The plant with the longest flowering period blooms every day of the year, beautiful and easy to care for, an excellent choice for balcony potted plants

Introduction

Green potted plants are essential decorative items for home life, they can beautify the room and also cultivate the mind and character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Huasheng Potted Diary · Issue 1030" takes you to know the plant with the longest flowering period.

Today's protagonist

There are many plants known for their long flowering periods, such as Kalanchoe and Lewisia, which bloom in spring, autumn and winter; Musella lasiocarpa can bloom for more than two hundred days; Ceratostigma plumbaginoides blooms continuously through both summer and autumn. But the ornamental plant with the longest flowering period in nature is actually this one - the five-petal plum, once it grows up, it blooms almost every day for 365 days.

Five-petal plum

The five-petal plum, a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Catharanthus in the Apocynaceae family, is named for its flowers having standard, neat five petals that resemble plum blossoms, and because of its extremely long flowering period, it is also called "Changchun flower", "everyday spring" and so on. Its flowering period is really long, one flower fades and new ones open, never stopping, and it is the most common herbaceous flower in southern China.

Rich flower colors

Because of its long flowering period, with flowers hanging on the branches every day, the five-petal plum is widely used on streets, in gardens and flowerbeds. Its flowers are fresh and elegant, with rich and colorful flower colors, and it has a very good beautifying effect. Various provinces and cities in China have introduced many new varieties of Catharanthus roseus from around the world, used for arranging urban streets, gardens and potted ornamental displays, becoming a beautiful scenery.

Beautiful and easy to care for

The five-petal plum is a woody herbaceous plant with strong vitality, able to withstand wind and sun, not fussy, and very simple to care for. It is not choosy about soil, ordinary garden soil can grow it, unlike orchids and succulents which need special soil. Its requirements for fertilizer and water are also not high, water once a day in summer, and in other seasons depending on how dry the potting soil is. Beautiful and easy to care for, with extremely high cost performance.

Worth having

The five-petal plum is not afraid of sun, can be propagated by cuttings with a very high survival rate, can be cultivated all year round, and is even easier to care for than conventional green plants such as pothos and spider plant. Its drawback is that it is not cold-resistant, in the north it is mostly grown outdoors as an annual, and moving it indoors in winter allows it to overwinter safely. In June there are not many varieties to choose from for growing flowers, and the five-petal plum is a very good choice.