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This spring, I bought the Internet celebrity plant Blue Snowflake. When the seedlings arrived, they looked at the small seedlings that were not big and full of expectation.
I even made up a picture in my head: in my small courtyard, blue snowflakes leaning against the brick wall, blooming a sea of blue flowers.
But the reality is very face-shattering.
My blue snowflakes only bloomed once this summer, and I was busy in those days, I looked at them twice, and then I felt that in a few days, the flowers were all gone.
After repruning, the branches of the blue snowflake grew messily, and they did not bloom for a long time.
Today, I will talk to you about the "blue snowflake" I entered the pit.
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Blue snowflake, also known as blue flower, mountain gray firewood, false indigo, horned pillar flower, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Blue snowflake in the family White-flowered Danaceae.
Its leaves are broadly ovate or inverted ovate, the base of the leaf is more slender, and then gradually widened, to the tip of the leaf becomes more pointed, but there are also many leaf tips that are more rounded and blunt.
At first glance, the leaves of the blue snowflake are a bit similar to the leaves of goji berries.
What's more special is its flowers.
Inflorescences are spike-like and grow on short stalks at the tips of shoots or axils of 1-3 leaf axils on the upper part of the branches.
The corolla tube of the blue snowflake, like the pine pine, is particularly slender, and the corolla is split into five pieces. The lobes are inverted triangular, and each lobe has a distinct midrib in the middle, dividing the triangular lobes equally.
The corolla tube is purplish red, the corolla is blue, and the 5-petal snowflake looks very chic.
There are 15-30 flowers on each inflorescence of blue snowflakes, and if pruned properly, the branches bloom and the blue flowers are stacked on top of each other, which is very stunning.
Blue snowflakes bloom for a long time, from April to October, and they still bloom well in the hot summer.
Of course, the premise is that you have to be able to raise it. If it is properly maintained and trimmed relatively well, it is like this, it will not be raised, I am afraid it will be a different picture.
My blue snowflakes bloomed once this summer, and after cutting, they stopped blooming. Just when I was very disappointed, in the morning, I found that another cluster of flowers was blooming.
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Blue snowflakes like a warm and humid growth environment, light love, more heat-resistant, relatively shade-tolerant, and can be regarded as a kind of flower and grass with strong adaptability.
Blue snowflakes can be planted in pots to decorate balconies, or they can be planted in the ground, and many people like to prune them into flower balls, and others, straighten out their branches and grow into a flower wall.
It has strong branching ability, resistant to pruning, can do a variety of shapes, and is a "net red" in horticulture.
Many people buy blue snowflakes, but because they can't maintain them, they put blue snowflakes longitudinally, the branches are oblique, and they look messy.
So that many flower friends are annoyed and regard it as a "big pit goods".
The reason is that I still can't understand its nature.
Although blue snowflakes are more solid, in fact, they have certain requirements for the growth environment, such as temperature, humidity, light, etc.
Let's just say light, that's enough, at least 4 hours a day in direct light.
Let's just say my blue snowflake, kept in my small courtyard, I put it against the south wall, originally the light is not very good, and the ventilation is not very good, so the branches are relatively thin.
Later I put it on the north side of the tunnel, where the light was slightly better, no, there were flowers blooming again in the past two days.
Although it likes light, it is also easily injured when exposed to the noon sun in summer.
In addition, the temperature is relatively resistant to high temperatures, but the temperature is too high, the water evaporates a lot, and the watering is not timely, the blue snowflakes are also easy to hang.
Blue snowflakes alone each cluster of flowers, in fact, is only a week or two, if you want its flowering period to be long, you have to prune frequently, let it grow more new branches, this cluster of flowers thanks, that cluster of flowers is blooming, so much, it will lengthen the flowering period.
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To maintain blue snowflakes, you must be a careful and diligent person.
Watering and fertilizing in time, during the growth process, it is still necessary to pay attention to the protection of diseases and pests. It's like serving crops, you have to pay attention to it.
"Stocking" is not good for raising blue snowflakes.
Seeing other people's blue snowflakes, blooming into a sea of flowers, a flower wall, one flower bulb, excited to buy back, but found that it grew messy, suspected of being deceived.
In fact, otherwise, people have worked hard!
The above is a little understanding of Blue Snowflake, this article dragged on for several days from the plan to the end.
When I first started writing, my blue snowflakes only bloomed once, and I thought they would not bloom again this year, but who knew that I hadn't finished writing, but I found that the blue snowflakes were blooming again.
Just deleted and corrected some more, hurry up and send it, I'm afraid that if it drags on, the situation of Blue Snowflake will change!
About the author
Heart Pearl: Intermediate agronomist, plant lover. Welcome to the "roaming vegetation" to share plant knowledge and feel the beauty of the countryside. Grass and wood heart, country taste, fine taste, rambling!