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Photinia rubra is flourishing, with fresh shoots and bright red leaves, and it lasts for a long time in spring and autumn. Red and green alternate at the turn of spring and summer, and autumn and winter alternate, which are widely used in landscaping. It is a rare red leaf tree species in greening.

Sheet planting

Photinia rubra (1-2 years old) can be pruned into short shrubs, which can be used as ground cover plants in garden green space. The new buds in spring and autumn are called gorgeous moon grabbing, which lasts longer. When planted, they are like burning flames, or combined with other colorful plants to form various patterns, especially in the red leaf period.

Especially in spring and autumn, the redder the young leaves are pruned, the better the landscape effect is. In spring and summer, the three colors of red, yellow and green are bright and eye-catching, and they are very imposing.

Whether it is used in streets, parks, special green spaces, residential areas or private villas, it is full of vitality and beauty. In the courtyard, lawn, flower bed, square, interchange green space on both sides of highway overpass, after planting, various plane and three-dimensional geometric color patterns can be trimmed to improve the effect, grade and level of greening and beautification in winter.

Hedge or curtain wall

Photinia rubra can also be cultivated into small trees with inconspicuous stems and clumps, and planted into large hedges or curtain walls, which can be used in residential areas, factory green spaces, streets or highway green belts.

When the group is planted as a hedge or curtain wall, it is like a fire dragon, which is very gorgeous, full of vitality, eye-catching and beautiful, and has the effect of anti-pollution. The bright red buds and tender leaves of Photinia fraseri were used as color blocks to organize plant landscaping, and combined with other color-leafed plants to form various patterns, which were applied to courtyards, lawns, flower beds, squares and interchange green spaces on both sides of highway overpasses.

Photinia rubra has the advantages of fast growth, strong germination and pruning resistance. It is widely used in landscaping and can be cultivated into different tree shapes according to the needs of gardens.

Isolated planting

Photinia rubra can also be cultivated into a solitary tree with a spherical crown. It is a rare evergreen flowering tree with long green leaves, tender red leaves and white flowers, which is the finishing touch and has a little red effect in evergreen trees. It can not only be planted alone in the courtyard or lawn, but also be combined with various garden buildings and landforms to play the role of ornament, contrast and foil.

pot culture

The old leaves of Photinia rubra are smooth, pure in color, high in gloss, resistant to pruning and easy to manage. It is a good indoor and outdoor ornamental bonsai, which can be placed indoors, squares, roads and other places to increase the variety of ornamental plants, while its red leaves can add beauty.

The' Red Robin' adopts a soilless substrate basin, which is elegant and generous after pruning, and is used for laying flower borders, flower beds with patterns and so on. Decorated in streets, roadsides, leisure squares and other places, it plays the role of potted flowers and has high ornamental value, which can set off the festive atmosphere of festivals and celebrations. It can be used for indoor greening and is a good indoor foliage plant.

The characteristics of Photinia fraseri, such as pruning resistance, strong germination ability, multiple germination times a year, bright red buds and tender leaves, can be used for greening in enterprises and institutions. Pruned red leaf heather will give off red buds and tender leaves, especially on festive days. Pruning once 30 days in advance will make the buds and tender leaves particularly beautiful and festive.

At present, in order to achieve this festive effect, many units use a large area to place poinsettia or a bunch of red flowers, such as red heather, which will be more beautiful, more economical and better.

Trees by the roadside

Photinia rubra has strong ecological adaptability, tolerance to low temperature, barren, saline-alkali and thousand droughts. Taking the spherical crown cultivated in Gao Qian as a street tree, it stands like a torch and has a beautiful landscape effect. The isolation belts in the middle and both sides of urban roads are often beautified by short spherical clusters and intercropping.

Green landscape and decoration

Photinia rubra is cultivated into cylindrical and cubic, which is widely used in green space or landscape. In spring and autumn, new shoots and leaves are fiery red, gorgeous and lasting, and full of vitality. Leaves turn bright green in summer and bring freshness and coolness to rice in hot summer.

Heather with red leaves can not only become a beautiful landscape alone, but also be combined with other garden buildings and landforms to play a good role in embellishment.

The pattern flower beds are arranged in the pattern of "one irrigation and one grass" cultivated by osmanthus fragrans, heather, Ligustrum lucidum, Sabina vulgaris, Tabai, Lagerstroemia indica and Cuiju. In the red leaf period, the color contrast is very obvious. Photinia glabra decorated with red leaves can not only become a landscape independently, but also be combined with various garden buildings and landforms to play the role of ornament, contrast and foil.

Resistant plants

Photinia rubra is drought-resistant, sulfur dioxide-resistant, and has strong air-tightness function, so it is suitable for greening in residential areas, factories and mining areas. It can be planted in areas with serious air pollution and is a rare anti-pollution tree species. In addition, it also has a strong sound insulation effect, and it can play a good role in eliminating noise when planted in pieces or rows. Reasonable planting along roads, railways, airports, factories, etc., which will produce great mechanical noise, will have good environmental benefits.

Fireproof forest belt

In addition to its application in gardens, Photinia rubra has a great role in creating momentum, guiding and isolating. If we want to create a grand momentum and better isolation effect, Photinia rubra is the best choice. It can create a closed isolation environment and form a high fence or a large curtain wall. This application provides one of the bases for the selection of tree species in the fire forest belt. After five years' research on the fire-resistant forest belt in a state-owned forest farm in Fujian, the results show that the fire-resistant forest belt of Photinia rubra is easy to cultivate, and the unique properties of Photinia rubra can achieve long-term benefits, which is worth popularizing and applying in forestry on a large scale.