We spend 500 yuan on exquisite manicures and begin to miss the time when we dyed our nails with it.

Peony's love for flowers and plants began at a very young age. When I miss my childhood, I remember many stories related to plants.

For example, everyone is familiar with dog tail grass, which can be woven into rings and rabbits; secretly call good friends and climb to the low hillside to pick sour dates; in autumn, golden sweet-scented osmanthus falls all over the yard, and my mother will make sweet-scented osmanthus cakes with glutinous rice flour and sugar.

But in all the childhood memories, peony's favorite is impatiens, I like to use it to dye nails, a little red fingertips, can make a little girl happy for many days.

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Impatiens in childhood memories

I believe that every girl who loves beauty played impatiens when she was a child:

Pick a few of the most delicate and beautiful impatiens by the side of the road, pick their petals and mash them, mix them with a little alum, carefully apply them on ten nails, wrap them with Ramie leaves, wrap them tightly with cotton thread, and sleep all night with apprehension and excitement. the next day the nails turned bright red.

The picture is from the fruit shell net.

A patient girl will dye it several times in a row to make the red more dazzling. Sometimes the skin is accidentally dyed red, and it takes several days to wash off.

This is Paeonia lactiflora's initial memory of impatiens. Impatiens is also called "henna" because it is born with the magical function of dyeing nails.

Impatiens is an annual herb.

Native impatiens stand upright in clusters

It's shaped like a feather duster.

The blooming flowers bloom in the green leaves.

Because the petals are shaped like a Phoenix that spreads its wings

So people named it Impatiens.

Most of its colors are bright.

Red, pink, purple, white

It is magnificent when it blossoms.

Impatiens likes sunshine and is heat-resistant and not cold-resistant.

It is suitable for growing in loose, fertile and slightly acidic soil.

She is a tenacious girl

Very adaptable.

Transplantation is easy to survive and grow rapidly.

Except for henna.

It is also nicknamed "impatient".

There are five cracks in the ripe fruit

If anything happens,

The peel will burst suddenly.

Fire a black "shell"

Spread the seeds farther away.

As early as the Tang and Song dynasties

There are records of planting impatiens in China.

Zhao Xuemin, a flower lover of impatiens in the Qing Dynasty.

The Impatiens Spectrum compiled contains 183 different kinds of impatiens.

Lu Xiuqing, a poetess of the Yuan Dynasty, wrote a poem "drunken Huayin".

Depict a woman dyeing her nails with impatiens.

"after Quan Feng Zi blossoms, he tamps in the gold plate.

The silver armour was temporarily removed, stained with spring fiber, and became very red all night. "

After modern cultivation, the family of impatiens is even larger.

There are more than 900 different varieties

Has spawned many different forms.

It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica

The petals of impatiens are sweet and warm.

It has the effect of promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation, dispelling wind and relieving pain.

Pick fresh flowers to dry in summer and autumn

It can be used as medicine after drying.

When I was young, impatiens were in my heart.

It's just a humble wild flower.

The wall of the farmyard, the deserted roadside

It can be seen everywhere.

Even if there is no one to take care of

The impatiens are still in full bloom.

Spread everywhere, colorful

Burn your beauty unsparingly.

Then inadvertently found out

Balconies and gardens in Europe

Unexpectedly, there are impatiens.

This is a kind of Sudan impatiens from Africa.

Walls painted white

Square and regular windows

Dazzling impatiens grow wantonly

Make the originally boring windowsill full of life

Full of strong European style.

Plant impatiens in front of the courtyard

Pick fresh flowers to make a wreath

Put a pot of impatiens in front of the steps

The windowsill can't do without its figure.

Isn't this a civilian version of an European garden?

Only then did I find that I had underestimated impatiens before.

Whether in the farmyard or in the European garden

It is always enthusiastically open.

As long as there is dirt, sunshine and rain

It is in full bloom everywhere.

In urban landscape design

Impatiens are often placed in flowerpots and hung in the air.

With white decoration as the background

Create a romantic and wild style.

In the flower arrangement works

Impatiens is colorful but petite.

It is more suitable for filling flower material.

Set off a more delicate and dazzling subject.

But peony still likes the way it grows in the wild.

Be unrestrained and vigorous

Don't care about other people's opinions.

Just be your own protagonist.

Paeonia lactiflora likes impatiens

Once upon a time, I loved it. it could dye my nails red.

Now is to love its warm and optimistic personality.

Time flies, and the flowers bloom as usual.

One can only sigh that innocent childhood is gone.

Now we can spend 500 yuan on exquisite manicures

But I began to miss the time when I dyed my nails with impatiens.

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The picture in the article is from Visual China, and the illustration is from @ Za Xiaoza.