This flower is easier to grow than moss rose, has more beautiful colors, blooms across three seasons and easily fills its pot - worth getting.

Introduction

Potted green 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 1179" introduces you to a plant that is even easier to grow than moss rose.

Today's star

Moss rose is famously easy to grow, known as the "unkillable plant" - toss it on the ground and it will grow into a big patch, blooming in a riot of colors with high ornamental value, loved by many flower enthusiasts. The one introduced today is called rainbow flower, sharing similar traits with moss rose - easy to grow and survive - yet even more beautiful, and well worth having.

Rainbow flower

Rainbow flower, originally named noon flower, is a perennial evergreen herbaceous flower of the genus Aptenia in the family Aizoaceae. It is essentially a succulent. It gets its name because its flower colors are gorgeous like a rainbow. Native to southern Africa, it is now widely cultivated around the world. Its flowers are small and delightful, somewhat like miniature peonies, with rich and varied colors that sparkle in sunlight, making excellent accent plants. It is a great groundcover plant and potted ornamental flower.

Is it pretty or not?

Like moss rose, rainbow flower belongs to the "give it some sun and it shines" type. In a growing environment with ample light, its flowering period can last from spring all the way to late autumn. Move it back indoors to a warm spot in winter, and with sunlight it will still bloom normally, giving an extremely long ornamental period. Its flowers open during the day and close at night, with a single flower lasting over a week - beautiful and full of interest. Personally, I think it looks even better than moss rose.

Toss it in soil and it lives

Rainbow flower is generally propagated by seeding or cuttings. Good-quality seeds have a germination rate of over 90%, and it almost survives as soon as it is tossed into soil. It also grows vigorously, taking only one month from seedling to bloom. Daily care is also very easy - it is drought-tolerant and has low demands for fertilizer and water. Watering once every ten days to half a month is enough (it is itself a succulent, with thick leaves that store water). It is also cold-tolerant and heat-tolerant, easier to grow than moss rose, and suitable for beginner flower enthusiasts.

An excellent potted plant

After the flowers fade, rainbow flower will set seeds on its own, with strong self-seeding ability - the seeds drop to the ground by themselves, and next year there will be another patch. If you have a yard or flower bed at home, scatter some seeds, and before long it can give you a sea of flowers, with small flowers in a riot of colors vying to outshine each other, surprising you at any time. Of course, rainbow flower is also an excellent potted ornamental plant. Its plant is short and small, so a small pot is enough. It easily blooms and fills the pot, and placed on a balcony or in an office, it is still very eye-catching.