Brocade is an important ornamental flower in northern China, with lush foliage and bright colors. It can be planted in the corner of the courtyard and the lake, on trees, hedges and flowers at the edge of the forest, and on rockeries and slopes.
Brocade is a deciduous shrub, 3 meters high.
Branchlets thin, young branches with 2 rows of pilose.
Simple, opposite, oval or ovoid, with sharp apex, serrated leaf margin, hairy veins in the upper part and dense veins in the lower part.
Flowers 1 ~ 4 cymes, calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, corolla funnel-bell-shaped, purplish red or rose red, lobes 5.
The capsule is spherical.
The flowering period is from April to June.
Common varieties, varieties, varieties: beautiful brocade flowers, pale pink flowers, smaller flowers; White brocade flowers, nearly white flowers; Color-changing brocade, first white and green, then red; Brocade of flowers and leaves with white to yellow edges; Purple brocade with purple leaves and purple-pink flowers.
Brocade is fond of light, but also slightly resistant to shade.
Cold tolerance, drought tolerance and fear of waterlogging.
The requirements for soil are not strict and barren, but deep, moist loam rich in humus grows best.
Strong resistance to hydrogen chloride.
Brocade flowers are well-developed, with strong ability of germination and tillering, and cluster formation is fast.
Generally, you don't pay attention to the roundness of a tree, but cultivate it into a natural cluster tree.
Plastic tape 10 ~ 20cm, or evenly branched.
After planting, when the new shoots grow to 7 ~ 10 cm, the heart is removed many times in advance, and some inward buds are peeled off, and 3 ~ 5 skeleton branches and most lateral branches are cultivated.
When arranging trees in winter, the over-dense branches and cross branches are drained and cultivated for 2 ~ 3 years to form.
Maintenance and pruning at maturity are carried out in early spring. Because brocade flower belongs to the differentiation type of the year, flower buds are mainly planted on 1 ~ 2-year-old branches. Therefore, special attention should be paid to pruning in early spring. Generally, it is only necessary to comb the miscellaneous branches, properly prune the strong branches, lightly cut, short cut or shrink cut the rest branches, and try not to use medium or heavy cutting to avoid stimulating excessive growth.
Update and prune 1 time for 2 ~ 3 years, remove old branches more than 3 years, and promote the growth of new branches.
Generally, no seeds are left, and it is advisable to remove the residual flowers after flowering, which is both beautiful and can promote the growth of branches.