Immortal sunflowers

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The author, Wang Yujuan

"Chenxianghong Xiangjiang Literature Class 2018 Student". Post-90s, part-time yoga instructor, like literature, travel. Let's meet in words to record and experience this wonderful life.

-Hong Kong Literature Vol.049-

The balcony, windowsill, front door and courtyard of my house are full of colorful sunflowers, and you can enjoy the colorful sunflower show all over the house without leaving home. When they walk into it and observe it carefully, they try to open up, just like the smiling faces of a group of babies, round faces, all kinds of colors look more and more bright in the sun, and they look like mischievous children in the wind, which makes people happy.

Sunflower flowers, closed in the morning, evening and cloudy days, will bloom at the sight of the sun, especially at noon when the sun is at its best, and people name it "sunflower" after its habit. Sunflower belongs to Portulaca oleracea subgenus succulent plant, perennial erect herb, strong, easy to cultivate, people also gave it a "immortal" name. At first, the sunflower in my family was just a section of pinched stems and leaves I picked up from the side of the road. At that time, the sun had already lost water and shrunk. However, I took it home, found an open space in the yard and planted it. I added some water and watered it for several days in a row, and it survived miraculously.

Since the survival of "immortal", our whole family has loved it and planted more sunflowers in the courtyard. Before long, every corner of my house was "occupied" by them, leaving them shaking their heads back and forth in the sun like a group of naughty children.

When I have nothing to do, I always like to go into the courtyard, find the most gorgeous area, and squat down to observe them carefully. Its fresh and succulent succulent stems and leaves are purplish red, about 20 cm long, the stem is creeping or oblique, and the leaves are pointed and fleshy stick-shaped. Flowers solitary or several clusters born at the top of the branch, the color from crimson, purple, deep yellow, light yellow, white, to white background decorated with red dots and other kinds, very beautiful. Sometimes I choose a long and dense place, pick a few plants and plant them in a flowerpot and put them on the balcony. That part of the stems, leaves and flowers hang around the flowerpot. Before long, the flowers bloom luxuriantly. It is interesting to see this small pot from afar.

The flowering period of sunflowers is very long, from early summer to late autumn, into the courtyard, in front of the door can always see their small and exquisite posture. After flowering, the fruit will grow like a melon peel cap, which will split when ripe and scatter some tiny silver-gray seeds shaped like a crescent moon. I will harvest some, wrap it up and give it to my relatives and friends, and the rest will fall to the ground with the wind and sprout and grow next spring.

Every year when the sun blossoms, it is also the time for our whole family to mobilize. I am responsible for picking it into a basin to decorate and decorate the house. The father, who is a doctor, picks sunflowers and gives them to patients free of charge, and the doctor advises those with sore throat to mash into juice to gargle, scald or fall injury, and eczema patients need to mash them for external application. Mother uses it to make dumpling stuffing or pick some for soaking water to drink, so that we can clear the heat and remove the fire in the hot summer.

But when it comes to the rainy season, if you don't pay attention to the stagnant water, it's easy to die if you can't die. Although its vitality is tenacious, it is not conducive to survival in an unsuitable environment. If you want to raise a pot of sunflowers, try to keep it away from dark and damp places, and it is better to give it more water than to bask in the sun.

Although sunflowers are common, they are not as elegant as peonies, nor as fresh and elegant as lilies. If you love flowers and plant flowers, but you can't always grow them well, you might as well raise a pot of colorful sunflowers. It not only has strong survivability, but also makes life full of sunshine every day.

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