In a garden family, I found an old friend from 54 years ago
With the arrival of the 2017 Garden Family award ceremony, the 2017 Wuhan Garden Family selection is about to come to a successful close, and then a new chapter of the 2018 gardening journey will begin. The Garden Family selection has grown step by step along with family gardening life, and has also made more and more people fall in love with gardening and join this warm and loving collective, the Garden Family.
Last Friday, we announced the list of selected 2017 Garden Families. Many netizens left comments cheering for the Garden Families and expressing their love and support for them, full of positive energy.
@Time: Congratulations to the owners of these Garden Families. You have set a great example and taken the lead in greening Wuhan's urban landscape and promoting the building of urban civilization. Awesome!
@Xiaoxian: Life should have both hard work and flowers and poetry. May every friend have the green life they love, and may our great Wuhan become more and more beautiful.
@Lin lin: Love life, love plants. Use pot after pot of flowers and plants to create a unique little garden of your own. It does not matter how big it is; what matters is building a dream of a peach blossom spring with care.
@Yong: Thanks to the people who have worked hard for the "Most Beautiful Garden Family." Life without fresh flowers and greenery would be so monotonous and dull, so for the sake of life's romance and colorful variety, people consciously or unconsciously come to love the flowers and plants bestowed by nature.
@Happy Sun: Lei Tianshu, I am Feng**, do you still remember me? In 1964, at the Factory Front Employees' Children's Primary School, we worked together for one semester. Today I saw you on the award list, but I do not know how to contact you, so I am leaving this message hoping you will see it. If you see it, please give me a call.
This netizen named Happy Sun saw her colleague from many years ago, Lei Tianshu, on the public Garden Family list, so she left a message hoping to get in touch. After learning of this news, Garden Family member Lei Tianshu contacted this old colleague right away.
According to Master Tian, this was a teacher he met in his twenties when he was substitute teaching at the Factory Front Employees' Children's Primary School of the First Metallurgical Construction Company of Wuhan Iron and Steel in Qingshan. They were colleagues for one semester, and after parting they never contacted each other again. An old colleague and old friend lost to each other for 54 years, and because of the Garden Family selection activity, the two got back in touch in their lifetime and arranged to meet. How wonderful.
The two have already invited each other to meet and left their addresses, and look forward to the reunion of old friends.
Finally, let us once again look back at the flower-growing story of 2017 Garden Family winner Lei Tianshu:
Elder Lei Tianshu, honored as the king of flowers and plants, now lives in Mingliu Renhe Tiandi in Panlongcheng, Huangpi District. He loved growing flowers and working with bonsai from his thirties. After retiring from a construction company, he built a small garden on his own balcony and windowsill. For the bonsai at home, from cultivation to photographing and naming, he does everything himself, and he has worked out a cultivation method that is both eco-friendly and convenient. He created his own method for cultivating aerial roots of banyan trees, summed up a great deal of experience, and also wrote out his experience and methods and published them in professional magazines.
Elder Lei does not drink alcohol, yet he collects distinctive liquor bottles from everywhere and uses them to make exquisite flower vessels. In order to share his works with friends who love flowers and plants, Elder Lei learned photography and how to go online. Whenever a bonsai he cultivated took shape, he would photograph them one pot at a time and then share them with flower friends through the internet. He insisted on posting pictures of his works every day in the flower friends' QQ group. Some he had already named himself, for everyone to enjoy together; for some he had not yet thought of names for, he posted them in the group for flower friends to help name. Flower friends gave likes one after another, and new flower friends who saw them became Elder Lei's fans.
Watching the bonsai he cultivated slowly grow from a small seedling, he has harvested a joyful mood and a healthy body from cultivating flowers and plants. Through sharing, he has gotten to know many new and old friends, making his later years fulfilling and meaningful.