This vine has beautiful flowers and a rich fragrance, is easy to grow, and is well worth having, no less impressive than clematis
Introduction
Potted green plants are essential accents for home life; they beautify the room and also lift the spirit and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary, Issue 988" introduces you to a new type of vine flower.
Today's star
Vine flowers bloom wherever they climb, making them excellent vertical greening material that can decorate flower walls, fences, arches and more, with climbing roses, clematis and morning glories as representative examples. The flower introduced today is called "Qi Li Xiang" here, a new type of vine flower with abundant blooms that is both beautiful and fragrant.
Qi Li Xiang
Qi Li Xiang, whose actual scientific name is Lady Banks' rose (Rosa banksiae), is a climbing small shrub in the Rosaceae family and a close relative of the rose, Chinese rose and rugosa rose. It gets its name because the flowers are very fragrant and their scent can drift far. There are many cultivars, including single and double forms; the flowers resemble roses and come in white and yellow, with the double forms being more popular and suitable for potted display.
Beautiful flowers
Qi Li Xiang flowers are rather small, borne in many-flowered umbel-like clusters, with a peony-like flower shape and petals neatly arranged in a ring, very attractive. Spring is the peak bloom season, when flowers cover the branches, sometimes even more numerous than the leaves, a truly spectacular sight, while flowering is sparser in the other seasons. By comparison, the yellow flowers are more beautiful, but the white flowers have a stronger fragrance.
An excellent potted plant
Qi Li Xiang (Lady Banks' rose) originated in the Yunnan and Sichuan regions of China, and is distributed from the southwest to Jiangsu in East China. It likes light and also tolerates partial shade, with strong adaptability, and can overwinter outdoors in most parts of northern China. It is very easy to cultivate, prefers fertile, well-drained soil, can be managed with minimal care, and is very easy to maintain, easier to grow than famous flowers such as climbing roses and clematis.
One plant can perfume a whole room
Because of all these merits of Qi Li Xiang (Lady Banks' rose), it is gradually being developed from a wild mountain plant into an ornamental flower, and is increasingly loved by gardeners. Beautiful and easy to grow, when planted in a yard or on a balcony, it fills the room with fragrance when it blooms, making it hard to put down, and it is a newly emerging vine flower well worth having.