After months of thinking about it, I finally made up my mind to completely eradicate the Lingxiao flowers that I had planted in the terrace flower box.
Yes, you read that right, Ling Xiaohua. Lingxiao is a climbing vine of the Asteraceae family and Lingxiao genus, which is strong and warm.
When the flowers bloom, they are still spectacular and beautiful.
In 2019, I built a stainless steel trellis on the terrace, ready to plant a vine plant to climb the trellis to shade the terrace. After many selections, I finally chose Lingxiao flower, thinking that this plant is easy to grow and raise, grows quickly, and blooms beautifully, which is simply a dream flower in a million. As everyone knows, this is the beginning of the nightmare.
Lingxiao flower grows fast, has a long flowering period, is cold and drought tolerant, and is easy to maintain.
Friends who have planted Lingxiao flowers know that the flowering of this thing is indeed beautiful and spectacular, and the flowers are like red waterfalls, blooming on the branches, giving people a beautiful and spectacular feeling. When summer comes, the flowers begin to bloom, decorating the entire garden like a fairyland.
However, Ling Xiaohua has several big shortcomings, which everyone must face upon.
The first is that it is easy to provoke snakes, insects, rats and ants. Lingxiao flower is very attractive to ants, after the flowers fall, if you don't clean it up in time, you will find that the flowers will be crawling with ants, and I don't know how these ants climbed on the seventh floor of my house The reason why Lingxiao flowers attract ants is because it loves aphids, Lingxiao grows fast and has many young shoots, aphids like it the most, and the mucus secreted by aphids will attract ants, so where there are Lingxiao flowers, it is easy to appear in groups of ants.
Ants love the flowers.
In addition, Lingxiao has a bigger problem: it has a well-developed root system and is aggressive. I planted it in a 2-meter-long flower box, and after two years of planting, some new shoots would pop up in every corner of the flower box from time to time, and they would grow endlessly.
The seedlings of this kind of Lingxiao flower pop up everywhere, the root system extends to **, and the seedlings grow to **.
With that up to my mind, I immediately moved and began to clean up the dirt from the farthest corner of the flower, also to see how developed its root system really was.
In order to preserve the root system more completely, I used a small shovel to dig slowly, peel off the root system little by little, take out the soil, and finally saw a very shocking scene: the box was full of Lingxiao flower roots, and the taproots, lateral roots, and fibrous roots were densely packed together, occupying the entire box. No wonder the perfume lemon I planted in this box has been half-dead.
Densely packed with roots.
With such a dense root system, how can other plants have room to grow?
In the end, it took me about three hours to dig up the entire flower box and its roots, and the roots were filled with a snakeskin bag.
I really recommend that friends do not plant Lingxiao flowers when the family yard is greening, it is too aggressive. If you plant in the ground, congratulations, in addition to being easy to attract snakes, insects, rats and ants, you will also harvest a whole yard of sky, and the other plants in the garden have nowhere to go!
After the flowers were cleaned up, I felt that the terraces were wider.
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