Liu Zicheng, king of flower cultivation in Lingwu

Flowers wither in late autumn. However, when I walked into the flower base of Ningxia Purple Orange Bonsai Co., Ltd., founded by Liu Zicheng, the flower king of Dongta Town, Lingwu City, I saw nearly 100 kinds of rose flowers. The most amazing thing is that the pocket rose grown in the flower base is only the size of a coin, while the "overlord" rose blossoms have the size of a washbasin. It is understood that in this half-acre nursery, there are more than 100 rose varieties. Liu Zicheng said proudly: "Don't underestimate this half mu of land. I may be the only rose variety in the whole region. This is the variety I have collected all over the country for more than a decade."

More than a decade ago, Liu Zicheng went alone to the homes of villagers in Gansu and Xi'an to buy rose and rose varieties. "at that time, I walked all by myself. I had to walk 20 to 30 kilometers of mountain road every day. When I saw which villager's house had a unique variety of Chinese roses, I jumped on them and asked them if they were selling them." All the money he has is spent on buying flowers and growing them in his own vegetable field of more than 20 square meters. At the same time, he also applied for formal study in the planting Department of China Agricultural correspondence University. After the two-pronged approach of "local experience" and "discipline knowledge", Liu Zicheng's achievements in flower cultivation are becoming more and more obvious.

Liu Zicheng also went to other cities to inspect and study while working. After learning from the classics, Liu Zicheng, according to the growth habits of southern flowers, put his farm manure in a pot after high temperature fermentation as flower fertilizer, and then used cutting technology to cultivate southern roses, roses and other flowers for self-propagation and self-breeding, which enhanced the growth and breeding ability of southern famous, special, excellent and new flower seedlings in the north, and filled the gap in the cultivation and breeding of Lingwu flower seedlings. After more than 20 years of painstaking research, Liu Zicheng made use of new scientific and technological achievements to introduce, breed, breed four seasons chrysanthemum, dahlia, marigold, morning glory, Parthenocissus, rose and other flower varieties, greatly enriching the flower varieties in the northwest market, and exported to the seedling market and flower market inside and outside the region. As the head of the company, he developed dozens of pots of flowers and 20 square meters of greenhouse at the beginning of his business to a flower nursery base of more than 1200 mu, hundreds of varieties, an annual breeding of 800000 flowers, and a total output value of 2 million yuan. it has led to the upsurge of flower planting in Lingwu City and even the whole region.