Golden autumn chrysanthemum appreciation prize essay contest: everything you want to know about chrysanthemums is here

Autumn has arrived, can chrysanthemum appreciation be far behind?

There are only two kinds of gardeners: those who love growing chrysanthemums, and those who don't yet know they love chrysanthemums.

The 35th Golden Autumn Chrysanthemum Exhibition is counting down, and chrysanthemum lovers in Wuhan are already itching to go.

The annual chrysanthemum appreciation season is about to arrive. How much do you know about chrysanthemums? Brush up in advance and listen to what chrysanthemum lovers have to share; maybe you'll fall in love with them too!

Chrysanthemum enthusiast@Datouchun

Depending on the flowering period, chrysanthemums are divided into summer chrysanthemums, autumn chrysanthemums, and cold chrysanthemums.

• Summer chrysanthemums:

  Also known as Wujiu chrysanthemum. It blooms once each year in the 5th and 9th months of the lunar calendar.

• Autumn chrysanthemums:

  The flowering period is divided into early and late.
• Early chrysanthemums bloom in mid-to-late September and are medium-sized chrysanthemums.
• Late chrysanthemums bloom in October-November and are large chrysanthemums; they are the most commonly cultivated autumn chrysanthemums.

• Cold chrysanthemums:

  Also known as winter chrysanthemums. The flowering period runs from December to January of the following year.

For example, depending on the petal type, they are divided into flat petals, spoon petals, tube petals, osmanthus petals, and irregular petals.

Flat petals:The ligulate flowers spread out in a flat plane;

Spoon petals:The petal tips open out like a spoon, called a "spoon blade";

Tube petals:The ligulate flowers extend in a tubular shape;

Osmanthus petals:The ligulate flowers have 1-3 whorls of flat, spoon, or tube petals, and the tubular flowers become osmanthus-petal-shaped (also called star-tubular).

Irregular petal category - fringed type

Irregular petals:The petals are unusual and can be divided into burr petals, dragon-claw petals, and fringed petals.

Garden shop owner@Xiaoyang Flowers

What @Datouchun shared is introductory knowledge about chrysanthemums

While what @Xiaoyang Flowers shared is practical methods for growing chrysanthemums

What's special is that this is also a calligraphy work

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Chrysanthemum cuttings bloom larger than the mother plant. When growing chrysanthemums, compact and sturdy plants are best. Height control is mainly done by water control. The lower leaves of a chrysanthemum are like a woman's skirt hem; if the lower leaves are withered and yellow, the whole pot looks poor. If the lower leaves are grown well, the leaves of the whole plant will not be bad either. There is no trick to growing chrysanthemums; it all depends on the soil. It is best to use rotted wood shavings mixed with sandy soil, plus a little aged dry loess.

After seeing the chrysanthemum cutting calligraphy work

Let's look at another picture

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A pole is standing in the middle of the chrysanthemum?

Why do it this way?

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Chrysanthemum growing professional @Danran

Because chrysanthemum flowers are large, bamboo skewers are needed as supports to "give the chrysanthemum a helping hand." The professional term for this isstaking。

After sharing so much knowledge

Is there a language that can express

the heartfelt voice of chrysanthemum lovers and flower lovers?

Chrysanthemum enthusiast@Jianghan Laoyang

Among all flowers, the chrysanthemum's bloom most resembles a smiling face. "Autumn chrysanthemums have fine colors; I gather their blossoms wet with dew." The best time to admire chrysanthemums is early morning. Around Frost's Descent, the sounds of autumn are mournful. Grass changes color when brushed by it, and trees shed their leaves when struck by it. But chrysanthemums are not afraid; they bloom defiantly in the frost, brilliantly dazzling, and in the midst of desolation, they give you a warm smiling face.

"Tao Qian once said: 'Cherishing this steadfast and lovely posture, standing out as a hero beneath the frost.' This describes the chrysanthemum, and this is its moral integrity. Among the ancients, none loved chrysanthemums more than Tao Yuanming. In his 'Returning Home,' he said: I hurried home through wind and dust, finally saw my own door, and ran forward joyfully. The path in the courtyard had become overgrown, but fortunately my pines and chrysanthemums were still alive.

On my windowsill, there was once a pot of chrysanthemums, and its name wasGolden Red Radiance。

△Image source: internet

When it was first brought back, there were two flower buds, the size of a baby's fist. They opened slightly, with golden and red thread-like petals stretching out, like a woman's hair bun.

In the days that followed, it opened a little each day, very shyly, with petals curling inward, the arcs of extension varying, extremely charming. When it was in full bloom, that beauty was the charm of a mature woman, bold and passionate. Later, it began to age, the color gradually darkened, and the thread-like petals began to curl outward, still with a very beautiful arc.

Later still, it slowly withered, finally becoming a clump, dried up... gone...

The life of a flower and the life of a person are so similar.

Every October

the Wuhan Golden Autumn Chrysanthemum Exhibition always meets the public as promised

never failing the appointment year after year

The 35th Golden Autumn Chrysanthemum Exhibition in 2018 is about to arrive

Are you ready to admire the chrysanthemums?

If you also love growing chrysanthemums

You are welcome to leave a comment and share more chrysanthemum knowledge

Below is a prize collection notice

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Golden Autumn Chrysanthemum Appreciation Essay Contest

Essay content

• My view of the Wuhan Chrysanthemum Exhibition (sharing beautiful photos, memories, and opinions of the Wuhan Chrysanthemum Exhibition);

• Original poetry on the theme of chrysanthemums;

• Prose on the theme of chrysanthemums;

• Chrysanthemum growing stories (which can be records of the chrysanthemum growing process or insights on growing chrysanthemums).

(The ownership of the above content must be your own)

How to submit

• Send a private message to the editor saying [I want to sign up], and send the "submission content (text + images)" to Green Linlinqi

Submission benefits

Once a submission is accepted and published, the contributor will receive one potted chrysanthemum.