Luice is not a flower. It's a tower in the dirt。
At the beginning of spring and summer of each year, the plant, which is known as a plume, suddenly pulls its stiff ears up to one metre out of the grass, down to the last blooming, like a growing purple or pink tower。
In the tea park of taiwan's yonggang, farmers have long discovered its hidden identity — the green fat of winter。
Every october, 15 kilograms of yellow flower bean seed are planted on each hectare, and in the next february and march, the golden and yellow sea and the green tea tree are woven into a postcard. As tourists are busy taking pictures, the root tumors under the ground are busy translating the nitrogen in the air into a "nutrient" that plants can eat, making the next tea harvest 20 per cent more real on the ground。
This nature, which has allowed it to burn in the gardens of europe and america for a hundred years, has also allowed countless chinese newcomers to step into the same pit: to think it's good enough to make a fool of itself。
Luice is really a hard-core beauty。
It sleeps in the open, forgets to water it for a week. – the root tumour micro-fertilizer plant, which fixes the nitrogen that other plants can't grab, not only by themselves, but also by the fertile land。
But there are three "glass hearts" hidden behind this toughness: the roots are straight, like chopsticks stuck in the earth, and you die with a cut root when the planting takes place; the nitrous fertilizer of the seeding season, you follow like sugar for the diabetic, and then you burn the roots; and if you don't cut the bushes, it thinks the mission is done, and it's really flat。
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The luice family, which has mostly bioalkali, leaves and seeds of slightly toxic nature, is a natural deworming suit, but it also means that the need for a family with a cat or a dog or a young child is to be approached with caution and not to turn curiosity into an emergency room trip。
If planted in a badly ventilated dead corner, there will be brown-to-black foliage on the leaves, or a layer of white powder — that's powdered。
Precautionary measures are simple and harsh: leave it open, keep space like table seats, and the soil must be soft and drained like sponge cakes, and never use sticky water and soil。
The time and the method are right to grow a flower tower of that type。
Autumn is the law of gold, and between september and october the seeds were slightly slashed to the skins of the seed, 24 hours in the warm water and only 05 to 08 centimetres in the ground -- it happens to be twice the thickness of its seeds, a bit deeper, a little bit worse, a little less dry。
Stop pouring water in two weeks, and when it breaks down, winter will make it spring in cold temperatures. It's its flowering code book, and without this cold treatment, it'll only last the next year。
Such hybrid varieties as russell can grow up to one metre or two, and the ears of flowers are too heavy to bend, with a few branches in advance for crutches, much more decent than the flowers fall。
It's just a pass. It needs design。
Don't take it like a plant. It's a waste of material。
The garden is followed by a row of smoother flowers, with the front row accompanied by short tows or horns, which pulls out a sense of hierarchy in the instant; or a wave line along the wall, which softens the boundaries of concrete。
Cut down a half-open ear of flowers, 45 degrees in a vase, with a small spoon of sugar and a week of fragrance。
Higher players would plant it next to the season or the roses -- nitrogen nutrients left by the roots of the rubin flower when it was retired, just as roses love extra meals。
From the green fatty of the tea park in taiwan to the cut flowers at the chelsea flower show in london, from the drought-resistant vanguard to the fine garden background plate, luice has been proving that good plants do not need you to serve them, but only you know。
Knowing its straight temper, it spreads in the autumn; knowing its nitrogen-composed anxiety, giving only some potassium phosphorus fat in the current period; knowing its bioalkali defence, keeping distance。
When you stop irrigation with human anxiety, it returns seasons of flower towers and fat soil。
The ultimate pleasure of planting flowers has never been conquest, but this understanding。
Pick the right position, start the fall, less nitrogen, and soon your garden will harvest the purple tower that breathes。
