Blooms in all four seasons, multiple colors per flower: this flower is beautiful and easy to grow, more worth growing than pothos or succulents

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Potted green plants are essential accents for home life; they beautify the room and lift the spirit. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 974" introduces you to a flower very much worth having.

Today's star

Turning your balcony or courtyard into a garden is surely a dream every flower lover has. Pothos and succulents clearly cannot do it; you need a plant that blooms readily and has beautiful flower colors. The flower introduced today, named "Mint Julep", fits the bill perfectly: easy to cultivate, long blooming period, very much worth having.

Mint Julep

Mint Julep (Rosa 'Mint Julep'), a small shrub in the Rosaceae family, belongs to the large-flowered miniature roses. It was bred in the United States in 1992 and has now swept the world, loved by flower growers. Its flowers are not large, about 6 cm in diameter, with a rounded cup-shaped European flower form, a mix of rose and lotus flower shapes; one flower has multiple colors, with white, yellow, pink, stripes and other colors mixed together. The colors are unstable and combine randomly, giving rise to many kinds of colored flowers, very beautiful.

Very long blooming period

Mint Julep is very floriferous and blooms readily, flowering diligently in all four seasons. Whether spring, summer, autumn or winter, spring and autumn are the peak blooming periods, with flowers covering the branches and continuous blooming lasting up to two months; in winter and summer it blooms less. The flowers have a faint fragrance or no fragrance, and the branches and leaves are dense. In the north, grown outdoors, it behaves as a deciduous plant, while in the south (or grown in greenhouses in the north) it is an evergreen plant.

Very easy to grow

Mint Julep is a small shrub plant (not a herbaceous plant) with strong vitality and strong disease resistance. It is not prone to powdery mildew and rarely suffers from pests and diseases, so it is very easy to grow. It is cold-resistant and heat-resistant, and from Guangdong and Guangxi in the south to North China in the north, it can be grown outdoors through winter and summer. For home potting, use loose, well-draining soil. It likes fertilizer and light. Follow the routine of watering when dry and letting it dry out between waterings, and applying light fertilizer frequently, and it can be grown as casually as pothos or spider plants.

An excellent potted ornamental

Mint Julep looks very much like a smaller version of the rose "Monet", and its flower form is even better looking with a longer blooming period. It is easy to care for and does not take up much space; an ordinary-sized flower pot is enough to grow it. It blooms in all four seasons and may even bloom so profusely it fills the pot. Its ornamental value is high, making it a rare excellent potted plant; it can also be trained into a bonsai tree, very much worth having.