This flower once won a horticultural gold award, has an ultra-long blooming period and is easy to care for, making it an excellent ornamental potted plant
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorations for home life. They not only beautify the room and freshen the air, but also delight the mood and cultivate the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary, Issue 925" introduces you to a very worthwhile flower.
Have you noticed? There are more and more beautiful flowers around us now, with new varieties emerging endlessly, and many plants whose names we cannot even recall. Advances in horticultural science allow us to enjoy an ever-growing number of ornamental flowers. The flower introduced today, named "Danding", is just such a new variety, with multiple colors on a single flower, extremely beautiful.
In 2016, at the rose expo held in Daxing, Beijing, the Danding submitted for evaluation by growers from Laizhou, Shandong, won the gold award, further expanding the fame of this variety and letting more flower enthusiasts get to know it. Danding has a unique flower color: bright red edges, creamy white center, turning completely bright red when fully open, and the flower color varies with the season.
The Danding flower is fully double, with 35 petals, and a large flower disc that can reach more than 12 cm in diameter. When it first opens it is cup-shaped like a rose, and when spread open it resembles a peony, with very high ornamental value. The flower carries a light fragrance like that of camellia. The blooming period is very long, flowering in spring, summer, autumn and winter, with spring and autumn as the peak blooming seasons.
Danding is an upright-growing small shrub. The plant is neither tall nor large, and can absolutely be grown in a pot on a balcony. It has strong disease resistance and extremely strong climate adaptability, tolerating cold and heat, and can be planted in the open ground in most parts of the north, with very simple care. For potting, use well-drained soil. If beginners do not know the mixing ratio, they can directly use soil specially formulated for roses.
As spring warms and flowers bloom, April is the peak blooming season for Danding and also the best planting season. Planted now, it readily survives. It is a perennial woody plant; once it takes, you can enjoy its flowers year after year, blooming continuously through all four seasons, with multiple colors on a single flower. Its ornamental value is no less than that of peonies and roses. You can enjoy the flowers and smell the fragrance, making it very worth getting, a rare fine potted plant.