Re: "happiness is like flowers": eight elderly people in Ji'nan spent six years in the community.

"I come every day, I have nothing to do, and I try to come as much as I can. I really can't ask anyone to look after it." Lao Chen said that, every morning at eight o'clock in the morning, he set out from his home and came to the office building of the neighborhood committee. Although he had got a brain thrombus and had not a very good leg, he insisted on climbing slowly up the third floor, taking off his coat and putting down the water cup, and began to work in the garden. In the days of growing flowers in the "sky garden", Lao Chen put more than 20 years of experience in flower cultivation into the conservation of flowers and plants on a daily basis. He remembered the situation of each pot, and even thought of it second days before finishing which flower pot on the flower shelf. Pinch the yellow leaves of the Begonia, clear the fallen petals, look at the left, and look at the right, rest assured, Lao Chen then goes to the Ophiopogon next, and gently draws its dense branches and leaves to see if there is a chance of taking advantage of the weeds.

every spring is the season for old Chen to fertilize the garden in the air. Old Chen skillfully put the flower out of the flower pot first, put on the fertilizer on the basis of the old soil, and then add some new soil, put back the flowerpot, beat the soil repeatedly with the special small stick, and tamp the soil, old Chen says: "the flower should be true, otherwise it will not survive."

watering is a required course everyday. Lao Chen takes up the water pipe, which is very serious. "Water must be paid attention to, some flowers are suitable for water, but some are suitable for less pouring, need to be more cast in place and dry, and need less pouring in a lot of waterlogging died, do not look at this small matter, for raising flowers is too important." From the right side of the garden, Lao Chen began to water each potted plant in a circle, and in the old man's words, "the order of watering flowers is also exquisite."

more than 200 pots of flowers were raised in part by old Chen, more from community residents, and now the "air garden" has become a community public garden of flowers and leisure areas. "How good, everyone to see flowers, good days, good mood," old Chen's smile with some pride, and then said: "I do not figure, is like flowers, love to raise flowers, usually nothing, and the flowers are especially happy, watching these green plants and flowers, grow up and grow day by day, there is a kind of untold joy. "

Ma Zhaorong, old companion, old Chen, often to help," I myself like flowers, like a leaf, jasmine, sunflower, like the old man's hobby. " Aunt Ma said that she had loved these little creatures for many years with her wife. In the heart of aunt Ma, caring for the flowers is like looking after the children. They are very happy to watch them live and grow well. Behind his wife, aunt Ma fiddled with the water pipe in her hand, showing a satisfied smile.

is busy in this vigorous flower and grass. Lao Chen and aunt Ma say that it is like living in the natural pastoral scene. The old two are sometimes debated about how to prune a potted plant, and sometimes it is not to change the flowerpots and mix it, but more often, you water me to fertilize it, and you shunge me to cut the leaves. Now, the old two days are plain and self satisfied, "happiness is like flowers".