A new type of potted flower, as beautiful as a lotus and as easy to grow as a pothos, with a long blooming period and well worth growing
Introduction
Green plants and potted plants 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 Voice Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1404" introduces you to a new type of ornamental flower.
Today's featured plant
Autumn is a suitable season, so here is a beautiful and easy-to-grow plant. This flower is called "Siam tulip." Friends who practice Buddhism may be very familiar with it; it is a flower used specifically for worshiping deities and Buddhas, and on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month it is often in short supply. Not only that, but you can also grow it in a pot yourself for viewing.
Siam tulip
The Siam tulip is a perennial herbaceous plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, genus Curcuma. It gets its name because its floral bracts closely resemble a lotus flower and it belongs to the ginger family. It has many varieties and rich flower colors, with high ornamental value. It originated in Thailand, and has been introduced to many provinces in southern China, mainly for cut flowers. In recent years, more and more people have been growing it in private pots, and it is an emerging ornamental flower.
Long blooming period
The blooming period of the Siam tulip is about from early June to the first ten days of mid-October. During this time it blooms multiple times, opening one after another, with the peak blooming period in midsummer, which exactly makes up for the shortage of cut flowers in summer. It is an important flowering plant for summer, and the flowers have a light fragrance and can be kept in a vase for a week without wilting.
Super easy to grow
Like hyacinths, lilies and tulips, the Siam tulip is also a bulbous flower, propagated by seed bulbs. Its sprouting ability is extremely strong, and it can almost survive just by being dropped into soil. It has strong vitality and is very easy to grow, with low requirements for fertilizer and water, and it is not choosy about soil. It can survive with casual care, making it suitable for flower lovers who like plants but have no time or inclination to tend them.
An excellent potted plant
The Siam tulip has strong propagation ability. Each year the seed bulbs can produce 3-5 small bulb offsets. Grown in patches, the ornamental effect is even better. South of the Yangtze River in southern China, it can be planted outdoors in the ground. Because it is a new type of ornamental flower, its quantity is relatively small, and the current price is relatively high. It is a perennial, so plant it once and enjoy the flowers year after year, making it well worth having.