Plants and Flowers

Plants with snow-white blossoms always evoke the best feelings. And majority of the gardeners are ready to admire them during the whole season without a break. It is quite possible — in fact great number of such plants exists.

Spring

The garden can be covered with a snow-white lacy veil of blossoming plants from the family of flowers right away after disappearance of snow. The holiday of their flowering can be so magnificent that winter seems not to come to the end at all. Then, at the end of April — the beginning of May it is possible to admire undersized, almost procumbent bushes of the snowflake sorts of the Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica .Alba.), higher bushes or undersized saplings of plums American (Prunus americana). During the whole May the decorative sort of the cherry ordinary “Rhexii” (Cerasus vulgaris “Rehxii”) which distinguishes by its beauty also blossoms. Its large, densely double flowers overhang on the long flower-bearers. This sort does not give fruits and consequently is used only as an ornamental plant. Other low, up to 1-1,2 m in height sorts of a cherry blossom up to the end of May. They are a cherry shrubby (Cerasus fruticosa) — the inhabitant of the forest-steppe zone of the European part and a cherry ferriferous (Cerasus glandulosa) — its form «Alba Plena» are famed for double blossoms, densely covering a bush, as like tiny rosettes. Double forms of a cherry are reproduced by cuttings.

Lilac

Lilac is the bush with beautiful flowers. It is very popular all over the world. There are a lot of species of the ordinary lilac. You can select for your garden plants with white, pink, lilac, blue, dark-violet, red and even yellow blossoms which can be simple or double, with the ordinary or twirled petals. The prolongation of a lilac flowering is possible, using its other species. The Hungarian lilac begins to blossom two weeks after the ordinary lilac, and it blossoms very plentifully for 20-25 days. The flowers of this species of the lilac are violet, and the fragrance of them is much weaker. Selectors have not worked with the Hungarian lilac yet; therefore it does not have any decorative species. Amur lilac blossoms at the end of June — beginning of July. Unfortunately, this plant is not so well known as lilac ordinary. You have an opportunity to see it in the square near the Cathedral of Vasily Blazhennui. The inflorescences of Amur lilac are painted in gentle cream color and smell of honey. The Meyer’s lilac is the latest to blossom. It is a compact bush with the modest dimensions. The height and the width of this plant reach only one metre. Small groups of the bushes of lilac are transplanted, people make avenues of them. You can see plants on sale which are organized on a stem.

A human being got acquainted with the bouquet of the miraculous peculiarities of the fragrant plants thousand years ago. They were first cosmetic preparations, medicine, and also drugs which people used for the creation of a certain emotional atmosphere, for example, a holiday or a meditation.

While creating a garden we recommend you to choose the plants with pleasant aromas, it will greatly enrich your garden collection.

In May a bird cherry tree will blossom and its familiar from childhood aroma will be sensed everywhere. A bird cherry tree can very often be multi – barrelled. Blossoms of a bird cherry tree are usually white, gathered in the clustering inflorescences 12 centimeters long. This plant is very unpretentious, can grow in some shadow, but however it grows much better under a bright sun and can stand over wetting. Not all the bird cherry trees can give flowers. It is a disadvantage on one hand but the absence of an aroma is a positive feature on the other hand. Such plants can be transplanted in their gardens by asthmatics.

In our garden we can have a rest from a noisy city, fuss, get rid of stress, relax and enjoy nature. First of all we enjoy contemplation, because by means of eyesight we receive the main part of information. A green colour of leaves and grass calms us down. The bright colour of flowers and gay leaves gladden the eye. It is a pleasure to observe dragon – flies playing above a smooth surface of the water. The sunset also gladdens our eye.

We can also touch our garden by pressing an elastic lawn, sinking the hands into a cool stream, leaning against a rough trunk of an old tree, pressing our palms to a warm stone.

And try to sink in a comfortable armchair or simply on a green grass, close your eyes and listen. What do you feel? You can hear a rustle of the foliage, murmur of a streamlet, birds’ twittering, chirring of insects. And, of course, you perceive the smells of the garden. Aromas are the gift of the Nature, which gives us an opportunity to strengthen our senses and receive an all –round delight in our garden. And time is spent with the nature prolongs our life.