The gardenia floral fragrance is intoxicating
Gardenia blossoms welcome visitors
"Yummy! Yummy! I'm all drunk! "On May 28, the gardenia planting base in Daye City, Liu Renba Town, Daye City, is still a distance of 100 meters, and the fragrance of gardenia flowers that fills the air is already coming to the nose, which is pleasant. Many tourists laughed and said that they had not yet reached the flowers, and their hearts were already intoxicated.
Blue sky, white clouds, green mountains, green water, outlining a landscape painting of the mountains. Of course, the protagonist is still the gardenia flowers that spread over the mountains, dotted on the jungle like a green carpet, like the stars in the Milky Way, which is very spectacular.
Walking among the flowers, I saw pure and pure flowers blooming on the emerald green branches, and the white flower buds were blooming, like a pure girl wearing a white dress, and like a flower carved from white jade. The wind blows softly, and the gardenia flowers sway with the wind.
Come closer, smell it gently, the rich and fragrant fragrance is refreshing, the fragrance contains the fragrance of leaves, with the fragrance of earth, sandwiched with the dark fragrance in the air. The clusters of green leaves support the white flowers, and the bones of the flowers that are ready to bloom, which adds a bit of color.
"Growing up so big, I have never seen such a sea of flowers, it is so beautiful!" Ms. Mao, a citizen who came to enjoy the flowers with her girlfriend, said that she learned on the WeChat group that there is such a gardenia planting base in Dazhuang Village, Liu Renba Town, and now is the best time to enjoy the flowers, so she deliberately took a leave of absence to rush over. Ms. Mao said that after busy work, she likes to be close to nature, nourish her eyes and nourish her heart.
"Not long ago, we just held our first gardenia festival, and recently thousands of people come here every day to enjoy the flowers." According to Liu Xuansheng, secretary and director of Dazhuang Village, on the day of the festival on May 23, groups of tourists flocked to enjoy the flowers, and the motorcade alone lined up for about a kilometer.
Liu Xuansheng said that Liu Renba Town is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there is little arable land available, and most of the mountains are barren mountains, with poor soil and many shrubs and weeds. Laolongtou Mountain, where Dazhuang Village is located, because it is a white sandy land, the soil is even more barren, it does not grow crops, and the trees are planted every year and die.
In 2015, with the recommendation and help of the village-based task force of the Standing Committee of the Daye Municipal People's Congress, Daye Village made full use of the barren mountains and barren slopes to build a gardenia yellow planting base, with a planting area of more than 3,000 mu, and in 2018, the fruit was hung, the harvest was more than 60,000 yuan that year, and the income in 2019 was doubled. "The base not only produces economic benefits, but also has a fire prevention function, and there has not been a single wildfire in recent years." Liu Keyin said that in addition to weeding, fruit picking, and management, the base has brought labor income to poor households and helped them get rid of poverty and become rich, but also greatly reduced the pressure of fire fighting in previous years.
"Flowers are for ornamentation, and we value the economic value of gardenias more." Liu Xuansheng said that gardenia can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine and can also extract the natural pigment - gardenia yellow. Gardenia yellow is a kind of yellow pigment extracted from gardenia fruit, its composition is mainly carotenoid pigments of saffron, high safety, has certain nutritional value, is a safe and reliable colorant in the food field. Therefore, gardenia can be described as a combination of greening, ornamental, medicinal, food industry in one.
It is reported that driven by Dazhuang Village, 17 of the current 20 villages in Liu Ren Eight Town have planted gardenia trees and formed professional cooperatives. These gardenia trees are planted on the previous barren mountains, covering an area of more than 12,000 acres, the barren mountains are greener and more beautiful, and they have become a cornucopia and become a "golden mountain and silver mountain" with both ecological and economic effects.
"At the moment, the biggest problem is that the gardenia trees are too dense." Liu Xuansheng was "distressed" that the spacing between trees was getting denser and denser, which affected both the number of gardenias and the quality of gardenias. The development space of this mountainous area is close to saturation, and it is impossible to transplant. He hoped that citizens who were interested in planting trees and raising flowers could come here to buy trees and plant them at home.
In Liu Xuansheng's plan, it will also build tourist trails on the base, build infrastructure such as farmhouses, and enhance the comprehensive tourism value of the base, so that tourists can stay here for a longer time. (Source Dongchu Network)