This potted flower blooms continuously all year round, prettier than pothos and spider plants and just as easy to grow
Introduction
Green potted plants have become an essential decorative element of home life. Keeping some flowers and greenery at home brings many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts the spirits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1067" introduces you to a flower well worth owning.
Today's star
Pothos and spider plants are almost the most common houseplants; easy to grow they may be, but their ornamental value is a little lacking. If you want more color at home, green foliage plants obviously cannot provide it. Today I will introduce a plant with gorgeous flower colors. This flower is called the "Duke of Morocco," usually just called the Duke. A single flower has several colors, full of fairy-like charm and especially eye-catching.
Duke
The Duke of Morocco is a type of rose, born in France in 2000, with a high-centered cup-shaped bloom. In spring it is pink at the edges, white in the middle and yellow inside, very much like Double Delight; in the height of summer when the light is intense, the outer edge of the petals is red as rouge while the inner side is white; in late autumn with continuous rain and insufficient light, it turns a lazy pink; the flowers are medium to large, 8-10 cm in diameter, large and vividly colored, and can be used as cut flowers.
Long flowering period and abundant blooms
A single Duke flower has a very long blooming period, lasting ten days without fading. It blooms in multiple heads and in clusters, opening in a great mass at once, flowers covering the branches, each vying to outshine the others. As one of the plants with the longest flowering period on Earth, it is not only floriferous but also a prolific bloomer, flowering in all four seasons, especially in spring and autumn, when the flower form is most beautiful and the flower quantity the greatest, so beautiful that no one can resist it.
Beautiful and easy to grow
The Duke is especially disease-resistant (powdery mildew, black spot), with low maintenance difficulty, so even beginners can grow it well. It is fairly cold-tolerant and also heat-resistant; south of North China it can be grown outdoors through winter and summer. A perennial shrub plant, it grows no more than 1 m tall at most, making it very suitable for pot culture by sun-loving people. It needs to be planted in an environment with ample light and good air circulation, and grows even more vigorously in the ground.
An excellent choice for balcony pots
The Duke's flowers are very similar to roses and also carry a faint fragrance. After blooming, they can be picked for vases and cut flowers, placed in a room for an excellent decorative effect; they can also be picked to give to a sweetheart. Compared with cut roses costing tens of yuan each on Valentine's Day, it is better to grow them yourself, producing your own for your own use, which is even more meaningful. Placed on a balcony or in an office, there are flowers to enjoy in all four seasons, offering extremely high value for money.