Chapter 13 golden leaf privet

I remember that it was the spring of the year before last, and the gardener suddenly planted a cluster of golden-leaved plants on the green belt in front of the building, about two feet high, its shape and leaves were like privet trees, and it became a bright spot in a large green belt. scenery.I thought at the time, these are some tender seedlings. When they grow up in the future, after experiencing wind and snow, their leaves will turn dark green, which is the most verdant kind.However, until winter came, the snow fell on it white, and the snow melted, and its leaves were still golden.It seems that it always makes people uncomfortable. Sometimes they think that they are some leaves that have been scalded by boiling water, and sometimes they think that they have faded from green and turned yellow, and they will die.None of the guesses were correct, the plants were not dead, still had golden leaves, were still alive, but I didn't know their names.

In the spring of this year, my friend invited me to climb Fragrant Hills, and advised me to buy a monthly pass for Fragrant Hills and the Botanical Garden, so that I could climb Fragrant Hills twice a week, so that I could maintain a healthy body.I didn't agree at first, because I didn't have any bottom in my heart. Can I insist on climbing Xiangshan twice a week?The second time I went up to Xiangshan and came down, it was early, so I went to the botanical garden.The Beijing Botanical Garden is owned by the China Institute of Botany and has the famous Cherry Valley.The scale of the botanical garden is beyond my imagination. The plants in it are all hung with signs, or have the names of trees carved in granite.So, all of a sudden, many familiar and unknown plants all knew their names. For example, I have always mistakenly called it the forsythia of the winter jasmine. Its branches are higher than the winter jasmine, and the flowers are not as ostentatious ——There are also cedar, white bark pine, pink-green spruce, ingot, purple leaf crabapple, lilac, crape myrtle, etc. These are old plant residents in the green belt of the community, but I have never been able to name them.Suddenly, I found a plant with golden leaves in the green belt of the community. Its name is Golden Leaf Privet!Presumably it's a variant of privet. I found out its name, but I couldn't suppress a burst of joy in my heart, and I don't know why.Oh, for many years, I have always been careless about plants. Woody plants are called trees, and herbs are called grasses. I am lazy or have no conditions to understand them. Plants live with me in the same way without a name The community, wind, frost, rain, snow, scorching sun, gave me beautiful scenery. Is this a kind of injustice or a lack of personal knowledge?Is a pure plant blind a qualified modern person?

The more I went to the botanical garden, the happier I was. I found more and more plant names, and I decided immediately: buy a monthly pass for the botanical garden.Then I thought of the child of a friend who was an editor. He once asked me: What kind of tree does wheat grow on?Thinking about it this way, I, a geological team member who has walked through the mountains and suffered from plant blindness, seems to be a matter of course for the new generation growing up in the city to be plant blind.