This new vine flower rivals clematis, with fresh colors, a blooming period of over half the year, and it is easy to grow

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers 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 1313" takes you to meet a new type of vine flower.

Today's featured plant

Vine flowers climb walls, and wherever they climb, flowers bloom there. They can be trained by hand into various shapes, such as flower arches and flower walls, with excellent decorative effect. Representatives include clematis, climbing roses, and morning glories. The flower introduced this issue is known as the new "queen of vine flowers."

Piaoxiang vine

This flower is called Piaoxiang vine, also known as red mandevilla, double-line vine, and so on. It has many varieties, with leaves differing slightly, but they are largely the same and all climb walls. The flower colors include red, pink, white, yellow, and others, shaped like small pinwheels, fresh and elegant. It is native to tropical America and is now introduced around the world, mostly used for courtyard planting in the ground and balcony potted ornamental display. It is cultivated in both northern and southern parts of our country, with the majority in the southern South China region.

Extremely long blooming period

Similar to other plants from tropical regions, Piaoxiang vine has an extremely long blooming period, generally starting to bloom in late spring and continuing until autumn, blooming for more than half the year, wave after wave, and with no small number of flowers. Some sources say Piaoxiang vine has a floral fragrance. The author has all the varieties currently available on the market, and personal testing shows it has no fragrance. It may have been given the wrong name when it was introduced.

It survives from cuttings

Piaoxiang vine is very robust, grows quickly, and has strong reproductive capacity. Like succulents, a tip cutting can survive. The method is as follows: take a small section of branch, leave two leaves, insert it into water to root, and after about half a month it can be transplanted, and it can bloom the same year. It is very easy to care for and can be managed extensively. It likes light and is not afraid of sun exposure in summer. It is not cold-tolerant, and in the north, when winter temperatures fall below 0°C, it must be moved back indoors.

It can also be grown as a hanging potted plant

Piaoxiang vine is a small vine. Planted in the ground, it can grow to more than 3 m tall. It can also be potted. Pay more attention to pruning, and it can also be made into a hanging bonsai. Its flower colors are fresh and elegant, with a good decorative effect. Since being introduced into our country, it has been deeply loved by flower enthusiasts and has become a veritable internet-famous flower, no less beautiful than clematis.

A perennial herbaceous plant, plant once and enjoy flowers every year, with high cost performance, no regrets after buying it.