Elegant flower pots made by heaven ~ snow in June

June snow is one of the commonly used trees in Chinese bonsai, which has the characteristics of thin leaves, numerous flowers, dense branches, thick stem and root dew. The tree species that beginners must choose to enter the pit!

Plant knowledge: evergreen shrubs with numerous and dense branches. Leaves small, opposite, slightly leathery, ovate or long oval, entire, surface dark green. From June to July in summer, axillary or terminal white florets, white with reddish or pinkish purple, solitary or fascicled, Corolla funnel-shaped. When in full bloom, it is like snowflakes scattered, hence the name "June Snow".

Common varieties:

1. Double snow in June, flowers are double.

2. Double June snow, double flower.

3. Flower and leaf June snow, also known as variegated leaf June snow. There are white markings on the leaves.

4. It snows in Phnom Penh in June, with yellow lines on the edge of the leaf.

Pot skills: it is appropriate to carry out in 2-3 months, choose a lighter purple sand basin or glaze basin, basin color should be slightly darker, in contrast with flower color. The basin soil is required to be a sandy loam rich in organic matter, loose and fertile, with good drainage and air permeability. (split propagation was carried out in March and cutting propagation was carried out from April to October. )

Modeling skills: June snow branch dry soft and tough, can withstand a variety of flat binding, and tenacious vitality, "strong pruning" is not a problem, straight dry type, Qiu qu type, cliff type, jungle type are good choices. (there is not too much expansion here. Bonsai modeling has been written in detail before. Interested friends can look at the history.)

Daily maintenance:

Lighting: June snow likes shade, so summer should be kept in a semi-shady place. Winter in the indoor winter, the room temperature is not less than 5 degrees, but it should not be too high, usually at 10-20 degrees (friends in the north, remember not to put it next to the heating)

Water and fertilizer management: snow bonsai growing season in June should be often watered, should not be too dry and wet for a long time, spray water to the leaf surface 1-2 times a day in summer (soil caking is hard and need to invade the basin); reduce watering times in winter and keep the basin soil moist and slightly dry. 0.5% phosphate and potassium fertilizer solution is applied 2-3 times a year from April to May, and thin organic fertilizer solution is applied 1-2 times in Ladong, which is not suitable for other seasons. Avoid applying thick fertilizer.

Turn the basin and trim: turn the basin once every 1-2 years, in spring from February to March or late autumn, remove all the old soil and trim the roots properly. It can be combined with turning the basin to lift the root to form a hanging root to improve the ornamental value. After the semi-deciduous leaves in winter to the sprouting of the following spring, plastic pruning is carried out, cutting long and ungrown branches, thinning the thin and weak branches that are too dense, cutting off the branches of diseases and insect pests and other messy branches that affect the ornamental; coring, wiping buds, removing branches and so on are carried out at the right time during the growing period. to keep it in a beautiful shape.

Pest control: there are occasional aphids and snails in snow bonsai in June. Aphids can be sprayed with wind oil essence diluted 500,600 times, and snails can be sprayed with 58% wind and lightning excited EC 1500 times. Sometimes you will get root rot. At the beginning of the disease, use 12% oleic acid copper EC 600-1000 times, or 50% root rot 800 times solution to control the root and foliar spray, spray (irrigation) once every 3-5 days, continuous spray (irrigation) 3-4 times.

Pile-seeking experience: the southern region is more common in the north-facing shady ridges, such as the tree stump is too large to carry, cut some plastic branches to take back to insert. It's time to dig a tree stump in winter, so let's get moving quickly.

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