我从小就对昙花有浓厚的兴趣,一是因为“昙花一现”这个成语,认为昙花珍稀,二是受我父母的一个老师影响。记得老先生家种有昙花,每当花开时,他总要对着昙花写生作画,因此我也非常想自己种上一株试试。第一次养昙花大约在70年代中期,老先生给了我一片昙花叶(准确地说是“叶状变态茎”,文中暂以通常的说法,称为叶子),并详细介绍了培育方法。我如获至宝,精心养护,昙花也不负我意,不久就长出了新芽。记得当时曾误将叶芽当花芽,空欢喜了一场。虽然未见花,但看到它渐渐长大,心里还是充满了希望。谁知好景不长,过冬时由于自己的住房太小,室内实在没有昙花的容身之地,只得一直放在屋檐下。虽然那年并不特别寒冷,但到第二年开春,还是眼看着它一天天枯萎,最后烂掉,无果而终。 I was very interested in Epiphyllum from an early age because I was short-tempered because of the idiom “Ephemeral,” and influenced by a teacher of my parents. I remember the old gentleman family have Epiphyllum, whenever the flowers, he always painted in front of Ephemera sketch, so I also really want to plant a try. The first euphemism in about the mid-70s, the old gentleman gave me a piece of epiphyllum (to be precise, “leaf-like metamorphosis stems”, the text temporarily in the usual terms, known as the leaves), and introduced in detail the cultivation methods. If I was a treasure, carefully conserved, Epiphyllum did not take my mind, and soon grow new shoots. I remember at that time mistakenly buds when flower buds, empty joyful. Although no flowers, but see it growing up, my heart is full of hope. Who knows the good long-term, when the winter because of their own housing is too small, the interior is no temporary place to live, had been placed under the eaves. Although not particularly cold that year, but the spring of the next year, still watched it withered day by day, the last rotten, fruitless.