Cultivation of garlic vine

It is very difficult to attract attention when rattan flowers do not bloom, because they are also covered with whole green leaves, and they do not study their identity in detail; once they bloom, it suddenly makes people realize that they will also blossom! Garlic vines are not blooming, as soon as they blossom, they are stunning. It's just such a soft and beautiful flower, how can there be a word "garlic" in its name?

Garlic vine, also known as Zhang's Ziwei, purple bell vine, belongs to the perennial vine of the family Liriodendron, native to tropical America. Plant trailing, tendril, leaves for two compound leaves, dark green oval, glossy. Flowers axillary, Cymes, Corolla tubular, opening 5-lobed. The flower is pink-purple when it blossoms, and then slowly turns into pink, and then becomes white and then falls. The flowering period is from spring to autumn, but spring and autumn are in full bloom. Because the flowers and leaves are rubbed with the smell of garlic, it is named garlic vine.

Garlic vines are suitable for both pot and ground planting, regardless of soil quality. The cultivation site must have enough light, otherwise the flowering is sparse or not, and the all-sunshine environment is the best. Due to the trailing nature of the plant, if it is allowed to stretch freely, the branches are easy to show clutter, so it is suggested that pruning can be carried out after blooming in spring every year. Sex likes high temperature, and the suitable temperature for growth is about 21-28 ℃. Spring and summer is the period of vigorous growth, and low temperature in winter will stop growing, so watering in winter needs to be reduced.

Propagation can be carried out by sowing or cutting, generally mainly by cutting propagation, as long as cut off healthy branches, inserted into the soil, about 1 month can root. Fertilization can be applied with base fertilizer in spring and topdressing in spring and summer, once every two weeks.

When the garlic vine is in full bloom, it seems to hang a mass of pink hydrangeas. It is a climbing plant with great ornamental value, and it is strong in nature and shows few diseases and insect pests. It is suitable for growing into flower corridors, or climbing on flower racks, walls and fences. Some people mistakenly call garlic vine Violet, Violet is actually a kind of cruciferous grass flower, it is suggested that it is more appropriate to call garlic vine and will not be confused.