Grow a rose at home yourself, and you'll never have to spend money buying one for Valentine's Day again

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorative touches for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies your living space and lifts your mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1225" introduces you to a plant that blooms "roses."

Today's Star

The rose is hailed as the flower of love and has become the best gift flower for lovers to express their affection. Tomorrow is Qixi, the Chinese Valentine's Day, and it's likely that the "roses" selling for a dozen or so yuan a stem on the street will sell out again. Today we'll reveal the true face of the "rose."

Rose? Chinese Rose?

In fact, any flower lover with even a little knowledge of Rosaceae flowers knows that the so-called "rose" is actually a cut-flower Chinese rose (Rosa hybrida). The most common rose in flower shops is a cut-flower Chinese rose variety called "Carola," with large, brilliantly colored blooms. Normally it costs just a few yuan, but on Valentine's Day its price multiplies several times over.

Carola

Carola has the classic cup-shaped flower form, with terminal blooms that don't droop, and full, plump petals of high ornamental value. Its flowers are moderate in size, 8-9 cm when they first open and up to 13 cm when fully open, though they are usually picked before they even open, since the half-open state is the most beautiful.

Blooms in All Four Seasons

Carola blooms extremely readily, flowering in all four seasons, and it is very floriferous, with buds on every branch tip. This also gives it high economic value, and flower traders love to cultivate it, since it can supply cut flowers to market all year round at a handsome price. Every single flower is money.

An Excellent Potted Plant

Carola is not a tall plant, reaching only about one meter at most, so it can easily be grown in a pot on a balcony, and it is very easy to cultivate, so even beginners can grow it well. After the flowers bloom, cut them and put them in a vase, where they will last two weeks without fading. Being self-sufficient, with one plant at home, you'll never have to waste money again.