Don't raise green orchids. This flower deserves to have beautiful flowers and leaves, fragrant and full of flowers in four seasons.

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Green potted plants are necessary embellishments of home life. Raising some flowers and plants at home has many benefits, which can not only beautify the room, but also please the mood. Huasheng potted Plant Diary No. 1164 will introduce you to a new type of indoor potted plant.

Today's protagonist

There is a Chinese idiom called "blooming wealth", which expresses people's yearning for a happy and happy life, wealth and nobility. Raising flowering plants at home is not only ornamental, but also has a beautiful meaning, while the traditional potted plant, such as green orchid, is obviously not satisfied. It can only be used as an ornamental plant. This kind of flower introduced in this issue can not only be raised indoors, but also bloom very diligently, and the flower is also very fragrant.

Iron foot

This kind of flower is generally called "iron foot" in South China. It was originally a kind of "weed" living under tropical and subtropical forest trees. Later, because the flower was too beautiful, it was developed into an ornamental flower, named "orchid". Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan and other places in China are naturally distributed, while the rest are cultivated artificially. Their flowers are strangely shaped like a ball, bright in color, glittering and translucent, and as beautiful as fake flowers.

The florescence is very long.

Plants from the tropics generally have a long flowering period, such as Fusang flower, triangular plum and so on, which can bloom almost all the year round. Iron feet bloom all the year round in South China, and in the north, flowers raised indoors in winter will blossom normally in winter, with a long viewing period. What is more rare is that its flowers will also send out a very strong fragrance, similar to the sweet smell of honey, planted on the balcony, when the flowers bloom, the whole house is fragrant.

Super easy to raise

Iron foot leaves are thick, evergreen, essentially belong to succulent plants, it is very easy to cultivate, pinch a branch into the culture soil can survive, vitality is very solid. The demand for fertilizer and water is not high. My family's green leaves and pink flowers are placed on the north balcony, and now they are watered once a week in summer, occasionally applying some light fertilizer, in excellent condition. The bud has not fallen since spring, one after another, enjoying the flowers and smelling the fragrance.

Good products for potted plants on balcony

Although the iron foot likes the light, it is also very shady, usually maintain a little astigmatism, it can meet the needs of growth and flowering, and it is no problem to keep it indoors. Perennial climbing vine plant, can climb the wall, make a flower rack to guide it to the wall, can climb full in a year or two, and grow rapidly. There are many varieties of iron feet, suitable for beginners are green leaf series, mirror leaf series, and miscellaneous cymbals, all of which are beautiful and easy to raise, and blossom very diligently.