Prose | He Junlin: Kumquat Roses Into Landscapes

Text/He Junlin

In the city where you live, although large and small gardens can be seen everywhere, there are countless lawns and green spaces, but the flowers and grasses are never as much reinforced concrete, which seems a bit depressed in comparison, and there is a feeling of ants facing elephants. As a result, almost every household planted a few pots of flowers and grasses on the balcony, as if fighting with reinforced concrete, and exhaling for the flowers and grasses.

But my home was an exception, and although I moved a few times, the balcony was always empty. A guest suggested that I plant a few pots of flowers and plants on the balcony, and I always shook my head and smiled: Where is the time to take care of the flowers and plants? For the time being, I can't do Tao Yuanming, and I am still far away from the days of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the South Mountain". The guest shook his head: How much time can it take to take care of the flowers and plants? Who isn't running for life and work? You're just making excuses for laziness. I couldn't argue, but I was stubborn and continued to leave the balcony empty.

Sitting on the balcony reading books and newspapers, I think it is a kind of enjoyment, but I always see the balconies on the opposite floor showing off, revealing a burst of vitality, and I can't help but feel a little envious in my heart. "Linyuan envy fish is better to retreat and tie the net", why can't you turn idleness into idleness, and do Tao Yuanming like others?

In my imagination, it is not difficult to do Tao Yuanming, it is nothing more than to get back a few pots, plant some flowers and grasses in the pots, and usually apply fertilizer and water. But what kind of flowers to plant is good, but I can't think clearly for a while. It is spring, in the evening downstairs to walk the dog, in the community garden to look east and west, when it is really a hundred flowers blooming, everywhere the fragrance of flowers.

Smelling the flowers, looking at the flowers, my mind has been wondering which flowers are suitable for my balcony. Maybe it was the random flowers that were confused, and I walked for half a day without thinking of the results, and finally realized the difficulty of "choosing flowers among flowers". Can only find excuses for themselves, what flowers to plant is to talk about fate, fate arrives, flower fairies will naturally come, and even the snow lotus flowers of the Tianshan Mountains will take the initiative to run to my balcony, and that fate may be tomorrow.

There is no need to wait for tomorrow. On the way home, next to a trash can, I saw a kumquat growing in a somewhat dilapidated pot. Apparently, someone moved and abandoned it here, because there were still a few rotten chairs and some miscellaneous objects next to it.

This kumquat also hangs two small round kumquat fruits, like two tiny lanterns, small and exquisite, and endearing. I felt as if I had been dragged over, crouched down and touched the little kumquat, and a thought came to my mind: I should take the kumquat home.

On the balcony to change the kumquat re-a pot, there is no new soil, just fertilized once, watered once a day in the morning and evening, the previously some of the branches and leaves of the head of the head are vigorous, fresh, the two kumquats are more round and smooth, and even reveal a hint of luster.

I checked on the Internet, once the kumquat bears fruit, it will not easily fall from the branch, even if it dries up, it will not fall easily, unless it suffers from some external force, such as someone picking it off. It wasn't enough to have just two kumquats, I longed for little kumquats that were fiery red and shiny and round to hang all over the branches.

To achieve this desire, I treat myself as a gardener and take good care of it. When I have time, I sit on the balcony and stare at the kumquat, like looking at a subtle landscape, hoping that it will suddenly blossom and produce a lovely kumquat in the blink of an eye.

As the days passed, one morning, I suddenly found that several tiny buds had grown on the thin branches, followed by more buds, and soon the branches were full of small white flowers. Also inadvertently, small green kumquats hung from the branches.

I waited for these little kumquats to go from green to green to red, and waited for them to ripen one by one, to merge with the two small kumquats that had been left before, to become a more beautiful scenery, and to make the balcony brighter.

Only one kumquat is lonely. In fact, since planting kumquats, I've tried to scale up and grow more varieties of flowers and trees, such as camellias, masts, and so on. What bothers me in particular is planting roses. I thought it was very simple to plant roses, buy seedlings to plant in pots, but what I bought from the Internet was a few knot-like rhizomes, and the seller said that burying these knots in the soil can sprout and grow.

I bought a total of 5 of these knots and planted them in the same pot. Maybe I was worried that such knots would be difficult to germinate, so I not only added enough flower fertilizer, but also watered enough water every day, and only one knot sprouted, and the rest were all rotten.

In the words of others, I have applied more fertilizer, watered more, and propped up the rhizomes to death. People also say that planting flowers and raising flowers seems very simple, but in fact, it is also a science and a technology. The existence of such professions as florists and florists in this world is enough to prove that planting flowers and raising flowers requires technology and learning.

No one is born a gardener, you can't take it for granted by feeling, you have to study seriously. Therefore, I carefully studied the technique of growing roses on the Internet, asked others for advice from time to time, and carefully cared for the only remaining rose buds. Watch it grow vigorously, from one branch to more branches, from one leaf to more leaves, and finally a gorgeous red rose. Although carrying some small thorns, it becomes a unique scenery on the balcony.

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