Sleeping beauty in flowers, a blossom is beautiful in heaven!
Unlike the bowl lotus, the leaves of the water lily are all floating on the surface of the water, and the flowers open during the day and close at night, like a shy little beauty, especially cute.
Like the bowl lotus, water lilies also like water, can be planted in the basin, can also be raised in large tanks, if there is a small pond, you can also raise a piece in the small pond, when the flowering with the wind swinging, the pavilion is beautiful!
So what are the beautiful varieties of water lilies introduced by this flower? Let's take a look!
Red spider: small water lily, flowering red, planted with a pot of about 20cm.
Sioux people: small and medium-sized water lilies, flowering yellow, 20cm pot is completely enough.
Essence: Small and medium-sized water lilies, blooming pale yellow flowers, fairy fluttering, need more than 25cm pot planting.
Stevenstron: Medium-sized water lily, with red flowers, the number of petals can reach 26, requiring more than 25 cm pots.
Clyde Akens: Small and medium-sized water lilies, with orange-yellow flowers, require pots of more than 25 cm.
Pink Dawn: Medium-sized water lily, flowering pink white, temperature changes will change color, compound petal variety.
Aura: Small and medium-sized water lilies, especially abundant flowers, generally need more than 20cm pots.
Krizanza: Small water lily, with orange-white flowers, slightly different colors.
Mexican Yellow: Small and medium-sized water lilies, a particularly yellow-flowered variety with a pleasant sweet fragrance, blooming at noon and closing in the evening.
Van visha: chimera, orange-red doped with golden spots, belongs to the gold-sprinkled variety, the flower color is changeable, so it is also known as the queen of change.
Ubon Ratchathani: slightly hardy, the flower color will appear pink, yellow and orange red with temperature and light, and the flowering is uninterrupted, which is the early flowering of water lilies.
Zi Jenny: Miniature, small balconies can also raise varieties, very suitable for people without yards.
Little Sea: Miniature water lily, flowering yellow, small and cute.
How to raise water lilies?
1. Water lilies, like bowl lotuses, are planted from the beginning of planting lotuses. What you receive is the seed lotus as shown in the following figure.
2, planting water lily pots, we can choose different pots according to different varieties, miniature water lilies can choose about 18cm, small about 20cm, small and medium-sized 25cm or more is the best.
3, planting water lilies soil, you can go to the pond to dig some pond mud, but there may be small insects dug outside, you can directly buy 1-2 bags of pond soil to use. Add a layer of soil to the bottom of the pot, and you can also mix some water lily special fertilizer as the bottom fertilizer.
4, the purchased water lily seed lotus in the pot, remember that the root part should be completely buried in the soil. Generally obliquely 45 degrees, the bud point is planted upwards, and the bottom is completely covered with soil, leaving only a little stalk of the upper part slightly exposed, and the rest of the soil is buried.
5, in fact, there is another planting method of water lilies, which is what everyone calls the potting method, that is, planting water lilies in a slightly smaller pot, and then putting the whole into a large pot with water after planting! Because the water lily is not like the bowl lotus can continue to grow lotus, its roots will only continue to grow larger, so the lower part of the pot is smaller, but the caliber must be large, the caliber must be large, the leaves will be larger, and the flowering will be larger!
6, after adding water, put the basin in a place with good light, usually see less water to add water, as long as more sun, do not lack water, you can make the water lily grow more and more vigorous!
7, when the water lily begins to emerge small leaves, remember to let the leaves float on the surface of the water, do not put it outside the pot, can not let it not touch the water surface, and even the two leaves do not overlap,
8, home water lilies, if there are small insects in the pot, you can sprinkle some mosquito coil ash insecticide and insect eggs, you can also put 1-2 small fish, pay attention to the small fish put into it do not eat leaves.
9, water lilies than bowl lotus flowering more, the whole summer is in this one after another flowering, wait until the late autumn weather becomes cold, the leaves on the ground will wilt, you can move the pots to the house, or directly dig out indoor preservation, to prevent winter frostbite.
After reading the introduction of flowers, do you think that water lilies are actually quite good to raise? Flower lovers who like to raise water lilies, hurry up and start now, wait for the warmth to plant one, and you can see beautiful water lilies in the summer!