The Gardenia is one of the known plants within and among the most nice in bloom.
The preservation, watering, potting size and should help improve flowering.
In summary, you need to know:

The particularities of the Gardenia.
Name: Gardenia
Family: Rubiaceae
Type: House plant, shrub

Height: 2m and 0.5 to 1 m in buildings
Soil: soil
Exposure: Bright
Foliage: Evergreen
Flowering: May to October

Planting and potting Gardenia:
The agronomy of gardenia is not always straightforward and some maintenance is crucial to promote growth and blooming gardenia, it begins with the planting and potting.

Gardenia indoor care instructions:
Many people dont find out why after to get a beutifull gardenia plant full of blooms, buds and life the plant drops its flowers and at the end loses it buds surrounded by weeks, we can watch - immediately that opens to lose its buds and sets in motion to die.
The response for the gardenia indoors rests in the stipulations we are growing the plant
The growing of the Gardenia indoors is the most accepted because our climate does not allow outdoor tillage in the winter.
- It's contemplated to plant your gardenia in a good potting soil for houseplants.
- Choose a bright place without straight sunlight.

Gardenia outdoors:
Planting Gardenia in the outdoors is only obtainable if we are in the summer and refreshing but in the winter is not posible because it's not resistant to frost.
- Take a location sheltered from the wind, slightly sunny not too exposed, cutely partial shade.
- Mix the soil of your garden potting soil, land of heather and dried leaves or river sand.
- Gardenia requisites a well-drained soil.

Potting Gardenia:
If you grow your potted gardenia, potting every two-three years is needed. The plant must space to grow and too little pot would disturb its growth.
- Wait in the mean time the plant is big .
- Potting gardenia is rather carried out in late winter or early spring.
- Is found in some special stores and garden centers of special potting.

Multiplication gardenia:
- The Best way to multiply a gardenia is the way of cuttings however this technique is not always easy to achieve.
- The Cuttings takes place in early spring.
- We can achieve the technique of the cuttings of about eight-ten cm.
- We need to remove the lower leaves to keep only the top pair.
- We need to soak the cutting in rooting hormone.
- Plant The cuttings in a particular soil or in a mixture of peat and river sand.
- Place Your light cuttings with no direct sunlight and with a high moisture content (you can seal the cuttings with a transparent plastic to increase the humidity level).
-Keep The slightly damp substrate.
-Repot Seedlings when the cuttings have formed admirable leaves.

Watering of the gardenia:
-For the gardenia the best watering is to water with the rain water or with mineral bottled water.
-We prerequisite also constant moisture.
-Flowering, do not wet the foliage considering it discolors the flowers and causes spots on the flowers.
-We prerequisite a good level of humidity.

To begin again the natural moisture conditions when we plant the cuttings, we can place it on a bed of clay pebbles or gravel that you always leave moistened with water.
By evaporation of water, you begin again the natural conditions of life of the plants in the tropics.

Gardenia watering is better in the spring or in the summer:
It's important to water regularly without flooding the plant, wait Wait until the soil surface is dry between 2 irrigations. For the gardenia we requisite an environment with air moist to develop, we need regularly to spray water on the leaves and stop as soon as the plant is in full bloom.

Gardenia Watering in the fall and winter:
Reduce watering. Wait for then the substrate is dry before watering again.

Pruning and maintenance gardenia:
-After flowering, prune your shrub slightly to maintain its pretty compact design while reducing the crown of 1/3.
-Remove faded flowers when they arise, this stimulates the emergence of new flowers.
-Strengthen the plant for having a spectacular flowering heather bring a particular fertilizer.

Disease and virus that perturb the gardenia:
Grown houseplant, the gardenia is subject to most disease and pest insects or mites that touch this type of plant.
-The main pests are aphids, mealybugs and spider mites.
-We need to fight against mealybugs, aphids, spider mites.
Note that if the leaves of the gardenia turn yellow, it's presumably linked to chlorosis taking into account the water has a lot of limestone.
If the flowers fall before opening, this is probably a lack of moisture. sprinkle soft water on the leaves and unopened flowers .

Outside, it needs a very pleasant climate and in consequence no freezing winter.