New-type potted flowers with brilliant colors, easy to fill the pot and simple to care for, well worth having
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorative items for home life. They beautify the room, freshen the air, and lift the mood and cultivate character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Diary · Issue 955" introduces you to a new-type potted plant that is well worth having.
Today's Star
When it comes to the flowers that bloom and fill their pots most easily, would you pick petunia, baby's breath, or lobelia? The flower introduced today is in no way inferior to the herbaceous flowers mentioned above. This flower is called the dragon-face flower, also known as Nemesia, native to South Africa. It is a new type of ornamental flower and has been introduced and planted in many places in China.
Dragon-face flower
The dragon-face flower, Nemesia, is a perennial herb of the genus Nemesia in the family Scrophulariaceae. The plant's flowers are extremely beautiful, with bright and varied colors, two colors per flower, commonly in red-white and blue-white varieties. Planted in masses, it looks like colorful auspicious clouds spread flat across the ground, very brilliant and gorgeous. It is a good material for flowerbed arrangement and can also be used as cut flowers and for potted display.
Easy to bloom and fill the pot
The dragon-face flower is a short plant, generally only 30 cm tall, with many branches. Where there is a branch there is a flower, and the flowers fill the branches; filling the pot with blooms is very easy. The flowering period is very long, blooming twice, from February to June in spring and from September to December in autumn, and once it starts it continues for an entire season. The ornamental period is extremely long. It is a very good groundcover landscaping plant and also an excellent potted plant.
Simple care
The dragon-face flower is vigorous and resilient, likes a cool climate, and is relatively cold-tolerant, able to withstand low temperatures of -5 °C in winter. In some areas of northern China it can be grown outdoors without problems. It is generally propagated by sowing, and spring and autumn are the best seasons for cultivation. After sowing, seedlings emerge in 7-10 days. From seedling to flowering takes only 30-60 days, very "fast-track," suitable for "lazy" gardeners. Daily management is also simple: place it in a spot with light, and water when the potting soil has dried out completely; if it has not dried completely, there is no need to bother. Shade it in summer. It is very easy to grow.
Worth having
The dragon-face flower has not been introduced to China for a very long time and still belongs to a rather niche group of flowers, so not many people know it. Therefore, no matter where it is placed, it stands out strikingly, with good ornamental effect and good accent effect. In addition, it is easy to grow, its flowers are beautiful, it blooms in all four seasons, and once it blooms it basically means the pot is full. It is well worth having.