The gradual heat in summer cooled the fresh taste of these plants.

On a hot summer day, if you choose some flowers and green plants, you can add a coolness to the room.

What kind of flowers and plants should be chosen in summer? How to maintain it?

There's a lot of learning.

If they are bright flowers, they are more likely to give people a strong impression and make people restless.

Therefore, it is best to choose flowers with light color and longer flowering period in summer potted flowers.

You can also choose some elegant green plants as embellishment.

1. Mint

The leaves of peppermint are born on the stem nodes in an opposite way, such as oval, oval, green, dark green and grayish green. Peppermint smell fresh and slightly spicy, summer can dispel indoor moisture, miasma, refreshing, dispel mosquitoes and flies.

Key points of maintenance:

Peppermint likes bright light but does not directly shine on the sun, while having plenty of moisture. Watering advice is to see dry and wet. ("dry and wet" is a common term in flower planting, which means watering once and then watering the second time when the soil is almost dry. it is used to prevent diseases and insects caused by excessive watering of rotten roots and moisture.)

In addition, it should be noted that the potted mint sold in the flower market is not sure whether it has been hit with pesticides, it is recommended that it is best not to eat.

2. Lavender

Lavender flowers are shaped like wheat ears, narrow leaves are gray and fluffy, and flowers are blue-purple, growing on slender stems. Although it does not blossom now and grows best in August and September, it contains a unique herbal flavor and can also be selected at this time. Lavender cultivation has been quite common in Roman times, known as the "vanilla queen". Its aroma is eye-catching, comfortable, relieves anxiety, and repels mosquitoes and flies.

Key points of maintenance:

Lavender needs plenty of sunshine and humid environment, can give full sunshine environment is better, semi-heat-resistant, cool, like warm in winter and cool in summer, summer should cover at least 50% of the sun, and increase ventilation to lower the ambient temperature. Lavender does not like the retention of water in the roots. After the first watering, the soil should be watered again when the soil is dry. Secondary watering is best when the soil surface is dry, the interior is moist, and the leaves wilt slightly.

3. White Phalaenopsis

Phalaenopsis has broad leaves, one to several flower stems are arched, and the flowers are large and shaped like butterflies. They are the treasures of tropical orchids and have the reputation of "queen of orchids". A variety of colors of Phalaenopsis, it is appropriate to choose white in summer, white for cold tone, looks cool and elegant, tranquil and quiet.

Key points of maintenance:

Phalaenopsis likes shade, the room temperature cannot be too high, likes the ventilated, moist environment, requests the air humidity to always maintain at 60% 80%, and maintains the air circulation, had better have the breeze to blow, avoid the dry hot wind, the basin cannot accumulate water too much.

Summer selection of Phalaenopsis, you can focus on two points, one is to have more buds, and the other is to have thick petals, so that the florescence can be maintained for a long time.

4. Jasmine flower

The jasmine leaves are green, the flowers are white and elegant, there are single, double, single and compound leaves, the fragrance of the flowers is fragrant, it blossoms in late spring and early summer every year, and the florescence is from July to October.

Key points of maintenance:

Jasmine likes fertilizer, especially the long flowering period, needs more fertilizer, and needs to apply thin cake fertilizer once a week during the growth period. Sexual preference is warm and humid, and grows best in a well-ventilated and semi-overcast environment. Water should be watered early and late every day in midsummer. If the air is dry, supplementary water spraying is needed.

5. Phnom Penh tiger skin sword orchid

The rhizome is in the shape of a drum, the leaf is like a sword, the edge of the leaf is yellow, the leaf is green and white, and the water wave is alternating.

Key points of maintenance:

Phnom Penh tiger skin sword orchid is a perennial herb, evergreen all the year round, will grow taller year by year, and will blossom if properly maintained. Phnom Penh tiger skin sword Lan Xiyang, can be placed on the balcony, sunny rooms and other sunny places, water once every two or three months.

6. Green pineapple

Climbing vine foliage plant, the leaf is heart-shaped, there are maculae, radish stem soft, with the "age" growth, the rhizome will gradually grow, long can reach the ground.

Key points of maintenance:

Green pineapple is also evergreen all the year round, shady, do not put in a strong light environment, if the hands touch the cultivated soil or nutrient particles are dry, it needs to be watered. Not only can it be attached to the column tied up with brown, placed in the foyer, it can also be cultivated into a hanging shape placed in the study and windowsill, set a basin high on the top of the furniture cabinet, let its vine stalk droop calmly, or hang into a circle after the vine stem is too long, just like an emerald relief.