Don’t grow succulents, I’m serious!

Don’t grow succulents! Because after you start growing succulents, you will start to dislike other flowers.

I put all my energy into taking care of succulents. Even in the spring when flowers bloom, I would rather stay at home to repot the succulents than go out to see the beauty of the earth. The professor was caught in the crossfire. He didn't even go to see the peonies in front of his house once this year.

Don’t grow succulents! Because once you start raising succulents, you will become particularly picky.

After getting used to seeing jelly-colored succulents and majestic stumps, your aesthetic taste will improve rapidly. Even the pots for growing succulents will make you dizzy after choosing, and you will often find yourself in the dilemma of having succulents but no pots, or having pots but no succulents.

Don’t grow succulents! Because after you grow succulents, you will want to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city.

You will be fascinated by the leisurely and contented feeling that succulents bring you, and intoxicated by every morning that succulents bring you. Even if you now live in a high-end commercial house, you will start to miss your rural hometown when you were a child, where you had a big yard or balcony where you could flex your talents and create a succulent world of your own.

Don’t grow succulents! Because after you start raising succulents, you have to relearn a lot of professional knowledge.

Black rot, waterlogging, leggy growth, beheading, leaf cuttings... I didn't take them so seriously when I was studying, but now I have to search Baidu for all kinds of things. It didn't take long before he became an expert in botany. What’s even more confusing is the names of the varieties. There are so many that are hard to tell apart, but you miraculously recognized them all. I’ve never been so serious about memorizing words.

Don’t grow succulents! Because after you start raising succulents, you will feel that traveling is no longer necessary.

Because the scenery at all the scenic spots is not as beautiful as the scenery from your own balcony. Instead of sightseeing in the crowd, it is better to enjoy the calmness and pride of your own succulent scenery alone. Didn’t Chairman Mao write a poem? Looking inside and outside the balcony, there are endless succulents and flower stands, and the scenery is so beautiful that I can’t help but feel lost...

Don’t grow succulents! Because once you grow succulents, you don’t have to take time out to go to the gym to exercise.

You will find that you are beginning to have a healthy body, and it is not an easy task to mix the soil, prune the roots and leaves, and move the flower pots for a day or half a day. From then on, the quality of life improved and my mentality became more original.

Don’t grow succulents! Because after you grow succulents, you will rediscover the Chinese nation's virtues of diligence and thrift.

Worn-out shoes, discarded cans, empty Starbucks coffee cups, etc. can all be turned into treasures and become flower vases for growing succulents. You will first think about whether this thing can be used to grow succulents, and then decide not to throw it away...

Don’t grow succulents! Because after you grow succulents, you can put down your phone and stay away from the Internet for a while.

You will be less anxious and more patient. You will be ecstatic about the new sprouts of a leaf-cut seedling. You will also start to communicate face to face with your succulent friends. Succulents will become the healthiest and most heartfelt topic of communication.

Don’t grow succulents! Because after you start raising succulents, you will work hard to hone your photography skills.

Why is other people’s meat so well-grown and photographed so beautifully? You start to think seriously about macro photography, light painting, composition ratio, focus setting, color balance, and your circle of friends becomes a high-end succulent image magazine.

Don’t grow succulents! Because after you raise succulents, your circle will become bigger and bigger, and you will become more and more literary.

We have friends from all kinds of professions, including photographers, hand-painted illustrators, flower pot craftsmen, plant researchers, etc.! Just because we chatted together while growing succulents.