This flower is more fragrant than perfume, as beautiful as a peony, blooms in all four seasons, is easy to grow, and is an excellent choice for potted plants.

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential accents of home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1184" introduces you to a beautiful and fragrant flower.

Today's Featured Plant

Plants with beautiful flowers and fragrance have always been highly sought after by flower enthusiasts, such as orchids, Daphne odora, wax flowers, magnolias, and more. Placed in the home, they are not only ornamental but also offer waves of striking floral scent, pleasing to the eye and refreshing to the heart. The flower introduced today is called Bolero. It has high ornamental value and a very rich fragrance, and is very popular in Europe. Let's learn about it together.

Bolero

Bolero is an evergreen shrub in the Rosaceae family, belonging to woody flowering plants rather than herbaceous ones. It is a garden variety of rose (Rosa), bred and released in 2004 by the well-known French horticultural company Alain Meilland. It can grow up to about one meter tall, with moderately spreading branches and relatively large, emerald green and glossy leaves. The flowers are relatively large, fully double, with more than 40 petals. When they first open they resemble roses, and when fully spread they look like peony flowers, with very high ornamental value.

When fully spread, it looks like a peony flower

Bolero belongs to the floribunda rose class, blooming repeatedly across multiple seasons, with flowers almost year-round, and it blooms in small multi-flowered clusters, with several flowers opening simultaneously on a single branch. The flower color varies by season: the lower the temperature, the pinker the color, while in summer it tends toward white. Its fragrance is super rich, making it one of the most fragrant roses, with a scent comparable to perfume that can be smelled from far away, truly "a single bloom can perfume an entire room."

Easy to cultivate

Bolero has strong disease resistance and is relatively easy to cultivate. It is best grown in loose, well-draining nutrient soil. It has low water requirements and does not need daily watering; decide based on how dry the potting soil is, and water thoroughly once it has dried out. Fertilizer can be diluted in water and applied lightly and frequently, which makes the plant grow more vigorously and bloom more readily. The plant is not tall and has many branches, making it very suitable for potted cultivation on a balcony. It has strong heat and cold tolerance, and can be introduced for growing in both southern and northern China.

Spring flowers are even more beautiful

Bolero is very popular in Europe. Its flowers are large and richly fragrant, and it often appears as a cut flower at weddings, festivals, and other celebratory occasions, with excellent decorative effect. Of course, it is also a very good potted ornamental flower. As a perennial woody plant, once planted, you can enjoy its flowers every year thereafter. Placed on a balcony, a single bloom can fill the whole room with fragrance, offering both beautiful flowers and lovely scent, with high value for money and well worth having.