A potted flower easier to grow than pothos and spider plant, blooming and filling its pot in all four seasons

Introduction

Green plants in pots are essential accents of home life, beautifying the room, freshening the air, and soothing the mind and spirit. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 956" takes you to know a very worthwhile flower.

Today's star

Pothos and spider plant are easy to grow and evergreen all year round, making them essential potted green plants for home life and offices, but their shortcoming is that their ornamental value is somewhat lacking. The flower introduced this time is called the dolphin flower, a perennial herb in the Gesneriaceae family. It is a new type of ornamental plant with both beautiful flowers and leaves, more worth having than pothos and spider plant.

Blue dolphin flower

The dolphin flower comes in two kinds, white and blue; this issue only covers the blue dolphin. When the blue dolphin flower is still a bud, its shape closely resembles a dolphin. As the bud slowly swells, it gradually takes on a pretty look of "blue back, white belly, big head and small tail." Both its color and form are very much like a dolphin, so when it was introduced to China, flower vendors naturally named it the dolphin flower; it is also known by other names such as Cape primrose and upright violet orchid.

Long flowering period

The blue dolphin is native to southern Africa and was introduced to China not long ago, so it has not yet become widely popular. Many people are deeply attracted the moment they first see it. Its flower color is an elegant, fresh blue-purple, its flower quantity is enormous, and it easily blooms until it fills the pot, dancing in all directions in countless poses, as if a group of little blue elves were soaring in the air, full of charm. The blue dolphin's flowering period is extremely long; with proper care, it can bloom continuously all year round.

Easy care

The blue dolphin is very easy to grow. It likes a cool, ventilated environment and tolerates partial shade, and it can even be grown on a completely enclosed balcony, which most flowering plants cannot do. It has strong vitality: snap off a branch and insert it into slightly moist potting soil and it will survive, and it can bloom in the same year. Daily care poses no difficulty, much like lazy-person plants such as pothos and spider plant. It is very easy to grow; whoever grows it knows.

An excellent choice for hanging bonsai

The blue dolphin not only has beautiful flowers, but its leaves are also very ornamental, somewhat like mint leaves, thick, plump and emerald green. It is best suited for hanging potted cultivation. Hang it on a balcony wall, and when it blooms, a wall of flowers is born; or hang it in the air as a full, large pot of flowers and foliage, beautiful in both flower and leaf, blooming continuously through all four seasons. It is very worth having.