The easiest houseplant to grow: easier than pothos, blooms all year round, with beautiful flower colors, and can even be trained as a bonsai

Introduction

Green plants and potted plants have become essential decorative items in home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and also lifts the mood and cultivates the character. "Huasheng Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1087" introduces you to a super easy-to-grow houseplant.

In the scorching summer, many succulents and herbaceous plants go dormant and enter the difficult "summer survival" mode. There are few flowering plants in summer, and it is not very suitable for growing flowers either. Nowadays, when growing flowers, gardening enthusiasts mostly choose indoor green plants such as pothos and spider plants. The flower introduced today is called grape begonia, a houseplant very popular in Northeast and Northwest China, beautiful and easy to grow.

Grape begonia is the name used in Northeast China. Its real name is bamboo cane begonia, a plant of the genus Begonia, a perennial upright or sprawling subshrub. It gets its name because its branches grow in segments like bamboo, and because it bears pink flowers that bloom in crowded clusters, one string at a time, like grapes, so it is called "grape string," a very pretty little flower.

Grape begonia is not only beautiful in flower, but also has an astonishingly long flowering period. This plant has no fixed flowering season; as long as it gets a little light, it will keep blooming. As soon as one wave finishes, within a few days the branches are full of flower buds again. It is super diligent and blooms continuously through all four seasons. Even in Northeast China, if it is brought back indoors to the balcony in winter and given light through the balcony, it still blooms normally without stopping.

Gardeners who have grown plants of the genus Begonia know that this type of plant is super easy to grow. For example, wax begonia will bloom beautifully on its own even if thrown into soil and left alone. Grape begonia is no exception. It likes light but also tolerates shade, and has low requirements for fertilizer and water. Water it when you remember to; it will still live well if ignored for half a month. It can also be rooted in water; once the cutting takes root, it becomes a tree again.

Grape begonia is a shrub plant and grows very fast, one could say it "climbs higher segment by segment." If you do not want it to grow too tall, remember to prune and pinch it in time, otherwise it may even grow into a two-meter-tall "big tree." Its leaves are broad, its flower shape is unique, its flower colors are beautiful, and its ornamental value is excellent. It can also be planted indoors and pruned into a bonsai tree, making it very worth getting.