Azalea flower language is the joy of love, innocence, loyalty, homesickness, miss, good luck and good fortune, deep.
Azaleas have rich flower colors, strong sprouting power and pruning resistance, and are excellent bonsai materials. In the West, the big red azalea is considered a good omen of "prosperous business". The azalea symbolizes the prosperity of the motherland, the great expansion, enthusiasm, good fortune and exuberance, can be given to international friends or friends in distant places.
Azaleas bloom three times a year, sequentially in spring, summer and the time between spring and summer. The azalea that blooms in the spring is usually in full bloom in April-May, and when the flowers are all in bloom, it will begin to grow new leaves. The summer azalea blooms in May/June, during which time it grows new leaves before flowering. The third time it blooms is between spring and summer, when its leaves and flowers grow together.
Azalea care
1, soil
Azalea like well-drained acidic soil.
2, temperature
The growth of suitable temperature 15-25 ℃, the highest temperature of 32 ℃. Potted azalea fall not started moving indoors in mid-October, winter in full sun, room temperature to maintain 5-10 ℃, the lowest temperature can not be lower than 5 ℃, or stop growing.
3, watering
Azalea on the soil moisture requirement is wet but not wet. Spring and fall seasons, the azalea planted in the open ground can be watered every 2-3 days, watering at least once a day in summer.
4, humidity
Azalea like air humidity environment, often on the azalea leaves or spray the surrounding air, so that the air around the azalea garden to keep moist.
5, fertilization
In the late winter and early spring of each year, it is best to apply some organic fertilizer to the azalea garden as a base fertilizer. 4-5 months after the azalea bloom, due to the plant in the flowering period to consume a large number of nutrients, along with the emergence of leaf buds, the new tops of the twigs, can be every 15 days or so to chase a fertilizer. Into the volt, most of the branch tips have stopped growing, this is the hot season, physiological activities weakened, you can no longer chase fertilizer.