This orchid once won a gold award at an orchid competition, with both beautiful flowers and foliage, blooming in multiple seasons, easy to grow and suitable for beginners

Intro

Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorative touches 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 brings many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary · Issue 950" takes you to know an orchid that is very suitable for beginners.

Orchid bonsai

Orchids, with a fresh and elegant temperament, without gaudy or vulgar flower colors, similar to the character of our people, have been highly esteemed since ancient times. They are a traditional famous flower of China, and to this day are still one of the most beloved potted flowers in Chinese households. The flower introduced today is named Zhude Su, with both beautiful flowers and foliage, excellent performance, and very suitable for beginner cultivation.

Zhude Su

Zhude Su, a famous variety of Jianlan (Cymbidium ensifolium) pure-color orchid, also known as "Broad-leaf Renhua Large-flower Su", originates from Renhua County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province. Its leaves are strongly fleshy, soft, smooth, fine and glutinous, and rich in luster. The flowers are large, nearly twice the size of ordinary Dahe Su, with both beautiful flowers and foliage. It is a rare fine variety, and in 2006 won a gold award at the Hangzhou Spring Orchid Famous Variety Exhibition.

Long flowering period, strong fragrance

Zhude Su belongs to the Jianlan four-season orchid, with a very long flowering period, repeatedly blooming several times a year, with flowers visible from June to November, and a high reblooming rate. It is a flower that gives growers a great sense of achievement, and its flowers are large and strongly fragrant. Grown on a balcony, when it blooms the whole house can smell the fragrance, truly "one flower can scent a whole room", and even air freshener can be saved.

Easy care

Zhude Su has strong vitality, a robust plant shape, and a well-developed root system, very easy to keep alive, and is one of the easiest varieties to grow among all famous orchid varieties. As the saying goes, growing orchids is growing roots, and easy plants are never difficult to grow. For beginners, it is recommended to use special orchid soil, strictly follow the principle of watering thoroughly only after drying out, and not watering when not dry, with morning light and evening light exposure being best, and that is all. Zhude Su can serve as a beginner's practice plant, and its ornamental value is not low either.

Worth having

Spring is the season for growing flowers and orchids. Planting Zhude Su now, it generally blooms around June to July. Its fragrance is very fresh and intoxicating, especially on summer nights, very pleasant to smell. This variety blooms and offsets readily, can be divided into several plants each year, and the price is not expensive. Beautiful and easy to grow, it is well worth having.