He asked the Lagerstroemia flower of Huanghelou to open three times a year a year

Lei Yongtao. Reporter Li Yonggang Photo

Name: Lei Yongtao

Year month: January 1970 party time: July 2015

Occupation: Yellow Crane Tower Park Lagerstroemiaweed Second Flowing Regulation Studio, the person in charge of the Studio

Get honor: In the 2019 Wuhan Park Maintenance Skills Contest, Clicpolin Garden Dingjin Award, 2019 City Dream Catcher, Wuhan Garden and Forestry Bureau "Park Classroom" are the most beautiful teachers.

Lei Yongtao is trimming the flower branches. Reporter Li Yonggang Photo

In the hot sun, the yellow crane building Ziwei Garden became a purple -red sea of ​​flowers. Lei Yongtao walked between a Zuli, holding his mobile phone with one hand, and holding up the inflorescence and photos with a full -bodied branch of Lagerstroemia. Essence

Lei Yongtao is 52 years old. He has been studying garden technology since the age of 15, and has entered the Yellow Crane Park Gardening Department at the age of 20. In 2014, the reconstruction of Ziwei Garden was completed. In order to finely maintain the park flowers, the park set up a special Ziwei maintenance team. Lei Yongtao was the person in charge.

Lei Yongtao is trimming the flower branches. Reporter Li Yonggang Photo

Fertilization in January, plastic surgery on branches; loose soil and trees in February; grafting and cutting in March; in April, buds, diseases and insect pests ... Plastic surgery trimming in November; Essence In 12 months a year, the moon and the moon have the focus of maintenance. Lei Yongtao is soaked in the garden almost every day, treating each Ziwei as a baby like a baby.

After the grafting and careful maintenance of Lei Yongtao, a Lagerstroemia Pile of Lagerstroemia Garden in the Yellow Crane Tower Park also opened light pink purple, big red and rose red flowers. Reporter Li Yonggang Photo

Lagerstroemia's second bloom originated from one accident. In 2014, Lei Yongtao, who had just arrived in Ziwei Garden, found that because of the beautiful opening of Lagerstroemia, some tourists couldn't help but break the two branches and took them away. He was very distressed. After a while he went to check the situation at the broken branch, but was pleasantly surprised to find that the flowers were cut again and again, and at this time, the other flowers almost all faded. "Ziwei Meng is so strong! If they are trimmed after flowers, can they all bloom twice?" This idea excited Lei Yongtao.

A Lagerstroemia Pile of Ziwei Garden in the Yellow Crane Tower Park also opened light pink purple, big red and rose red flowers at the same time. Reporter Li Yonggang Photo

Lei Yongtao started the experiment that year, and it really opened the second wave of flowers! Next, he conducts the secondary flowering period of Ziwei, and has conducted a comparative test one after another to explore the best pruning position of the inflorescence, and how to fertilize the flower to promote the flowers.

In 2020, he found in the exploration that after the second flowering of Lagerstroemia, cut off the fruits of each flower, and the buds under the fruit will continue to come up with flower buds. Tests on the tree, the effect is good.

"Compared with the second flowering, it is more difficult to bloom three times. On the one hand, it is very careful when trimming, and it cannot hurt the buds. On the other hand, the workload is huge, because each branch of each branch is on the other. Hundreds of flowers. "But he felt very worthwhile. When you bloom more flowers, you can extend the overall flowering period of Lagerstroemia. In addition to many flowers, Lei Yongtao also woven Lagerstroemia's grafting and woven "playing".

At the entrance of Ziwei Garden, there is a tree -shaped Lagerstroemia -shaped Lagerstroemia. I saw that the purple, red, and red water on the tree was blooming. The magical scene of "one tree and more flowers" is realized by Lei Yongtao through grafting technology. The flowers of these Lagerstroemiablars themselves are relatively small and broken, so Lei Yongtao grafted other high -quality varieties -red rockets, purple leaf Danhong red, etc., and the inflorescences are bright and colorful, which greatly increases its ornamental value.

There are also Lagerstroemia in Lagerstroemia Garden that are "plates" into various shapes: vases, pavilions, and "Shou" ... It turns out that after the liquid deciduous in the autumn, Lagerstroemia's branches become very soft, so thunderbolt Tao and the conservation workers woven them into various shapes. Lei Yongtao said that this fall, he still wanted to try "Chinese knot" on the Lagerstroemia tree.

Lei Yongtao said that he has been dealing with Lagerstroemia for almost 10 years, and he loves Ziwei more and more. Love it without fighting, not afraid of the sun, and bloom warmly in the hot summer in summer; love it in autumn, leaves red like fire, and simple and vigorous in winter.

Next, he will further study the three flowers of Lagerstroemia, and constantly innovate all kinds of Ziwei grafting and shape. "I hope that tourists who come to Huanghelou can fully appreciate the beauty of Lagerstroemia. When they see Ziwei's smile, it is the best reward for my hard work a year." Lei Yongtao said. (Reporter Yang Xiaoyu intern Wang Yaxuan)

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