Orchids once sold for sky-high prices, now they are very cheap: big flowers, strong fragrance, beautiful and easy to grow, suitable for beginners

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. "Huasheng Potted Diary, Issue 1394" introduces you to a famous orchid variety.

Today's featured plant

Orchids are a traditional famous flower of our country. As early as the Spring and Autumn period, people already cultivated them artificially for viewing, and to this day they remain one of the indoor potted flowers most loved by Chinese people. Friends familiar with orchids should not be unfamiliar with this flower. This is Tianpeng Peony, a well-deserved top-grade rare flower among Cymbidium goeringii (spring orchids), and once a sky-high-priced plant.

Tianpeng Peony

Tianpeng Peony, native to Pengzhou, Sichuan, is a representative variety of the peony-type rare flower of Cymbidium goeringii (spring orchid), ranking first among the rare flowers of spring orchids. It has brilliant colors and a peculiar flower shape, and its status is comparable to the king of flowers, the peony, among orchids. It has repeatedly won gold awards at successive orchid expos and once sold for several tens of thousands of yuan per seedling, with very many admirers.

Excellent flower form

Tianpeng Peony has a proper and well-formed flower display. It is famous for its many petals and many lips, huge flower shape, and magnificent momentum, with extremely high ornamental value. It also has a very rich fragrance; when one flower blooms, it can fill a whole room with fragrance, aromatic and deeply fragrant. It is a representative variety among the new and old peony-petal types of Cymbidium goeringii.

Easy to cultivate

Tianpeng Peony has thick leaves, a strong plant, and a well-developed root system, so the difficulty of cultivation is relatively low. As the saying goes, growing orchids is growing roots; once the roots are strong, sprouting and blooming naturally follow. Beginners are advised to use special orchid soil and place it in a ventilated spot with scattered light. Outdoor growing is better than indoors. Once you understand its habits, care is not difficult.

Orchid bonsai

With the popularization of orchid plants and the expansion of cultivation scale, this once sky-high-priced plant has now dropped greatly in price. It can be bought for just a few dozen yuan. This famous orchid variety has become a mass-market flower that everyone accepts. If you fail to keep it alive, you will not feel heartache; if you grow it well, it becomes a beautiful orchid bonsai. Beginners can use it to practice growing plants.