This potted plant blooms all year round, is known as a flowering machine, and is both beautiful and easy to grow

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential accents for home life; they beautify the home and also lift the mood and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary, Issue 997" introduces you to a plant with an extremely long flowering period.

Today's featured plant

There are quite a few plants nicknamed "flowering machines," such as the cactus Gymnocalycium baldianum, the succulent Lewisia cotyledon, the woody plants Hibiscus syriacus and Pelargonium, and the herbaceous flower Petunia, all of which have very long flowering periods. The flower introduced today is in no way inferior to the flowers above; it is even more beautiful and even more worth getting.

Double-flowered Impatiens

This flower is the double-flowered Impatiens, native to eastern Africa and later developed as an ornamental flower, now widely distributed around the world. Its flowers are double, with rich colors including various reds, light purple, blue-purple, and white. The colors are brilliant and bright, and the flower quantity is abundant. It is often used in urban landscaping and is also a beautiful potted plant.

The flowers are extremely beautiful

Double-flowered Impatiens flowers are axillary, with the flowers spread flat at the tops of the leaves. They are double, with neatly arranged petals and distinct layers, like a miniature peony. Whether a single flower or a mass bloom, the ornamental value is very high. Even more amazing is that this plant can bloom continuously all year round, with an extremely long flowering period, and is praised as a "flowering machine," deeply loved by flower enthusiasts.

Beautiful and easy to grow

Double-flowered Impatiens is a perennial succulent herbaceous plant. The plant is low-growing, only 15-60 cm, with many branches. Without pinching, it will still bloom all over the branches, and it is very easy to care for. Daily maintenance is also very easy. For potting, loose sandy loam with good drainage is best. Strictly follow "dry then wet," and do not water when not dry. Never let the potting soil stay waterlogged for a long time. It is very easy to keep alive and is a must-have flowering plant for the home.

Worth having

The disadvantage of double-flowered Impatiens is that it is not cold-tolerant. In northern China, it needs to be kept indoors in winter to survive the winter safely, and when planted in the open ground it can generally only be grown as an annual. However, it has one advantage: it produces seeds. Store them after the autumn harvest, sow them in spring, and it can bloom for a whole year again. Extra seeds can also be shared with flower enthusiasts. It is a flower very much worth having.