JPH0670644A - Shaping culture of ornamental plant - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable shaping culture into a complicated shape of, e.g. an animal such as a horse, a bird or a rabbit and that in a relatively short culture period, in the shaping culture method of an ornamental plant. CONSTITUTION:The top parts of an ornament plant such as a box tree 6 are arranged along a frame formed into a shape of a horse, etc., by using a metallic wire such as a zinc-plated iron wire and bound and fixed thereto by using a belt-shaped vinyl-coated iron wire 7. The box tree 6 is subsequently allowed to grow and pruned along the above-mentioned frame.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for shaping and cultivating an ornamental plant by cultivating the ornamental plant to shape an object such as an animal model.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is generally known that ornamental plants such as pine used for bonsai and the like are shaped and cultivated in the shape of a crane, a turtle or the like. In such a cultivation method, a plant is grown in a desired outer shape by waiting for the growth of branches and leaves in an appropriate direction of the ornamental plant and repeating pruning as appropriate.

[0003]

However, in the conventional shaping cultivation method described above, it is necessary to repeat the pruning operation after waiting for the opportunity to grow the branches and leaves in the desired direction, and to prevent the shape from becoming distorted after shaping. Therefore, an evergreen shrub having a relatively slow growth rate is often used, and it takes a long time, for example, 3 to 7 years, to become a finished product.

In the above cultivation method, for example, animals,
There is also a problem that it is difficult to form complicated shapes such as buildings, people and dolls.

Therefore, the present invention solves the above-mentioned problems and enables commercialization in a relatively short cultivation period, and
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for shaping and cultivating ornamental plants that can handle complex shapes such as horses, birds and rabbits.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the present invention, the above-mentioned ornamental plant is fixed by adding a ground part of the ornamental plant to a frame formed of a metal wire. A means for growing and pruning along the framework was adopted.

It is also possible to employ a means for heating the metal wire with a linear heater.

[0008]

The method for shaping and cultivating an ornamental plant according to the present invention is such that a metal wire can be freely bent or connected to form a frame into a desired shape. Fix the plant. Therefore, after that, the plants cover the entire surface of the framework only by growing the branches and leaves by a small dimension, and if the plants are pruned along the framework, the desired shaping cultivation is completed in a short period of time.

When the growth rate of the leaves is slow in winter or autumn, the metal wire or the leaves or both of them may be heated by a linear heater to shorten the cultivation period.

[0010]

The metal wire used in the present invention can be used without any particular limitation as long as it can be shaped relatively freely by hand, and is, for example, ordinary iron wire, smoothed iron wire or so-called wire. It may be a galvanized iron wire or the like, and may have a diameter of about 1 to 1.5 mm.
In addition, when the scale of modeling is large or the weight of the branches and leaves is particularly heavy, it goes without saying that rods and pipes made of a material having higher rigidity or synthetic resin may be used in combination.

Further, the modeling in the present invention means an animal,
In addition to a model of a building, a person, a doll, a vehicle, or the like, a solid figure such as a sphere, a cube, or another polyhedron or a newly created aesthetic shape or character may be used.

Further, the ornamental plant used in the present invention can be adopted without any limitation as long as it is a plant with roots. For example, in addition to evergreen shrubs such as boxwood (yellow toothpick), Satsuki, azalea, etc. It may be a perennial plant such as vines and chrysanthemums.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, a galvanized iron wire having a diameter of 1.5 mm is bent to form side frames 1 of a horse's head, neck and torso, respectively. Frames 5 were formed by connecting short iron wires 2 at intervals of, and similarly connecting other tails 3, legs 4 and other details.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2, the trunk portions of the four boxwoods 6 with the lower leaves cut off are added to the four legs 4 of the framework 5, and the commercially available belt-shaped vinyl-coated iron wire 7 is used in order. I'm bound.

As shown in FIG. 3, the branches and leaves of the boxwood 6 are also attached to the tail 3 and various parts of the head / neck / body of the frame 5, and then transplanted to the flowerpot 8 as shown in FIG. did. At this time, if the growing period is in the fall / winter season, a commercially available linear heater 10 with a thermostat 9 (manufactured by Tsukuba Electric Co., Ltd .: 100V for agricultural electric cable, 1000W) is used for about 30 times.
The temperature may be set at 0 ° C., the inner bottom portion of the flower pot 8 may be attached to the frame 5 of the body and the neck via the foot 4, and the band-shaped vinyl coated iron wire 7 may be attached. The linear heater 1
0 may have a well-known structure such as a heating wire covered with an insulating rubber, and its set temperature is a temperature suitable for growing an ornamental plant to be used (for example, 20 to 35 ° C.). Good.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the branches and leaves that have proliferated for a period of 1 to 3 months were pruned along the framework 5 to obtain a horse-shaped shaped body 11.

The obtained molded body 11 was precise in that the branches and leaves were distributed in every detail, and the trunk portion of the boxwood 6 had a beautiful shape similar to a horse foot.

[0019]

[Effect] As described above, according to the present invention, a frame formed of a metal wire such as a wire can be shaped into a desired shape, and an ornamental plant that grows appropriately fast can be adopted and grown. Can be shaped during the cultivation period of, for example, horses, birds,
There is an advantage that a shaped body having a complicated shape can be cultivated in a manner similar to an animal such as a rabbit.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a framework used in a method of model-cultivating cultivation according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which boxwood is added to the framework of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which boxwood is fixed to the frame of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a growing state after the state shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a modeled body after final pruning.

[Explanation of symbols]

 5 Frame 6 Boxes 7 Vinyl coated iron wire 8 Flower pot 11 Model

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A method of shaping and cultivating an ornamental plant, which comprises fixing a metal wire to a frame with the above-ground part of the ornamental plant, and then growing the ornamental plant and pruning along the frame. . 2. The method for shaping and cultivating an ornamental plant according to claim 1, wherein a linear heater is added to the metal wire to heat the metal wire.