Orchids are suitable for beginners to grow: big flowers, strong fragrance, beautiful and festive, and not expensive
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorative elements for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: they beautify the room and delight the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1265" introduces a kind of orchid that is very suitable for beginners to grow.
Today's Featured Plant
Orchids are a traditional famous flower in China and hold a special place among potted flowers. Their flowers and leaves are simple and unadorned, and their fragrance is pure, making them highly sought after by many flower lovers. Keeping a few pots of orchids at home has become standard for scholars and refined enthusiasts. This issue introduces an orchid that is suitable for beginners and offers very good value for money.
Red Beauty
This flower is named "Red Beauty". It is a hybrid of Cymbidium sinense 'Hongyingji' and Cymbidium hookerianum, and is customarily classified as a Cymbidium sinense. Its leaves are broad and lush green, and its flowers are red. It combines large flowers, floral fragrance, and gorgeous flower color in one, and although it is a hybrid orchid, it has high ornamental value.
Extremely long flowering period
Red Beauty has an extremely long flowering period, generally about 60 days, and at its longest, from the first flower opening to the last flower fading, it can reach about 100 days. The flowers carry a very rich fragrance, so they are deeply loved by people and are often grown at home as a potted plant for the Lunar New Year.
Red Beauty potted flowers
As a hybrid orchid, Red Beauty inherits the excellent genes of both Cymbidium sinense and Cymbidium hookerianum. The plant is robust, the root system is well developed, its adaptability to the environment is very good, and its vitality is strong, so it is very easy to cultivate. Even experienced orchid growers do not need to use orchid soil; ordinary soil can grow it, and it is very easy to keep alive, making it very suitable for beginners as a practice plant.
When the flowers bloom, fragrance fills the room
Red Beauty comes from Zhangzhou, Fujian. Its origins are not noble, so its price is relatively cheap. On the market, one seedling can be bought for just over ten yuan, and it is a little more expensive during the Spring Festival. Its flowers are large and strongly fragrant, and the bright red and purple blossoms are beautiful and festive. It is still very worth buying, a rare excellent potted plant and good material for bonsai.