[Explanation] Xu Yong is a teacher in the School of Life Sciences of Huaiyin Normal University. In addition to daily teaching, he devotes himself to the knowledge of landscaping, especially for flowers and plants.
He used his spare time to take students in a corner of the campus to create a natural landscape-style "four seasons garden", and he has planted more than 150 varieties of flowers and plants.
[Commentary] It is Xu Yong, the protagonist of the story who is cleaning up the weeds.
With a doctorate degree in landscape architecture, whenever he sees abandoned and vacant places on the campus, he puts his mind on dressing up.
[Concurrent] Xu Yong, teacher, School of Life Sciences, Huaiyin Normal University
A course I taught is called "Landscape Architecture Planning and Design". We planted perennial flowering plants when we saw some vacant plots. It was a result of the interaction between teachers and students. We made it (campus) better. Prettier.
[Explanation] Rosemary, baby's breath, daffodils, duck celery, dwarf cuckoo, bulbous iris, ligustrum lucidum... This small space called "Four Seasons Garden" by teachers and students has long been transformed into a campus internet celebrity garden.
In order to make this small garden more perfect, with flowers blooming in all seasons, Xu Yong put a lot of energy into it.
[Concurrent] Xu Yong, teacher, School of Life Sciences, Huaiyin Normal University
In the beginning, there were relatively few types of (flowers). After three to four years, we continued to improve and increase the number of plants (types). (Currently) we have planted about 150 kinds of plants in it. We want to create a small environment where plants bloom all year round.
[Explanation] Because of his love for flowers and plants, Xu Yong enjoys the beauty of nature more and more.
On the campus, he and the students cultivated flowers and plants to adorn the beautiful scenery of the campus. In his courtyard, he also planted more than 100 kinds of flowers for his lover.
[Concurrent] Xu Yong's wife Cai Yaolin
He brings a lot of flowers back every time, which makes our life very interesting, and I also feel very happy because it is the flowers he planted by himself.
[Concurrent] Xu Yong, teacher, School of Life Sciences, Huaiyin Normal University
I like plants more. In the past few years, I bought a lot of (flower) seedlings intermittently. Every time I cut some flowers of different colors and put them in the vases, they gave my wife different surprises and warmed our feelings.
Dong Hai, Xu Shanshan, Ge Yong, reporting from Huaian, Jiangsu
Editor in charge: [Bian Liqun]