Peony is the king of flowers, and it is known as "national beauty and fragrance". It blooms from April to May every year, and the flowers are colorful and wonderful, with red, yellow, white, pink, purple, ink, green and blue colors. These flowers are multi-petalled, elegant and fragrant. Chinese people regard it as a symbol of wealth, and call it "rich flower" and "hundred taels of gold". As early as Chang 'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, peony planting and viewing were very prosperous. Bai Juyi said in his poem: "Flowers bloom and fall for 20 days, and a city is crazy." At present, except Luoyang, the peony of Zhao Commune in Heze, Shandong Province is the most abundant. When peony blooms in April and May, it is colorful and fragrant, attracting gardeners from all over the world and countless international tourists.
Peony is a famous flower in China, which is graceful and elegant, symbolizing auspiciousness and prosperity. Ouyang Xiu, a writer in the Song Dynasty, once wrote in the Story of Peony in Luoyang: "Peony leaves Danzhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou in the east and Yuezhou in the south, and Luoyang ranks first in the world." It can be seen that peony has been widely cultivated as early as the Yellow River basin, the north and south of the river and the vast areas in China, and is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people in China.
Over the past 1000 years since the Tang and Song Dynasties, many poets, poets, experts and scholars have described the colorful face of peony flowers in many ways, such as poems, songs, poems, notes, novels, images and flower spectrum, and some of their poems have become household names.
Peony is not only a precious ornamental flower, but also has high economic value. Flowers can make wine and roots can be used as medicine. Its root bark is called "peony bark" after processing, which is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine with the functions of purging fire, removing blood stasis and stopping vomiting.
Suitable for growing in cool climate, not resistant to cold and heat, drought and water accumulation. "Planting peony on the platform" means that peony should be planted at a high level, not at a low level, because stagnant water will rot the roots.
Peony likes fertilizer, which is suitable for classification of peony into three types and twelve types, namely, single leaf, Shuang Ye and double period. Single petal type, lotus type, chrysanthemum type, rose type, laurel type, gold ring type, crown type, hydrangea type, chrysanthemum terrace type, rose terrace type, crown terrace type and hydrangea terrace type. Here is an example.
Single petal type: petals 1-3 rounds, wide, normal pistil and pistil. Such as Huang Huakui, Splash Ink Purple, Feng Dan, Picking Fruits from the Plate, etc.
Lotus-shaped: petals with 4-5 rounds, wide and even, like lotus when opening. Such as "Red Clouds and Feibei", "Tathagata Lotus" and "Cinnabar Base".
Chrysanthemum-shaped: The petals are round, and the arrangement level becomes smaller from outside to inside, such as "Cai Yun", "Luoyang Red" and "Ling Hua Xiaocui".
Rose-shaped: petals naturally increase, gradually decrease from the outside, and a few stamens become finely divided petals; Pistil slightly petaloid or normal. Such as "Zijin plate", "dew powder" and "big brown purple".
Osmanthus type: the outer petals are obvious, wide and flat; Stamens petal-shaped, gradually tapering from outside to inside, slightly convex, hemispherical. Such as "Great Lake Red", "Lu Fen" and "lantian jade".