Introduction to bellflower
Bellflower, also known as bellflower. Campanulaceae (Campanulaceae) bellflower genus (Campanula) plants, the whole genus of more than two hundred species, annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Mainly native to the northern temperate zone, the Mediterranean region and tropical mountains. There are many cultivated ornamental species. Flowers bell-shaped, usually blue, stout, bell-shaped flowers like wind chimes, bright and elegant flowers, very prevalent in Europe, is a small garden in late spring and early summer in the common herb flowers, often to express its health, gentle and lovely.
Morphological features
The bellflower is a biennial herb. The plant is about 1 meter tall and hairy. The rosette leaves are ovate to obovate, with crenate undulate, rough leaf margins. Petioles are winged. Stem leaves small and sessile. Racemes, florets 1 or 2 cauline. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, base slightly expanded, flower color white, blue, purple and pale peach. Flower color is white, blue, purple and light peach red, etc. Flowering period is from April to June.
Growth habit
Requires warm winters and cool summers, light and well-ventilated environment, does not tolerate dry heat, cold tolerance is not strong, like deep fertile, well-drained neutral soil, slightly alkaline soil can also grow normally.
Distribution
More than 200 species in the genus, almost all in the north temperate zone, most species produced in northern Eurasia, a few in North America. There are nearly 20 species in China, mainly produced in the southwestern mountains, a few species are produced in the north, and individual species are also produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and western Hubei.
Reproduction
The bellflower is mainly propagated by sowing, the seeds are small, the soil should not be too thick, the germination temperature is 20-24 ℃, can also be divided or cuttings seedlings. After flowering into a capsule, the first fruit has many seeds. Seeds are very small, can be dried and stored, spring or late winter and early spring, sown in a plastic shed insulation. In order to facilitate the flowering period to stagger the high temperature heat. According to the requirements of small seeds, the ground should be carefully prepared, deep turning broken soil more than 2 times, scraping the ground, drenching enough water, and then we will evenly spread the seeds. After sowing, no longer cover the soil or thin cover sieve fine soil. Seedling period with a sprayer water, and depending on the growth of seedlings, between seedlings to replenish seedlings. Can also be seed insulation sown in the sand tray, seedling that is applied after the compound fertilizer.
When the seedlings are about 10 cm high, transplanted to the nursery or potted planting. Nursery planting plant spacing to 20 cm x 40 cm is preferable, after transplantation, drench the root water, and then according to the general management. Can also be sown in the fall, generally the seedlings sown in the fall of the year need to be cultivated until the next spring and summer, before flowering. Divided plants are mostly carried out in the fall, cultivated over the winter, the following year can bloom. Cuttings more in the spring to pick the base of the new shoots, inserted into the wet sand bed, often sprayed to moisturize, rooting after transplantation.
Main value
Landscape use: bluebells are suitable for configuration of small gardens as flower beds, flower landscape materials. Mainly used as potted flowers, can also be used in the open ground for flower border. Tumbleweed is suitable for configuration of small gardens for flower beds, flower border materials. If the bellflower and ornamental sunflower as the main material, with ivy, sea gold sand, silk stone bamboo basket insertion, the performance of vibrant, thriving happy atmosphere. Such as purple bellflower as the main flower, with white lilies, delphinium, asparagus to do flower arrangements, will appear to be tranquil and soft.
Flower bed performance: as an annual flower, bluebells overwinter in warmer areas in winter, and can be used for flower beds, rocky bamboo gardens or gardens in borders or edges of the planting. Potted in pots of up to 15-20 cm, bluebells can be kept in semi-shade to full sun.
Botanical culture
I. Warm flower language
Flower language bluebells (Canterbury Bell)
1. Creativity. Commemorates the Italian saint Canterbury's archbishop in the fifth century A.D. - St. Parinus, whose artistic talent created many beautiful poems for people. Thus, the flower's language is creativity. Anyone born with the blessing of this flower has a very good creativity in himself, and therefore has an attractive artistic temperament, independent personality, do not like to rely on others.
2. Blessings from afar.
3. Thank you. If you like this flower, you are a person who knows how to be grateful, and you will remember the favors given to you by others.
4. Tender love.
5. Jealousy (jealousy)
6. Forever bound
The origin of the flower language: the Greek mythology appeared in the tumbleweed, loved by the sun god Apollo. Jealous of the west wind then threw the disk to the head of the bellflower, when the blood flowed out splashed on the ground, it opened the bellflower flowers. Therefore, its flower language is jealousy.
Anyone born with the blessing of this flower has a stronger desire for exclusivity and wants his lover to belong to him twenty-four hours a day. However, this mostly backfires!
Proverbs people are not perfect, including yourself.
Second, the legend of tumbleweed
The Guardian of the Wizard Forest
Night, cool as water, a little firefly, intoxicating fragrance.
The sky above the Fairyland Forest, sporadic floating belonging to the unique faint fragrance of the tumbleweed, diffuse, dark fragrance surging in the heart, the world here is still beautiful, like the moonlight fairy playing a watery zither, everything in the silence and serenity in the quiet sleep, in the darkness and the dawn of the alternation of the anticipation to meet another new mood.
Only the tumbleweed did not sleep, the love between Zi and Lily added a curiosity and longing for love, and she exuded an ethereal scent in the night, pondering in this special way the future of the ignorant hope.
In a few days she will be sent to Yakun's lair, as the guardian of the Flower Fairy of the Fairy Wizard Forest, from the time of her birth, this is already her fate that she has to face, at some point her spirit will be transformed into a young girl's slender figure, waiting for the appearance of the monster Yakun, and then, in the midst of all the sister's tears and waving, after receiving Angela's blessing, she bids farewell to the garden to go to the monster's lair as a way to obtain peace As a gift of peace and tranquility, this is a ritual that has come from the ancient times of the Wizard Forest, and has been carried out for generations. I don't know how many sisters of tumbleweed have suffered.
The only thing to be happy about is that the tumbleweed tribe can transform into a beautiful young girl's appearance, relative to other flower tribes, which is already very envious of things, but when this moment comes, it will also mean that the beginning of the tragedy of their fate.
If you can love for one day, you can experience a person's heartache, such a beautiful memory, it should be worth all the suffering in the future, right?
Hey, what am I messing up thinking about? Pocahontas sighed quietly, secretly glanced around, there is no movement, she secretly lyrical breath, aroma suddenly in this moment and become dark to open, never dare to hope to get a love, born doomed destiny can let her and then ask for what? However, she never had fear and escape, for the sake of the peace of the Wizard Forest, it is worth it, she told herself.
Is the star also looking down and thinking? Will there be one belonging to her in that faraway place? Tumbleweed thought back to the little moments she had spent with her sisters, countless overlapping scenes swept lightly before her eyes, one moment of heartache and laughter, one moment of joy and tears.
She remembered that the lily had shaken its feathery leaves and told her that on a certain day in a certain month in a certain year, a warrior waiting for love stroked his petals and whispered in a silent voice that his love was flowing wherever he went.
And can not help but think of the wisteria on the love of the stubborn and persistent, a heart guarded in the corner of the placement of love, next to the thick yellow leaves, listening to the rustling echo, trying to find her love has walked the footprints.
What exactly is love that can make every fairy gloomy? Tumbleweed remembered what the flower fairies had said to themselves:
"If I could, I wish I could transform into a maiden like you, and go far away with my lover."
"Grass, you will never understand, once you fall in love with a human, you will be destined to plant the roots of sadness."
......
A gust of wind passed. Bringing a fine sob, Pocahontas returned to her mind, and the rising sun in the sky gradually rose, coloring the Fairy Wizard Forest red.
She inhaled hard, and finally made a decision, in order to not let herself have any regrets, she decided to use her powder blue flower bag to hold a few words of love, and then let the white dandelion to stand it in the cape of the sky.
Cherish a mood, guard a little expectation. Don't be mistaken, it's the guardian tumbleweed of the fairy tale forest.