Top choice for May flower growing: heat-tolerant potted plants; the hotter the weather, the more brilliantly they bloom, easy to grow and beautiful

Introduction

Green potted plants are essential decorative touches for home life, beautifying the living space and uplifting the spirit. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 995" introduces you to a flower suitable for cultivation in May.

Today's featured plant

In May, the weather gets hotter and hotter. Here in Guangdong it is already summer. For many plants (such as succulents), this is not a good season, and many flowers struggle to survive the summer. The flower introduced today is an exception: the hotter the weather, the more brilliantly it blooms, showing no fear of the scorching heat at all, and it is also very easy to grow, suitable for growing in May and June.

Blue Snow

This flower is named Blue Snow, also known as shanhuichai, jiaozhuhua, etc. It is a perennial erect herbaceous plant of the genus Plumbago in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to southern Africa. It is now widely distributed around the world as an ornamental flower, cultivated in both southern and northern China, reaching as far north as the North China region. Its flowers are elegantly blue, blooming in spherical clusters, very similar to hydrangea.

Extremely heat-tolerant

There are not many flowering plants in summer. Many plants become sickly in summer and struggle to survive the season, such as clematis, small hibiscus, and Rieger begonia; merely staying alive through summer is considered good for them. Blue Snow is exactly the opposite: the hotter the weather, the more vigorously it blooms, and the deeper and more beautiful the flower color becomes. Especially in Guangdong, where growing flowers is difficult, Blue Snow is unquestionably the top ornamental flower of summer.

Easy to grow and beautiful

Plants that are not afraid of intense sun exposure have very tenacious vitality, such as cactus, which can survive in the desert. Blue Snow is this kind of plant, with super strong adaptability and very easy to grow. Snap off a section of stem and insert it into moist soil, and it will quickly take root and sprout, becoming a new seedling. It can be managed with minimal care; watering once every ten days to half a month is no problem, and generous water and fertilizer are also no problem. Those who grow it know.

Worth getting

Blue Snow has an extremely long flowering period. Under natural conditions, it can bloom continuously from spring to autumn, lasting more than half a year. Its ornamental period is very long, enough to cause aesthetic fatigue, and when it blooms, many flowers open at once. The blue flowers are very soothing to look at, giving a feeling of summer coolness. It is a perennial; plant it once and enjoy flowers every year. Worth getting.