The easiest orchid to grow: big, colorful flowers, rich fragrance, long blooming period, blooms every year, and very cheap
Introduction
Potted green plants are essential decorative touches for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies your living space and lifts your mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1405" introduces you to an orchid suitable for beginners.
Today's Featured Plant
Orchids are traditional famous flowers in our country, with a great many admirers. There are many varieties, and their growing difficulty varies. For beginners, choosing easy-to-grow ones helps you build up care skills and avoid detours. The one introduced this issue is named the large-flowered cymbidium (Cymbidium hybrid), and it is much easier to grow than traditional Chinese orchids.
Large-Flowered Cymbidium
The large-flowered cymbidium (Cymbidium hybrid) was developed by artificial hybridization from multiple large-flowered orchid varieties with strong epiphytic habits. The plants are robust, with big, colorful flowers, and flower diameters can reach 6-10 cm. Flower colors include white, yellow, green, purplish red and more. It has both the gorgeousness of exotic orchids and the pure fragrance of Chinese orchids.
Big Flowers, Strong Fragrance
Large-flowered cymbidiums generally bloom in spring, and the flower quantity is also very large, with multiple flower spikes emerging at once. Each flower spike can carry dozens of flowers blooming at the same time, extremely spectacular. Most bloom during the Spring Festival period, and those with long blooming periods can keep flowering for more than two months. They are very suitable as Lunar New Year flowers, beautiful and festive.
Super Easy to Grow
The large-flowered cymbidium is a hybrid orchid with vigorous traits, a very developed root system, and stronger adaptability to the environment. It is much easier to grow than traditional Chinese orchids such as spring orchids (Cymbidium goeringii) and Huilan orchids (Cymbidium faberi). It can even be grown like an ordinary green plant or flower. It does not need special orchid soil; ordinary nutrient soil will do. It does not mind wind and sun, and it can also grow very well indoors.
Orchid Bonsai
Traditional Chinese orchids grown indoors are relatively difficult to get to bloom. Some are even grown for several years with only leaves and no flowers. The large-flowered cymbidium is different: it reblooms every year. Placed indoors on flower racks, balconies, living rooms and other places, it looks even more elegant and luxurious. The price is not expensive either, making it a rare excellent potted plant and fine bonsai material.