When are flower beds decorated with fragrant snowballs planted? How?

The fragrant snowball plant is short and multi-branched, the flowers are white and fragrant, attracting a large number of bees, small flowers dense into balls, white, lilac, deep purple, purple and other colors, as well as large flowers, white edges and variegated leaves, with slight fragrance, it is not only an excellent flower for the layout of rock garden, but also an excellent border material for flower beds and flower borders, and potted ornamental is also very good. When will fragrant snowballs be sown? How do you raise it?

When will fragrant snowballs be sown?

The sowing season of fragrant snowball seeds varies from north to south. In the northern region, the seeds are usually sown in the greenhouse around March in spring, and the temperature should be controlled at about 20 ℃. The time of emergence after sowing is very short, it only takes 5 days to change, and it can be planted in the pot when 3-5 true leaves are grown. In contrast, in North China and the south, seeds are often sown in autumn, about between August and September, and cold beds are used to protect them from winter after sowing.

Second, how to raise fragrant snowballs?

1. Soil

When small flowers are planted in the home, most of them are planted in pots, and the soil can be arranged in many ways, such as garden soil plus furnace soil, garden soil plus ceramsite plus coarse sand, grass ash plus furnace soil plus ceramsite, and so on, so as to improve the drainage performance of the soil as far as possible. does not affect the respiration ability of the plant root system. After the nutrient soil is ready, the plant can go into the pot. Be sure to water it at the first time after entering the pot, and put it in a place where there is no strong light, so that the plant can adapt to this environment more quickly.

two。 Into the basin

The seedlings of fragrant snowballs are fastidious when they are put into the basin, but they are not just inserted at random. First of all, put the seedlings into the flowerpot with subsoil, and then cover the surroundings with a layer of coarse-grained soil, which can play the role of maximum drainage, and then cover the soil with a good layer of base fertilizer, its height should not reach the new leaves of the seedlings, and it should be lower than the edge of the flowerpot, and the fertilizer should be fully mixed with the soil so as not to concentrate the fertilizer in one place, if it directly touches the root system of the seedling. It is likely to burn the seedlings and affect their growth.

3. Pick the heart

Before flowering, there is a very important step, that is to pick the top leaf center, usually need to be carried out twice, the first is to let the plant grow more lateral branches, the second is to enable the plant to produce more flowers. The plant can grow into a shaped seedling half a month after transplanting, and this is the best time to pick leaves for the first time, and the length of the branches on the top depends on the specific growth of the plant.

Generally, only three to five leaves can be left, and the rest can be removed. Later, you can find that the plant will sprout some side branches and become more rounded and plump, but in order for the plant to bloom more flowers during the flowering period, at this time it is necessary to stop the growth of the branches, the removal of the branches is the same as the first operation, at least the role is different.