Latimer, a pensioner in Cranleigh, Surrey, England, is tending his vase garden. He planted this plant in a bottle 53 years ago and hasn't watered it since 1972. But surprisingly, it continues to thrive in this closed environment.

The plants in Latimer bottle survive and thrive through endless photosynthesis under the condition of complete isolation from the outside world.

For the past 27 years, Latimer has kept the vase garden in this place under the stairs.

Sina Science and Technology News Beijing time 65438+1October 28th news, according to foreign media reports, looking at the lush plants in this big round bottle, you will definitely think that David Latimer is a great gardener, but the fact is that now decades have passed, the garden in this bottle has not taken up much of his time-when he watered it for the last time, Heath was still the British Prime Minister, Nixon was still the US President.

For 40 years, the plants in the bottle have been completely isolated from the outside world, but they have been flourishing. The scientific name of this plant is Tradescantia. 80-year-old gardener David Latimer lives in Cranley, Surrey, England. He planted this plant in a "garden in a bottle" on 1960, and sealed the bottle tightly after 12, but it still grew healthily. Recently, he took a photo of this 53-year-old vase garden with a reporter from BBC 4 "Gardener's Question Time". The expert members of this column praised it as an amazing example of plants recycling their own waste.

Plants can grow in bottles because the enclosed space they live in creates a completely self-sufficient ecosystem. Plants interact with bacteria in the soil to maintain their own lives. The only external factor needed to keep this plant alive is light, because light provides it with the energy needed to make its own food and continue to grow. The water used for planting this plant is constantly circulating in the bottle, and the bacteria in the soil degrade the rotten part of this plant, releasing carbon dioxide that can be reused by this plant and continuing to grow.

Chris Beardshavi, an expert on gardener's question time, said, "This is a good example of plant recycling ability. It can do this in a completely closed environment. Guy Bart, an expert from the Royal Horticultural Society, said: "The long-lived garden in a bottle is very unusual. Well done, and I haven't made any progress in 50 years. If it were an acorn, it would have grown into a tall oak tree by now. This plant tries to sustain itself.

Any bottle will do. You need these grasses.