For autumn flowers, choose this one: drop it in soil and it lives, and a full pot can bloom for over half a year
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential accents for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Huasheng Potted Diary, Issue 1310" introduces you to a flower suitable for growing in autumn.
Today's star
The scorching summer has passed, and the crisp autumn air is the best time to grow flowers. If you already have pothos, spider plants, succulents and the like at home, you might as well get to know the "blooming machine" introduced today. This flower is called morning glory; the plant is low-growing, blooms frequently, and has brilliant colors, and it is popular all over the world.
Morning glory
Morning glory, named for its trumpet-shaped flowers, also known as petunia, is a perennial herbaceous flower of the genus Petunia in the Solanaceae family. It grows only about 20-plus cm tall, branches extremely well, and blooms abundantly, with purple-red, peach-red, pure white, flesh-colored and various striped bicolor forms, dazzling and eye-catching, with a great accent effect, suitable for flower beds, hanging baskets and more.
An extremely long flowering period
The morning glory has a very long flowering period, normally starting to bloom in late spring and continuing all the way until frost, flowering for more than half a year at a stretch and blooming brilliantly with just a bit of sunlight. After one wave of flowers finishes, prune the branches and give it some sunlight, and the second wave of blooms soon arrives; it is a true blooming machine.
Easy to cultivate
The morning glory is very robust, grows fast, and propagates easily. In some places in southern China it even escapes into the wild and grows well with no care at all, so artificial cultivation is even easier; generous water and fertilizer are no problem, it is not afraid of high temperatures, and it gets through summer easily. It is a very easy flower to grow; the drawback is that it is not cold-tolerant, so in the north it must be moved back indoors in winter.
Flower waterfall
The morning glory is a perennial herbaceous flower, and its branches gradually become woody. If not pruned and allowed to sprawl, every branch is covered with flowers at peak bloom; plant it once and it blooms year after year. Its outstanding performance has won recognition from people all over the world, and it is very popular in Western European countries. It is one of the must-have potted flowers for the home, with high cost-effectiveness and well worth having.