Brief introduction of bellflower
Bellflower, also known as bell flower. The genus Campanula (Campanulaceae) belongs to more than 200 species and is an annual, biennial or perennial herb. Mainly native to north temperate zone, Mediterranean region and tropical mountainous area. There are many cultivated ornamental species. Bell-shaped flowers, usually blue, with stout plants, are as bright and elegant as wind chimes, and are very popular in Europe. They are common herbaceous flowers in small gardens in late spring and early summer, and are often used to express health, gentleness and loveliness.
morphological character
Bellflower is a biennial herb. Plant height is about 1 m, and it is hairy. Rosette leaves are ovoid to obovate, with serrated and rough edges. Petiole winged. Cauline leaves are small and sessile. Racemes, florets 1 or 2 cauline. Corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed, slightly enlarged at the base, with white, blue, purple and light pink. The flowering period is from April to June.
Growth habit
The environment is required to be warm in winter and cool in summer, with plenty of sunshine, good ventilation, no tolerance to dry heat and cold, and like deep and fertile neutral soil with good drainage, which can also grow normally in slightly alkaline soil.
distribution range
All of them belong to more than 200 species, almost all of which are in the north temperate zone, most of which are produced in northern Eurasia and a few in North America. There are nearly 20 species in China, mainly distributed in the southwest mountainous areas, with a small amount in the north and a small amount in Guangdong, Guangxi and western Hubei.
Breeding mode
The genus Campanula is mainly sown and propagated, with small seeds, which should not be covered with too thick soil. The optimum temperature for germination is 20-24℃, and it can also be divided into plants or cut. Capsule is formed after flowering, and the first fruit has many seeds. The seeds are small, so they can be dried and stored. In spring or late winter or early spring, they can be planted in insulated plastic greenhouses. In order to facilitate the interleaving of high temperature and hot summer in flowering period. According to the requirements of small seeds, the soil preparation should be meticulous, subsoiling for more than 2 times, leveling the ground, pouring enough water, and then sowing seeds evenly. After sowing, do not cover the soil or screen the fine soil with a thin cover. Spraying water with a sprayer at seedling stage, and thinning and replenishing seedlings according to the growth of seedlings. You can also sow in a warm sand table and apply compound fertilizer immediately after emergence.
When the seedling height is about 10 cm, it should be transplanted to the nursery or planted permanently in the upper pot. The suitable row spacing for nursery planting is 20cm× 40cm. After transplanting, root water should be thoroughly watered and then managed as usual. You can also sow in autumn. Generally, the seedlings sown in the autumn of that year need to be cultivated until the spring and summer of the following year to bloom. Plants divide more than in autumn. After one winter's cultivation, they can blossom in the second year. Cutting is not only picking new buds sprouting at the base in spring, inserting them into wet sand beds, spraying water frequently, and transplanting after rooting.
Main value
Landscape use: Campanula is suitable for configuring small gardens as materials for flower beds and flower borders. Mainly used as potted flowers, but also for open-air flower borders. Campanula is suitable for arranging small gardens as materials for flower beds and flower borders. If bellflower and ornamental sunflower are used as the main materials, along with ivy, Lygodium japonicum and silk-stone bamboo baskets, it will present a lively and prosperous happy atmosphere. If purple bellflower is the main flower, with white lily, delphinium and asparagus as flower arrangement, it will look quiet and feminine.
Flower bed performance: As an annual flower, Bellflower overwinters in warm areas in winter, which can be used for planting at the border or edge of flower beds, rock bamboo gardens or gardens. Campanula is potted in a pot of 15-20cm, which can keep half shade to full light.
plant culture
First, warm flower language
Canterburybells
1. Creativity. In memory of Archbishop Szentpali Nuss, an Italian saint in the 5th century BC, his artistic talent created many beautiful poems for people. So the flower language of this flower is creativity. The person blessed by this flower has excellent creativity, so he has an attractive artistic temperament, independent personality and doesn't like to rely on others.
2. Blessing from afar.
3. thanks. Just like this flower, you are a grateful person, and you will remember the kindness of others.
4. tender love.
Step 5 be alert
6. Forever fetters
Origin of Flower Language: The genus Campanula appeared in Greek mythology and was loved by Apollo, the sun god. The jealous westerly wind threw the disc on the head of the wind chimes, and blood splashed on the ground, and the wind chimes blossomed. Therefore, its flower language is jealousy.
Anyone who is blessed by this flower has a strong desire for exclusivity and hopes that his lover will belong to him for 24 hours. However, this is likely to be counterproductive!
Proverbs are not perfect, including yourself.
Second, the legend of bellflower
The Guardian of Fairy Tale Forest
Night, cool as water, little fireflies, intoxicating fragrance.
There is a faint scent of campanula in the sky above the Fairy Trace Forest, which diffuses and surges in people's hearts. The world here is still beautiful, like the sound of a fairy playing a piano in the moonlight. Everything sleeps quietly in silence and serenity, expecting to usher in another new mood in the alternation of night and dawn.
Only the bellflower didn't fall asleep. The love between A Zi and Lily adds to the curiosity and yearning for love. She exudes a delicate fragrance at night, thinking about vague hopes for the future in this special way.
In a few days, she will be sent to Yakun's lair as the guardian of the flower fairy in the fairy forest. From birth, this is the fate she has to face. At a certain moment, her soul will be transformed into a graceful figure of a girl, waiting for the appearance of the monster Yakun, and then, in the tears and waves of all the sisters, after accepting Angela's blessing, she will bid farewell to the garden and go to the monster's lair as a gift of peace and harmony. I wonder how many bellflower sisters have suffered.
The only thing to be happy about is that the Campanula family can transform into a beautiful girl, which is very enviable compared with other flower families. However, when this moment comes, it will mean the beginning of their tragic fate.
If you can love one day, you can feel a person's love for yourself. Such a beautiful memory should overcome all the hardships in the future, right?
Hey, what am I thinking? The genus Campanula sighed softly and looked around secretly. Nothing happened. She sighed secretly. The fragrance suddenly becomes dim at this moment. She never dared to expect love. What can destiny make her ask for? However, she has never been afraid and escaped. It's worth it for the peace of Jing Xian Woods, she told herself.
Are the stars also bowing their heads and thinking? Will there be one that belongs to her in that distant place? The genus Campanula recalled the dribs and drabs with her sisters, and countless overlapping scenes swept before her eyes. Flowers tremble with heartache, laugh and cry.
She remembers that once Lily shook her feathery leaves and told her that one day, a soldier waiting for love stroked his petals and whispered silently where his love was going.
I can't help but think of wisteria's stubbornness and persistence in love. She is waiting by the thick yellow leaves in the corner where love is placed, listening to the echo of rustling, trying to find the footprints of the people she loves.
What is the love that can make every fairy sad? Campanula remembered what the flower fairies said to themselves:
"If I can, I really hope to become a girl like you and fly away with my lover."
"Grass, you don't understand. Once you fall in love with human beings, you are destined to plant sad roots. "
……
A gust of wind passed. With a fine whimper, the bluebells returned to the gods, and the rising sun on the horizon gradually rose and dyed the fairy forest red.
She sniffed hard and finally made a decision. In order not to leave any regrets, she decided to put a few love words in her pink and blue flower bag, and then let the white dandelion stand at the ends of the earth.
Cherish a mood and wait for a little expectation. Don't make a mistake, it's the guardian wind chime of Xianlin.