In our area there are many places where only flowers and herbs live. They are called meadows. Most often, they adorn the banks of rivers and lakes and are considered one of the best. Indeed, during floods, water brings a lot of silt here, and this feeds all the vegetation perfectly.
These places are especially beautiful in spring and early summer, when bright meadow flowers flash in the lush grass.
It presents a unique community of all kinds of herbs: annual and perennial, creeping and bush. They, like everyone else in wildlife, vie for light, 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 amount of sunlight.
The quality of the soil, the level of groundwater, and the strength of the winds carrying the seeds greatly affect the variety of flowers and herbs.
Species of birds and insects inhabiting a 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, the inhabitants have such petals
fields where, by the way, they are considered weeds. And meadow melliferous flowers are purple. This is a tall plant, reaching 70 cm in height.
It is impossible not to notice the blue or blue-violet flower, with the correct petals.
Meadow geranium asks for a bouquet, but you should not tear it off, as this beauty will quickly fade. But this is a wonderful honey plant.
In the June forbs, the azure flower of the Persian bellflower flares up. And the leotard with its fragrant, bright yellow inflorescences serves as a reliable protection for bees and bumblebees from rain and wind.
And beekeepers, and shepherds, and herb collectors venerate chicory. He reveals his blue flowers on tall stems only until noon. This plant is healing for humans and very useful as a feed for cows and goats.
After observing the insects, you can see that they are carefully avoiding buttercup, hellebore and spotted hemlock. These are poisonous meadow flowers. But if you find that clover, a fieldgrass or bluegrass began to grow poorly in the meadow, then a short rattle lives nearby.
This semi-parasite plant sways in the wind with its ripe fruits, in which seeds rattle quietly. In the people it is also called "zvonets".
Look at the modest “cuckoo's tears” shivering under a light breeze, or at the mouse peas, entwined with tall blades of grass, inhale the sweet smell of fragrant spikelet, the fresh aroma of magic mint or clover. You will immediately realize that meadow flowers can compete with garden flowers in their diversity.
Move the meadows to the city
Not for nothing in cities the lack of beauty of the meadow is felt ever stronger. For this, grasses are planted in large areas, making out open areas in urban parks and clearings in the forest zone.
To all this has taken root and pleasing to the eye, gardeners improve the appearance of the usual lawn. To do this, weeds and plants with a coarse stem are removed, and the soil is loosened, seeding specially selected mixtures of herbs into it. And then, from the beginning of spring to the end of summer, delicate shoots and flowers will delight us.
A meadow lawn is usually sown: boneless rind, polevole, wheatgrass or comb comb, foxtail, hedgehog and timothy. Very interspersed with a picture of a small interspersment of fluffy clover and lamb.
