Know a kind of plant every day: honeysuckle, do you know what else it is called?

Honeysuckle is also called honeysuckle, and its name comes from Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, "the old and the new are related to each other, yellow and white, so it is called honeysuckle."

Honeysuckle means honest love, dedicated love, immutable love and true love.

The story of honeysuckle is that once upon a time there was a family in a mountain village in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces with two daughters named Jinhua and honeysuckle. Later, my sister Jinhua got sick and spread it to her younger sister honeysuckle, and the two died soon after they got the "heat virus". But a few years after the two sisters died, a yellow-and-white flower grew on their graves, and it was found to have a wonderful effect on the treatment of "heat virus", hence the now-familiar name.

How to plant honeysuckle bonsai?

Honeysuckle is also called honeysuckle it has a strong adaptability to the surrounding environment, so making bonsai with honeysuckle is a good choice for beginners.

Honeysuckle usually sees flowers in April and stops picking hearts in March. In May every year, its flowering time is about 30 days. Properly managed, it will blossom for a second time in September. Honeysuckle plants are widely distributed in most of the plains and mountainous areas. It is best to choose humus soil to grow honeysuckle. There are few insect pests, drought and waterlogging tolerance, easy to survive. Like dampness, like yang, like fertilizer, and ensuring the fertility of the soil is an important prerequisite for the flowering of honeysuckle.

How to choose the stump of honeysuckle?

It is selected that the root system is well developed and the branches are stout and varied. The appearance is simple and the contraction is too natural. For honeysuckle branches can also be directional cultivation to achieve their own ideal state.

Maintenance

When planting bonsai of honeysuckle, regardless of season. Keep the basin soil moist during planting. It is conducive to the survival of newly planted plants. During the growth period of honeysuckle, it is necessary to maintain adequate water and fertilizer nutrients. Generally speaking, it is best to use bean dregs as fertilizer. For the shape of bonsai, there should be at least 3 main branches according to the size of the tree, and about 3 new buds should be left for each branch. Fertilize the flowers before they bloom and after they fade.

For honeysuckle bonsai, it is more important to wipe the buds and pick the heart. The rule of sprouting is to remove the vigorous growth, erase the weak branches that can not blossom, and wipe the buds that affect the shape of the tree.

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