Heat-tolerant herbaceous flowers that bloom and fill out their pots more easily the hotter the weather, beautiful and easy to grow

Introduction

Potted green plants are essential decorative touches for home life; they beautify the room and also lift the spirits and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1063" introduces you to a very heat-tolerant plant.

Today's featured plant

Anyone who has grown flowers knows that many herbaceous plants cannot make it through the hot summer, such as clematis, Rieger begonia, and Chinese lantern, which all become sickly once summer arrives, so ornamental flowers are very scarce in summer. The flower introduced today is named Starry Sky, a variety of petunia in the genus Petunia of the nightshade family, a perennial, and the hotter the weather, the more beautiful its blooms become instead.

Starry Sky

Starry Sky, whose place of origin is the tropical country of Argentina in South America, is naturally unafraid and loves light; it bears deep purple flowers with speckles on the petals, like a sky dotted with stars, deep and beautiful, hence the name; the flower shape is much larger than ordinary petunias, single-petaled; spring is the growing season, with rapid growth, and it begins to form flower buds in April, then reaches full bloom in summer, continuing to bloom until frost.

Blooms and fills the pot easily

Starry Sky is one that blooms and fills its pot very easily. During the spring growing season, pay more attention to pinching and topping (that is, removing the main stem) to encourage it to grow side branches. After repeated topping, it will grow into a "ball" shape with a compact habit, and when the flowering period arrives, every branch tip has flowers, so it naturally fills the pot. If you do not pinch in time and let it grow upright, it will become a "bare commander," with few flowers and an unattractive look.

Easy care

Starry Sky has very strong vitality, is heat-tolerant, drought-tolerant, and tolerant of poor soil, and is very easy to care for. It is not choosy about soil, but using fertile soil as the medium will make it bloom more. Water according to the principle of watering when dry and stopping when wet, and place it in a spot with ample sunlight. It is generally propagated by sowing, and blooms very early; from sowing to blooming takes only about 100 days, and the young seedlings begin to bloom continuously.

Seedlings will bloom

The shortcoming of Starry Sky is that it is not cold-tolerant. In northern regions, if grown outdoors, it cannot survive the winter and can only be treated as an annual plant, requiring replanting the next year. If moved indoors for care in winter, it can overwinter successfully. In the South China region, it can be planted directly in the ground outdoors. It is a perennial, so plant it once and enjoy its flowers year after year.