The Garden Life of a Little Gardener

After the minibus drove on the expressway for more than four hours, the car drove out of the road area and entered the provincial capital boundary. The scenery outside the car window gradually changed from green mountains and wilderness to suburban bungalows, and now it began to transition to buildings.

This time the flower fair is organized by the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and the Provincial Farmers Association and Investment Promotion Office are responsible for the specific implementation. Although it is not as grand as the four-year flower fair, its scale is definitely second to none in the Northeast region.

The exhibition hall of the fair is in the west of the city. The opening time starts today. It is said that it will last for one and a half months. The purpose of the organizer is to fully serve the exhibitors and facilitate as many exchanges in the industry as possible.

Half of the flower exhibition hall is indoors and half is outdoors. The area is huge and there are many exhibitors. I heard that the hotels near the exhibition hall have been fully booked recently.

Fortunately, the chain flower company had the foresight to book hotels in advance for the employees, otherwise it would not be easy to find a place to live nearby.

The company in the hotel uniformly arranges standard rooms for three people, and the rooms are connected together so that everyone can take care of each other.

Zhou Quan had no objection to this, he went upstairs with his other two roommates after getting the room number, it would be unreasonable to pick and choose after eating and drinking for nothing.

Put down your luggage and take your mobile phone and wallet, Zhou Quan gathered with everyone in the downstairs hall, and everyone set off to visit the exhibition together.

The flower shop has already arranged the qualifications for everyone to enter the venue. As a team of exhibitors, they do not need tickets to enter and exit with the group.

Hanging his employee card around his neck, Zhouquan took a look at the promotional poster of the trade fair when he entered the door, remembering the opening and closing times tomorrow.

Compared with the large-scale flower fair that faces the world and ordinary citizens, the fair focuses more on commercial activities and technical exchanges, and the purpose of the people who come to participate and visit is more clear.

Just like the Olympic Games and XX professional championships, one is comprehensive and the other is more professional.

The exhibition area is thoughtfully divided into areas for visitors, including potted flowers, fresh cuts, foliage plants, bonsai, fruit trees, tea and gardening-related crafts.

Because everyone has different goals, after entering the venue, people who were originally walking together gradually separated.

As a grower of fresh-cut roses, Zhou Quan's first visit is of course the exhibition of fresh-cut flowers and artistic flower arrangements. Once he entered, Zhou Quan was overwhelmed by the scale of the exhibition.

The meaning of fresh-cut plants is very broad. Generally speaking, as long as they are cut from living plants, they have ornamental value and are used to make flower baskets, bouquets, wreaths, wreaths, vases, wall flowers, and corsages. Plant materials such as leaves, flowers, and fruits can all be called fresh-cut plants.

Fresh cut flowers are divided into cut flowers, cut leaves and cut branches, and the variety of species is too numerous to enumerate.

For cut flowers, commonly used are rose, lily, chrysanthemum, gladiolus, gladiolus, baby's breath, forget-me-not, carnation, gerbera and so on.

The cut leaves are monstera, green radish, hydrangea pine, needle sunflower, variable leaf wood and so on.

There are even more cut branches. All plants with beautiful flowers, leaves and fruits on the branches can be cut, mainly for art and vase viewing.

The booths of fresh-cut flowers at the fair are divided according to species, and the first exhibition area at the beginning is fresh-cut roses.

As the rose flower that occupies half of the fresh cut flowers, no matter in terms of variety or quantity, rose flower is the best in the hall.

As soon as Zhouquan stepped into the Rose Hall, he felt like he had entered the ocean of flowers. Common red, white, pink, and yellow are everywhere here, and each color has different discolorations.

For example, on the red side, there are deep red, light red, rose red, etc., and on the white side, there are pink white, pure white, and crescent white.

Let's put it this way, as long as you can come up with any color, the Rose Club will definitely satisfy you.

Zhou Quan roughly counted, there are no less than a hundred varieties of roses of each common color, common ones, uncommon ones, common and cherished ones, even Zhou Quan, who is a horticultural professional, doesn’t know that there are so many roses varieties.

Mr. Lincoln, Meilan lipstick, angel, diplomat, lover, Athena, Fendra, golden age, Sun King, those who know or not, single-color and double-color, and some even Zhouquan can’t recognize what kind it is The Chinese roses gather together and bloom very brightly.

Ever since he entered the flower viewing area, Zhou Quan felt that his eyes were not enough. At this time, he was particularly envious of the owls on the mountain in the village. The rose can be seen clearly.

The more he looked at Zhouquan, the more he felt ignorant. He thought that he had been exposed to roses since he was a child, and he was a half-educated student. Now he is engaged in the cultivation of fresh-cut roses. If he asks himself, he should be considered to understand this industry.

However, when he came to the flower exhibition hall today and saw all kinds of roses in various shapes and colors, he realized that he was not even an entry-level person, and he just lay down in front of the window and looked inside.

Knowing that he still has a long way to go, Zhou Quan listened, watched and asked more carefully and patiently, trying to broaden his horizons and learn as much knowledge as possible.

Store Manager Tong, who was originally walking with Zhou Quan, has left to help his colleagues in their company's sales booth at this time.

This experienced lady knows very well that there is no need to talk too much at this moment. After Zhou Quan sees how wide the flower market is and how fierce the competition is, he will naturally know what to choose. It will be more beneficial to him and their village.

Zhouquan spent the rest of the day in the fresh-cut rose exhibition hall. Even for lunch, he just bought a piece of bread and served it with mineral water in ten minutes.

However, Zhou Quan didn't want to waste these ten minutes, and continued to look around in the exhibition hall while chewing on the bread.

One noon and one afternoon, Zhou Quan didn't stop walking. Even though the soles of his feet were numb, his spirit was still very excited, because the harvest was really too great.

Generally speaking, in the current fresh-cut rose market, monochromatic roses still occupy the absolute mainstream. In the domestic market, red fresh-cut roses account for about 50.00% of the market share. The varieties are mainly cardinal, Samantha, and Meilan lipstick. , the yellow and pink colors each account for about [-]% of the share, and the other [-]% are controlled by the white color.

Although the current fresh-cut rose varieties are still mainly foreign modern rose varieties, domestic varieties with independent intellectual property rights have also begun to shine in the past decade, such as ruby, noble lady, Taihangzhilian, Bingqing series, etc. They are all excellent fresh-cut varieties.

Especially in the breeding of varieties with one flower and two colors, the advantages of many domestic varieties are already very obvious. Because these varieties are from the place of origin, they are more suitable for the climate, soil and water quality of the country.

Judging from the data currently available, the monochromatic varieties Blue Enchantress and Louis XIV that Zhouquan Village plans to focus on are both niche varieties, and the total domestic consumption is not high. It is likely that the returns will be good in the case of small-scale trial planting. It is because the planting area is not large, and it is easier to digest if the quantity is too small. Once the planting area is raised, it will be a test for sales.

The sales of fresh-cut flowers with one flower and two colors are increasing year by year. With the improvement of customers' consumption level, the sales of high-quality fresh-cut flowers that used to be more than [-] per branch are now surging.

Compared with the domestic market, the foreign market is another market.

Among other things, it is just a variety in the village. The blue enchantress is very popular in the Japanese and Korean markets, while Louis XIV has an unshakable position in the European, especially the French market. If the village wants to To expand the planting area of ​​these two varieties, the export problem is the actual situation that they must face.

When he returned to the hotel, Zhou Quan didn't care about other things, he lay down on the bed and recorded everything he saw and heard today. This is the livelihood of the old and the young in the village, and he can't be sloppy at all.

The roommate who lived in the same room with him once called him to have dinner, but Zhou Quan was in a state of selfless work at that time, so he politely declined.

When he finally saved the pictures and various data, he looked up and found that it was completely dark outside the window.

"Hey, it's already past seven o'clock? No wonder I'm so hungry. I wonder if there is anything to eat now?"

Zhouquan went downstairs while rubbing his stomach. Fortunately, when he arrived at the restaurant, there were still a few people in the company who hadn't finished eating, and the table was still there, otherwise he would have to order a la carte.

Manager Tong, who was drinking tea, looked at Zhou Quan who was wolfing down the opposite side, and knew that the other party must have been running around a lot this day, otherwise he wouldn't be so hungry.

She smiled and persuaded Zhou Quan to slow down and not choke, and asked, "How is it? Did you gain anything after turning around for a long time?"

"It's not just a harvest, it's an eye-opener. Fortunately, I was still complacent about my little success before. After I came to the exhibition, I realized that I was just a frog at the bottom of the well."

"You don't need to underestimate yourself. Compared to your peers, you have done pretty well. Even if you are a professional who has been doing rose research, it is rare to grow better roses than you at your age."

"You're flattering me, but it's just because of the help of my teachers and the matchmakers in the village."

"That's up to you, otherwise it's useless for anyone to help you."

The time for a meal was spent chatting between the two of them. Zhou Quan knew what the other party wanted to say. It was nothing more than the issue of the chain company and the villagers jointly setting up flower gardens, and he was now focusing on this issue. .

The two surnamed villages have many mountains and little land. The only flat place in the whole village is the original address of Baojia Village in Hexi. Even the villagers of the Chen family who moved here can only choose to build houses on the hillside in the east of the river.

In the village of the two surnames, apart from mountains, there are still mountains. Mountains are connected to mountains, and mountains are surrounded by mountains. There are so many mountains that even the whole village runs farmhouses, and guests have plenty of places to play.

The villagers' arable land is all reclaimed from the mountains. If they only rely on these inferior mountain lands in the past, then the villagers don't have to think about anything other than being able to eat.

It is because of this that the two old men of the Zhou family and the Bao family who were willing to teach the villagers survival skills for free at the beginning had such a high reputation in the village.

To put it bluntly, without them, most of the villagers would still be facing the loess and back to the sky, doing hard work, planting big fields, sweating half and half, but still not earning much money. Without them, there would be no county or town. Now the first demonstration village of becoming rich and well-off.

However, the booming business cannot always be a climax. The fresh-cut rose industry in Liangsurname Village is now at a low point. As a descendant of the Zhou family, Zhou Quan, the current technical leader of Liangsurname Village, feels that he has a heavy responsibility. .

Not only for the sake of the elders and fellow villagers in the village, the reason why Zhou Quan wanted to start a new project so urgently was actually somewhat selfish.

It is conceivable that he will face the pressure and resistance after being together with Bao Yan. Those gossips and strange eyes, Zhou Quan is already prepared to bear it, but if the pressure and resistance can be less, they will also To be able to relax.

Brother Baoyan is already working hard for this, Zhouquan naturally can't just watch from the sidelines, nothing can convince those stubborn villagers more than benefits.

For a leader who can lead them to a fortune, even if his private life is a little different, it should be acceptable.

Although the saying that a cannibal's mouth is soft and his hands are short may sound rough, the truth is not false at all.

With no grudges or grievances, Zhou Quan didn't believe that someone would have trouble with money.

Speaking of Brother Baozhen Zhouquan, I found that I missed him again. I don’t know what Brother Baozhen is doing now at home?

Is he, like himself, thinking of me silently?

The author has something to say:

The little chick lying on the single bed in the hotel: I miss Bao Dawang at home when I leave home, chirp.