Pothos and spider plants are no match for this flower: beautiful, fragrant, blooming in all four seasons, and easy to care for

Introduction

Green plants and potted plants are essential decorative touches for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1171" introduces you to a new type of ornamental flower.

Today's featured plant

Pothos and spider plants are probably the most common potted green plants. Easy to care for as they are, their ornamental value is somewhat lacking, and they do not bloom. If you want to turn a balcony into a small garden, traditional green plants and succulents clearly cannot do it. The flower introduced today is called Cape ledebouria lavender, which can not only be kept indoors at home, but also blooms continuously, with fresh and elegant flower colors, very high value for money, and is even more worth having.

Cape ledebouria lavender

Cape ledebouria lavender is not true lavender. Also known as Cape ledebouria, it is actually a perennial small shrub plant of the genus Plectranthus in the Lamiaceae family. It is woody rather than herbaceous, and got its name because its flowers look somewhat like lavender. It is native to southern Africa, and is now widely distributed around the world as an ornamental flower. It is cultivated in many cities in China and is a popular new type of potted ornamental flowering plant.

Blooms in all four seasons

Cape ledebouria lavender blooms very readily. This plant blooms in all four seasons of the year and is known as a "blooming machine," as if it were cheating. Its flowers come in light purple, white, and others, are funnel-shaped and long, somewhat like the palace lantern kalanchoe, and appear in huge quantities. A single flower spike can bear dozens of flowers at once, with multiple spikes blooming together. Explosive full-pot blooming is very common, often covering the branches with flowers, giving a great visual effect that makes people fall in love at first glance.

Super easy to care for

Cape ledebouria lavender is also very easy to care for. As a woody flowering plant, it can be propagated by taking a branch cutting just like herbaceous plants and succulents and will survive. It has strong adaptability to the environment, tolerates heat and poor soil, and has a certain degree of cold tolerance. In areas of China south of the Yellow River, it can be grown outdoors, and many cities use it as a landscaping plant. It has low requirements for fertilizer and water; just water when the potting soil is dry, and applying a light fertilizer once every one or two months can meet its needs for growth and flowering. It can even be grown hydroponically, and is easier to care for than pothos.

Worth having

Not only is it beautiful and easy to care for, Cape ledebouria lavender also gives off a fragrance similar to lavender. It is non-toxic and harmless to the human body, a natural floral scent that refreshes the heart. This scent can also repel mosquitoes. Place a pot on an office desk, and from then on keep mosquitoes away from you; personally tested and effective. Because of this special function, Cape ledebouria lavender is also called "mosquito repellent grass," with multiple functions in one, high value for money, and very worth having.