For beginners growing orchids, just choose varieties that are cheap, easy to grow, bloom freely, beautiful, and fragrant

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorative items for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it can beautify the room and delight the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1281" takes you to get to know several orchids suitable for beginners to grow.

Fushan Qidie

Fushan Qidie, a representative of the strange-flower type, has a stable and grand flower form, with flowers within flowers, layer upon layer, brilliant flower colors, repeated blooming across multiple seasons, and a light floral fragrance. Its root system is well developed, the plant is robust, and cultivation is simple; it blooms and grows easily, and is deeply loved by orchid enthusiasts. It is a classic famous variety of the four-season orchid. It once commanded a high price, but now it is very cheap, available for twenty or thirty yuan.

Purple Element

Purple Element, a newly appearing hybrid orchid on the market, is crossed from Cymbidium sinense and Cymbidium grandiflorum. Its flowers are large and brightly colored, festive large red blooms with a rich fragrance. The flowering period is from November to February of the following year, coinciding with the Spring Festival, making it suitable as a New Year festival flower bonsai placed in the hall. The plant is sturdy, has strong sprouting ability, and grows vigorously, making it suitable for beginners to cultivate. As a hybrid orchid, it is very cheap.

Jinsi Mawei

Jinsi Mawei, the first traditional famous variety of the plain-heart type among leaf-art variants of Cymbidium ensifolium, has elegant leaf posture, good linear variegation, dignified flower posture, and pure aroma. It is a treasure among linear-variegated orchids and blooms very readily. Its flowering period is concentrated from June to November, with a few also blooming in winter and spring. Cultivation is easy; linear-variegated orchids should be cultivated in a low-light environment, with little fertilizer and frequent division.

Miss Korea

Miss Korea, a famous hybrid orchid variety, is crossed from Cymbidium ensifolium and Cymbidium grandiflorum, combining the advantages of both: beautiful and fragrant, with a very large number of flowers, often covering the branches, a bright red mass of blossoms that gives a very beautiful visual enjoyment, and a long flowering period. Key points for caring for hybrid orchids: they like fertilizer; after July, add some decomposed liquid fertilizer when watering; when the pseudobulbs are grown strong, it is easier to bloom again; do not place it indoors; except in midsummer, give full sun the rest of the time.

Dafengsu

Dafengsu, an all-plain flower, has many twisted leaves resembling a phoenix tail, with both flowers and leaves beautiful. It gets its name from the combination of its leaf form and all-plain flowers. Its fragrance is rich, mellow, and far-reaching, and it can be regarded as the finest inscribed variety among plain-heart Cymbidium ensifolium for leaf posture. Dafengsu sprouts very quickly, is strong and easy to keep alive, and has accumulated in huge numbers on the market, so the price is very cheap: a famous variety that can be bought for just over ten yuan. If you fail to keep it alive, you will not feel heartache; if you grow it well, it is a beautiful bonsai, very worth getting.