Plants with a long flowering period bloom for a hundred days without giving thanks to the beauty of flowers and leaves, easy to maintain and can also make bonsai.

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Green potted plant is a necessary embellishment of home life, which can not only beautify the room, but also refresh the mood and nourish nature. There are many advantages in raising flowers and plants at home. "Huasheng potted Plant Diary No. 1013" takes you to know a kind of flower with a long flowering period.

Today's protagonist

There are many flowering plants famous for their long flowering period, such as Zhu Jin Fusang, daily spring, Chinese rose, triangular plum, etc. all bloom repeatedly for more than a year, but the single flowering period can only last for a few days. The above flower, called crape myrtle, is cultivated in both north and south of our country. A single flower can last for several months, and it is one of the plants with the longest flowering period.

Crape myrtle flower

Crape myrtle, also known as Mantanhong, is a deciduous shrub of the family Lycopodiaceae and Lagerstroemia, native to China. It has beautiful trees, smooth and clean trunks, bright flowers, red, purple and white, and flowers are full of branches. It is an excellent street tree. It has been introduced to all parts of the world in recent centuries and is very popular.

The florescence is very long.

Crape myrtle has a long flowering period. It blossoms normally in June (it began to bloom in March in South China). It is in the season of few flowers in summer. It blooms for several months and lasts until September, so it is known as "hundred days of red", and there is also a praise of "summer green covering the eyes, this flower is full of red". Youdao is "who says there is no hundred days of red flowers, crape myrtle blossoms for half a year".

Potted goods

Although crape myrtle is a woody shrub plant, there is no problem with potted cultivation. Cold-resistant and heat-resistant, northern and southern China can be exposed, light, slightly shade-tolerant, like fertilizer, no matter calcareous soil or acid soil grow well, but the deep and fertile sandy loam is better, it is also drought-resistant and easy to feed, which is a maintenance difficulty with the general green plant.

Bonsai good talent

Crape myrtle can not only be potted, its tree shape is beautiful, the trunk is smooth and clean, it has been a very good bonsai tree since ancient times, as one of the pile scenery "Rocks of Eighteen Scholars", the bonsai made of crape myrtle is vigorous, simple, elegant and of high ornamental value. Based on various advantages, crape myrtle is designated as a city flower by many cities in China, such as Anyang City, Xuzhou City, Jincheng City, Xiangyang City and so on.