Plants and Flowers

Natural flowers are always in a fashion. It is known that a heartfelt comfort depends in a greater measure on environment. Those, who has own garden may spend time in pleasant cares. Quite recently the luxurious English lawns and tremendous flower-gardens, or bewitching winter gardens made them the envy of many people. Nevertheless, all this unbelievable quickly became popular in our country. Today it is common and became the visiting-card of every fruit-grower. If you want to embellish the life, you may start you’re your own room. Create you own flowering garden.
Beginners should know that it is very important to know the natural environment and habitat of a plant and possibly approach the conditions of growing to them. You should find the most suitable place for each, and if you failed - to create them artificially: illuminate by additional lamps, protect from cold winter air and so on.

Spring in our mind is indissolubly associated with warm and flowers. After a cold calmness of the winter we desire new paints, warm tints and smell of natural flowers. Meantime, each may surround himself with a cheerful color of green plants, or even to create a tropical corner in his room. Many love flowers, wish to have more room plants at home, but have some fear. They need to take the care of flowers, and it requires time which is not always. Meantime a flower-garden in a house can have the busiest man, and the laziest. The thing is in correct selection of plants. Beginning should know that plants with thick pulpy leaves or stems require minimum care, they are simple. Among them there are such specimens that are enough to pour once in three weeks. And plants with very thin, tender leaves will be uncertain in a care. Choice of place for a plant is also decisive. If from the very beginning to place a cactus in the sunshine, and to protect a dracaena from the hit of direct sunshine, it is possible to avoid many problems. When light, temperature and humidity of soil are optimum, plants are stable to illnesses and wreckers and will enjoy you for a long time.

Powerful «king of smells» jasmin simply could be nothing but afrodiziak! In Egypt it was used as an ingredient of body oil. In India it was considered worth of gods, its branches decorated temples and statues. A jasmin aroma was breathed by in east harems, and the Chinese beautiful women prepared from the dried up snow-white flowers of jasmin tea for their beloved. Getting to Europe, jasmin became the most favourite material for creation of parks and gardens. The fragrant jungles of jasmin quickly get fame of the most popular place for romantic dates. Both simple townspeople and great ladies identically easily lost their heads from the tender words of beloved, influence of which was greatly increased by the magic aroma of snow-white flowers. Nowadays this nature means of temptation is still in use. It is one of the components in a number of perfumes, and «Chanel №5» as well.

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.