My photographic story: foreign cherry (coral cherry) in my childhood memory

The memory of Coral Sakura can be traced back to more than forty years ago. I lived in the countryside when I was a child. At that time, people had no spare energy and financial resources to grow flowers for people to appreciate. At that time, the most common flowers should be henna, cockscomb and boiled soup. These flowers are also randomly scattered on the edge of the vegetable garden in front of and behind the house. Most of the time, the seeds are sown once, and then the seeds that fall naturally every year will take root and sprout in the next spring, just like the crops that looked up to heaven at that time.

The first time I saw red and round coral sakura hanging on the semi-dry plants in the basin was at my aunt's neighbor's house. When I was a child, I often went to the menstrual home ten miles away with my mother. During the holidays, my aunt will stay with me at her home. Once, my aunt took me to her neighbor's house to play. My neighbor's aunt enthusiastically sent me snacks such as walnuts and red dates, but I took a fancy to a pot of coral cherry blossoms under her square table and insisted on picking some to play with. At that time, my hometown people called it "foreign cherry".

I remember it was already winter. Coral sakura has changed from a small Xin Wei to a bonsai full of red fruits through the changes of all seasons. In winter, all the leaves fall, leaving only a red fruit hanging on the branch. It will be placed at home as decoration at this time, which is very festive. Because it is the first time to see such amazing and beautiful fruit, plus the waywardness of children. Although the neighbor was a little reluctant, she chose some edges or bottoms and picked some for me.

At that time, it was not easy to raise a pot of full and round red coral cherries. Since then, the memory of Coral Sakura has remained in my mind. When I grew up, I lived in the city and saw many flowers and plants, but I rarely had the opportunity to see coral cherry blossoms in my memory. More than forty years have passed, my aunt is over eighty years old, and my neighbor's aunt and my mother have both died.

I occasionally went to the roof of my unit this year and found that there were actually two pots of coral cherry blossoms in the flowers raised by Uncle Bao on the roof. Although the leaves are still green, the round fruit has turned red, glowing red under the sunlight, which is really beautiful. On a sunny afternoon, I went up to take these photos and shared them with you. At the same time, I hope to see your comments in the comments area in order to make progress.