"Guangqun Fangpu" records: "Hydrangea, wood, hairy, blue leaves, slightly black and astringent, blooming in spring and month, with five petals and a hundred flowers."

Hydrangea is actually very small, but twenty or thirty small flowers get together and look like a beautiful hydrangea from a distance. No wonder the ancients described it as "a hundred flowers blossom and Luan is like a ball".

White hydrangea was called snowball in ancient times.

For example, it is recorded in "Medicine Garden in the Same Spring": "Snowballs and jade balls all bloom in March. Snowball is white, gloomy, often drenched with fragrance, fresh and abnormal, with flowers as big as a bucket and slightly fragrant.

Mu Xiuqiu should be a kind of flower that takes great care of the mood of flower watchers, so it is just the right time to bloom, the flowers are gone and the spring is round.

Next, it will be an endless green, fat, red and thin summer ~

Every petal of Mu Xiuqiu is green and full of vitality, and you can feel the beating of every fresh life.

Mu Xiuqiu is also widely used, and the main flower in floral works is more suitable.

In the living room and bedroom at home, hydrangea vases are fresh, elegant and full of vitality.

Mu Xiuqiu can be used not only as decoration, but also to absorb harmful gases and freshen the air.

Growth environment of hydrangea

Mu Xiuqiu likes light, is slightly resistant to shade, likes warm and humid climate, is cold-resistant, and should grow in fertile, moist and well-drained soil. Cold-resistant, adaptable to general soil, born in wet and fertile places.

Strong growth, strong germination ability and tillering ability, seeds have the habit of germination every other year.

Main distribution range

Horticultural species are cultivated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hebei provinces. The type specimens were collected from Phoenix Mountain in Shanghai.

breeding method

Sowing: Viburnum hydrangea usually propagates through seeds. Seeds were collected in June 5438+065438+ 10, washed and layered at low temperature until sowing in the next spring, when the soil was slightly thicker, and then covered with grass.

In June of that year, some of them germinated and unearthed. At this time, you can lift the grass to cover the shade. If you stay in bed for 2 years, you can change the bed and plant it alone. After 4-5 years, you can transplant them to beautify the environment.

Grafting: Viburnum hydrangea is grafted in early March (before bud germination). Take the branches of the flowering mother tree and cut off a section about 5 cm long as a scion. It is ideal to leave terminal buds, and high grafting is generally used.

After grafting, hydrangea will be placed in the shade. After the scion leaves germinate, they are directly placed in the sun and bloom in the first year after survival.

Daily maintenance skills

Soil: Viburnum hydrangea has strong adaptability. Sandy soil, clay and general soil can be cultivated, and the roots of seedlings cultivated in sandy soil are developed.

Transplanting: Viburnum hydrangea is easy to survive and should be carried out before germination in early spring, preferably in a semi-shady place. Pay attention to fertilizer and water management after survival.

Fertilization: Viburnum hydrangea should be applied thinly and frequently. Folium phyllanthi can be sprayed with11000 ferrous sulfate solution and fertilized once after flowering.

Pruning: the main branches of Viburnum hydrangea are easy to germinate and disturb the tree shape. After flowering, it can be trimmed properly, and the tips of long branches should be cut off in summer to form a whole plant.

Text/Half City Landscape Garden Flowers and Plants

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