Two consecutive Sundays of the "Spring on the Branches" activity can be said to be full of harvest: a small idea to promote friends in the north and south of the river to share the state of spring there, a national spring map was born at one time; parents in just one week, carefully cultivated the elm leaf plum pruning collected in the park, watching the flower buds reveal pink petals little by little and rejoicing; children in the second activity to open more winter buds, a glimpse of life's hidden secrets, excited. So let's take a look at what everyone has learned this week!
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A branch of spring, a map of spring
For 4 consecutive days, a branch of early spring flowers changes (clockwise).
When the outdoor branches are still silent, a few branches taken home to welcome spring bloom rapidly after 3 days of soaking, and the window sill is immediately full of spring. This sharing aroused everyone's interest in the group, so friends in Yunnan, Hangzhou, Jinan, Beijing and Harbin sent photos of spring flowers there. Beijing's spring is still poised, the south is entering its peak, and the northeast's spring blossom period is still not heard.
Event organizer Sunny Zan provided.
Clockwise from the top left are:
Beijing, Jinan, Hangzhou and Yunnan.
Interestingly, Beijing's spring buds are waiting to bloom, and Jinan's are entering the flowering period, but they all flower first and then leaves. In Hangzhou, spring is already full of foliage, and the flower buds at the leaf axils have taken shape, while Yunnan is blooming with flowers and leaves. The same flower has obvious seasonal differences in different regions. As a result, there was a heated discussion about the causes behind it.
Friends in the group shared a picture of the footsteps of a spring girl, and the spring was clear at a glance.
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The secret of elm plum
Elm plum is the first flower-viewing plant to be trimmed by greeners in early spring every year. To some extent, they are the earliest group to perceive spring, and they must complete the pruning of the flower-viewing plants in the early spring before the flowers bloom to ensure that they can grow healthily. The event was inspired by a conversation with greeners in the early spring of the previous year. We hope that the participants, especially the children, will observe the pruning work of the workers and understand that a beautiful spring cannot be separated from their hard work. And those branches that are cut and discarded, but can still bloom, are the best reusable materials. Take them home, soak them, and watch them bloom little by little, and you will definitely awaken the sense of life.
Start clockwise in the upper left:
Day 1, Day 4, Day 9, Day 12
Within a week of the first event on March 27, the participating families shared the results one after another, and they could feel the joy that everyone had gained from it. Taking care of a living plant and watching it grow bring us excitement is like raising our own children, and it is full of expectations.
Event participants share elm plums soaked for 5 days.
Event organizers share 10 days of cultivated elm plums.
Participants share elm plums cultivated over 10 days.
Spring is quietly coming in the greening workers' pruning and shearing, and communicating with them again and again will slowly understand the significance of the work of pruning. The dead branches and dead branches on the tree should be cleaned up; the flower-viewing plants are not the more flowers bloom, the better, but to maintain a reasonable number, cut off the dense branches, to ensure that each cluster of flowers has sufficient sunlight; the weak branches of the flower buds should be cut off to ensure that the remaining flower buds have sufficient nutrition. Each cut reflects the trade-offs between trade-offs, like the attitude towards life.
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The story of buds
When we think further about the meaning behind pruning, we will find that winter buds are structures that we cannot ignore. To a large extent, the position of the pruning depends on the position of the buds. It should not be cut immediately below the bud, exposing a long branch, and it should not be pruned immediately above the bud, which will make the bud easily broken. The buds are the most direct presentation of the vitality of the plant in spring. Think about it, the delicate flowers and the new green leaves are actually spewing out of the bare branches of the winter.
Example of trimming the month season
Watch the workers subtract dead branches
Perhaps it can be said that only when we perceive the morphology and growth and change of different plant buds can we say that we really feel the arrival of spring. Therefore, our activity is called "Spring on the Branches", and the first thing is to start with the search for buds.
If there were no flowers and leaves, would you know them?
The little winter buds hide the vitality of life!
To look for spring on a branch is to look for a specific, inconspicuous bud on a branch. We constantly ask, does each plant bloom first or grow leaves first in the spring? Only by opening some specific winter buds can the mystery be revealed. We can clearly see the delicate palm-shaped leaves in the shiny winter buds of the horse chestnut tree, and we also see the clear flowers in the magnolia buds, and the secrets of the plant slowly emerge in the subtle observation. A little girl attended two events, and her mother said that after the second time, her daughter excitedly told her that this time she understood many secrets of plant growth.
Horse chestnut tree
The winter buds of the horse chestnut tree hide the young leaves that will grow in the coming year! 2020.12.8.
Winter buds, formed at the end of the previous year's summer, stand tall in the branches in a posture of challenging the cold, and look forward to the hope of a new life in the coming year!
Organizer Introduction:
Education on a school tour
Lead the teacher to introduce:
Duan Shuo:
Founder of Duan Gongzi's Exploration of Nature and Humanities;
Father of a 10-year-old girl who nurtures the child's concept of pro-nature;
In 2020, he followed the twenty-four solar terms and wrote 72 observation articles on solar terms;
Long-term engaged in nature observation and research;
With the theme of discovering the nature around us, design and organize observation activities of natural ecology of different solar terms;
Loves classical music and learns violin with children.
Liyan:
Nature Observation Children's Camp Event Organizer;
Certificate of Completion of Environmental Education Effectiveness Management, Cornell University;
Emergency ambulance crew;
Health Manager;
Ba Gakuen Junior Teacher;
Former shareholder of Xiashan Children's Home, focusing on the operation of children's educational institutions;
Years of overseas work and life experience, during the settlement in the United States, many times involved in school and community volunteer activities;
Senior executive of enterprise human resources for many years, master of human resource management at Peking University;
Mother of an 11-year-old girl.