurium in Greek is Anthos There are hundreds of species of this plant, more than 600, and it is native to Venezuela and Colombia. It can be used in decoration as well as in arrangements, such as the bridal bouquet.

The meaning of the flower represents trust, hospitality, fortune, enlightenment, as well as authority, luxury, and stateliness. When used at weddings, because of the upright spike and the heart shape at its base, it evokes intense sexuality.

For Umbanda, the plant pleases the Exus, being used as offerings and for spiritual cleansing. For Feng Shui, it is linked to success and expansion, being indicated for the office or work area in a building.

Because of its association with a hospitable, fortunate, and trustworthy person, the anthurium makes a great gift.

Now that you know more about anthurium, you can use this versatile plant in your home.