The orchid best suited for beginners: cheap, easy to grow, blooms in multiple seasons and is fragrant

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 pleases the mood. "Huasheng Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1377" introduces you to an orchid best suited for beginners.

Today's featured plant

Orchids are one of China's top ten famous flowers, with a long history of cultivation. There are countless ancient poems and floral works related to them, and to this day they remain the favorite high-end indoor flowers of Chinese people. There are many orchid varieties, and today's featured plant, the old cultivar Jin Qi, has many advantages and is very suitable for beginners to grow.

Old cultivar Jin Qi

Old cultivar Jin Qi is a perennial herb of the Orchidaceae family, a famous cultivar of Cymbidium ensifolium, and a variegated crane-pattern variant evolved from Xiaotaohong. Its leaves bear large golden crane-pattern variegation with clearly defined colors, and its flowers resemble those of Xiaotaohong. Both flowers and leaves are beautiful, offering both foliage and flower appreciation. It is a representative variety of variegated-leaf orchids and a must-grow plant for those starting with variegated orchids.

Both flowers and leaves are beautiful

Old cultivar Jin Qi belongs to the four-season orchid type. It blooms very readily. With proper care and suitable conditions, it can bloom more than 5 times a year, with possible blooms in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, mostly concentrated in summer and autumn, nicely filling the gap when spring orchids and cymbidiums do not bloom in summer. Its floral fragrance is also very rich and pleasant, and when in bloom it can fill a whole room with scent.

Easy to grow

Compared with other Chinese orchids, Cymbidium ensifolium is a relatively vigorous variety, with strong plants and well-developed roots, and old cultivar Jin Qi is the same. It is easy to grow and does not have very high requirements for environment or soil; some experienced orchid growers can even grow it in ordinary soil. It sprouts quickly, blooms and multiplies readily, and is one of the entry-level varieties for beginners growing orchids.

Orchid bonsai

There are many orchid varieties, and some famous ones are quite expensive, with some even costing tens of thousands of yuan per seedling. At present, they still count as relatively high-end potted flowers. As a "famous cultivar" among common orchids, old cultivar Jin Qi is still very affordable, available for just over ten yuan. If it does not survive, you will not feel too bad; if you grow it well, it becomes a beautiful bonsai flower, offering great value for money and suitable for both new and experienced orchid growers.