Nolina nelsonii

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This succulent perennial plant, also known as "Dolina Beldingii", can reach 4 meters in height. It has a rosette shape and the color is greenish. Its leaves are long and pointed. Its flowering is accompanied by a fruitful summer.

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NOLINA NELSONII

ORIGIN AND CHARACTERISTICS

This species belongs to the Aspargaceae family, endemic to Central America, specifically Mexico. Also known as Dolina Beldingii, it is a slow-growing, shrub-like plant that can reach 4 meters in height. Its leaves are straight and elongated, tipped with numerous ramifications.

It is rosette-shaped and its color ranges from bluish green to grayish, with small teeth on its edges that make the leaves sharp. Its flowering period comes with the warm seasons (May to June), and as a fruit it produces a woody capsule with light brown seeds.

DECORATION OF ... EXTERIOR OR INTERIOR?

We can incorporate them into both environments, outdoors it is usually used for decoration of gardens as solitary specimens or gathering several in a rockery for greater decoration. We can also incorporate them into the interior of our home since its particular shape will give it a decorative touch, we just have to make sure that it is in a sunny area with a pot that drains the water correctly.

CARE FOR CACTUS AND SUCCULENTS

They are showy plants, very pretty and that practically do not need much maintenance.

- They prefer places with direct light or that have good lighting, preferably next to a window, on a balcony, a terrace or in your Garden.

- They can withstand low temperatures, around 20ºC.

- It is essential that they have good drainage, both in the soil and in a pot.

- The ideal substrate for cacti has to be combined with sand and gravel, so that they have good drainage, humidity and excess water are not good.

- Irrigation does not have to be excessive. From spring to autumn, which would be its growth period, water every 15 days, abundant watering and wait until the soil is very dry again. In winter do not water or give one watering per month.

- Fertilizer. During the growing season (spring - autumn) you can fertilize them with worm humus. Eggshells are a good homemade fertilizer, they contain (Calcium, Iron, Potassium, magnesium and Phosphorus) these nutrients are very important and favor their growth, you must crush and mix them with the substrate, administer them a couple of times a year.

- Treatment against fungi due to excess humidity, disinfect the area with a copper-based fungicide.

- If you want to transplant them from the pot or the ground, the best time would be from spring.

And don't forget that to work with cacti you have to wear good gloves.

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