Gardenia is a very common plant in our daily life. The white flowers and faint fragrance attract many people's love.
Gardenia is an evergreen shrub with lush foliage, evergreen leaves and fragrant flowers. It is an important garden ornamental plant. Gardenia is a single leaf opposite or three leaf whorls, the leaves are obovate, leathery, emerald green and shiny. Berries ovate, yellow or orange. In addition to ornamental, its flowers, fruits, leaves and roots can be used as medicine, which has the effects of purging fire and eliminating vexation, clearing heat and diuretic, cooling blood and detoxifying. The flowers can be used as spices for tea, and the fruits can reduce inflammation and heat. It is an excellent fragrant flower.
Gardenia is suitable for growing in slightly acidic soil, so we choose a potting soil with a pH value between 5.5 and 6.5. Generally, the soil is mixed with leaf mulch, vegetable garden soil and peat soil. become. Some flower friends ask what kind of pot to use for gardenias. In fact, you only need to choose a flower pot with good air permeability and drainage. Gardenia is a fertilizer-loving plant, so we should keep the principle of thin fertilization, so what kind of fertilizer should be applied to gardenia? Apply organic liquid fertilizer every ten days during the growth period. Apply 2 to 3 times of quick-acting phosphate fertilizer after the flower buds grow. In addition, some ferrous sulfate water should be applied for about 15 to 20 days during the growth period to prevent the yellowing of gardenia leaves.
Gardenias like to be moist, so we must keep the pot soil moist during the growth of gardenias. In summer and early autumn, when the weather is dry, you should water the gardenia more. In the morning and evening, you should spray the leaves like the leaves of the gardenia, and spray some water on the ground to increase the humidity of the air. In winter, you should reduce the number of water sprays, just keep the leaves clean.
The flower language of gardenia is eternal love and promise. Gardenias start to bud in winter and will not bloom until summer. Maybe you will complain that the gestation time is too long, but without such a long preparation time, how can you get the fragrance and distant flowers. Perhaps waiting for so long, just for a promise, a promise that confides fragrance every summer. In addition, there is also the meaning of "waiting for a lifetime and persevering". The green leaves of gardenia are evergreen in all seasons, and will not wither after wind and frost. It blooms in the hottest season every year, and the seemingly inadvertent bloom has indeed experienced three seasons of waiting. A lifetime of waiting is the most beautiful sustenance and also the sustenance of love. Beneath the bland and refined appearance is the beautiful and tenacious essence of life.
