"Last year, my friend gave me a basin of guayeju, which withered after a week's cultivation on the balcony." Ms. Liu, a citizen, walked around the flower and bird market. She wanted to buy fresh grass flowers and was worried about poor breeding. It is reported that due to the special climate in winter, many people are facing maintenance problems when buying flowers. How to let the gorgeous flowers spend a safe winter? Yesterday, Xiaobian asked Mr. Wu, the urban flower keeper, about this, and he taught several key points.
Put it indoors as much as possible.
"In winter, there are fewer varieties of flowers in Qingdao, more varieties in other places, and many of them come from the south. We should pay special attention to cold and freeze protection." Wu Dexiang introduced that it is better to keep flowers indoors in winter, such as Cyclamen, guayeju, Christmas Cactus, jasmine, Aglaia odorata, Zhulan, etc., which are suitable to be placed indoors in the sunny place, but they can not be placed in the windward place, so the windows should not be opened as much as possible.
Some cold resistant flowers have different effects when they are put indoors and outdoors. "Like chrysanthemum, the leaves are cold-resistant, but the flowers are not cold-resistant. If they are frozen, the flowers will soon wither; if they are properly preserved, the flowers in summer can still open in winter, and the Canna in my family is still open in summer," Mr. Wu said.
However, there are some flowers in Yangzhou that are not afraid of cold. They can be placed outdoors, such as wintersweet, wintersweet, and chamei. Bright bamboo and ivy are also plants that are not afraid of cold.
Less water and no fertilizer for maintenance
"The flowers placed indoors must be watered less and fertilized stopped. Otherwise, even if they don't die in winter, they will die in spring." Mr. Wu reminded me in particular.
According to reports, in winter flowers are in a semi dormant or dormant state, metabolism stops, if you continue to water, more water, flower roots will lack of oxygen, will rot. Mr. Wu said that fertilizing flowers in winter will also burn them, because the fertilizer can't be discharged, and flowers stop metabolism and don't need fertilizer, so fertilizing in winter will backfire.
Of course, some aquatic plants are inseparable from water, such as narcissus, water bamboo, Lysimachia, etc. in winter, we should not only maintain a certain temperature, but also water.
Protection, winter flowers are afraid of spring wind
"We also need to remind that the plants that spend winter indoors are delicate after spring, and they can't move out of the room too early. They should adapt to the outdoor environment slowly." Mr. Wu said that people who raise flowers should also pay attention to that some plants can't die in winter, but they are easy to die after spring, especially when the spring wind blows. This is because these plants are weak after a winter, so the indoor flowers for winter can't be put in the tuyere, and they can't be moved out of the room too early. Generally, they can't leave the house until the morning.
As a flower keeper, Mr. Wu also reminded the flower lover that there are several kinds of flowers that are suitable for purchase but not for self cultivation, such as chrysanthemum, Narcissus, azalea, cyclamen, etc. the market price is not expensive, and self cultivation takes time and effort. It's better to buy several pots home to appreciate when the season comes. "Like chrysanthemum, it takes half a year to cultivate three or five pots by yourself, and it's not as long as the large-scale cultivation of Huanong. It's not worth the effort. "
