This flower is as easy to care for as pothos and spider plants, beautiful and fragrant with an extremely long blooming period
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential accents for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits - it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1400" introduces you to a flower worth having.
Today's Featured Plant
Pothos and spider plants are probably the most common indoor plants - you can see them in almost every home, company and workplace. They are easy to care for, but their ornamental value is somewhat lacking. This issue introduces a flower called the stock (Matthiola incana), a very popular indoor flowering plant in Western Europe. Let's take a look.
Stock (Matthiola incana)
The stock, Matthiola incana, is a perennial herb in the Brassicaceae family, genus Matthiola, native to the Mediterranean coast. It has numerous horticultural varieties and richly colorful flowers. It is a famous European flower, introduced and cultivated in many parts of China. It can be used for garden and courtyard landscaping as well as potted indoors for ornamental purposes, with a wide range of applications.
Beautiful and fragrant
The stock's flower spikes are very long, with dozens of flowers blooming on each at the same time. With multiple spikes blooming together, the flower quantity is enormous and a full pot of blooms comes easily. The blooming period is also very long - when cultivated in a greenhouse it flowers in all four seasons, with the peak blooming period in winter and spring, lasting a very long time. The flowers stay open for several months without fading, giving an extremely long ornamental period.
Super easy to grow
Stock is generally propagated by seed, with autumn being the best planting season. Use loose, well-draining, nutrient-rich potting soil for a very high survival rate. It is not shade-tolerant, so during the growing period it must receive sufficient light for the plant to grow strong and bloom abundantly. Daily care can be quite casual - you can treat it the same way you care for pothos and spider plants.
An excellent potted plant
The stock plant is not tall, at most no more than half a meter, and can be managed in an ordinary-sized flower pot. It is suitable for potted ornamental display on a balcony. Its flowers are not only beautiful but also give off a refreshing, delightful fragrance, rich and aromatic. It is relatively cold-tolerant and can be planted in the open ground anywhere south of the Yellow River (Huang He). It is perennial - plant it once and enjoy flowers every year. It is worth having.