Choose this for fall flowers: months of blooms, fresh colors, easy to grow and quick to fill a pot
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential accents for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits: it beautifies your living space and lifts your mood. "Huasheng Potted Diary · Issue 1309" introduces you to a flower that is super easy to grow into a full pot.
Today's star
Getting flowers to bloom into a full pot is what gardeners love most. When it comes to plants that bloom easily into a full pot, you might think of baby's breath, lobelia, petunia and other herbaceous flowers, but compared with today's star, the dancing spring flower (calibrachoa), their flower count is still a bit lower.
Calibrachoa
Calibrachoa, also known as small-flowered petunia, is a perennial herbaceous flower in the Solanaceae family. An ornamental potted flower bred by foreign horticulturists, its flowers resemble little bells. It is famous for its abundant blooms, hence the name "million bells." Its flower colors are rich and brilliant, including red, white, pink, purple and various colors with spots, netting and stripes, with high ornamental value and excellent accent effect.
Long flowering period
Calibrachoa not only blooms profusely, but also has a very long flowering period. It generally begins blooming in spring and can continue until autumn, before winter arrives. If grown indoors in winter, with heating and sufficient light, it can also bloom in winter. Its ornamental period is extremely long, and it is a tireless good child, known as a blooming machine, deeply loved by gardeners.
Easy to grow
Calibrachoa has very strong vitality. In most areas of our country, it can be grown outdoors in summer. It has strong resistance, few pests and diseases, and is very easy to grow. It is generally propagated by cuttings and sowing. If you want it to bloom into a full pot, you need to pinch the tips multiple times during the growing period to promote branching. With more branches, it will naturally have more flowers.
An excellent potted plant
Calibrachoa is a low-growing plant, only 20 to 30 cm tall, very suitable for potted display. Hanging it on a balcony or placing it in an office, it performs eye-catchingly either way. A full pot of flowers is a joy to look at, and it is perennial, so plant it once and enjoy flowers every year afterward. It has high cost performance, and you will not regret getting one.