Spring primroses - heat messengers

Spring primroses, what can be more gentle and beautiful after a long winter? These lovely flowers are the messengers of spring, the very first they try to reach the sun's rays. They are not afraid of freezing, and they are not afraid of suddenly fallen spring snow. Their beauty they please not for long, in June you will not find a trace of this beauty.

If you still do not have primroses in your garden, be sure to plant. You can not convey the feeling that when frozen flowers appear on the frozen ground and sometimes in the snow. At this point, the long winter retreats. Many spring primroses are protected by the state, therefore it is not necessary to dig them out of the natural environment . In stores today you can buy all kinds of planting material, this will save nature and multiply endangered species.

The most common representatives of the primroses are goose onions, galanthus, sleep-grass, woods, woodworm, spring primrose, and Erantis. Now let's take a closer look.

Snowdrop (galanthus)

This flower is familiar to each of us - a primrose southeast. The photo is on the left. Although in fact his real name is galanthus. Plant garden snowdrops usually in shaded, but heated by the sun's rays. The right time for planting bulbs July - September, at this time the plants are in a rest period. The bulbs themselves do not tolerate long drying, so it is not recommended to store them for more than a month. If there is no possibility to plant, in this case it is necessary to pour them with sawdust.

Goose onion

In the people - a yellow snowdrop or gusyatnik yellow. Goose onion, as well as snowdrop, is a small-bellied plant. Flowers - yellow elegant stars. Flowering is short-lived, but abundant, covering the expanse of a lawn or the edge of a forest. The plant can be propagated by seeds, onions and "babies", which grow on mother tubers. Sow seeds, as a rule, under the winter. When grown from tubers, they are scattered on the already sown lawn grass area and slightly buried in the ground. Planted in this way, you get a natural scattering of yellow flowers on a green lawn.

Sleep-grass

Lumbago or in people - a dream-grass (Pulsatilla) - also a spring primrose. Photo of a miracle flower on the left. Blossoms until the appearance of a rosette of radical leaves with large single flowers in the form of bells of violet, white or red. A special charm for this flower is attached to the thick silvery "feathering" of the petals. The flower is listed in the Red Book and protected by the state.

Brandbush (Bulbocodium)

Spring primroses can be grown in pots, for example, a burdushka. Many people confuse this plant with crocuses, they are very similar to their flowers. In a mild climate, they blossom in February and bloom for almost a month. Every 2 years in the fall, flower bulbs should be excavated and divided.

Erantis

In the folk way - spring or winter buttercup. Very beautiful flower that blooms before snowdrops. The flowering period is about 3 weeks, often directly from under the snow. Propagated by seeds that fall in the autumn in the penumbra, it will bloom only for 3 years, but how!

Primula spring

You can not imagine a spring garden without primrose. It is of a variety of colors and shades, very unpretentious. It multiplies by dividing the rhizome. Long blossoms and pleases the eye.

Spring primroses, having settled in your garden, will forever become the most desired messengers of spring. The presented list can be supplemented with many more species. And each flower can devote a separate novel, so the choice is yours.