New climbing flowers are easy to grow, one plant bears two-color blooms and flowers nonstop through all four seasons, turning a balcony into a garden

Introduction

Potted greenery is already an essential decorative element of home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Flower Voice Potted Diary · Issue 1121" introduces you to a new type of climbing flower.

Today's star

Climbing flowers have lush branches, and wherever they climb, flowers bloom, making them excellent greening and beautifying material, such as clematis, morning glory, and climbing roses, often used to accent flower walls, arches, and fences, with superb ornamental effect. The flower introduced this issue is called red flower Mandarin vine, a new ornamental plant that has been very popular for several years, reputed as the "new queen of climbing flowers."

Red flower Mandarin vine

Red flower Mandarin vine, also known as red mandevilla, Chilean jasmine, and fragrant drifting vine, is a new variety introduced from tropical regions of the Americas a few years ago. Most varieties can bloom in two colors at the same time; for example, red ones also open red and pink bicolor flowers, while white ones also open white and pink bicolor flowers. The flowers look like five-pointed stars or little pinwheels, with light, delicate petals, fresh and elegant, and are very common in artsy shops in southern cities such as Guangzhou and Xiamen.

One plant, two-color flowers

The red flower Mandarin vine was originally pink. Because of broad market demand, horticulturists successively bred other color varieties, which basically all carry pink genes, so the shape is not very stable, and multiple colors of flowers on one plant are very common, making it even more brilliant and eye-catching. Its flowering period is very long. In South China, it can bloom all year round; in the north it is mostly grown in pots, maintained indoors in winter, and with sufficient light it will also bloom normally, flowering nonstop through all four seasons.

Super easy to grow

Plants from tropical regions have developed tenacious vitality because of the year-round high heat, such as cacti. The red flower Mandarin vine is no exception. This plant has super strong adaptability to the environment and is very easy to cultivate. It has low requirements for soil, fertilizer, and water, has no dormancy period, grows year-round, and has vigorous growth. A small seedling can climb up in one year. It is super easy to grow and suitable for beginners as a practice plant for flower growing.

Blooms from a young age

The red flower Mandarin vine can be propagated by stem cuttings and division. Remove mature branches and insert them into water; roots form in about 7-15 days. After rooting, they can be transplanted, and small seedlings can bloom the same year. The picture above shows the red flower Mandarin vine grown by the author, and even a tiny seedling bloomed, super beautiful.

Balcony becomes a garden

Compared with other climbing flowers, morning glory has few branches and is mostly annual; climbing roses are tall and not suitable for balcony cultivation; clematis performs poorly in summer and has a short flowering period. The red flower Mandarin vine is more worth growing. It is as easy to care for as pothos and spider plant, needs no fuss, can be grown in an ordinary-sized flowerpot, takes up little space, and blooms in all four seasons. To create a small balcony garden, the red flower Mandarin vine is indispensable.