The new ornamental flower is easier to grow than pothos, with brilliant colors and easy to fill a pot, making it an excellent potted plant

Introduction

Potted green plants are essential accents for home life, beautifying the room, freshening the air, and soothing the mind. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Diary · Issue 865" introduces you to a new type of potted ornamental flower.

Today's Featured Plant

We have introduced many common flowers over the issues, and today we present one you have never seen. This flower is called "moth butterfly flower" (Schizanthus), and its blooms look just like butterflies, colorful and bright, hence the name. It is a new type of ornamental flower, widely cultivated in South China, Southwest China, and Taiwan, China, while in the north it is mostly grown as an indoor potted plant, and it is expected to become a rising star among early-spring potted flowers.

Schizanthus

Schizanthus is native to Chile in South America. Its leaves are peculiar and fern-like, its flowers resemble exotic orchids, and its colors are rich, including red, bright pink, pale purple, white, and various edged bicolor forms, dazzling and eye-catching, with high ornamental value. It also has a long blooming period and a large number of flowers, making it an excellent indoor potted flower variety. Since being introduced to China, it has been very popular among flower lovers.

Potted Schizanthus

Schizanthus also has strong vitality and adaptability, tolerating cold, drought, and poor soil, and is very easy to cultivate. For potting, it requires loose, fertile soil with good drainage, and should be placed in a sunny growing environment. Water according to the principle of watering thoroughly when dry, and do not water when not dry. It can be maintained with completely minimal care, and is even easier to grow than pothos.

Flowering and Filling the Pot

Schizanthus is propagated by sowing. Scatter the seeds into moist potting soil, cover lightly with soil, and in about 10-15 days they will take root and sprout. From sowing to flowering takes only about 90 days, so the time cost of care is very low. Under artificial indoor cultivation, it can bloom all year round and easily fill a pot. It is an emerging and very popular potted flower, and everyone can give it a try when growing flowers in spring.