Grow this flower in summer: the hotter the weather, the more easily it blooms into a full pot, with high ornamental value and easy care
Introduction
Potted green plants are essential decorative items for home life; they beautify the room and also lift the spirits and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1062" introduces you to a very heat-tolerant flower.
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Friends who love growing flowers all know that many plants struggle in summer, such as the succulents Echeveria 'Derlu' and Echeveria 'Yudie', as well as herbaceous flowers like rose begonia and fuchsia, all branded with the title of "sure to die in summer." Although beautiful, they make novice flower growers hesitate. The plant introduced today is just the opposite: the hotter the weather, the more beautiful its blooms.
Torenia
This flower is called Torenia, with the scientific name Torenia fournieri, a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Torenia in the Scrophulariaceae family. Native to tropical regions of Asia, it has the advantage of tolerating intense heat. It was introduced into our country as an ornamental plant, and is cultivated in many provinces such as Zhejiang, Taiwan, China, Guangdong and Guangxi. It is an important flowering plant for the high-temperature summer season, often cultivated in gardens, flower beds and other places, and also often grown as a potted plant.
Torenia
The flowers of Torenia are very peculiar, like a funnel, somewhat similar to morning glory, with smaller flowers that open facing upward and different colors on the upper and lower parts. The flower colors are rich and varied, including blue-and-white bicolor, red-and-white bicolor, purple-and-white bicolor and other mixed colors, small, exquisite and lovely. It generally begins blooming in late spring and continues into autumn; when the weather is hottest, that is her most splendid blooming season.
Easy care
Heat-tolerant plants generally have the characteristic of strong vitality, such as cactus and hibiscus, which can survive from cuttings. Torenia likes a high-temperature, high-humidity growing environment and also tolerates partial shade. It is not strict about soil, but when planted in fertile, moist soil it will bloom more abundantly. Its plants are short and grow very fast, making it very suitable for potted display, and it can also be mass-planted as ground cover, with a very good decorative effect.
An excellent potted plant
Because many herbaceous flowers cannot adapt to the hot summer under open-air cultivation, summer flower beds lack herbaceous flowers. Torenia, however, has the trait of tolerating high temperatures, and its graceful, soft beauty, long flowering period, large number of flowers and compact plants make it a major flowering plant for summer arrangements. Cultivating varieties of different colors mixed together, with colorful flowers blooming all at once, looks even more beautiful.