This potted ornamental plant has beautiful flowers that look like fake flowers, an extremely long blooming period, a delightful fragrance, and is very easy to grow.

Introduction

Green plants and potted plants are essential decorations for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits - it can beautify your living space and lift your mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1215" introduces you to a plant so beautiful it looks like a fake flower.

Today's Featured Plant

In the scorching summer, many herbaceous plants cannot survive the summer, or are in poor condition, such as Rieger begonia, fuchsia, and succulents, which can suddenly die with the slightest neglect and are not suitable for growing now. When growing flowers in summer, you should still choose tough ones. The flower introduced today is called Mariota, a woody plant that is heat-tolerant and not afraid of summer, and is also very beautiful. It can be grown in summer too. Let's take a look.

Mariota

Mariota is a shrub plant in the Rosaceae family, bred in New Zealand, and now widely introduced around the world. It is cultivated in both southern and northern China, mostly as private potted ornamentals. It is a new type of ornamental flowering shrub, bearing deep pink flowers, double-petaled, about 5 cm in diameter, with neatly arranged petals and white edges, giving a very good overall effect. It looks like a fake flower, like something painted, and is very beautiful.

Abundant and frequent bloomer

Mariota is very similar to the Japanese-bred "Mary Rose", with very high ornamental value and excellent flowering performance. It blooms repeatedly across multiple seasons in a year, with flowers in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. It is one of the plants with the longest blooming period in nature, and has the reputation of being a flowering machine. It also blooms in multi-headed clusters, blooming in a whole mass at once, and easily fills the pot; the flowers carry a mild fruity fragrance, refreshing to the heart, letting you enjoy both the flowers and the scent.

Easy to cultivate

Mariota is a small shrub plant, with a plant height of only about 50 cm. It has good cold tolerance and heat tolerance, and can be planted in the ground in a courtyard or in a pot on a balcony. Daily management and care are also very easy. Water when the potting soil is completely dry, and apply light fertilizer frequently during the growing season in spring and autumn. It has low requirements for fertilizer and water, and can be cared for roughly like lazy plants such as pothos and spider plants.

Care and enjoy the fragrance

Mariota has strong propagation ability and can be grown from cuttings of branches. It grows fast. For home potting, you can prune it more often, and the pruned branches can continue to be used for cuttings, quickly giving you another pot; planted in the ground it is even stronger, with the crown width able to reach two meters. It is heat-tolerant, and in northern regions it can also safely overwinter when grown outdoors. Its flower color is beautiful, its fragrance is pleasant, it blooms in all four seasons, and the price is not expensive. It is a variety well worth getting.