Maintenance and management of summer dormant flowers

Like cold and cool afraid of hot bulb flowers, often dormant or semi-dormant to adapt to the high temperature and heat of the south. At this time, they grow slowly and have a weak metabolism. After dormancy, some varieties still keep green leaves, such as orchids, geraniums, begonias, etc., which are called evergreen dormancy; some flowers, such as daffodils, cyclamen, hyacinth, etc., are called deciduous dormancy. In summer, they must be carefully maintained according to this physiological characteristic in order to make them spend the summer safely. Therefore, it is required to do:

(1) shading and ventilation

After summer, dormant flowers should be placed in a ventilated and cool place to avoid direct sunlight, such as high temperature, but also often spray water around the plant and the ground, in order to reduce the temperature and increase humidity.

(2) controlled watering

For summer dormant flowers, it is necessary to strictly control the amount of watering, if the watering is too much, the pot soil is too wet, it is easy to rot the root; but watering too little, it is easy to make the root of the plant shrink. Therefore, it is appropriate to keep the basin soil slightly moist.

(3) prevent rain

As the dormant period of summer flowers is in the rainy season, if the plant is drenched by rain or stagnant water in the basin after rain, it is very easy to cause the root or ball of the plant to rot and cause fallen leaves. Therefore, the pot plant should be placed in a place of shelter from wind and rain.

(4) stop fertilizing.

During the period of summer dormancy, because the physiological activity of the plant weakens and consumes very little nutrients, it does not need to apply any fertilizer, otherwise it is easy to cause rotten roots or balls, and even the whole plant to die.

In addition, after the tubers or bulbs of cyclamen, hyacinth, tulips, freesia and other bulbs are dormant, their bulbs can be dug out to remove dead leaves and soil and stored in ventilated, cool and dry places (such as lilies can be buried with river sand). When the weather turns cool and the temperature gets lower, this kind of summer dormant flowers will soon shake their spirits and start new growth.