The easiest flower to grow in summer: survives as soon as it touches the soil, blooms in half a month, and has a long flowering period, making it an excellent potted plant

Introduction

Green plants in pots are already a must-have decorative element in home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1151" introduces you to a flower that can be grown even in summer.

Today's star

Under the scorching summer sun, many plants and flowers go dormant, such as the woody rose of Sharon, and herbaceous succulents and begonias, entering the difficult "hard-to-survive-summer" mode with poor condition. There are not many ornamental plants either, and even fewer that can be cultivated. The flower introduced today is called red rain lily (Zephyranthes), which is extremely heat-tolerant; summer is precisely its growing season and flowering season.

Red rain lily

Red rain lily is a perennial herbaceous flower of the Amaryllidaceae family and is not actually an orchid. It is native to Central America, and has been naturalized and introduced in Yunnan, Sichuan and other places in southwest China, while in other regions it is grown in flowerbeds, gardens, or as a home potted ornamental. Its flowers resemble those of the lily, with standard six-petaled blooms in pink, full of girlish charm. Its flowering period is uniform, blooming in a single sweep, and its ornamental value is very high. It is often used as a groundcover plant.

Easy to fill a pot, long flowering period

Red rain lily usually blooms in late spring and continues all the way into late autumn, blooming multiple times during this period. A single flowering period lasts about a week, and the flowering time is highly synchronized, so when planted in groups it easily fills a pot. Among the people, red rain lily is also called "wind-and-rain lily," named because it loves to bloom after strong wind and heavy rain. In summer and autumn, if you see flower buds rising, there will definitely be rain during this period, more accurate than a weather forecast.

It survives just by being tossed into soil

Red rain lily is a bulb plant, with bulbs growing underground, about the size of a pigeon egg. After blooming it also produces seeds, and it is generally propagated by sowing and bulbs, with a survival rate of almost 100 percent. Summer is its most suitable season for cultivation. Toss the bulbs into the soil and water once, and in about 7-15 days it will bloom or sprout. Sometimes the flowers even grow out before the leaves, which is quite amazing. In Yunnan, red rain lily is just a wild weed, with no difficulty in care, and it is even easier to grow than pothos and spider plant.

Plant once, bloom every year

Red rain lily is cold-tolerant, sheds its leaves in winter and shrinks into its underground bulbs to overwinter, then grows out again in spring. During the half year of summer and autumn, it blooms on average 5~8 times, with an extremely long ornamental period. It is also a perennial, so you only need to plant it once and it will bloom every year thereafter, making it especially suitable for arranging courtyards and flowerbeds. Most importantly, its price is as cheap as grass, with high cost performance, and it is worth having.