When will the red plum blossom? Hongmei has a wide range of garden uses. It can be seen everywhere, and can be planted individually or in groups. When it is planted with other plants, it presents the unique color of red plum. Generally, red berries are planted in many places such as green spaces, courtyards and scenic green belts. Because plum blossom is a unique ornamental tree species that blooms first and then grows leaves, it has a unique effect of "a little red in evergreen trees" together with other trees. In winter, trees seldom bloom, so plums are more distinctive. Red plum is a kind of plum blossom, belonging to small deciduous trees in Rosaceae. The height of the tree can be more than 10 meter. Plum blossoms are common ornamental flowers in winter. Plum blossoms usually bloom in late winter (1-February) or early spring (February-March). The following Changjing Garden will introduce the characteristics and detailed flowering season of plum blossoms.
Flowering period of red plum: It usually blooms in late winter (1-February) or early spring (February-March), that is, during the Spring Festival, it is called primrose, and its color is light pink or red.
Red plum has the characteristics of cold tolerance; Very sensitive to climate, like to adapt to moderate air growth environment, long branches and dense flowers; Red plum is a flowering tree species that blooms first and then grows leaves. It has 1-2 flowers on each node, and basically no stalks can be seen. Flowers are pink or red with petite petals and bright colors.
Species classification
They are real plums, apricot plums and cherry plums. Under it, it is mainly divided into five categories according to the branch posture.
The first kind is called straight plum. Branches are straight or inclined. This is the oldest and most gorgeous member of the Mei family, with 9 seeds such as plums and palace powder.
The second class name is weeping plum. Branches droop naturally or obliquely, and there are five kinds of drooping branches such as pink flowers.
The third class name is Long Youmei. Branches naturally twist like dragons, only 1 (dragon and plum) and 1 (jade butterfly and dragon pattern).
The name of the fourth class is Xingmei. In Song Dynasty, Fan Chengda recorded the interspecific hybridization between Nami and apricot for the first time in Li Shu. Flowers, leaves and branches live among apricots.' Apricot' is not fragrant or slightly fragrant (non-apricot), and its receptacle is enlarged. There are single apricot and plum types and late spring types.
The fifth category is cherry plum, which is an artificial hybrid of purple leaf plum and Gongfen plum. It's a purple leaf safflower with double petals and big flowers, which is cold-resistant.
Plum blossoms originated in China. There are more than 300 varieties of plum blossoms cultivated and applied in China, and there are still wild plum blossoms distributed in mountainous areas. Wild plums are distributed in the southwest mountainous areas, especially in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, and extend eastward to western Hubei. There are many varieties and varieties of plum blossom, which can be divided into right-angled plum, Zhao and Longyou plum according to branches and growth posture. According to the pattern, it can be divided into palace powder, red plum, Zhao, green calyx, scarlet, jade butterfly and other types. Among them, palace powder is the most common, with pink flowers and dense and thick flowers; Jade butterfly-shaped flowers are purple and white; The green calyx-shaped flowers are white and fragrant, especially the "green calyx of money".