What are some easy-to-care-for flowers and plants for the home
Let me tell you about the topic of easy-to-care-for flowers and plants for the home and the list of 10 recognized easy-to-grow flowers and plants for the balcony. Next, let's get to know more about it together.
When it comes to growing flowers, the enthusiasm of the elderly in the circle I come into contact with is beyond comparison with that of young people.
After all, the elderly have more leisure time and more love and patience.
The elderly are the ones who truly grow flowers, sometimes even a single branch of a flower will be carefully cultivated to see if it can be propagated. Young people pay more attention to innovation, delicacy, and beauty when growing flowers.
However, the following 10 kinds of flowers are liked by both the elderly and the young.
1. Begonia
Except for the period of particularly high temperatures in summer, it blooms continuously during the rest of the year. It's not an exaggeration to say that it blooms for 300 days a year.
Long blooming period is one of its advantages, and easy propagation is another. If you want to grow several pots, just take some branches and they can fill a pot within a year.
Moreover, it is easy to care for, hardly gets sick or infested with pests, and the only disadvantage is that it doesn't tolerate waterlogging. Remember to water it when it's completely dry and keep it well-ventilated.
2. Periwinkle
Periwinkle, as its name implies, blooms all year round. That means, not only 300 days of blooming, but it can bloom every day of the year as long as the temperature is kept above 10℃.
Even in winter when the temperature is only a few degrees, it cannot stop the enthusiasm of periwinkle for blooming. Although it only blooms sporadically, how many flowers can really bloom all year round?
Don't tell me about those that claim to bloom all year round but have very few days of blooming.
What are some easy-to-care-for flowers and plants for the home
3. Marguerite
The natural blooming period of Marguerite can last up to 300 days. The flowers are bright in color, and although the flowers are not large, when they fill the pot, they have a high ornamental value.
What's key is that it's also very easy to care for. It only needs 6 hours of sunlight a day. If kept on the balcony, it can bloom continuously. If you know how to prune, you will get more surprises.
Don't look at it blooming beautifully in the pot on the balcony. In fact, it's not a herbaceous plant; it's a woody plant, a small shrub. Therefore, it is also suitable for ground planting and can grow up to 1 meter in height.
4. Geranium
There are really too many varieties of geraniums. Some special varieties need to go through vernalization to bloom, such as large-flowered geraniums and angel geraniums.
Most geraniums will bloom continuously when the ambient temperature is right. Counting the time when they don't bloom during the high summer temperatures, it's not a problem to bloom for 300 days a year.
However, the temperature this summer is really too high. Many flower friends are saying that their geraniums couldn't survive the summer. Simply counting the losses is substantial. But while the timing is right, quickly ask friends for some branches to propagate!
5. Crown of Thorns
The pot of crown of thorns at home was a gift from the flower shop when I bought flowers before. It has always been placed on the flower shelf near the balcony in the living room. Because it's on the second floor, I rarely pay attention to it, but whenever I see it, it's always blooming.
Although due to the lack of sunlight and nutrients for a long time, the flowers have changed from bright red to pink and the flower shape has become smaller, it is still blooming hard.
After more than three years of caring for the crown of thorns, it has never been repotted or fertilized. It has really suffered. When the weather stabilizes a bit more, I'll give it a "new home".