Chapter 39: Strange Flowers
So Luo Tong made up her mind, if Sheng Qiwu found out by herself, she would say that if Sheng Qiwu didn't find out, she would always think that this was her own little secret.
On the day of the flower show, Ding Tie and Zhao Fan also came very early, and they went directly to Luo Tong's house to bring the plants that Luo Tong was going to exhibit. That arch was a little troublesome when it was brought through. Although it's not heavy, it takes up space, and it's not easy to put in the elevator, so it's still taken down the stairs.
When I arrived at the convention and exhibition center, the genius was bright, Luo Tong thought that he had come quite early, who knew that there were already many exhibitors coming, and everyone was busy with their own work. Seeing this, Luo Tong also sped up the movements of his hands.
The current booth is very different from what I saw at the beginning, Luo Tong planted some climbing plants. Nails were put in the walls and the climbing plants were dragged and fixed to the walls. This is true on all three walls, and the whole booth is like a small nursery, which makes people feel comfortable looking at it.
After setting up the arch in front of the booth, Luo Tong took out a large bunch of roses from the car, which she had cut from the flower garden yesterday. Ding Tie and Zhao Fan were a little surprised that there were roses in this season, but they knew that they shouldn't ask, so they went to move the flowers and plants on the golden cup to the booth.
At the end of October, the morning was still very cold. Luo Tong stomped his feet on the spot, took off his gloves and prepared to get busy. The wisteria flowers had all climbed to the arch, so Luo Tong fixed the pot under the arch to prevent the wisteria from leaving the arch.
Looking at the arch, Luo Tong felt a little plain. Looking at the roses he brought again, Luo Tong found the scissors, pruned the roses slightly, and inserted them into the gaps in the wisteria. Sure enough, with the embellishment of roses, the wisteria arch not only looks fresh and elegant, but also adds a sense of publicity and brightness.
Luo Tong brought roses over for selfish purposes, wasn't her booth snatched away by the Ivy Spring Nursery, and the current booth is relatively remote. Luo Tong wanted to give full play to the characteristics of the fragrance of wine and not afraid of deep alleys, and when she got here, it was changed to the fragrance of flowers and not afraid of deep alleys. She hopes that these rose scents will attract the judges and get good results.
Because the space is relatively small, Luo Tong did not bring many flowers and plants to the exhibition, and he brought a total of three pots. One pot is the Han orchid that Zhang Zhengyu admires, a pot of small gourds, and the other pot is the boxwood at home. In order to slap the face of the Changchun nursery, Luo Tong also fought hard this time, and took out all the good things on hand.
Needless to say, when it comes to the full flowering period, the flowers bloom in two branches, which are bright and beautiful, and there is quite a heroic posture of a heroine.
There are many fruits hanging on the small gourd, all of which are small and exquisite, and they are verdant and dripping. It stands to reason that the gourd should be ripe at the end of October, but the gourd fruit has not changed yellow, but it is becoming more and more verdant. Luo Tong was also puzzled, but seeing that it was in good condition, he didn't care about it anymore.
As for boxwood, it is the most changed. It changed from the lifeless air when Luo Tong first saw it, and when he saw it, he seemed to see life.
This boxwood is about 1 meter high, 15 centimeters in diameter, the green leaves have regrown, lush and green, the crown is covered by layers, and the whole has a steady and heavy wind and a masculine atmosphere.
After placing the flowers and plants brought, Luo Tong looked at it, and it was a little thin. Take a look at the adjacent booths, full of them. Luo Tong is arrogant, my sister doesn't take the quantity route, but the boutique route.
At nine o'clock, the flower show began. The north and south are particularly lively. Luo Tong touched his stomach, and ate a pack of biscuits in the morning to pad his stomach, and after some labor, he had already digested it. She said to Ding Tie and Zhao Fan, and called Luo Xiaotang to go out to buy breakfast.
After all, it's a flower show, and there will be no transactions in the first two days, and the highlight is on the third day. Therefore, Luo Tong confidently and boldly entrusted the booth to the two of them and went out to forage for food by himself.
After greeting the two, she strolled around the convention and exhibition center with a cup of milk tea to see the works exhibited by other companies, and Luo Xiaocheng followed her step by step.
Not to mention, Luo Tong really feels that he has gained a lot of knowledge. One of the companies sent to the exhibition was a pot of dendrobium, Luo Tong didn't know it at first, but later he knew that it was dendrobium after reading the sign. She only knew that Dendrobium officinale was a kind of Chinese medicinal material, but she didn't expect that it could also be divided into exotic flowers and plants.
Dendrobium officinale is one of the most precious Chinese medicinal materials in China, and is respected as the first of the "Nine Great Immortal Grasses of China" (Dendrobium officinalis, Tianshan Snow Lotus, Sanliang Ginseng, one hundred and twenty-year-old Shouwu Wu, Poria cocos of the sixtieth year, Cistanche, Ganoderma lucidum in the deep mountains, pearls under the sea, Cordyceps sinensis), known as the "gold in medicine".
The pot of dendrobium that Luo Tong saw was already in full bloom, with an elegant and beautiful appearance, green and smart, and a fresh and elegant fragrance. Although it does not have the publicity of Hanlan, it has its own graceful and subtle beauty.
In addition to dendrobium, Luo Tong also saw camellias, which are still famous for their hexagonal red. Of course, Luo Tong doesn't know, she is a novice, she has only heard of it, she has not really seen it, and she only knew it by listening to the conversation of flower friends.
This exhibitor is from Yunnan, and there are many people in front of the booth, and Luo Tong is listening to the explanation of the appreciators, and by the way, he confirms the knowledge he has seen before, and feels that he has benefited a lot.
"Hexagonal red" is also called: "Songyang red". The tree is beautifully shaped, with plump and straight branches, dark green obovate leaves with teeth, and slow growth.
The diameter of the original species "Songyang Hong" can reach more than 10 to 12 cm, and most of the flowers are "hexagonal tile neatly arranged" and "wheel-shaped spiral neatly arranged", with more than 8 to 10 petals, and each flower has more than 100 petals, completely double-petaled. There are also a very small number of flowers that are "rose double-petaled or peony type".
The opening time of a single flower is two weeks at low temperature and one week at high temperature. From the beginning of the flowers to the withering, the petals remain upright, and there is no back-turning and obvious fading. If it opens at low temperature, the edge of the petals is not scorched, and the center of the flower does not burst when it is high temperature and rain, and it is completely full and open. The petals of "Songyang Red" are concave and stiff, and there are no white spots in the central petals, and the whole flower is extremely gorgeous "Chinese Red". The withered flowers fall off completely on their own, and there is no phenomenon of withered flowers hanging on branches.
In addition to these more beautiful flowers and plants, Luo Tong also saw that some exhibitors also brought bonsai to the exhibition. Luo Tong saw a pot of bonsai of golden pine. Exhibitors chose coarse, thin, tall and short plants to grow robustly in one pot to make a jungle-style bonsai.
It has clear priorities, high and low, and mountain and stone figures, which fully reflects the fresh and refined natural forest landscape. It is not a single tree like the boxwood in Luotong, but four or five trees planted together, which looks like a small forest.
In this way, Luo Tong felt that his eyes were almost insufficient, there were too many, all kinds of strange flowers and plants from all over the world, Luo Tong felt that he was so happy that he couldn't find the edge.
But it's a little regrettable that she has been gone for so long, and she hasn't felt any flowers and plants that have their own consciousness. So far, she has encountered a total of three cases. One example is the 800-year-old ginkgo tree she saw in the scenic spot, as well as the bird's-tongue boxwood she picked up and the small gourd she planted herself.
Although the little gourd was conscious, it was still very ignorant, Luo Tong felt that it was like a babbling child, speaking intermittently, but it was finally able to express itself. Unlike Huangyang, Luo Tong felt that he was very calm, and the consciousness he conveyed was like an adult. Also, it has lived for more than 180 years, after all.