This potted flower once won a world horticultural award, blooms in all four seasons, is beautiful and easy to grow
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorations 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 904" introduces a very worthwhile potted flower.
Today's Featured Plant
On many flower forums, whenever this flower appears, engagement rates are extremely high, and it has countless admirers. It is hailed as one of the most worthwhile potted flowers to own. This is the famous Lisianthus (Eustoma), a world-famous flower that won first prize at the 2012 World Horticultural Exposition. Today we will only introduce its dwarf varieties.
Dwarf Varieties
There are many varieties of Lisianthus. Large cut-flower varieties can usually grow to 7-80 cm tall, and their seedling stage is very long: from sowing to blooming takes 8-9 months, so the time cost of care is relatively high. Dwarf varieties, however, grow no taller than 30 cm, and their time to bloom can be cut in half, while the flower shape and flower color remain unchanged, with ornamental value just as good. For home potting, dwarf varieties have more advantages. Famous dwarf varieties include the Florida, Rosie, and Sapphire series.
Florida Pink
The Florida series was bred by the internationally renowned horticultural seed company PanAmerican Seed. The plants are only 20-25 cm tall with a spread of 15-25 cm. The flower colors are bright and varied. It is the most heat-tolerant dwarf variety, not prone to rosetting, with tough and robust vitality, easy to cultivate, and it blooms very early, making it suitable for beginners.
Sapphire White
The Sapphire series is also produced by PanAmerican Seed. There is a saying in the horticultural world: "PanAmerican products are always premium." The company has decades of breeding experience and strong capabilities; the seedlings and seeds it produces are of very good quality and have an excellent reputation. The Sapphire series has smaller plants and spread than Florida, is more compact, branches heavily, and every branch bears flowers. When it blooms, it bursts into a full pot, looking very beautiful.
Blooming into a full pot
Lisianthus is almost the most beautiful herbaceous flower in the world, with countless honors, loved worldwide, and a world-famous flower. Compared with tall varieties, I personally think the dwarf ones are more worth getting: first, the planting time cost is lower; second, the flower quantity is greater, with blooms in all four seasons; and it is also a perennial, so plant it once and enjoy flowers year after year.