Which flower do you choose for Valentine's Day?

Qixi Festival, the ancient Chinese Valentine's Day. The story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl has been handed down since ancient times, and everyone in China knows all about it.

On that night, the earthly girls will be in the flower room in the courtyard, like the Weaver Girl in the sky praying for wisdom and exquisite craftsmanship, and under the grape trellis, they will eavesdrop on the whispers of love after the reunion of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

In our contemporary street, we see couples with roses in their hands and smiling couples, and smart and lively flower girls walking through the streets.

We all like to receive a bouquet of roses on Valentine's Day, but few people know what flowers the annual Cowherd and Weaver Girl will send to each other to express their love.

Which of the following statements do you prefer?

1. Zhu Dinghong

Why did the Cowherd and Weaver Girl send Zhu Dinghong to each other? Because the red flowers are opposite to each other, they are called "Cowherd and Weaver Girl Flowers" in many places.

Zhu Dinghong's flower words are: longing to be loved.

Zhu Dinghong likes the warm and humid environment and soft light, and usually blossoms in spring and summer. If the summer is taken care of properly, the residual flowers should be trimmed in time to replenish fertilizer, pay attention to cooling, ventilation, and keep moist. There will be the second and third flowering at the end of July and the following spring.

two。 Morning glory

Morning glory does not seem to have anything to do with Qixi Festival, in fact, its flower language is: love is eternal.

The name of morning glory, some people say, also has something to do with the cowherd. The editor has seen a group of beautiful morning glory pictures, the name is like this: infatuated cowherd morning glory, when can you come to Weaver's house.

Morning glory blossoms in summer and autumn, has strong adaptability, likes to grow in the position of sufficient light and ventilated environment, apply thin fertilizer once every half a month, and then water the basin soil after it is dry. Petunias pick their hearts when the branches grow to six or seven leaves and can continue to grow vines and blossom.

3. Osmanthus fragrans

Qixi Festival season sweet-scented osmanthus blossoms, sweet-scented osmanthus flowers, the Weaver Lady who lives in the heavenly world will certainly be attracted by the sweet-scented osmanthus of Guanghan Palace and pick one for her lover.

Sweet-scented osmanthus flower words: beautiful and auspicious, loyal and unyielding.

Raise sweet-scented osmanthus at home, the most avoid lack of light, poor ventilation, it is best placed in the southbound balcony, daily ventilation. During the growing period of sweet-scented osmanthus, it is necessary to keep the pot soil moist, fertilize once a month, and reduce watering at flowering stage to avoid affecting flowering.

4. Begonia flower

The flower language of crabapple flower has the meaning of parting sadness and bitter love.

And it also has a name, called "Immortal Flower", which is really suitable for Cowherd and Weaver Girl, a pair of unlucky lovebirds.

Begonia flowers do not like too much water, watering when the basin soil is dry, organic fertilizer every ten days, the temperature needs to be kept above 10 degrees, good ventilation, proper light, phosphate fertilizer is applied during the bud period, and the flowers are many and colorful.

5. Paeonia lactiflora

Paeonia lactiflora is a recognized love flower in ancient China, its flower language is: farewell, hard to part.

Presumably, when the cowherd and the weaver girl fell in love, they must have sent peony flowers, right? After being forced to part, which reunion is not hard to part with?

Peony flowers are afraid of stagnant water, are more resistant to cold, and like acidic, loose and well-drained environments. every year, when budding, flowering, bud pregnancy and branch and leaf differentiation, they need fertilization to supplement enough energy, in order to blossom more beautifully, pruning in time: wiping buds, thinning buds, pruning, removing residual flowers, nothing less.

6. And Tielian

And Tilian's flower language is: love lingering, always tie the knot of one heart.

This kind of flower, which is always used to describe happy love in ancient times, as well as the alias of "acacia lotus" and "concentric hibiscus", with two flowers on one stem, blooming and pedicel, is really the most standard annotation for lovers' yearning for beautiful love.

And Tilian likes mild sunshine, clear water, ventilated environment, it is best to use Rain Water, see more sun, keep the temperature between 15 and 24 degrees, apply organic fertilizer and water before flowering, the flowering period will be longer.

Compared with the roses we have already seen, is it better to match our traditional Qixi Festival with such classical beautiful and affectionate flowers?

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