Don't know what flowers to grow? Try these 6, and they'll fill a pot in half a month
Spring is the season for planting flowers, and many gardening friends keep thinking about planting this or that, but still haven't taken action! It's almost May, and you want to turn your balcony into a garden fast? Don't worry, Huahua is here to give you ideas. Plant these flowers and they grow incredibly fast and look great too~
Slender Rose (Rosa chinensis 'Yueyuefen')
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Unlike other delicate roses, this is a native variety of ours, very easy to grow, blooms abundantly and frequently, and has a strong fragrance too~
Because it blooms a lot, it needs plenty of nutrients. You can plant it in leaf mold mixed with chicken manure, or just buy flower fertilizer and add it in
Usually watering once every 3-6 days is enough
Slender Rose is a shrub, and with good care it can reach 2 m tall in less than two years. It blooms from spring to autumn, who could resist it
Morning Glory
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Morning glory is a wildflower Huahua often saw as a child, and now it's rarely seen outside. We can buy seeds and grow it at home
The temperature is around 20°C now, perfect for planting morning glories. Ordinary flower soil will do. Bury the seeds and water thoroughly
Keep the potting soil moist, and the tender sprouts will break through the soil very soon
Put it in a ventilated spot on the balcony and wait for it to grow rapidly
In less than 2 months it can dominate the balcony, and the color can even change with the acidity or alkalinity of the soil
Spider Plant
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Spider plant is fresh and elegant, very suitable for summer viewing. Plant it now, and with its super strong propagation ability, one pot can quickly become 10 pots!
Spider plants produce many little plantlets
You can cut off the small spider plantlets and soak them in rooting water, and they'll root in about 1 week
After rooting, they can be planted again
If you cut this many plantlets, never mind 10 pots, you'll have 100 pots!
Hydrangea
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When it comes to fast and big blooms, of course we have to talk about hydrangea~ Huahua previously talked about hydrangea cuttings, I wonder if gardening friends still remember
Cut hydrangea stems into short branches 6-10 cm tall, and cut off most of the leaves
Insert them into flower soil and keep them warm and moist (you can wrap them in a plastic bag), then wait for them to root
After about 2-3 weeks, once they've rooted, transplant them into flower pots. Choose leaf mold or coir soil with good air permeability for the potting soil
Hydrangeas can't take scorching sun. Watering once every 2-3 days will let them grow quickly
Bougainvillea
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I believe many gardening friends already know bougainvillea. It grows very vigorously. What we usually see is red, but if you like a fresh look for spring and summer, you can choose white or pink
Besides buying bougainvillea seedlings directly, we can also grow seedlings from cuttings by soaking bougainvillea branches (1-year-old softwood stems) in rooting water
Or insert them into moist flower soil
Both rooting methods above take about 10-20 days to root, and after rooting they can be planted directly
Once the seedlings are stable, water once every 5-7 days. Usually you can put them on the balcony in direct sun with no problem, and you can enjoy beautiful bougainvillea the same year
Verbena
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Verbena comes in many colors and they're very vivid. Blooming in summer is just so fitting
Since it's usually bought home as a whole pot, Huahua will talk about how to care for it. Verbena isn't demanding about soil, ordinary flower soil is fine. Put it in a semi-shaded spot on the balcony, don't let it get scorching sun
You can also hang it up to grow, and just water once every 2-3 days
Summer Chrysanthemum
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Summer chrysanthemum blooms in both summer and autumn. Summer is the first wave of blooming, with more and denser flowers
The colors are many and vivid, and the flowering period is also long
Summer chrysanthemum is rather exuberant and needs plenty of sunlight, water and fertilizer. Usually you can put it on the balcony and water once every 2 days
Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)
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A very easy-to-grow vine plant that blooms in all four seasons. The bright red flowers give off waves of fragrance, simply impossible to resist
When growing confederate jasmine, be careful to keep the soil dry. Watering once every 5-7 days is enough. Usually put it on the balcony or another ventilated spot~
Because it's a vine, you need to use wire to secure its direction of growth, so it looks even more beautiful when it grows out!
After it wraps around the trellis, it blooms nonstop, simply a blooming machine
Huahua has said so much
Have you found the flowers you want to plant
Get to work right away
In May you can have a balcony full of flowers~