Bought 10 pots of flowers and they all died, what a rip-off! Have you ever bought flowers like these?

This is day 908 of Blue Goblin's daily original article

This article is original by Blue Goblin

Excerpt from the series course "30 Days to Help You Go from a Complete Beginner to a Flower-Growing Expert"

Yesterday I promised to tell you a little story today, but before telling the little story, Blue Goblin would first like to do a small survey:

Have any of you bought flowers like lobelia, campanula, cineraria, or petunia? Many flower lovers, when browsing the flower market, tend to buy any flower that looks pretty, and even if it is a flower they do not recognize at all, they do not mind and still buy it without hesitation.

This spring, for example, Blue Goblin's neighbor bought 2 very beautiful pots of cineraria and 2 pots of petunia at the market. When she had just bought them, she even called me over to look at them and asked me what flowers they were, and it was clear she liked them very much. A few days ago, when she came to Blue Goblin's home to visit, she asked Blue Goblin, very puzzled:

"Hey, how come of the 4 pots of flowers I bought in spring, two died, and the other two are now sparse and full of yellow leaves, and I do not know if they are going to die too?" So Blue Goblin went with her to take a look, and it turned out the two that died were cineraria, while the other two, half-dead ones, were petunia.

So why does this happen?Yesterday Blue Goblin introduced what annual and biennial flowers are. I wonder if everyone remembered? Actually, cineraria is an annual or biennial flower, generally sown in the autumn of the previous year and blooming in the spring after the New Year. So in the spring flower market, cineraria is the most common and is also one of the very popular New Year flowers.

Because it is cultivated as an annual or biennial, after cineraria finishes blooming in spring and the temperature rises in early summer, withering and dying becomes inevitable. This is the fate of cineraria as an annual or biennial herbaceous flower.Then what is the matter with petunia? According to the description, petunia is a perennial herbaceous flower, right?

Yes, petunia is a perennial herbaceous flower. Why does it also end up half-dead? Actually, many plants can be perennial, but in order to achieve the best ornamental effect, we often give up perennial cultivation and grow them as annuals or biennials. Petunia is exactly a perennial herbaceous flower that is often grown by us as an annual or biennial. Although it can live for a long time, overly old plants often have limited growth vigor and their plant shape is relatively difficult to control, so when grown as perennials, the ornamental effect is often poor.

Furthermore, for perennial herbaceous flowers like petunia, when growing them as annuals or biennials, or for even longer, attention should be paid to frequent pruning and shaping to avoid the base branches becoming too old and losing their sprouting ability.

Therefore, in the management of petunia, each time the flowers are about 60 to 70 percent open, pruning should be carried out to encourage new branches at the base and maintain its vitality. Plants lacking pruning often suffer from problems such as collapsed plant shape, sparseness, lodging, and a large number of yellow, withered leaves at the base because the branches are too old, seriously affecting their ornamental value.

Some things, when they happen to others, we call them "stories," but if they happen to ourselves, they may become "accidents." So in order to enjoy growing flowers happily, we should try to read more of other people's "stories" to avoid "accidents" happening to our own flowers.

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