What are the benefits of growing flowers? After reading this article, you will understand
1. The benefits of growing flowers. Flowers are the essence of nature; with their brilliant splendor, they decorate nature with extraordinary beauty and give people the enjoyment of beauty. Growing flowers can enrich and adjust people's cultural life, add pleasure, cultivate character, and improve health; it can also increase scientific knowledge and raise cultural and artistic literacy. Growing flowers can green and beautify the land of the motherland, protect and improve the environment, purify the air, and enable people to work and study in a beautiful environment, making life better. Home flower cultivation is a noble amateur cultural hobby, suitable for men and women, young and old, and it has many benefits. It adds interest to life.
Growing flowers at home makes people's lives more full of vitality, benefits physical and mental health, cultivates noble sentiments, and inspires feelings for life. Meeting friends through flowers brings great joy. Flower-viewing seasons: enjoy flowers in spring, enjoy fragrance in summer, enjoy fruit in autumn, enjoy greenery in winter. Flower-viewing taste: enjoying with tea is best, enjoying with conversation is second, enjoying with wine is lowest. Flower-viewing standards: color, fragrance, posture, charm. Improving the living environment. Floral fragrance is composed of volatile compounds, including aromatic substances, esters, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and terpenes. These substances can stimulate people's respiratory center, thereby stimulating people to speed up oxygen intake and carbon dioxide expulsion, so that the brain gets sufficient oxygen. (1) Absorbing toxic substances: Aloe vera, spider plant, snake plant, cast-iron plant, and Monstera deliciosa are natural scavengers and can remove harmful substances from the air. Studies have shown that snake plants and spider plants can absorb more than 80% of harmful gases indoors, and their ability to absorb formaldehyde is extremely strong. Aloe vera is also good at absorbing formaldehyde and can absorb 90% of the formaldehyde contained in 1 cubic meter of air. English ivy, sago palm, chrysanthemum, kumquat, pomegranate, purslane, Chinese rose, camellia, pomegranate, Aglaia odorata, daisy, wintersweet, and marigold can effectively remove harmful substances such as sulfur dioxide, chlorine, ether, ethylene, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen peroxide. Plants such as Aster, Astragalus, tobacco, Astragalus, and cockscomb can absorb large amounts of radioactive nuclides such as uranium; snake plants, Monstera deliciosa, and cast-iron plant can absorb more than 80% of harmful gases indoors; asparagus fern can remove heavy metal particles; in addition, spider plant can also effectively absorb carbon dioxide; some succulent flowers in the Cactaceae family emit very little carbon dioxide at night; wisteria has strong resistance to sulfur dioxide, chlorine, and hydrogen fluoride, and also has a certain resistance to chromium. (2) Killing pathogens: The volatile oils produced by fragrant flowers such as rose, osmanthus, stock, jasmine, lemon, rose, dianthus, lily of the valley, and crape myrtle have significant bactericidal effects. Plants such as crape myrtle, jasmine, and lemon can kill native bacteria such as diphtheria bacteria and dysentery bacteria within 5 minutes. The fragrance released by plants such as rose, dianthus, lily of the valley, stock, rose, and osmanthus has a clear inhibitory effect on the growth and reproduction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pneumococcus, and Staphylococcus. Citrus, rosemary, and spider plant can greatly reduce bacteria and microorganisms in indoor air. (3) Purifying air: Succulent plants such as cacti native to tropical arid regions have stomata on their fleshy stems that close during the day and open at night, absorbing carbon dioxide while producing oxygen, increasing the concentration of negative ions in indoor air. Plants such as Sansevieria, snake plant, agave, Opuntia, Kalanchoe, Sedum, Bryophyllum, and cultivated bromeliads can also purify the air at night. Orchids, osmanthus, wintersweet, Caladium, and Excoecaria cochinchinensis are natural dust collectors; their cilia can intercept and absorb floating particles and smoke dust in the air. (4) Regulating temperature: Green plants in urban greening areas can absorb up to 6080 calories of sunlight in summer, lowering the environmental temperature by 3.8°C and shortening the duration of high temperatures each day by 3 hours; vertical greening on walls can lower wall surface temperature by 5°C. Planting climbing plants such as Boston ivy, grape, morning glory, wisteria, and rose around the home and letting them climb along walls or trellises to form a green shade canopy can effectively reduce solar radiation and greatly lower indoor temperature. Plants such as lilac, jasmine, rose, stock, and mint can help people relax, feel mentally pleasant, aid sleep, and also improve work efficiency. Some large-leaved and water-loving plants such as pothos can keep indoor air humidity at an excellent level. Improving physical health. Growing flowers requires propagation, transplanting, repotting, pruning, watering, fertilizing, and so on. This series of labor can promote physical health. Cultivating virtue and accomplishment. To make balcony flowers grow well, one must study and practice, thereby increasing knowledge, learning flower-growing techniques, and cultivating the virtue of cherishing manpower and material resources. 2. Classification of flowers. There are many kinds of flowers and a wide range, so to facilitate people's cultivation, management, utilization, and research, taxonomists have proposed many classification methods according to different needs. There are 3 classification methods more closely related to flower growing: Classification by morphology and habits. Flowers can be divided by morphological characteristics and growth habits into two major categories: herbaceous flowers and woody flowers. (1) Herbaceous flowers include annual and biennial flowers, perennial flowers, bulbous flowers, aquatic flowers, succulent flowers, and groundcover and lawn plants. (2) Woody flowers include trees, shrubs, vines, and bamboos. Classification by ornamental part. Flowers can be divided by ornamental part into five types: flower-viewing, foliage-viewing, fruit-viewing, stem-viewing, and bud-viewing.
1) Flower-viewing type: mainly for admiring flower color and flower shape, such as chrysanthemum, tree peony, etc. (2) Foliage-viewing type: mainly for admiring leaf color and leaf shape, such as croton, Monstera deliciosa, etc. (3) Fruit-viewing type: mainly for admiring fruit, such as kumquat, finger citron, etc. (4) Stem-viewing type: mainly for admiring stems, such as Buddha belly bamboo, Cereus, etc. (5) Bud-viewing type: mainly for admiring buds, such as silver willow, etc. Classification by purpose and use. Flowers can be divided by cultivation purpose and use into six types: indoor flowers, cut flowers, garden flowers, medicinal flowers, spice flowers, and edible flowers. (1) Indoor flowers: selected from many flowers, with high ornamental value, relatively shade-tolerant and warmth-loving, not overly sensitive to changes in moisture in the growing medium, and suitable for longer-term placement in indoor environments, such as clivia, arrowroot, etc. (2) Cut flowers: such as carnation, calla lily, etc. (3) Garden flowers: flowers suitable for growing in courtyard environments, such as Chinese rose, lilac, etc. (4) Medicinal flowers: their flowers have important medicinal value, such as evening primrose, honeysuckle, etc. (5) Spice flowers: fragrant flowers are widely used in food, light industry, and other fields, such as rose, jasmine, etc. (6) Edible flowers: the leaves or flowers of the flowers are used directly for food, such as lily, pomegranate, etc. 3. Selection of flower varieties for growing. For home flower growing, the quantity should be small but refined, and in variety selection, flowers and trees should be reasonably chosen according to the family's environmental conditions and personal preferences. Indoors is an important activity place in people's lives, and flowers should be selected according to the following requirements: Key points for selection. (1) Choose shade-loving or shade-tolerant varieties: indoor sunlight is weaker than outdoors, so try to choose shade-tolerant varieties. Such as Chinese evergreen, orchid, Monstera deliciosa, spider plant, rubber tree, etc. Some flower-viewing plants mostly belong to sun-loving flowers, and when placed indoors they should be put in a sunny place and often moved outdoors to absorb sunlight and rain and dew. (2) Choose varieties according to the balcony: balconies are small in area, windy, dry, high in temperature in summer, and fast in water evaporation, but they have sufficient light and good ventilation. This is very favorable for some light-loving and drought-tolerant flowers. A protruding balcony is exposed on three sides and has good light, so a flower stand can be set up to plant climbing flowers such as cypress vine, morning glory, grape, and Virginia creeper, and a flower stand can also be placed for Chinese rose, pomegranate, Aglaia odorata, jasmine, and bonsai, etc. Shade-loving spider plants and ferns can be hung from the top of the balcony, and the rear part of the balcony is a semi-shaded environment where nandina and clivia can be placed. A recessed balcony is exposed on only one side and has poor ventilation, so trapezoidal flower stands can be built on both side walls to display flowers and trees. Bedroom arrangement should be quiet, clean, simple and elegant, and comfortable. A south-facing bedroom has sufficient light, so flowers that like light and warmth can be chosen, such as Aglaia odorata, hibiscus, Chinese rose, white magnolia, kumquat, cacti, and succulents, etc. (3) Choose varieties according to room orientation: east- and west-facing bedrooms have short lighting time, so semi-shade-tolerant flowers can be chosen, such as camellia, rhododendron, gardenia, Michelia figo, asparagus fern, Chinese evergreen, etc.; north-facing bedrooms have poor lighting conditions and lower temperatures, so clivia, spider plant, rubber tree, Monstera deliciosa, asparagus fern, and rock bonsai, etc., are suitable. The living room arrangement requires tranquility, elegance, and generosity, and should mainly feature small and refined, elegant characteristics; one can choose Aglaia odorata, four-season osmanthus, jasmine, asparagus fern, finger citron, kumquat, etc., and foliage plants can be placed in corners, such as asparagus fern, Rhapis excelsa, fishtail palm, and cliff chrysanthemum, etc. Notes for selection. (1) Flowers and trees with unusual odors are not suitable: for example, the fragrance of lilac, night-blooming jasmine, etc., can cause adverse reactions in some patients, and some patients with high blood pressure or heart disease feel stuffy and uncomfortable after smelling these fragrances. The aroma of pine and cypress plants can reduce people's appetite, so they should not be placed indoors in too large quantities or for too long. (2) Toxic flowers and trees are not suitable: for flowers with a certain toxicity, appropriate isolation should be made when placing them indoors, especially to avoid contact by children. Poinsettia, Lantana camara, oleander, Euphorbia milii, Euphorbia neriifolia, Lycoris radiata, etc., are only mildly toxic, and as long as their leaves, branches, flowers, and fruits are not casually picked, they generally will not cause poisoning. More attention should be paid during cultivation.