In our area many places inhabited only flowers and herbs.They are called the meadows.Most often, they adorn the banks of rivers and lakes and are considered among the best.Indeed, during the flood water brings here a lot of mud, and it perfectly feeds all vegetation.
especially beautiful this place in the spring and early summer, when the bright flash of lush grass meadow flowers.
Here is a unique community of all kinds of herbs: annual and perennial, creeping and carnations.They, like all wildlife, are competing for light, nutrients and water.Therefore, in the upper tier are generally light-loving plants, and the bottom - the species which can dispense the smallest amount of sunlight.
on a variety of flowers and herbs, and greatly affects the quality of soil and groundwater levels and the strength of winds that carry the seeds.
Forms of birds and insects living in a blooming meadow, also play a role in its richness.They carry the seeds and pollinate plants.
Meadow flowers extraordinarily beautiful and gentle.They are worth a closer look.
Let's get acquainted.Meadow flowers, photo
We usually think knapweed - a bright blue flower, but no, those are inhabitants rose fields where they are, among other things, are considered weeds.A meadow flowers, honey plants - purple.This plant grew, reaching 70 cm in height.
impossible not to notice, and blue or blue-purple flower, with petals correct.Geranium meadow and asks in a bouquet, but pluck it not worth it, because this beauty quickly fades.But this wonderful honey plant.
In June grasses flashes azure flower Campanula Persicifolia.A globe-with its fragrant, bright yellow flowers is a reliable protection for bees and bumble bees from the rain and wind.
And beekeepers and shepherds, and collectors of medicinal herbs revere Chicory.He reveals his blue flowers on tall stems just before noon.This plant is a healing for the people and is very useful as feed for cows and goats.
After watching insects, you will notice that they are carefully sidestep buttercup hellebore and spotted hemlock.This poisonous meadow flowers.But if you find that the meadow began to grow poorly clover, bentgrass or Kentucky bluegrass - so close to home to low rattle.This plant-poluparazit shakes in the wind for its mature fruits, in which the seeds rattle softly.In people, it is called "zvonets."
Look at modest "cuckoo tears", trembling under a light breeze, or murine peas, obvivshy high grass, breathe the sweetest smell fragrant spikelet, fresh aroma magic mint or clover.You immediately realize that meadow flowers can compete with garden with its diversity.
transfer the meadows to the city
No wonder more and more in cities is lack of beauty meadows.To do this, and are planted in large areas of grass, making out of open areas in city parks and glades in the forest area.
to all stuck and pleasing to the eye, gardeners improve the look of the familiar turf.To do this, remove the weeds and plants with rough stem and loosen the soil, seeding it specially selected mixture of herbs.And then, from the beginning of spring until the end of summer, we will admire the tender shoots and flowers.
Meadow turf is usually sown: brome, bent grass, couch grass or Grebennikov, foxtail, ezhoy and timothy.It will decorate a picture of small blotches fluffy clover and a lotus.
