Orchids are easy to grow, easy to keep alive, beautiful and fragrant, and low in price, making them suitable for beginners.
Introduction
Potted greenery is an essential decorative element of home life. It can beautify the room, freshen the air, and delight the mind and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 931" takes you to get to know several orchids most suitable for beginners to grow.
Today's Featured Plants
Orchids hold a very high place in the hearts of Chinese people and have the beautiful reputation of being the "gentleman among flowers." They win with fragrance and have pleasant colors, exactly as the saying goes, "With graceful flower posture and long green leaves, when the wind comes it is hard to hide the fragrance in the valley." Growing orchids has been a pastime of Chinese literati and refined scholars since ancient times. For beginners, the most suitable to grow are undoubtedly the Jianlan four-season orchids. Today we introduce several of them.
Xiaotaohong
If you are a beginner, have no special requirements for orchids, and simply want to grow one for fun, then Xiaotaohong is undoubtedly the best choice. Xiaotaohong is cheap, blooms and grows readily, and is even a dual art of flower and leaf (variegated flowers, leaf tips with white edges). It blooms repeatedly many times a year and is praised as the "most beautiful four-season orchid." Its care is also very easy, similar to other potted greenery.
Fushan Qidie
There are not many strange-flower varieties among Jianlan four-season orchids, and Fushan Qidie is a representative among them. It is good in quality and cheap in price, a top choice for beginners, blooms and grows readily, and has a long flowering period. Its peony-like flower shape has large flowers and many petals, with flowers within flowers, and its colors change greatly. When it blooms, it gives a feeling of a rich Brocade of flowers. Because it has many extra petals, its fragrance is very strong.
Qi Xiannv
Qi Xiannv is an extremely beautiful variety, praised as the "four-season flower chief" and one of the must-have varieties. Its flowers are large and strongly fragrant, often opening seven flowers on one stem. The flowers are large and held above the leaves, with beautiful form and elegant color. This flower is both a strange flower and a plain flower. Its drawback is that the leaf material is tall and lacks neat appearance, while its advantages are good quality and low price, high ornamental value, yet the price is very low, making it suitable for beginners to practice with.
Jinhe
Jinhe is a standard true lotus-petal, lotus-form flower among Jianlan orchids, and even some precious lotus-petal flowers cannot compare with it. Its flower shape is small and exquisite, and its flowering quality is stable, with round petals, round tongue, and round flower shape. When blooming at low temperatures, the flower color turns entirely pink, delicate and lovely. It blooms and grows readily and produces many flowers, and with many flowers the fragrance is naturally strong. The price is very cheap, and it is well worth having.
Golden Rainbow
Golden Rainbow is a famous variety of Jianlan four-season orchid. Its flower shape is unique and large, festive red, with many flowers on one stem, and its leaves carry golden linear leaf art. It blooms repeatedly many times a year, with a long-lasting flowering period and a rich, distant fragrance. Its adaptability is very strong, and it can be cultivated in both the south and the north. It is easy to grow and easy to keep alive, with a high reblooming rate and a cheap price, making it a top choice variety for beginners growing orchids.