The easiest succulent to grow: drop it in soil and it lives, give it a little sunshine and it blooms gloriously, flowering continuously all year round

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential ornaments for home life. They beautify the room, freshen the air, and lift the spirits. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary, Issue 891" introduces you to one of the easiest succulents to grow.

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The adorable look of succulents always leaves people powerless to resist, but at the same time their troublesome traits, being hard to grow and hard to get through summer, make flower lovers turn pale at the mention of succulents. Is there a succulent plant that is easy to grow, beautiful, and blooms nonstop? The flower introduced today is exactly that. This flower is called Moss Rose, a flower that gets little attention but is well worth having.

Moss Rose

Moss Rose (Portulaca grandiflora), a perennial herbaceous succulent flowering plant of the family Portulacaceae, also known as Sun Plant, Ba Ban Zhi Lian and so on, belongs to the succulents. It is very common in both rural and urban areas of China. Its leaves resemble pine needles, and its flowers (double-petaled) resemble peonies, hence the name. It originated in South America and is now widely distributed around the world, cultivated in both southern and northern China.

Long flowering period

Moss Rose is one of the plants with the longest flowering period in nature. As long as there is sufficient light, it can bloom continuously all year round, truly "give it a little sunshine and it blooms gloriously." Of course, it will also bloom when light is insufficient, just with fewer flowers. If you want it to bloom into a full pot, you need to keep pinching the tips to encourage abundant side branches, and when the peak flowering period arrives it can burst into bloom directly.

Easy care

Moss Rose is also one of the most tenacious plants in nature, comparable to the desert cactus. Whether sown from seed or propagated by stem cuttings, this plant just needs to be dropped directly into the soil, with hardly any care needed, and before long it will grow into a patch. In some places in southern China it has already escaped into the wild. Unlike other succulents that are "hard to get through summer," Moss Rose is not afraid of high temperatures and can be cared for roughly in summer too. Its drawback is that it fears the cold; in northern regions it cannot survive winter outdoors and needs to be moved indoors.

An excellent potted plant

After Moss Rose flowers fade, it produces seeds that self-sow. When the seeds fall into the flower pot, they will continue to grow and bloom, becoming more and more numerous. They should be divided in time to avoid overcrowding. Grown in the ground, it can cover a whole area, and even a succulent plant can bloom into a sea of flowers. It is perennial; you only need to sow it once, and there will be flowers in all four seasons and blooms to enjoy year after year. It is an excellent potted plant.