This potted flower is large and brightly colored like a peony, with a strong fragrance and a long blooming period, and it can also be made into a bonsai.

Introduction

Green plants in pots are essential decorations for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and pleases the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1285" introduces you to a beautiful flower that resembles a peony.

Today's featured plant

The peony is elegant and noble, a national beauty and heavenly fragrance, known as the "king of flowers" and ranked second, deeply loved by Chinese people, with almost nothing able to rival it. The flower introduced today is called the "camellia peony," with large flowers and bright colors, and it also has a rich fragrance. Let's learn about it together.

Kramer's Supreme

This flower is named Kramer's Supreme, abbreviated as Kramer, a well-known camellia variety. It gets its name because its flower shape resembles a peony, full and round, with large flowers and bright colors, bright red, and a flower diameter of up to 13 cm. It was cultivated by a nursery in California, USA, and has Chinese camellia ancestry. In 1986 it won the Illges Medal Award.

Beautiful and fragrant

Kramer's Supreme has a very long blooming period, blooming from October in autumn to the end of spring in May of the following year. The peak blooming period is usually from January to March, coinciding with major festivals such as New Year's Day, Christmas, and the Spring Festival, so it can be placed in the hall as a New Year floral display, beautiful and festive. Its fragrance is rich, and when placed in a room, the scent can be smelled throughout the room.

Easy to cultivate

Kramer's Supreme is an artificially bred variety, only brought to market after repeated hybridization experiments. It is very robust and is currently known as the fastest-growing camellia variety, able to send out 3-4 flushes of shoots per year. It is also very easy to cultivate, easier to grow than domestic camellias, and even beginners can grow it well.

Excellent bonsai material

Kramer's Supreme has good cold resistance and drought resistance, is suitable for a wide range of planting areas, and also performs well in the Yellow River basin region of northern China. It is a camellia variety relatively suitable for cultivation by ordinary flower enthusiasts. Made into a bonsai and placed at home, its festive bright red color has a very decorative effect.