How to maintain the fine-leaf cherry through the winter

As a matter of fact, the cold resistance of Sakura is quite good. It can grow healthily when it can be five degrees below zero or even ten degrees below zero in winter.

There is no problem that the fine-leaf Sakura in many northern regions can spend the whole cold winter in the open air. However, if you want Sakura to be healthier and more beautiful, you still need to take some necessary care.

The most suitable temperature for Sakura to grow is about fifteen or sixteen degrees Celsius. In addition, there should be proper lighting, proper watering, not too much watering in winter, timely fertilization and pruning.

How's it going? Now you know how to maintain Sakura Sakura through the winter. It turns out that the small fine-leaf beauty cherry winter is so strong, the maintenance method is very simple. So what else do we need to pay attention to in the process of maintaining the beautiful Sakura? Keep taking a look!

Conservation technology of fine-leaved cherry Sakura is a perennial herb of Verbenaceae, native to tropical America and usually used as a potted plant. In recent years, it has been introduced and cultivated as ornamental ground cover in Changsha area. Through several years of cultivation experiments, the author feels that the fine-leaf Sakura is worth popularizing in the urban green space, especially in the layout of large flower beds.

The fine-leaf cherry can be planted during the growing period, but it is better from May to June and September, when the survival rate is high and the reproduction speed is fast. The fine-leaf beautiful cherry is not strict with the soil, and the sandy loam soil without brick and stone is the best. Apply base fertilizer according to the standard of 500g/m2 before planting, and then flatten the soil. The rooting plants of fine-leaf beauty cherry and the newly cut segments can be used for planting. Lay the planting materials evenly on the finished soil surface, cover 1 cm to 2 cm thick soil, pour water thoroughly, and then spray water frequently every day. Generally, you can survive and reproduce after half a month.

Watering fine leaves beautiful cherry roots shallow, not resistant to drought, during the growth period can not lack of water, especially in dog days, otherwise less flowering. However, too much water and fertilizer, especially stagnant water, is easy to cause futile growth and affect the effect of the group, so we should be careful when watering. In general, less water should be watered in winter and spring, and there must be no shortage of water in summer and autumn. The watering time in the flowering period is better in the evening, so the group washed by the flood can be gradually restored at night and will not affect the ornamental effect during the day.

The overall height of fertilized fine-leaf Sakura should be kept below 20 cm. Therefore, do not apply too much fertilizer, especially too much nitrogen, otherwise the branches will grow and the population effect will be affected. It is a key to apply sufficient base fertilizer when planting, and then cover 1 cm thick rotten leaf soil every winter to supplement base fertilizer. In order to propagate the flowers, 1 ‰ urea and 1 ‰ potassium dihydrogen phosphate can also be sprayed once a month during flowering.

Ploughing to remove impurities in the fine-leaf beauty child Sakura should begin to remove weeds after survival, at this time to remove miscellaneous labor-saving, the effect is good. If you clean it up again in the next spring, you can basically control the growth of weeds. In every spring, when the fine-leaf cherry sprouts, ploughing in time and loosening the topsoil is beneficial to its growth. In addition, during the summer and autumn droughts, proper intertillage can alleviate the drought and increase the chances of tillering. Dodder may grow in the cherry blossom beds with fine leaves. This malignant weed spreads rapidly in a few days and is quite difficult to clean up. At present, there is still no effective drug clearance, and biological control is not ideal. Therefore, we should observe carefully, once found, immediately make great efforts to manually remove, never leave a hidden danger. Especially in the two seasons of spring, we should pay more attention to observe, this is also the most effective period to control the occurrence of dodder. If dodder is growing so fast that it is difficult to clean it up, it should be partially excavated and replanted.

Pest control fine-leaf beauty cherry has strong resistance, the author has not been infected with diseases and insect pests in the past few years. However, according to the policy of "giving priority to prevention and comprehensive prevention", drugs should be administered regularly, usually 1 ‰ omethoate plus 1 ‰ dichlorvos.

Highly controlled Fine Leaf Sakura is beautiful with luxuriant flowers and low and neat groups. To control the population height during the growing period, in addition to controlling water and fertilizer, there are the following measures: first, spraying 500ppm paclobutrazol once a month during the growing period can control the plant below 20 cm; second, if the population is too high and not very beautiful, it can be cut flat, cut short, and covered with 1 cm thick rotten leaf soil, which can be restored in a month.

Fine-leaf cherry has many advantages when it is used to decorate flower beds: it belongs to perennial flowers, but it does not have to change flowers, so as to reduce the workload; it is cold-resistant and can survive the winter safely in Changsha area; it can also bloom and bloom in hot summer as long as the soil is moist; the flowering period is long, and fine-leaf cherry blossoms in Changsha from mid-April to mid-November. The population effect is good, reproduction and renewal is easy, no choice of soil, few diseases and insects.

(the reporter is anonymous)

Maintenance and management of garden plant Beautiful Sakura in winter the common flowering plants of Beautiful Sakura are deeply loved by the majority of flower friends, whether indoor potted plants or courtyard plants, although their dazzling posture can not be concealed in the weedy and blooming courtyard. The beautiful cherry blossoms are colorful and beautiful in bloom. Morphological features: beautiful cherry is a perennial herb with beautiful manners, rich flowers and colors, and makes people linger when it is in full bloom, like a sea of flowers. The beautiful cherry plants are short and dense, and the flowers are colorful. Often cultivated at the age of 1-2 years. The stem is quadrangular, spreading horizontally, creeping, low and stout, tufted and covered with ground, the whole plant is gray pilose, 30-50 cm long. Leaves opposite with short stalks, oblong, ovoid or lanceolate triangular, margin notched coarsely or neatly obtusely serrate, leaf base often slit, spikes terminal, most florets densely arranged in corymbose shape. Bracts sublanceolate, calyx slender tubular, apex 5-lobed, Corolla funnelform, about 2 times as long as calyx tube, apex 5-lobed, lobe tip concave. There are many colors, there are white, pink, crimson, purple, blue and other different colors, but also a variety of complex colors, slightly fragrant. The flowering period is long, the florescence is from May to November, and blossoms continuously from April to Frosts Descent. Capsule, ripening period September-October, seed lifespan 2 years. Growth habits: like sunshine, not shade-tolerant, cold-tolerant, shade-tolerant, drought-intolerant, growing in sunny, loose and fertile soil, blooming. Like warm and humid climate, like the sun, not resistant to drought, not strict requirements on the soil, but in the loose, fertile, more humid neutral soil can take root, grow strong, bloom luxuriantly. Overwintering management: lighting: Sakura is a light-loving plant, which should be kept in a sunny place in winter and moved to the sunny place indoors before Frosts Descent. Beautiful cherry should give enough sunshine to produce large and gorgeous flowers, such as lack of light, plants are easy to grow, and flowers are sparse. Temperature: Sakura is also hardy and intolerant to frost. It goes dormant or dies when the winter temperature is below 4 ℃. The most suitable growth temperature is 15-25 ℃. Watering: to control watering in winter, it is appropriate to keep the basin soil slightly dry, you can spray water to the leaf surface to maintain air humidity. Fertilization: beautiful cherry likes fertilizer and wetting. In addition to applying base fertilizer, thin liquid fertilizer can be applied properly in winter. Potted soil: pot substrate should choose loose, fertile, good drainage performance of the cultivation soil, before planting, the pot bottom should be applied rotten organic fertilizer and some superphosphate as the base fertilizer. Pest control: there are mainly powdery mildew and downy mildew, which can be sprayed with 1000 times of methyl topiramate wettable powder. Insect pests are harmful to aphids and whiteflies, which are sprayed with 2.5% fish rattan essential oil 1000 times.