Meet meadow flowers

In our region there are many places where only flowers and grass live. They are called meadows. Most often they decorate the banks of rivers and lakes and are considered one of the best. After all, during the flood, water brings here a lot of silt, and it perfectly feeds all the vegetation.

Especially beautiful are these places in the spring and early summer, when bright meadow flowers flash in the lush grass.

Here is represented a unique commonwealth of all kinds of grasses: annual and perennial, creeping and bush. They, like everyone in the wild, compete for light, the amount of nutrients and water. Therefore, in the upper tier, as a rule, there are light-loving plants, and in the lower tier - those species that can do with the smallest number of sun rays.

The variety of flowers and grasses is strongly affected by the quality of the soil, the level of groundwater, and the strength of the winds that carry the seeds.

The species of birds and insects that inhabit the flowering meadow also play a role in its wealth. They carry seeds and pollinate plants.

Meadow flowers are unusually beautiful and tender. They should be considered closer.

Let's get acquainted. Meadow flowers, photo

We usually think that cornflower is a bright blue flower, but no, such petals have inhabitants Fields, where they, by the way, are considered weeds. And meadow flowers-honey-nuts - purple. This is a tall plant, reaching 70 cm in height.

It is impossible not to notice a blue or blue-violet flower, with the right petals. Geranium meadow and asks for a bouquet, but you do not need to rip it off, because this beauty quickly fades. But this is a wonderful honey plant.

In the June grasses, the azure flower of the bell of the Persian leopard flares up. A bathing room with its fragrant, bright yellow inflorescences serves as a reliable protection for bees and bumblebees from rain and wind.

And beekeepers, shepherds, and herbalists collect chicory. He reveals his blue flowers on high stems only until noon. This plant is medicinal for humans and very useful, like feed, for cows and goats.

After observing the insects, you can see that they carefully avoid the buttercup, chegery and spotted hemlock. These are poisonous meadow flowers. But if you find that a clover, moth or bluegrass has grown poorly in a meadow, then a low cellar lives nearby. This semi-parasitic plant shakes in the wind with its ripe fruits, in which seeds rustle softly. In the people it is also called a "bell".

Look at the modest "cuckoo's tears", quivering under a light breeze, or on a mouse peas, wrapped in tall grass, inhale the sweet scent of a fragrant spikelet, the fresh scent of a magical mint or clover. You will immediately understand that meadow flowers can compete with their garden variety.

Transfer the meadows to the city

Not for nothing in the cities is increasingly felt the lack of beauty of the meadow. To do this, and planted in large areas of grass, decorating them with open areas in urban parks and glades in the forest park area.

To all this caught on and pleased the eye, gardeners improve the appearance of the usual lawn. For this, weeds and plants are removed with a coarse stalk, and the soil is loosened by sowing specially selected herb mixtures into it. And then, from the beginning of spring to the end of summer, we will be delighted by tender shoots and flowers.

A meadow lawn is usually sown: a rumpless brome grass, a grass, a weed or a comb, a foxtail, a hedgehog and timothy grass. Very adorn the picture of small inclusions of a fluffy clover and a lapwing.