Bought 10 pots of flowers and killed them all - have you ever bought flowers like these?

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This is day 908 of Lanyao's daily original articles

This article is one of Lanyao's original theories

Excerpt from the course series "30 Days to Help You Go from Zero Basis to Flower Growing Expert"

Yesterday I said I would tell you a little story today, but before telling the little story, Lanyao will first do a small survey:

Has anyone bought flowers like Lobelia erinus, Campanula medium, cineraria, and petunia?

Many flower lovers, when browsing the flower market, tend to buy any flower that looks pretty, and even if they do not know the flower at all, they do not mind and still buy it without hesitation.

Well, this spring, Lanyao'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 and asked me what flowers they were, and I could tell she liked them very much.

A few days ago, when she came to Lanyao's house to visit, she asked Lanyao, 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 have yellow leaves too - I wonder if they are going to die as well?

So Lanyao went with her to take a look, and it turned out the two that died were cineraria, while the other two, half-dead, were petunias.

So why did this happen?

Yesterday Lanyao explained what annual and biennial flowers are - I wonder if everyone remembered?

In fact, cineraria is an annual or biennial flower, generally sown in autumn of the previous year and blooming in spring after the New Year. So at spring flower markets, 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, once cineraria finishes blooming in spring and the temperature rises in early summer, withering and dying become inevitable. This is the fate of cineraria as an annual or biennial herbaceous flower.

Then what is going on with petunia? According to the introduction, petunia is a perennial herbaceous flower, right?

Yes, petunia is a perennial herbaceous flower, so why does it also end up half-dead?

In fact, 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 the plant shape is relatively hard 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 basal branches becoming too old and losing their ability to sprout.

So in the care of petunias, when each round of flowers is 60% to 70% open, they should be pruned to encourage new branches at the base and maintain their vitality.

Plants lacking pruning often suffer from problems such as the plant shape collapsing, becoming sparse, lodging, and a large number of yellow, withered leaves at the base because the branches are too old, seriously affecting their ornamental value.

When some things happen to other people, we call them "stories," but if they happen to us, they may become "accidents."

So in order to grow 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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