The easiest shade-tolerant woody flowering plant to grow, survives from a cutting, blooms all year round, and can be grown indoors

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential adornments 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 1172" introduces you to one of the easiest indoor woody plants to grow.

Today's star

Not many plants can be grown indoors; most are shade-tolerant herbaceous types like pothos, spider plant and anthurium. Woody plants are few, the money tree being one, but it does not bloom. The flower introduced today is called begonia, and it is the easiest woody flowering plant the author has ever grown. It is not only shade-tolerant and suitable for indoor growing, but also has an extremely long flowering period, making it a very popular indoor flowering plant in northern regions.

Begonia

Begonia is a perennial shrub in the genus Begonia. Its branches are like bamboo, with one node after another, so in some places it is also called "bamboo-node begonia". Its flowers are delicate and pink, like little five-pointed hearts, blooming in clusters like bunches of grapes hanging on the tree, so in Northeast China it is also called "grape lotus". Its leaves are large, with white spots like stars on them, so it is also called "silver-star begonia".

Extremely long flowering period

Begonia blooms extremely readily. It blooms continuously from the seedling stage, flowering nonstop all year round, making it one of the longest-flowering plants in nature. One wave of flowers follows another; as the old ones fade, new ones come right away. If you keep a pot at home, you may grow tired of the beauty, and you will also need to be ready to clean up every day and sweep away the fallen flowers. In short, it will give you plenty of happy troubles.

Even easier to grow than pothos

Pothos is widely recognized as an easy plant to grow: no light needed, and watering once every ten days to half a month is enough. Begonia is much the same. It likes bright indirect light and is best placed one meter away from a balcony. It is very drought-tolerant and tolerant of poor soil; you can just dig up some soil from the ground and plant it, unlike succulents that need special soil. It can also be propagated like succulents by pinching off a branch and sticking it in soil to root. Just give it some water when the potting soil dries out; no fertilizing needed. Super easy to grow.

It can also be made into a bonsai tree

Begonia is a woody plant with vigorous growth. If planted in the ground, it can grow two to three meters tall. In pots it should be pruned frequently; it is easy to shape and can be trained into a bonsai tree, and combined with the small pink grape-like flowers above, its ornamental value is even higher. Its drawback is that it is not cold-tolerant, so in northern regions it must be moved indoors for the winter. It is shade-tolerant and can be grown entirely indoors, making it very suitable for flower lovers whose homes do not get enough light.