Primroses can not be compared with luxurious roses or royal lilies. These are inconspicuous, simple flowers, which, nevertheless, cause a lot of positive emotions.
A delicate fragile snowdrop pleases the eye after a long and cold winter. Hatching first flowers are heralds of warm days, a sign that frosts are left behind, and the long-awaited generous summer lies ahead.
10. Iridodictium (iris net)
This primrose can be found in the mountains of Transcaucasia or Central Asia. Its other name is iris snowdrop. It begins to bloom as soon as the snow melts. Flowering lasts about a month.
Of 1 bulb with a diameter of about 2 cm, 1 flower appears, located on a low peduncle (30 cm). Reticulated iris can be of different colors, from delicate white to blue, violet or lilac. There are yellow flowers. Some have a pleasant spicy aroma.
Iridodictium can also be grown in your country house by choosing a well-lit area where there is no stagnation of moisture. Wet ground provokes the appearance of diseases. Snowdrop iris can grow without transplanting for about 5 years.
9. The flower garden
Not everyone knows about these beautiful flowers from the Amaryllis family. They appear one of the first.
In the summer cottage tender milk bells are revealed, on the petals which have greenish or yellow spots.
Gardeners have a sign. If the white flower has opened, you can plant a radish and spinach.
They are stretched by 20-30 cm, give 1-2 buds. These are unpretentious plants that do not require special care. There are about 10 species of white flower, some of which bloom in summer or autumn.
It is planted under trees or shrubs, because he feels great in partial shade. If desired, it can be grown on the windowsill, forcing for the holidays.
8. Violet
The first spring flower is a tricolor violet or a viola. Many know her as “pansies." It is low, no more than 15-30 cm.
There is only one bright flower on the peduncle, which can be with even or with wavy edges. The colors are also different, either spotty or striped, one gamut prevails.
Viola unpretentious, can grow in the shade, but then her flowers will be a little smaller. Feels good in sunny places, but can not tolerate the sun.
Flowers open in mid-March and continue to bloom until the end of May. Her root system goes into the ground by only 15-20 cm, so she likes constant hydration and loosening.
7. Crocus
It is also called saffron. This is a herbaceous plant from the Iris family that prefers to grow in meadows and steppes. About 300 varieties of saffron are described. It was mentioned in Egyptian papyrus. The word "crocus" in Greek means "fiber or thread." And “saffron” came from the Arabic “yellow”, because his stigma is of that color.
Crocus height does not exceed 10 cm, lilac, cream, white, yellow, etc. bloom on a short peduncle. flowers. There are 2 groups of plants, i.e. yellow-flowered, in which buds are from tender yellow to orange, and blue-flowered, in them they are from light lilac to dark purple. The flowering period is 15-20 days.
Crocuses are unpretentious. They are watered only if the winter was snowless, and in the spring it did not rain. The stigmas of flowers are harvested and dried from saffron seeds, which since ancient times have been used as a spice.
6. Lungwort
The scientific name of this flower is Pulmonaria. In Latin, “pulmo” is easy, it got such a name, because It has long been used to treat pulmonary diseases.
And they call it a medunica because it is one of the earliest honey plants in which there is a lot of nectar. The stem of the Lungwort is 30-80 cm; flower corollas are located on its top. They can be white, and pink, and blue, and purple. Sometimes buds of different colors grow on the same plant.
Lungwort is not afraid of cold weather, but does not tolerate heat, prefers to grow in partial shade or shadow. Now decorative varieties of this plant, which are used to decorate the garden, have been bred. Medunica officinalis was used to treat pulmonary diseases.
5. Primrose (primrose)
Translated from Latin "prímus" means "first", because these flowers are one of the first to grow as soon as the snow melts. They have wrinkled, hairy leaves.
Primrose begins to bloom in May. Height - from 10 to 80 cm, depending on the variety. There are about 500 species of this plant that can be found in any corner of the globe.
Spring primrose grows from 10 to 30 cm, it has bright yellow flowers. People call it keys, because in shape they resemble a bunch of small keys. At the edges, clearings, light forests, you can stumble on entire thickets of these flowers.
4. Erantis (spring)
From ancient Greek the name of this flower is translated as "spring flower". This is a short plant (from 14 to 26 cm) from the family of buttercups. The first flowers appear when snow still lies on the ground and disappear after 14-25 days.
He is not afraid of sub-zero temperatures and pecks out of the ground as soon as the soil warms up to 0. There are several varieties of this plant, the most common of which is a winter spring. He has bright yellow flowers, located on stems 10 cm long.
3. Hellebore
It is called the "Christmas rose." There is a beautiful legend telling about its origin. As soon as the Bethlehem shepherds learned that the Savior was born, they decided to give him gifts. Almost all of them were able to find something, only one of them did not know where to get a gift. He cried, and where his tear fell, a flower appeared, which the shepherd carried to the baby.
Its other name is gelleborus, like all buttercups, it is poisonous. But then his flowers are unusually beautiful and large, can grow up to 8 cm. It begins to bloom in March, much earlier than other primroses.
2. Scilla (Scylla)
They are sometimes called blue snowdrops. These are perennial plants from the Asparagus family, the Latin name of which is "Scylla", which is translated from the ancient Greek "sea onion".
There are many species of this flower, but most gardeners prefer the Siberian cleft. She has low peduncles (10-12 cm), on which from 1 to 5 blue flowers are located, with a diameter of 2 cm.
It blooms in April, about 10 days after the snow melts. Most often, the flowers of the bluebell are blue, but there are species with pink, purple or white buds.
1. Snowdrop (galanthus)
The scientific name of the flower is Galanthus. Translated from Greek, this means "milk flower." We call them snowdrops, because they bloom in early spring, immediately from under the snow, and disappear after a month.
There is a legend about its origin. Eve was driven out of paradise, and at that time snow was falling. The first woman cried, and where her tears fell, the snow melted, and snowdrops appeared in this place.
About 19 species of this plant are counted. The flowers are white, up to 3 cm in length, inside you can see the greenish rim. They are unpretentious, easily breed. They are not touched by rodents and other animals, because they are poisonous.