The flowers that died in summer are worth remembering; I'd jump into the flower-growing pit another 100 times
Succulents
I knew long ago that succulents are hard to keep in summer. Now counting it up, more than 50 empty pots are piled in the corner and I don't even dare look at them. It's all tears~
When the weather is hot, black rot and turning to mush are routine. Every time I come home and look, one pot has definitely kicked the bucket...
Put them outside and birds peck them; put them inside and cats chew them, mice chew them. You just have to face it calmly...
I've now mastered the Zen art of growing succulents. Once autumn comes, I'll buy succulents again, and I'll still be a true hero!
Roses
Every time Huahua looks at our community, it's all beautiful photos of roses, enough to dazzle your eyes. But "you only see the new arrivals laughing, not the old ones crying." How is your rose doing now?
Today's roses are basically hybrid-bred, with poor disease resistance and pest resistance, and they are always short on fertilizer. In short, your roses either die of disease or get bitten to death by insects, or else they starve into malnutrition~
Watching the experts' roses bloom wave after wave, have you started to doubt life? Huahua has taught a whole lot of methods for composting fertilizer, treating disease, and killing pests. Hurry up and review them, and fight again next year!
Kalanchoe
Do flower friends know that kalanchoe also counts as a succulent, so its death rate in summer also shoots right up...
Black rot, turning to mush... Kalanchoe dies the same way as succulents, usually caused by too much watering, poor ventilation, or too much heat. When you run into this problem, it's best to pick out the good leaves and keep them for cuttings~
Luckily Huahua was prepared and took a bunch of kalanchoe cuttings early. The survival rate was super high. Although more than half have now died or been damaged, at least some are left, and keeping them until the New Year is no problem!
Clivia
No flower friend who has grown clivia has avoided root rot. In summer, if you're not careful, it's done for~
Think that once the roots are broken there's no saving it? Then you're really too young. You must be a new fan of Huahua. Huahua has taught many times before how to save a clivia with root rot. Hurry up and go look it up!
Clematis
This year's expensive item is definitely clematis, but clematis has one flaw: it easily gets wilt disease. Once the flowers drop, the disease starts acting up...
This is truly a delicate disease. Many flower friends notice the problem, but spraying medicine doesn't help much, and they can't bear to prune, so it gets worse and worse, and in the end the whole plant withers. Once you notice it, you should prune it hard. Relying on its own strength, it will just sprout again~
So every time Huahua says to prune and prune, don't take it lightly. Sometimes a little pruning can even save a flower's life!
Hydrangea
Even if you can dodge the rose's relentless bombardment, you can't dodge the hydrangea's era of stunning beauty. Huahua is the same: saying "I won't buy, I won't buy" out loud, but as soon as I get to the flower market, I fall for it~
Don't just look at how red it is when you buy it, how blue it is. As you grow it, it turns into a plain green plant, and the next year when it blooms, even its own mother wouldn't recognize it! That's because the acidity and alkalinity in our homes is unstable. Remember, acid makes blue and alkali makes red. Acidic soil grows blue flowers, and alkaline soil grows red flowers~
Oh right, one more thing: many hydrangeas bloom on old wood, so you need to prune heavily before August. Only after pruning will they bloom next year. If you forgot to prune this year, then...