Flowering linden begins when the fruit trees for the most part it was over - in the middle or end of June.Many are looking forward to this event.The air in this period is filled with a unique sweet fragrance.Linden, which blooms so short, is a valuable medicinal raw materials.Its flowers can be reserved at this time for a whole year.
Lipa: bloom and features wood
Crohn tree becomes solid golden ball, exudes a honey aroma.Each inflorescence consists of 10-15 flowers.In their five petals and many stamens.Bloom is so abundant that the branches bend under their weight.Tilia cordata growing in most regions of Russia, has a wide spreading crown.Sometimes these trees grow apart, but more often - with maple, oak and ash, as well as other species of trees.Initially, linden, bloom which begins only between ten and twenty years, growing very slowly.Process a little faster, if the tree is in an open area.
Lipa: flowering and value as honey plant
estimated that a hectare of forest consisting entirely of these trees are of middle age, can distinguish two weeks about a ton of sweet nectar.For bee is a true paradise.Linden honey has many medicinal properties, for which much appreciated.Scientists have noticed that the lime trees in recent years have reduced the production of nectar.You can fight this by planting different varieties at a small distance from each other.And large-leaved (European, Manchu, etc.) limes have different flowering time.At the same time growing trees of different varieties in one area, you can increase the amount of nectar that bees will collect.Time of flowering linden large-starts five or eight days before the Amur and Manchurian.Gathering different varieties of trees in one area, it is possible to extend the period during which bees are able to collect from them nectar from two to four weeks.Thus, apiary, located not far from the fake plants can be guaranteed to be provided annually honey, even if one particular grade due to temperature oscillations in one year will not be able to bloom and provide nektarovydelenie.
Lipa in cities and towns
Earlier this tree is loved for flowering, fragrance, hardiness and beauty.Today linden planted in the cities, it helps fight gassed.Lush foliage absorbs dust and carbon dioxide.Hundreds of cubic meters of oxygen, which is released linden trees enliven the atmosphere of the city.If parks and gardens to plant different types of limes, the different length of the growing season will provide bright green for most of the year.After all, some of them begin to drop leaves in late October.Widely known medicinal properties of lime blossom.But they occur only if the raw materials harvested in an ecologically clean area.Therefore, it is not recommended to collect linden blossom in the cities and along the trails.
