This potted flower has large, intensely fragrant blooms and flowers continuously through all four seasons; grow one on the balcony and the whole room fills with fragrance.

Introduction

Green plants in pots are an essential decorative touch for home life, beautifying the room while also soothing the mind and nurturing character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 967" introduces you to a beautiful and fragrant plant.

Today's Star

In the neither-cold-nor-hot month of May, the best season for growing flowers. For garden friends who already have pothos, spider plants and succulents, today we introduce a woody flowering plant called "Autumn Rouge", a shrub in the Rosaceae family, a cut-flower type garden rose, bred in Japan in 2013. It is a new variety, and in just a few short years it has already made a big name for itself and is much loved by garden friends.

Autumn Rouge

Autumn Rouge has large, brilliantly colored flowers with full, well-formed blooms and neatly arranged petals, reaching the diameter of an adult's fist. Its color falls between red and purple; when cut and placed in a vase, the petals turn purple, which is one of the things about Autumn Rouge that astonishes everyone. The fragrance is rich, with a strong fruity scent; a single bloom fills the whole room with perfume.

Changes color in a vase

Autumn Rouge blooms very readily, and because the number of flowers is not large, it has enough nutrients to supply each individual bloom, so it does not need to flower in a mass; a single flower is already beautiful. It blooms in all four seasons and is one of the plants with the longest flowering period in nature. The winter flowers are the most beautiful and closest to purple; summer flowers are average in form, very red, and easily open loose, but their fragrance is the strongest.

Easy to cultivate

Autumn Rouge has very strong disease resistance and is one of the easiest roses to grow. It is a low-growing shrub with upright growth, not a climbing vine, so growing it in a pot on the balcony is no problem at all. It also grows vigorously and can become a large plant in one year. It tolerates pruning and can be propagated by cuttings. It is a long-day plant, so it should be placed in a spot with light, and watering should follow the rule of watering when dry and letting it dry out between waterings.

Worth having

Beautiful and easy to grow, and flowering continuously through all four seasons, Autumn Rouge is a rare fine potted plant: large flowers and rich fragrance. Grow one on the balcony, and when it blooms, a single plant can perfume a whole room, its scent noticeable from far away, quite intoxicating. Of course, those with a courtyard at home should have one even more; planted in the ground it is even more vigorous, and when it blooms it gives you a tree full of flowers.