The easiest flower to grow, it survives just by being dropped into soil, with blooms as large and colorful as peonies, and it can be planted in summer too

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are now essential decorative elements of home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1154" introduces you to a super beautiful flower.

Today's Featured Plant

In the high heat and severe summer, people cannot do without air conditioning and fans, and plants also fear the heat. In summer, many flowers go dormant and look poor, so there are not many flowering plants in summer, and even fewer are suitable for cultivation. The flower introduced today is exactly the opposite: summer is the season when it blooms most brilliantly, and its ornamental value is very high. Even in the hot summer, it can still be planted.

Amaryllis

This flower is called amaryllis (Hippeastrum), a perennial bulbous herbaceous plant of the genus Hippeastrum in the Amaryllidaceae family. It is native to the Brazil and Peru region of South America. It is now popular worldwide as an ornamental flower, with many varieties and new cultivars emerging endlessly. It is very popular in European and American countries and has already become a world-famous flower and one of the four major cut-flower plants. It has been introduced and cultivated in Hainan Province, China, while in other regions it is mostly grown privately in pots for ornamental use.

An excellent potted ornamental

Amaryllis has brilliant and colorful flowers, with single and double forms, and a large flower count. A single flower scape can bear 2-8 flowers at the same time, opening in all directions; the flowers are large and brightly colored, with double forms resembling peonies, reaching more than 15 cm in diameter; the flowers are terminal, and the flower scape has no leaves, so it can be cut for vase display or used as a cut flower; the flowering period is generally in summer, and when grown indoors in pots with suitable temperatures, it often blooms in other seasons as well.

Single forms are beautiful too

Amaryllis is a bulbous plant, with a huge bulb underground, as large as a duck egg. Gardeners who have grown this type of plant all know that bulbous flowers have extremely strong sprouting ability. For example, hyacinths do not need soil at all; just give the roots a little water and they can grow and bloom. They are extremely easy to grow and require no technical skill at all, earning the title of "impossible to kill," and are very suitable for beginner gardeners.

Worth getting

Amaryllis is perennial. In southern regions it behaves as evergreen, without leaf drop in winter, while in northern regions (grown outdoors) it drops its leaves in winter and sprouts again in spring. The currently popular imported amaryllis are all imported, and there is no domestic breeding system yet, so the price is relatively expensive. Those very cheap Suqian goods are basically not true to the listing, so everyone should pay more attention when choosing.