This vine produces multiple colors of flowers on a single plant, blooms for three seasons a year, and is beautiful and easy to grow.

Introduction

Potted green plants are essential decorative elements for home life. They can beautify the room, freshen the air, and also delight the mood and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 909" takes you to learn about a new type of ornamental vine.

Today's Featured Plant

Vines refer to plants that cannot grow upright and need external support to climb. They are excellent vertical greening materials, represented by climbing roses, clematis, and Boston ivy. The vine flower shown above is in no way inferior to the aforementioned ones. It is called garlic vine, a newly emerging "rising star."

Garlic Vine

Garlic vine, native to Guyana and Brazil in South America, has been introduced in South China, while in northern regions it is mostly grown in pots. The flowers of this plant are very beautiful, axillary, in cymes, like little hanging bells. When they first open, they are purple, after a few days they turn pink, and finally they turn white. Therefore, because each flower opens at a different time, a spectacular scene of multiple colors of flowers on one tree (purple, pink, white) appears at the same time, very magnificent, and the effect is excellent for decorating flower beds and gardens.

Long Blooming Period

Like lipstick plant, wax flower, and mandevilla, these tropical vines, garlic vine also has a very long blooming period. With suitable conditions and proper care, it can bloom repeatedly for three seasons within a year. Except in summer, it blooms continuously in the other seasons, and the wave of flowers in winter is the most gorgeous, a bright color in winter.

Can Also Be Grown on a Balcony

Garlic vine has strong adaptability to the environment. Although it has not been introduced into China for a long time, according to the experience shared by flower enthusiasts in various places, this flower is very easy to cultivate, with no difficulty, and balcony potting is no problem either. It has low requirements for light, fertilizer, and water. The disadvantage is that it is not cold-tolerant (after all, it comes from the tropics), so in northern regions it needs to be moved indoors to a balcony in winter, while in South China it can overwinter outdoors. It is an excellent choice for beautifying balconies, courtyards, fences, and walls.

Worth Having

Garlic vine has well-spaced branches and leaves, many flowers, and bright colors. No obvious pests or diseases have been found in cultivation. Unlike clematis, which is difficult to grow and becomes sickly as soon as summer arrives, even novice flower enthusiasts can grow it well. It is a very worthwhile ornamental plant to acquire, with multiple colors of flowers on one tree, beautiful and easy to grow, a perennial herb, requiring only one planting to enjoy flowers year after year.