How to care for plum blossoms
Let me tell you about how to care for plum blossoms and some related experience about the characteristics and spiritual planting of flowers, details are as follows:
Chinese people especially love plum blossoms, not only for their charming appearance but also for their determination to "bloom alone in the cold forest" and "emit fragrance from the bitter cold," which represents the spirit of hard struggle of the nation. Many people love plum blossoms, but few people cultivate them, mainly because they are afraid of not being able to grow them well in pots. Today, let's enjoy plum blossoms together and learn how to care for them.
Plum Blossom Basics
Plum blossoms belong to small trees and rare shrubs, mainly growing in southern China. According to records, plum blossoms have a history of over 3,000 years of growth in China.梅花, pine, and bamboo are known as the three friends of winter, while plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum are known as the four gentlemen of flowers.
Chinese people love plum blossoms, not only for outdoor planting but also for keeping them as potted plants indoors. There are many varieties of plum blossoms, which can be divided into five main categories:
Upright plum: The most common type of plum blossom with branches growing upwards or obliquely upwards.
weeping plum: Branches grow downwards.
Apricot-plum: A hybrid of apricot and plum with faint fragrance or no fragrance.
Plum-lemon: A hybrid of plum and lemon with large flowers.
Dragon-shaped plum: Twisted branches, relatively rare.
How to care for plum blossoms
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Among these types, the most commonly cultivated by everyone is the upright plum, which is divided into categories such as palace powder, yellow fragrance, jade butterfly, green calyx, river plum, cinnabar, and gold splash, etc.
When it comes to plum blossoms, many flower enthusiasts love them and want to grow them but are afraid of not being able to do a good job. In fact, it's not difficult to care for plum blossoms. Let's quickly learn some care techniques.