Planting Tips

Chapter 48 What is a combined potted plant? What should be paid attention to in a combined potted plant?

Combination potted plants, also known as compound cultivation, is to plant several kinds of flowers in one flower pot to form a wonderful potted plant landscape to enhance the viewing pleasure.

This form of cultivation has at least the following advantages: First, it is more conducive to the growth of flowers than traditional potted plants; secondly, the various flowers that have been configured and combined are more ornamental; third, the combined potted plants can be placed in various forms according to local conditions. put, flexible and convenient.Combination potted plants come in all shapes and sizes, but the rich variety of flowers can give you the potential to fully develop.However, in the selection and matching of co-planted flowers, the following aspects should be paid attention to.

(1) The height of the flower plants should match, and the combination of erect flowers and creeping flowers should be properly coordinated in terms of leaf shape, leaf color, flower shape, flower color, and flowering period.

(2) The habits of flowers should be similar, and the requirements for temperature, humidity, light, water, soil, fertilizer, and pH should be close to each other, which is convenient for survival and maintenance management.

(3) The growth potential of flowers should be similar, otherwise the flowers with weak growth potential will be squeezed out by the vigorous flower species.All kinds of flowers should live in harmony and complement each other ecologically.For example, on one side of a rectangular flower pot, a few plants of Xanthophyllum can be planted intensively, and a few plants of low grass flowers such as daisies and purple lily can be planted scattered on the other part, which can reflect the charm of tropical landscape.Another example is to plant a cliff-shaped orchid orchid in the front of the pot, and a mountain shadow plant in the back, which can give people the feeling of a high mountain and a waterfall.Another example is to plant succulent and drought-tolerant plants with strange shapes such as cactus, aloe vera, twelve scrolls, and lithopsia together, which can reproduce the reverie of desert scenery.

In recent years, it has become very popular to plant rare flowers such as Cymbidium, tiger pineapple, narcissus, and anthurium together as annual flowers during New Year's Day and Spring Festival.Flower combination potted plants can adopt different methods such as inter-sowing and mixed planting, interplanting of seedlings, and mixed cuttings.Some herbal flowers can also be planted in small pots alone, and then moved into the combination pot when the flower seedlings reach a certain size or show buds.

When configuring perennial flowers and annual flowers, the soil in the large pot can be separated from the middle to limit the expansion of the root system of perennial flowers to avoid poor root growth of annual flowers.

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