If you have a lot of mosquitoes at home in summer, grow these 5 potted plants: they look good, are easy to care for, and work even better than mosquito repellent.

Summer is a humid, muggy, hot and rainy season, and summer is also a season when all flowers bloom in vivid, passionate rivalry. Mosquitoes, bringing along their whole families and broods, also come to join summer's grand gathering. It is just that they are a bit violent and bloody, and very annoying.

Then just grow some flowers and plants at home, and use their scents to drive mosquitoes away. Let us get to know them together:

1. Mosquito repellent plant

Since it is named mosquito repellent plant, it certainly has its purpose. It has its own scent release system, releasing substances from within its body into the air to achieve a mosquito repellent effect. The mosquito repellent plant has a slight lemon scent, a smell mosquitoes dislike. You can grow a few pots at home: green, environmentally friendly and mosquito repellent, very good.

The mosquito repellent plant is quite easy to grow. It loves sunlight very much but does not tolerate waterlogging, so in normal care you need to ensure sufficient light and must not water too much. The mosquito repellent plant is still very easy to care for. Placing it at the door or on the windowsill can produce a very good mosquito repellent effect.

2. Mint

Mint is a flower and plant everyone is relatively familiar with. Its fragrance is unbearable to mosquitoes, which will surely detour around it when they see it, and its mosquito repellent effect is very good.

Mint is very easy to keep alive, and is the easiest aromatic potted plant to grow. Pull up a few stems or pinch off a handful, bury them in a pot, keep the soil moist, and give good light, then just wait for it to fill the pot. You can also buy ready-made ones at a flower shop. Moreover, its root system is especially developed, and it reproduces and grows on its own year after year.

Mint has a very wide range of uses. It can be served as a dish on the table, refreshing and crisp. When you have a headache or feel sleepy, you can stick it on your forehead and eyelids to relieve fatigue. It can also be used as tea, brewed with water, cooling and refreshing in summer. Most importantly, it can also repel mosquitoes! In summer, it is very suitable for growing!

3. Mugwort

Mugwort has a pungent, bitter taste, and its leaves are a Chinese medicinal herb. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, and the whole plant gives off a special fragrant scent. Mosquitoes strongly dislike this smell and will keep away when they encounter it. Keep a pot or a bunch at home, and in summer you can suffer less from mosquitoes and flies.

Mugwort can be eaten, made into ciba; it can be pounded and added to flour foods, coloring them and adding nutrition; it can be used as filling, or served cold; it can also be made into mugwort leaf pillows, for sound sleep and relieving fatigue, and so on. It truly has too many uses!

Growing mugwort is very simple: moist soil, ventilation and air permeability, and sufficient sunlight, and that is enough!

4. Lavender

Lavender is also called herb, perfume plant, and is a perennial herbaceous flower. Its fragrance is aromatic, and mosquitoes dislike it. Place a pot in the room,

and the faint fresh scent it gives off can keep mosquitoes and insects away.

Lavender has a developed root system and likes loose, breathable, fertile soil rich in silicon and calcium. Soil that is strongly acidic or alkaline, sticky and heavy, or poorly drained is not suitable for planting. It likes sufficient light, is cold-resistant and drought-resistant, and has little demand for water.

5. Night-blooming jasmine

Night-blooming jasmine, also called night clove. It is a perennial vine plant. Every day after sunset the flowers slowly open, opening more and more, releasing a strong fragrance, and after dawn the flowers close. Mosquitoes also dislike this fragrance, and will fly away around it when they encounter it.

Some people are also not quite comfortable with the strong fragrance of night-blooming jasmine. You can put the flowers in full bloom at the window or on the balcony and open the window, so mosquitoes will not enter your house.

Night-blooming jasmine is very easy to grow. As long as there is sufficient sunlight, ventilation and air permeability, and fertile, moist soil with good drainage, you can grow a robust pot of night-blooming jasmine.

There are still many flowers and plants that can repel mosquitoes, such as pitcher plants, orange jasmine, and mimosa, etc. All of these can be grown at home, repelling mosquitoes while beautifying the environment. They are suitable for growing in summer.