A potted flower worth getting, once a world flower award winner, easy to grow and beautiful, blooms in all four seasons

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential ornaments for home life, they can beautify the room and also lift the spirits and cultivate the mind. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary, Issue 975" takes you to meet a flower very much worth having.

Today's star

Christmas kalanchoe, a world-famous flower, after being introduced to our country was given the name "longevity flower", with an auspicious meaning and also a certain ornamental value, and thus has developed into the most common indoor flowering plant in our country's households. There are many varieties of longevity flower, and this issue introduces the one most worth getting, the Paris series.

Pink Paris

The "Paris" series is a representative work of the Danish horticultural company Queen, a large-flowered variety with as many as a dozen or more layers of petals, several times that of ordinary double-flowered longevity flowers. It was once rated second in the potted flower category at a world potted flower exhibition, and thus shot to fame, becoming something everyone wanted to own. At present there are three kinds of Paris in China, Pink Paris, Green Paris and Madrid, and this article only introduces Pink Paris.

Big flowers, beautiful color

Pink Paris, as the name suggests, is the "Paris" with pink flowers, with huge blooms that reach the size of a one-yuan coin when fully open, with a greenish center and pink petal edges; the more ample the light, the deeper the pink (with insufficient light it may open as Green Paris). There are two kinds, deep pink and light pink, with many buds, and it can bloom several hundred flowers at the same time.

Large flower quantity, long blooming period

Pink Paris has a longer blooming period than other longevity flower varieties, because the flowers are large, and it takes about a month from budding to blooming, and a single blooming period can last several months without fading, with an extremely long ornamental period; within a year, it blooms in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Apart from sparse blooming in summer, the other seasons are peak blooming periods, with flowers all over the branches, and it easily bursts into a full pot.

Beautiful and easy to grow

Pink Paris is very easy to grow, with a low, compact plant and many branches; it can be grown in a very small pot, and for potting use loose soil with good drainage. It likes a cool, ventilated growing environment and should not be exposed to strong sun; scattered light is best. Watering once every ten days to half a month is enough, and its daily care is rarely as easy as that of pothos and spider plant.

A perennial woody herbaceous plant, it easily grows into an old stump and can be made into a miniature bonsai tree. It can be propagated by leaf cuttings and stem cuttings, and one plant can be divided into many pots in a year. Plant it once and it blooms every year, with flowers in all four seasons. It is a rare fine potted plant, worth getting.