Grow this flower in summer: just drop it in soil and it will live, beautiful as a fake flower and filling the whole room with fragrance
Introduction
Potted green plants are already a must-have decorative element in home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and also lifts the mood and nourishes the character. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1103" introduces you to a plant suitable for summer cultivation.
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In high heat and harsh summer, many plants choose to go dormant in summer in order to get through the season safely; their condition is poor, and they are not suitable for cultivation either. In summer, the flowers you can choose to grow are mostly lazy-person green plants like pothos, spider plant and cactus. The flower in the picture, if not for its leaves, you might think it is a fake flower, but this is the real thing, and it can be grown in summer too.
Double-flowered lily
Everyone knows this plant. This is the lily, the most common cut flower in flower shops, often used on festive days such as weddings and openings. However, what we are introducing today is the double-flowered variety. Double-flowered lily, a lily with a great many petals, is a horticultural variety bred specifically for ornamental purposes; there is no wild form. It has features such as large flowers, vivid color and rich fragrance. If single-flowered lilies look ordinary, then double-flowered ones are as beautiful as heavenly fairies, pretty as fake flowers.
Bulbs that live just by being dropped into soil
Why is the double-flowered lily suitable for planting in summer? Because it is a bulbous plant, with a bulb underground, and its vitality is extremely tenacious. This type of plant is cold-resistant and heat-tolerant, and can survive the winter safely even in the north. In winter it goes dormant underground, and in spring it grows out again. Have you not seen wild lilies everywhere on the mountains in our country? Everyone has heard "Wild Lilies Also Have Spring," right? What it sings about is just how strong the lily's vitality is.
Super easy to grow
Bulbous plants all have very strong sprouting and reproductive ability. Onions and garlic belong to this type of plant; in a humid kitchen, without soil or water, they can still sprout, which is amazing. Last summer, the author once grew two lilies, dropped the bulbs into a flowerpot, used garden soil dug from a park downstairs, covered them lightly, watered a little, and they came up in a week, grew to half a meter in two months, and bloomed in three months. Usually I just watered when the soil was dry, never applied fertilizer, super easy to grow, and they can be planted in summer too.
Fragrance overflowing and drifting through the whole room
The flowering period of double-flowered lilies is not fixed. Apart from winter, they bloom in all other seasons. After normal large bulbs are planted, they will bloom within 2-3 months, opening in clusters with multiple heads, blooming in all four directions: east, south, west and north. Their flower color is vivid, the ornamental effect is very good, and they also have a very rich fragrance that refreshes the heart and mind when smelled. If you pick the flowers and put them in a vase in a room, they can last ten days without fading, and the fragrance overflows and drifts through the whole room.