Azalea flower language: love and happiness, high fortune, exuberance, innocence, loyalty, homesickness.
Azalea flower language: prosperity and good luck, resilience and optimism, prosperous career. The "grass flower spectrum" has a cloud: "Yingshanhong if born full of mountain tops, its year of abundance and stability, people compete to pick."
Western azalea also has a special hobby. They believe that the azalea flowers flourish. It is a good omen of "good luck, business is booming", especially the red azalea is more so.
For the white azalea, it is thought to be clear and unassuming, men and women to give each other, more elegant. For the red and white azalea, the meaning is more profound, said: I hope to integrate with you, *** with the creation of a better tomorrow.
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Soil
Azalea is a shade-loving plant, direct sunlight is detrimental to its growth, so the azalea specialized garden is best chosen in a place where there is shade from trees, or when doing green design, it is taken into account, intentionally configure trees in the specialized garden. Azalea like well-drained acidic soil.
But because of the various specialized gardens and landscapes are to use cement for roads and paving, so that the azalea planting site soil sloughing, alkaline and serious, so it is necessary to planting site soil for replacement, and add a certain amount of peat soil. North of the Yangtze River are potted ornamental. Potting soil with rotting leaves, sand, the same soil (7:2:1), mixed with cake fertilizer, stable fertilizer, etc., mixed well for planting. Generally spring in March on the pot or change the soil.
South of the Yangtze River to the ground mainly planted in the spring before the buds planted, the location should be selected in the ventilation, semi-shady place, the soil requires loose, fertile, rich in humus, acidic sandy loam is appropriate, and should not be waterlogged, otherwise not conducive to normal growth of rhododendron. After planting step, watering.
Planting
The azalea is best suited for planting in early spring or late fall, such as planting in other seasons, must be set up in the shade, planting must make the root system and soil solid, but should not be too tight, and so that the soil surface near the rootstock is curved, so that not only to protect the plant superficial root system from freezing cold, but also conducive to drainage.
Temperature
Mid and late April moved out of the greenhouse, first placed in the leeward and sunny place, summer shade, or placed in the shade under the tree, avoiding strong direct sunlight. Growth temperature 15-25 ℃, the highest temperature of 32 ℃. Autumn and mid-October began to move indoors, placed in full sun in winter, room temperature to maintain 5-10 ℃, the lowest temperature can not be lower than 5 ℃, or stop growing.
Watering
The azalea's requirement for soil dryness is moist but not wet. Generally in spring and fall, the azalea planted in the open ground can be watered thoroughly every 2-3 days, in the hot summer, watering at least once a day. Daily watering, do not use alkaline water, watering should also pay attention to the water temperature should not be too cold, especially in the hot summer, watered with too cold water, resulting in a sudden decrease in soil temperature, affecting the root system to absorb water, interfering with the physiological balance of the plant.
Planting and replacing the soil after watering 1 thorough water, so that the root system and the soil in full contact, in order to facilitate root survival and growth. Attention to watering during the growing period, from March, gradually increase the amount of watering, especially in summer can not be short of water, often keep the potting soil moist, but do not water, after September to reduce watering, after the winter into the room, then the potting soil should be dry before watering.
Humidity
Azalea like air humidity environment, but some of the azalea specialized garden are built in the square, road sides, air flow fast, relatively dry, so must often spray azalea leaves or spray the surrounding air, so that the azalea garden around the air to keep moist.
Fertilization
In the late winter and early spring of each year, it is best to apply some organic fertilizer to the azalea garden as a base fertilizer. 4-5 months after the azalea bloom, due to the plant in the flowering period to consume a large number of nutrients, with the leaf buds sprouting, the new tops of the twigs, can be chased every 15 days or so of fertilizer. Into the volt, most of the branch tips have stopped growing, this is the hot season, physiological activities weakened, you can no longer chase fertilizer.
After the fall, the climate is becoming cooler, and sometimes there are autumn rains, the temperature and humidity is suitable for azalea growth, this time you can do the last fertilizer, after the winter is generally not suitable for fertilizer.
Reasonable fertilization is the key to good azalea, like fertilizer and avoid thick fertilizer, in the spring and autumn growing season every 10 days Shi 1 thin cake fertilizer liquid water, can be used to amoy water, peels, leaves and other composting and fermentation. In the fall can also increase some phosphorus, potassium fertilizer, available fish, chicken offal and wash water with rice water and some fruit composted.
In addition to the above homemade household fertilizers, you can also buy some household fertilizers with the use of, but remember to "thin" fertilizer appropriate application. Before winter, apply a dry fertilizer (a small amount), do not fertilize the bottom of the pot when changing pots. In addition, no matter watering or fertilization water should not be used directly with tap water, should be acidified (plus ferrous sulfate or vinegar), in the pH value of 6 or so before use.
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