Potted flowers more fragrant than perfume, easier to grow than pothos, blooming in all four seasons and filling the room with delicate fragrance
Introduction
Green plants in pots are essential decorative items for home life; they not only beautify the room but also delight the mood and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary · Issue 986" introduces you to a beautiful and very fragrant flower.
Today's featured plant
Seeing this picture, many people have probably already recognized it: this is the famous Hoya, with an unusual flower shape and abundant fragrance, very popular among flower enthusiasts. However, today we will introduce only one variety - Silver Splash Green Leaf, the representative variety of "Hoya", the fastest growing, the longest blooming, and also the variety most worth getting.
Silver Splash Green Leaf
There are many green-leaf varieties, and Silver Splash Green Leaf is the most common one. It is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Hoya in the family Apocynaceae. Its leaves are thick and fleshy, essentially making it a type of succulent. It gets its name from the silvery spots on its flowers. The flowers are white or pink, formed by many small blossoms clustered into a "ball" shape, crystal clear and highly ornamental.
A flower more fragrant than perfume
The biggest feature of Silver Splash Green Leaf is not the beauty of the flowers, but the extreme fragrance of the flowers. The scent is like lilac, and also like lily, and is especially intense on summer nights. Grown in a yard, the floral scent can be smelled from 50 meters around; placed on a balcony, its delicate fragrance fills the hall even more, and the whole house is filled with aroma, more fragrant than perfume.
Easier to grow than pothos
Silver Splash Green Leaf has extremely strong vitality. In South China and the Hua'nan region of southern China, it is like a weed; even with no care, it can grow very vigorously. As a household potted plant, it is even easier to grow. Toss it into soil and it can survive. It is drought-tolerant and shade-tolerant, and watering once every ten days to half a month is no problem, easier to grow than pothos. Aside from not being cold-tolerant, it is almost impossible to find a shortcoming. Of course, lack of cold tolerance is also easy to solve: in northern regions, keeping it indoors in winter is completely fine, and it tolerates dryness.
Blooms in all four seasons
Some Hoyas take several years to bloom, which quickly makes people lose confidence. Silver Splash Green Leaf is different. This plant is planted in the same year and blooms in the same year, and in one year it can grow into a large seedling. As long as there is sufficient light, it blooms in all four seasons, very free-flowering. Moreover, its leaves are thick and lush and evergreen in all four seasons, making it an excellent potted plant for both flowers and foliage, very worth having.