The easiest climbing plant to grow, easier than pothos, beautiful flowers and foliage, blooms all year round, turn your balcony into a garden

Introduction

Potted green plants are already a must-have ornament in home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts the spirit. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1084" introduces you to an extremely easy-to-grow climbing flower.

Today's star

In the scorching summer, in the scorching summer, many succulents and herbaceous plants have mostly begun to go dormant, entering the "hard-to-survive-summer" stage. In summer there are few flowering plants, and it is not suitable for growing flowers. When people grow plants now, they choose tough "lazy-person green plants" like pothos and spider plant. The flower introduced today is namedMandevilla, which fears neither high temperature nor scorching heat. The hotter the weather, the more beautiful its blooms, making it suitable to grow now.

Mandevilla

Mandevilla is a new type of ornamental climbing plant, native to the tropical regions of the Americas. It has not been introduced to our country for very long, but it is already very popular, with a status comparable to the "queen of climbers," clematis. Its flower colors include bright red, pink, white, yellow, and more. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, fresh and elegant, with high ornamental value, and it has the reputation of being the "queen of tropical climbing flowers."

Long flowering period, large flower quantity

Like other plants from tropical regions, such as bleeding heart vine, hoya, and bougainvillea, Mandevilla has an extremely long flowering period. In the southern regions south of the Yangtze River, this plant can bloom continuously all year round. In the north, aside from winter, it flowers for three seasons, blooming extremely diligently, and with a great quantity of flowers. In the peak flowering period of summer and autumn, the flowers may even outnumber the leaves, with the whole tree of blossoms fluttering in the wind.

Easy care

Mandevilla has strong adaptability to the environment and is very easy to grow. It has low requirements for environment and soil; ordinary garden soil can grow it, unlike succulents and orchids, which need special soil. With ordinary watering and sufficient light, it can flourish with lush branches and continuous blooms, even easier to grow than pothos. It can also, like succulent plants, be propagated by cuttings from branches, with a very high survival rate; one plant can produce a patch of them in a year.

Turn the balcony into a garden

Mandevilla has very good climbing ability: wherever it climbs, the flowers bloom there. It is very suitable for making flower walls and flower pillars. Grown on a balcony, with a support to guide it onto the wall or security netting, when it blooms, the balcony becomes a garden, and you can enjoy flowers without leaving home. Moreover, its leaves are emerald green and evergreen through the four seasons, so it can be enjoyed as a foliage plant, and it can also effectively absorb dust. With both beautiful flowers and leaves, it is well worth having.