Cactus

Since my mother bought some plants, I can smell the fragrance of flowers from the window every day when I wake up. The table outside the window and the shelf on the balcony are filled with rows of flowers of all kinds, but I only know lilies and roses. There are also a lot of flowers, but I can't name them. Every morning, I am immersed in such a sweet sea of flowers, and the fragrance of flowers can't go away for a long time. But in this sea of flowers, there are a few small cacti that left a deep impression on me. They are not like these bright flowers, but they can also bloom amazing small flowers.

A month later, the flowering period was over, and most of the flowers were defeated, but only the emerald green cactus, with its delicate flower buds, stood upright in the corner. So I asked my mother, "Mom, why isn't this flower blooming yet? Isn't it time yet?" Mom replied, "This flower grows best in summer. Usually, a dose of water is given every week or two, and once a day in summer." Dropping water, this thing grows fast enough. It will make you like it in about a year and a half! And don’t water it normally, just get a board to shield this cactus from the wind. Oh yes It seems to be watered today, I will go to water it first."

Sure enough, these little flowers grew a bit big when I was in the fifth grade, and I was going to give this cactus away after it finished blooming at my house. For some reason, it bloomed the next day after I finished thinking about it, as if I had returned to the sea of flowers in the past, but the fragrance of cactus flowers is surprisingly weak, and you will miss it if you don’t smell it carefully. So our family has these elegant fragrances every year.

I finally know why it is called a cactus. In my mother's words, it is as unpredictable as a fairy, but it is only a kind of flower the size of a palm. Mom said: "This flower shrunk the leaves to the shape of needles in the desert, and later it will become the shape of this prickly hedgehog."

To this day, our family still smells this elegant and simple fragrance when we wake up in the morning.