There are many places in our area where only flowers and herbs live. They are called meadows. Most often they decorate the banks of rivers and lakes and are considered among the best. After all, during the flood water brings a lot of silt here, and this perfectly feeds all the vegetation.
These places are especially beautiful in spring and early summer, when bright meadow flowers flare up in the lush grass.
Here is a unique community of all kinds of herbs: annuals and perennials, creeping and bush. They, like everything in nature, 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 - those species that can get by with the smallest amount of sunlight.
The diversity of flowers and herbs is greatly affected by the quality of the soil, and the level of groundwater, and the strength of the winds that carry the seeds.
Species of birds and insects that inhabit the flowering meadow also play a role in its we alth. They carry seeds and pollinate plants.
Meadow flowers are unusually beautiful and delicate. They are worth a closer look.
Let's get acquainted. Meadow flowers, photo
We usually think that the cornflower is a bright blue flower, but no, the inhabitants have such petals
fields, where they, by the way, are considered weeds. And the meadow flowers-melliferous plants are purple. It is a tall plant reaching 70 cm in height.
Impossible not to notice the blue or blue-violet flower, with the right petals.
Meadow geranium just asks for a bouquet, but you shouldn't pick it, as this beauty quickly withers. But this is a wonderful honey plant.
In the June forbs, the azure flower of the peach-leaved bell flares up. And the swimsuit with its fragrant, bright yellow inflorescences serves as a reliable protection for bees and bumblebees from rain and wind.
And beekeepers, and shepherds, and collectors of medicinal herbs revere chicory. It only opens its blue flowers on tall stems until noon. This plant is healing for people and very useful as food for cows and goats.
Watching the insects, you can see that they diligently bypass buttercup, hellebore and spotted hemlock. These are poisonous meadow flowers. But if you find that clover, bent grass or bluegrass began to grow poorly in the meadow, then a low rattle lives nearby.
This semi-parasitic plant sways in the wind with its ripe fruits, in which seeds quietly rattle. The people also call it "ringing".
Look at modest "cuckoo's tears" trembling in a light breeze, or at mouse peas wrapped around tall blades of grass, inhale the sweetest smell of fragrant spikelet, the fresh scent of magical mint or clover. You will immediately understand that meadow flowers can compete with garden flowers in their diversity.
Let's move the meadows to the city
It's not for nothing that the cities are increasingly feeling the lack of the beauty of the meadow. For this, grass is planted in large areas, decorating open areas in city parks and clearings in the forest park zone.
For all this to take root and please the eye, gardeners improve the appearance of the usual lawn. To do this, weeds and plants with a rough stem are removed, and the soil is loosened by sowing specially selected mixtures of herbs into it. And then, from the beginning of spring to the end of summer, we will be delighted with tender shoots and flowers.
Meadow lawn is usually sown with: awnless brome, bent grass, couch grass or comb grass, foxtail, hedgehog and timothy. Small blotches of fluffy clover and bird-foot will greatly decorate the picture.
