Gardenia is in bloom, which is really not something worth showing off. Gardenias are too ordinary to be placed among thousands of flowers. If peonies are compared to the king of flowers, peonies to the courtesans, plum blossoms to the gentleman of flowers, and lotus flowers to the fairy of flowers, then the gardenia will probably be too embarrassed to hide. You really can't use a suitable metaphor to describe this big, white, and full of strong fragrance.
This kind of simple flower like a village girl has always been loved by the general public. Plant one in front of the yard and behind the house. Every late spring and early summer, when the weather is warm and cold, the fragrance of gardenias will quietly appear in the complex air. This is somewhat similar to the rose on the front and back legs. The branches were always full of flowers the day before, and the branches will be full of flowers the next morning. The strong fragrance can cover a few meters away. If it comes for a while The light breeze may spread for several miles.
When I first moved into my new home, I always wanted to buy a gardenia to grow, but I felt that I couldn't tolerate a huge one and had nowhere to place it. I also thought about buying a few half-flowered buds picked from an old woman's stall on the street and inserting them into a vase filled with water to get the fragrance for a few days. But it can't dispel the love in my heart.
I remember the gardenia I planted in my old house when I was young. I asked the doctor for it when I was sick and was about to be discharged from the hospital. I remember that I had a strange illness at that time. My body was covered with sores, which were difficult to detect at first, and then became pus-filled and extremely itchy, so I had to be hospitalized for treatment. Lying in the hospital bed every day, hearing the chirping of birds in the sunshine and the patter of raindrops outside the house, I felt that life is impermanent and I must enjoy life after I get sick. Not long ago, I heard the fragrance coming from the window again, so I asked my mother to go and check it out. My mother came back and said that they were some gardenia trees planted among the street trees of the hospital. Now in early summer, white flowers have bloomed, and that’s where the fragrance came from.
After completing the discharge procedures, the first thing I did was to ask my mother to go to the doctor and ask if she could ask for a gardenia tree to be planted. The doctor was generous, saying that he might not be able to give you a living flower tree as a whole, so he could only cut off a branch and cut it back. Mother said that if the flower tree was broken, she might not be able to survive. The doctor said that success or failure depends on fate. As long as you believe it can survive, you will definitely survive.
My mother and I spent a lot of effort to break off a branch from a huge flower tree. The branches were still covered with morning dew. I carried the flower branch like a flag and found an open space when I got home. I planted it on the river bank and found some fertile-looking soil to put in it. After the gardenia tree was planted, I watered it every day to see if it could survive by nature as the doctor said.
A week later, the flower tree did not grow new buds, but the branches and leaves were withered a lot. In less than two weeks, the entire flower tree withered. I was a little desperate. My father thought that the fertile soil you used was too fertile, and the flowers and trees were bored to death. He said that he would pull them out. I said that the doctor had said that there was hope of survival through the cutting, so just wait.
This wait lasted for a year. Autumn passed and winter came and spring came again. The gardenia tree withered for three seasons and finally sprouted new buds in the second spring. This makes me extremely happy. The clouds are clearing and the moon is bright. The fortune I have been looking forward to has now come true. The flowers and trees have gained strength and fulfilled their wish. Gardenia blooms its first flower in early summer, and then its second and third flowers. Although there are not many flowers, they are fragrant. In the autumn of that year, the flowering trees bloomed for the second time. Everyone who heard about it was amazed, saying that it was rare for a flowering tree to bloom twice a year. My father, who was about to pull out the flowers and trees at that time, turned around and said, maybe the fertilizer you applied had an effect, and now all the flowers from last year have bloomed.
It’s another year, and the flower trees are growing vigorously. They have blossomed into luxuriant branches and leaves. The flowers that bloom every day are like a sea of fragrant snow. My mother picked some and cultivated them in water. She also gave some to her good sisters. . Every time it is delivered to her, what she hears is that it is so fragrant. There is really no flower more fragrant than this.
Indeed, there are hundreds of kinds of flower fragrances. Orchids are too light, lotus is too astringent, chrysanthemums are too enchanting, plum blossoms seem to be there but jasmine is very fragrant, but the more you smell it, the more strange it becomes.Only gardenias can be thoroughly fragrant and overflowing with fragrance. Even Mr. Wang Zengqi was so fascinated by the fragrance that he could no longer care about being gentle about this thick fragrance that could not be wiped away. , shouting "Fuck you, I just want it to smell like this, it smells so good, do you fucking care!"
As soon as the beginning of summer passed this year, before the plum rain came, I couldn't hold it back, thinking You must buy one and keep it. Even if you free up a cupboard or a table, you must make a place to support it. When I entered the flower market, I realized that my worries were unnecessary. It turns out that in addition to those gardenias with big leaves, big flowers and bigger flowers, they also have brothers in the same sect. Flowers with light variants include white toad , sea gardenia, etc. Finally, I chose the four-season gardenia with slightly smaller branches and leaves, also known as sea gardenia. It is said that this flower tolerates shade and likes warmth, is easy to grow, and blooms all year round. I remembered that I had seen them in clusters in some flowerbeds. At that time, I was surprised at what kind of flower this flower was that looked very similar to gardenia but not very similar. Now I have an idea.
Gardenias can be grown in pots, which saves space. Although they are not as big and fragrant as gardenias, they have fulfilled a wish. The piety, diligence, expectation, and joy I felt when I was planting flowers and trees in my childhood are still there today. A lot lighter, but this state of mind is always missed, it is the kind of freedom, reckless and arrogant, just like the youthful spirit, no need to pay attention to any style or nobility, as long as the fragrance fills the room, just put it away Feeling.
