Techniques for growing butterfly wings in the garden

Flowers of butterfly wings are widely grown in parks and zoos because of their easy-to-cultivate properties and diverse colors, but now the techniques of planting these flowers in a specific way are not well known.

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Butterfly petals, also known as star-studded daisies or dragonfly flowers, have a fairly simple planting technique. This plant belongs to Chrysanthemum relatives, there are many types and are grown very popular in our country. People can grow this flower as a bonsai in the garden.

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The butterfly tree has a fairly simple planting technique.

Because the body is too weak, so fragile, the butterfly wings are rarely used as the same species, rarely sold, displayed or worshiped. However, not because of this reason that star flowers are underdeveloped, whereas this plant is increasingly favored to beautify the home garden thanks to the nature of breeding and easy cultivation.

Techniques for growing butterfly wings

To plant flowers on Tet holiday, growers should sow seeds from September to October of the lunar year when the seedlings are 20-25 days old. Before planting, people have to apply fertilizer on the ground that has been carefully done.

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Just take a look at the planting techniques, growers will get nice flower beds.

Because the fruit is small, when sown on the sand bed, people must sow evenly . After sowing, seeds need to be covered with a layer of straw to prevent scum beds and when watering to prevent seeds from being cornered when there is heavy rain. The layer covering this bed will be removed when the seed starts to grow. After removing the straw, the grower should not water it too much, the tree will die.

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This fragile flower has a variety of colors.

People who take care of plants can apply 5m3 of fertilizer including 3kg of phosphate, 3kg of potassium fertilizer, 10-15kg of lime for 1 sao. Half of the manure should be applied to the soil before being reapplied for the last time to the bed. The other half will be applied to flowers before flowering.

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Butterfly wings are often planted in rows.

Planting density is 30x40cm . When plants recover, flower players can apply top dressing multiple times (every 7 days) by mixing with water 1/5 - 1/4. The top dressing is when the plant starts to have buds.

Breeding : Growers need to select beautiful color trees, ripen the mature fruit, dry the whole fruit and crush the seeds. The fruit will be easily separated, people can sieve and choose to make sure it is dried and preserved. The seeds of this flower are difficult to store, so they are only lightly sun-dried or in the shade, allowed to cool and then put into storage containers.