For beginners growing orchids, choose this one: cheap, beautiful, easy to grow, fragrant, and suitable as a potted plant for the New Year festival

Introduction

Green potted plants are essential decorative items for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1386" introduces you to an orchid suitable for beginners.

Today's Featured Plant

Orchids are simple and elegant, with a pure fragrance, and have long been loved by Chinese people. They are regarded as one of China's top ten famous flowers and remain one of the most important indoor potted flowers in our country today. There are many orchid varieties. This issue introduces a variety that blooms during the Spring Festival and is also very easy to grow.

Qihei

This flower is named "Qihei" and is one of the four great family orchids of Chinese Cymbidium sinense. Its leaves are broad and thick, emerald green and glossy. Even when not in bloom, it is an excellent foliage plant. The flowers are dark brown, with a well-formed appearance and abundant blooms. Multiple flower scapes emerge at the same time, and each scape can bear dozens of flowers at once, making it extremely spectacular and beautiful.

Pleasant Fragrance

Unlike Cymbidium goeringii, which blooms in winter and spring, and Cymbidium ensifolium, which blooms in summer and autumn, the Cymbidium sinense Qihei usually blooms from January to March, with a flowering period lasting more than two months, exactly during China's Lunar New Year. It is an excellent New Year festival flower, also known as "Baosui Lan." When it blooms, its fragrance spreads everywhere, filling the room with scent.

Easy to Grow

Qihei is the easiest to grow among Cymbidium sinense varieties. It has a well-developed root system, strong plants, and vigorous growth. With proper care, it needs repotting every year. Unlike Cymbidium goeringii and Cymbidium faberi, it is not fussy and can be grown like an ordinary green plant or grass flower. Place it in a ventilated spot with scattered light, water it thoroughly after the soil dries out, and it can be managed with minimal care. It is suitable for both new and experienced flower growers.

Beautiful Flowers and Leaves

Many famous orchid varieties are usually quite expensive. For example, the famous Cymbidium goeringii cultivar Song Mei can sell for tens of thousands of yuan per seedling, which beginners can only admire from afar. Cymbidium sinense Qihei is also a famous variety, but it can be bought for just over ten yuan. It is easy to grow, with both beautiful flowers and leaves, a pleasant fragrance, and it can also serve as a New Year festival flower. It is suitable for beginners as a practice plant.