A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned from Xiangshan Park that Xiangshan Park's main flower in spring - buttercup, has completed the landscape arrangement. Buttercup is known as the "king of mountain flowers", and more than 6,000 plants have been arranged in the park this year, mainly distributed in the Jiari Garden, Fenglin Village and other scenic spots on the main road in the north and south of the park. After continuous exploration and experimentation, the overall flower stem of the buttercup has been shortened by an average of 3 to 5 cm, and the flowering period is expected to be extended by two weeks, which is expected to last until mid-May. The color of the flowers is also more delicate, bringing a better ornamental effect to the flowers.
"Buttercup, the word 'Ranunculus' and the eternal unchanged 'Ranunculus' word is the same sound, the biggest feature of this flower is that the number of petals is particularly large, the most can reach 20 to 30 layers, and its flower color is particularly gorgeous, particularly eye-catching, is worthy of the name of the 'King of Mountain Flowers'......" Speaking of buttercup, Wang Zheng, the head of the flower class of the Xiangshan Park Gardening Team, has endless words, this usually more shy young man, mentioned his profession immediately opened the "chatterbox".
Every spring, Xiangshan Park uses buttercup for landscape arrangement, and it has been more than 10 years now. In the north and south main roads of the park, Jiari Garden, Fenglin Village and other scenic spots, you can see this kind of flower known as the "king of mountain flowers", has been the park as the main flower in spring, from the beginning many tourists do not know its name, to now many tourists can say its characteristics, habits.
In the process of planting year after year, the professional technicians of Xiangshan Park have also summed up a set of their own experience in the exploration. "According to the characteristics of the buttercup, the most important thing we need to solve is that its branches are easy to break, and this year's buttercup growth is finally growing according to the way we want. Wang Zheng said proudly.
According to reports, the buttercup plant is taller, the flower stem is slender, and the flower head is relatively full and heavy, easy to break, the flowers in the garden in the past are often not finished because of the broken effect of the ornamental effect. According to the fact that the flower stems are too high, Wang Zheng and his colleagues Ye Sai and others in the process of greenhouse maintenance, use the shortening of the sunshine time to reduce the temperature and reduce the frequency of watering, to control the growth rate of the flower stems, "In our saying, it is to hold back, hold the flower stems short and thick, so that you can have more strength to support the flower heads." Wang Zheng said.
Solving the problem of flower stems, prolonging the flowering period and showy flower color are also the effects that Wang Zheng and they continue to strive to achieve. For this reason, Xiangshan has made a fuss about fertilizer. "We have also made improvements in the fertilizer, changing the previous chemical fertilizer to organic fertilizer such as chicken manure, and adding the organic media generated by our park's own garden waste transformation, so that using 50% garden waste medium and 50% sand and loess can improve the air permeability and water permeability of the soil, so that the flowers can grow stronger. Wang Zheng dug out a buttercup while introducing, "There is also a special thing, you see that this flower is not used in our traditional plastic pots for planting flowers, but a non-woven bag that we sew by ourselves." ”
A reporter from Beiqing Daily saw at the scene that a non-woven bag that has been stained with soil gray has replaced a plastic flower pot to wrap the roots of the flowers, which is also to increase the permeability between the roots and the soil, and use it to better absorb nutrients. "After the seedlings are planted in the ground, in about two months, we will use hemp residue water for the first time, and when they are planted in the garden, we will spray a layer of fertilizer water to top dressing the foliage, just like drizzling a layer of oil before stir-frying out of the pot, so that the flowering period will be longer and the flower color will be more gorgeous. Wang Zheng said.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wang Bin
Editor/Peng Xiaofei