This potted flower is beautiful, fragrant, easy to care for, and can also repel mosquitoes - choose it for your May gardening
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorations for home life, as they can beautify the room and delight the mind. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Huasheng Potted Diary · Issue 987" introduces you to a very cold-hardy vine plant.
Today's Featured Plant
Summer is here, and the annoying mosquitoes are increasing. Long-term use of mosquito coils can also be harmful to the human body. Many plants on the market claim to be "mosquito-repellent plants" - do they actually work? Yes, and the one introduced today is one of them. This flower is called mosquito-repellent geranium, and not only are its flowers beautiful with ornamental value, but it really does have mosquito-repellent effects.
Mosquito-repellent geranium
Mosquito-repellent geranium, also called mosquito-avoiding plant, is an evergreen herbaceous plant of the Geraniaceae family, Pelargonium genus, and is a close relative of the famous flowering ornamental plant geranium. It is a new type of plant developed by biologists from the Netherlands and France, who transferred the gene that produces citronellal from lemongrass into geranium. Under natural conditions, it releases "citronellal," which can effectively achieve a mosquito-repellent effect.
Remarkable mosquito-repellent effect
It is worth mentioning that the citronellal released by mosquito-repellent geranium is natural and pollutant-free, harmless to the human body, and also has a lemon-like fragrance that refreshes the heart and mind. Many plants on the market called "mosquito-repellent plants," such as mint, fragrant wood, and even annual chrysanthemum, are actually just gimmicks by merchants. Currently, the most effective and harmless plant for repelling mosquitoes is mosquito-repellent geranium.
Beautiful like a geranium
As mentioned earlier, mosquito-repellent geranium is a new type of plant bred from geranium. Geranium is the most common indoor potted flower in Europe, with extremely high ornamental value. Mosquito-repellent geranium has habits very similar to geranium, and its flowers are also very beautiful, with a rich fragrance. It is known as "scented geranium" and is well worth having.
Easy care
Mosquito-repellent geranium was specially created for repelling mosquitoes and is very easy to grow. Summer is when it is at its best, unlike geranium, which struggles to survive the summer. Caring for mosquito-repellent geranium requires no special skill and can be managed with minimal effort. Keep one pot on your desk, and it can repel mosquitoes, release fragrance to refresh and invigorate the mind, and provide flowers to enjoy - multiple benefits in one, making it a rare and excellent potted plant.