Six prohibitions to remember in the care of flowers and bonsai
Flowers, like people, are living things and need careful tending. Many flower growers, lacking the knack, end up with flowers that are wilted and listless. Where does the problem lie? Here are several tips on home flower growing summarized from practice:
1. Avoid being careless
Flowers, like people, are living things and need careful tending. Many flower growers lack the proper care and diligence toward these beautiful lives. First, they are lazy in mind, unwilling to study flower-growing knowledge, content to remain laymen for a long time, and their care is not up to standard. Second, they are lazy in hand, unwilling to spend too much time and energy on flowers. After the flowers enter the home, they are left neglected in a corner, enduring hunger and thirst for a long time and suffering from pests and diseases. In this way, even the best flowers will gradually wither. So lazy people cannot grow flowers well.
2. Avoid loving them too much
Contrary to the above situation, some flower growers love their flowers too much and feel itchy-handed if they do not fuss with them for a moment. Some water and fertilize without any regularity, watering whenever they think of it, causing the flowers to die from overwatering and overfertilizing; some casually move the flower pots around, moving them to several places a day, forcing the flowers to constantly adapt to the environment and disrupting their normal growth pattern. Over time, it would be a wonder if the flowers were not tormented to death. It is understandable to be fond of a few agreeable potted flowers at home, but flowers, like people, have their own growth patterns. If you disturb them frequently when they need rest, they will naturally feel exhausted and grow poorly.
3. Avoid failing to distinguish the good from the bad
Some flower growers are greedy for size and completeness, bringing home whatever variety they see, regardless of type. This not only makes management more difficult but also brings some unsuitable flowers into the home, polluting the environment and harming health. For example, flowers with toxic sap can easily cause poisoning when people come into contact with them. The scent of some flowers affects the human nervous system and can easily cause breathing difficulty or even allergic reactions. Plants with sharp thorns also pose a certain threat to human safety, and so on. In short, home flower growing should not be greedy for size and completeness or fail to distinguish the good from the bad; one should choose varieties that are smaller in plant form, attractive in appearance, and harmless to humans.
4. Avoid chasing fame and profit
Some flower enthusiasts believe that growing flowers means growing famous flowers, because famous flowers have high ornamental value and bring large market profits. Driven by this mentality, they spare no expense and search everywhere to buy famous flowers and famous trees. As a result, often due to the lack of good greening and care conditions and management skills, the flowers die shortly after purchase, which both mistreats precious flowers and wastes money. This is a misconception. The correct approach should be to start with ordinary, lower-grade varieties and gradually explore the rules and techniques of flower growing. After reaching a certain technical level, then gradually purchase more precious varieties, so that the chances of success are greater.
5. Avoid being fickle
Some flower growers are restless and impulsive, growing flowers without a theme, and the flowers at home are changed in and out like a merry-go-round. This is a great taboo in flower growing. First, changing varieties too quickly and growing them for too short a time is not conducive to cultivating flowers and trees with graceful plant forms and high ornamental value. Second, dabbling in every kind of flower without going deeper is not conducive to improving one's flower-growing level, and in the end one remains a flower novice. Therefore, only by choosing one or two kinds of flowers and focusing on studying and cultivating them can a flower grower gain real understanding.
6. Avoid outdated concepts.
Today, new knowledge and new technologies in the flower-growing industry emerge endlessly, yet most flower growers still cling to traditional care methods. In the use of flower containers, water and fertilizer management, seedling cultivation, and other aspects, they are not good at using new technologies and new equipment, such as soilless cultivation, odorless flower fertilizer, and various flower containers. As a result, home flower growing becomes unhygienic, unattractive, and unnovel, with relatively large side effects.