The rose blossoms all over the city, the Huaian people, you should know this city flower.

Huai'an in May

Rose spitting Fang is very moving!

Huai'an Rose Garden

Beijing South Road Rose Avenue

The History of Huai'an Rose

Xu Bin, a staff member of the Rose Studio in Rose Garden, said that Huai'an was once prosperous because of the Caohe River and salt transport, and the planting of garden flowers and trees also flourished. During the years of Qianlong and Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, Huai'an rose had been sown and cultivated, and it was flourishing in the years of Xianfeng and Tongzhi.

Liu Chuanchuo, a native of Huai'an in the late Qing Dynasty, said: "the rose flourished in the early years of Tongzhi, and it was widely planted in Huaiyang. It was planted in many departments, and it was appropriate that the group fragrance spectrum was not recorded in that year."

Liu E's travels to the Old disabled says: "Huai'an Rose, originally famous, has a large number of species, about 70 or 80 titles, of which Lantian Jasper is the most." Therefore, Chen Zhi's "ornamental Dendrology" textual research: the planting of rose began in Qinghuai, Jiangsu Province.

Chronology of Huai'an Rose events

In 1985, the standing Committee of Huaiyin Municipal people's Congress adopted a resolution to identify the rose as a city flower.

In 1987, the city rose garden was established, planting more than 700 rose varieties, becoming one of the bases to collect and breed the most rose varieties in the country.

From 1993 to 1994, domestic famous rose experts identified 1025 modern and ancient rose varieties in Huaiyin city, and identified 38 ancient rose varieties of 20 species. Huaiyin became a city with more ancient varieties of rose preserved in China at that time.

In May 1995, the Rose Garden was rated as one of the "eighth National Rose Center" by China Rose Association.

In 2013, the upgrading and renovation of the monthly garden was completed, and the monthly garden was integrated with the original zoo, which was opened to the public free of charge in November.

Huai'an rose has won many awards.

The city monthly garden has won a number of honors in recent years:

In 2015, the China (Nanyang) Rose Flower Show in 2015 won the special prize of potted rose, the gold award of bonsai rose and the silver award of potted rose.

In 2016, the Huaian Exhibition Park of the Beijing Rose Intercontinental Congress, built by the Rose Garden, won the special prize, and the boutique potted rose won the gold and bronze awards.

In 2017, at the Ninth China Flower Expo, the rose "Marco Polo" and "first Lady" selected by the Rose Garden won the Silver Award and the Excellence Award respectively.

How to maintain the rose?

The roses of the rose garden bloom as scheduled at the end of April every year, showing the public their amazing beauty, and the process of giving birth to this beauty often begins from the first winter.

From December to January every year, the staff will prune, fertilize and prevent the rose in the garden. Take simple pruning, for example, a rose often chooses the strongest branches and leaves three or four branches. "No more than five branches at most. Pruning adheres to the principle of outward bud mouth." In addition, it is time to fertilize the rose, usually in the way of organic fertilizer combined with compound fertilizer. "

In addition, every seven to ten days, the rose should be injected with medicine to prevent all kinds of diseases and insect pests. From April to November, when the rose flowers are in full bloom, we should also be diligent in pruning the failed flowers. "in addition to the residual flowers, we should also remove the following three or four leaves to ensure that the following flowers can bloom brightly."

How does the ordinary citizen raise the potted rose at home?

"Rose likes light and needs ventilation, so as long as you find that the soil in the basin is white, you have to water it." Xu Bin said that fertilizer is indispensable to plants, and citizens can make full use of "kitchen waste" when planting rose. "Potato skins, fish scales and vegetable leaves can all be used, but they must be diluted with water and fermented." For diseases and insect pests, Xu Bin suggested regularly using fungicides to "irrigate roots" to give priority to prevention.

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