On the morning of August 19, Yao Jianmin, a resident of The Eighth Phase of XinpuJiangcheng, welcomed a new friend to his home. Because of his hobbies, Zheng Zhiguo, who is usually an office worker, recently took over a volunteer job as a "green doctor" in the community, using his spare time to knock on the door and consult, and the flowers and plants in Yao Jianmin's home became his first batch of "patients".
With the help of horticulturists, the "emergency" of the community about flowers and plants has been eliminated in time, the residents' tight brows have been stretched, the enthusiasm for raising flowers and loving flowers has risen even higher, and with flowers as the medium, the door to community greening autonomy has also been opened.
Door-to-door "consultation", harvest thanks for growth
As soon as the "old mage" entered the door, Yao Jianmin rushed to take him to a pot of Junzilan: "Teacher Zheng, my family has been raising this pot for three or four years, how is it soft this year, and it is still a little yellow?" ”
After carefully observing a circle around Junzilan, Zheng Zhiguo smiled and inserted his finger into the soil: "This soil is white and hard, even Junzilan is disgusted, you see, its roots must only run upwards, not down." ”
Zheng Zhiguo knocked on the high tube pot again: "When changing the soil, change the pot, change it to a wide mouth, shallow one." This kind of high barrel basin is poorly permeable and breathable, and it is not good that this part of the soil is moldy. ”
"No wonder I pay attention to the frequency of watering, and recently I poured beer mixed with water, but it didn't use it at all." Yao Jianmin scratched his head and suddenly realized.
"Beer? There is no nutrition, you still go to the regular channels to buy nutrient soil, nutrient solution. Zheng Zhiguo said with a smile that he also tried a lot of Internet folk remedies, and the beer happened to have been tried, and the effect was not very optimistic.
After watching the first case, Lao Yao moved out a pot of five-needle pine with thinning "hair" and was distressed: "One night I suddenly found a small green insect crawling on the leaves, and within a few days I had chewed it like this. ”
"This may be the larvae of the twill moth or the pine yellow leaf wasp, if the number is not large, it is recommended to remove it with forceps, prune off the dead branches and leaves, and then change the soil." Zheng Zhiguo also recommended an insecticidal formula to Yao Jianmin, telling him to spray decisively if he encountered similar insect pests again, and once the golden period of killing was missed, it would be difficult for adult insects to have drug resistance.
It took Zheng Zhiguo nearly two hours to seriously "look at the smell and ask for advice", but the newly appointed community "green doctor" did not feel trouble at all: "Looking at the grateful eyes of others, there is a sense of accomplishment, moreover, helping others is also a kind of improvement for myself." ”
Zheng Zhiguo also revealed a new idea, in the future to contact more residents, will certainly encounter a variety of strange and difficult diseases, he intends to record these "medical records", when the time to return to visit, found a good effect of the "Fangzi", encounter similar situations can be copied and promoted.
Beautify communities and enjoy nature for all
Community gardeners are not only concerned about residents, but also the public green belt of the community, the flower wall of the community school, the pocket garden in the center of the street, etc., and they also need these enthusiastic people to lend a helping hand.
Gu Jianping, deputy manager of Shanghai Shenzhou Greening Industrial Co., Ltd., is one of the first batch of community horticulturists selected by Pujin Street in Minhang District. Just after taking up her post, Gu Jianping encountered a tricky problem: a number of large-leaf boxwood and flower-leaf boxwood in the public green belt of the eighth phase of The New Pujiang City Community lost a large area of leaves.
Rushing to the scene and picking a leaf, Gu Jianping immediately "diagnosed": "Leaf spot disease, damp, no ventilation, and no sun damage." ”
Property manager Ma Zhengyan nodded: "The sick people are all facing north, and there are camphors on it." The opposite side of the sun, nothing at all. ”
The "prescription" for the treatment of bacterial infection was given to the property, and Gu Jianping advised the management personnel to "give a fierce hand", and the dead branches and leaves that had been infected with bacteria could not return to a bright and beautiful state no matter how much spraying, and simply pruned off. Also, in order to no longer infect the newly grown young leaves, the potion should be beaten once every half a month, and the later maintenance should also pay attention to thinning, do not just cut out a spherical shape extensively. Otherwise, over time, the plant is not breathable and is prone to breeding bacteria.
In addition to seeing plants, giving the community "beauty" is also the ardent expectation of residents.
The fence of Minhang No. 3 Primary School affiliated to Shanghai Normal University was originally planted with wisteria, but in less than two years, the crazy vines have touched the hidden danger of the power grid above the wall. On the other hand, in the case of wisteria, the landscape effect of the single-sided wall is far less than that of the gallery.
How to adjust the landscape effect of the flower wall? The school thought of the newly recommended community gardener on the street.
"Usually, there are also maintainers responsible for maintaining the flower wall, but they are still lacking in professional fields such as variety selection and landscape design." Yan Yanchun, general secretary of the school, admitted that there are not many channels like community gardeners who can provide guidance and suggestions on landscaping.
After comprehensively considering the scene situation, Gu Jianping suggested replanting the Angela moon season, which is characterized by small clusters of flowers, petite and exquisite flowers, in addition to the attractive pink, but also emits a faint fruit aroma, which has become one of the most mature monthly varieties promoted and applied in Shanghai's green garden industry.
"It will grow into a wall of flowers every year at the latest, and it can bloom from April to October every year." Gu Jianping said that whether it is the children and teachers inside the wall or the passers-by outside the wall, they will be able to feel the beauty of vitality and the sense of ecological gain.
"Doctors" are limited, activating community autonomy
There are currently more than 20 community gardeners like Zheng Zhiguo and Gu Jianping in Shanghai. This year, each district in Shanghai selected one or two streets and towns to set up community horticulturists on a pilot basis, and a total of 20 streets and towns became the first batch of pilot streets and towns in the city, and the first batch of community horticulturists have recently been put on the job.
The relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Greening and City Appearance Bureau said that the reason for selecting community horticulturists in the streets and towns is aimed at the current lack of community greening management professionals and weak professional management. Through the community horticulturist system, the professional strength of community greening management can be enriched, the level of community greening construction and management in Shanghai can be further improved, and the expectations of citizens for a beautiful environment and a better life can be better met.
In 2022, all qualified streets and towns in Shanghai will set up a community horticulturist system.
Community horticulturists will be popular with residents, but the number of community horticulturists selected by the towns is limited, and human resources and eager needs are difficult to match. In response to this contradiction, it can be solved by activating community greening autonomy with the community gardener system.
Mao Qinying, deputy director of the Pujin Street Office, said that this year, the town will set up a green station headquarters, invite the selected community horticulturists to take turns on duty, and timely resolve the confusion and troubles of residents in the green garden.
This green station will also become a development center for community gardening enthusiasts, and the community gardener will discover a group of community gardeners, mobilize them to establish a flower club in the community, open a community-level green station, and let the "green troubles" at the doorstep be resolved at the doorstep.
Tan Xuyan is a community gardening enthusiast, with her own strength, she has created a mini European style garden of more than 30 square meters, planting dozens of flowers such as moonflower, clematis, hydrangea and so on.
For the initiation of the community flower friends association, she is very interested: "There are many masters in our community, but the circle of communication is very small, and I hope to have a larger platform, and when the time comes, I can respond to all kinds of difficulties and help each other." ”
Source: Author: Chen Xisha