The calla lily's flower meaning is romantic, making it very suitable as a Valentine's Day gift for your wife.

With 520 Valentine's Day approaching, many people's partners are surely starting to plan and order beautiful bouquets. But actually, besides roses, there is another flower that is also very suitable for giving to your other half, and that is the "calla lily." Its flower meaning is steadfast and unchanging love, and purity, and placing it at home as decoration is fresh and lovely.

Speaking of the calla lily, it has extremely rich flower colors, and its leaves have speckled stripes, making it very beautiful and ornamental. It comes as fresh cut flowers, as potted plants, and as bulbs. Today the editor will mainly talk about potted plants first, so how do you grow them? First, it likes an environment that is warm in winter and cool in summer, so you can place it somewhere with heating in winter and air conditioning in summer. It blooms in winter, grows leaves in spring, enters dormancy in summer, and begins to flower again in autumn, so it has a repeating cycle and can be grown for many years. The calla lily is a sun-loving plant. Apart from needing appropriate shading in summer, in spring and autumn it can be given full sun, which is what makes it bloom. Growers had best place it on a south-facing balcony.

Next is watering. When you find its soil has turned scorched yellow, you should water it once. The rest of the time, as long as you see the soil is dark and moist, absolutely do not water it. If the leaves above the soil turn yellow and the flowers are gone, there is no need to worry or do anything about it. Just pluck off the yellowed leaves and stop watering so that its own bulb can finish dormancy in the pot, and when the temperature is suitable it will naturally grow leaves again.
Finally, it is recommended to choose loose, breathable soil, and it is recommended to choose granular slow-release fertilizer, applying it about once every 100 days. You can also use monopotassium phosphate or Huaduoduo No. 2 (drench the roots with it once every week).

So how do you plant the bulb? Its bulb looks like ginger. Find a pot, put half the soil in, then place the round, bulging part on top and the flat part below, then add about 7 cm of soil on top. It does not need to be too deep to sprout. Before it sprouts, do not give it light. After it sprouts, give it plenty of light. After following these steps, the flower color will be more vivid, and fertilizing is the same: do not fertilize before it sprouts, and after it sprouts you can fertilize it with Huaduoduo No. 2 about every 7 days.