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Primroses cannot be compared with luxurious roses or royal lilies. These are inconspicuous, simple flowers, which, nevertheless, evoke many positive emotions.
Delicate fragile snowdrop pleases the eye after a long and cold winter. The first flowers that have hatched are heralds of warm days, a sign that the frosts are behind us, and the long-awaited generous summer is ahead.
10 Iridodictium (iris net)
This primrose can be found in the mountains of Transcaucasia or Central Asia. Its other name is snowdrop iris. Begins to bloom as soon as the snow melts. Flowering lasts about a month.
From 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, purple or lilac. There are also yellow flowers. Some of them have a pleasant spicy aroma.
Iridodictium can also be grown in your country house, choosing a well-lit area where there is no moisture stagnation. Wet soil provokes the appearance of diseases. Snowdrop iris can grow without a transplant for about 5 years.
9. White-flower
Not everyone knows about these beautiful flowers from the Amaryllis family. They are among the first to appear.
In the summer cottage, delicate milky bells open, on the petals of which there are greenish or yellow spots.
Gardeners have an omen. If the white flower has opened, you can plant radishes and spinach.
They stretch by 20-30 cm, give 1-2 buds. These are hardy plants that do not require special care. There are about 10 species of white flowers, 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 the tricolor violet or 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 either with smooth or wavy edges. The colors are also different, either spotted or striped, one gamut prevails.
Viola is unpretentious, it can grow in the shade, but then its flowers will be a little smaller. Feels good in sunny places, but does not tolerate the sun.
The flowers open in mid-March and continue to bloom until the end of May. Her root system goes into the ground only 15-20 cm, so she loves constant moistening and loosening.
7. Crocus
It is also called saffron. This is a herbaceous plant from the Iris family, which prefers to grow in meadows and steppes. About 300 varieties of saffron have been described. It was mentioned in Egyptian papyri. The word “crocus” in Greek means “fiber or thread”. And “saffron” comes from the Arabic “yellow”, because. He has a snout of that color.
The height of the crocus does not exceed 10 cm, purple, cream, white, yellow, etc. bloom on a short peduncle. flowers. There are 2 groups of plants, i.e. yellow-flowered, in which the buds are from delicate yellow to orange, and blue-flowered, in which 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, which have been used as a spice since ancient times, are harvested and dried from the saffron seed.
6. Lungwort
The scientific name of this flower is Pulmonaria. In Latin, “pulmo” is a light one, it received such a name, because. has long been used to treat lung diseases.
And they call it lungwort 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, on its top there are corollas of flowers. 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 shade. Now ornamental varieties of this plant have been bred, which are used to decorate the garden. Lungwort officinalis was used to treat lung diseases.
5. Primula (primrose)
Translated from Latin, “prímus” means “first”, because. these flowers are among the first to grow as soon as the snow melts. They have wrinkled, hairy leaves.
Primula 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 every corner of the globe.
Primrose spring grows from 10 to 30 cm, it has bright yellow flowers. The people call it the keys, because. they are shaped like a bunch of small keys. On the edges, clearings, light forests, you can stumble upon entire thickets of these flowers.
4. Erantis (spring)
From ancient Greek, the name of this flower is translated as “spring flower”. This is a low-growing plant (from 14 to 26 cm) from the buttercup family. The first flowers appear when there is still snow 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 winter spring. It has bright yellow flowers, arranged on stems 10 cm long.
3. Hellebore
It is called “Christmas rose”. There is a beautiful legend telling about its origin. As soon as the Bethlehem shepherds learned that the Savior had come into the world, they decided to present gifts to him. Almost all of them were able to find something, only one of them did not know where to get a gift. He wept, and where his tear fell, a flower appeared, which the shepherd took to the baby.
Its other name is helleborus, like all buttercups, it is poisonous. But on the other hand, its flowers are unusually beautiful and large, they can grow up to 8 cm. It begins to bloom in March, much earlier than other primroses.
2. scilla
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 ancient Greek as “sea bow”.
There are many types of this flower, but most gardeners prefer the Siberian blueberry. She has low peduncles (10-12 cm), on which are located from 1 to 5 blue flowers, 2 cm in diameter.
It blooms in April, about 10 days after the snow melts. Most often, the flowers of the blueling are blue, but there are also species with pink, purple or white buds.
1. Snowdrop (Galanthus)
The scientific name of the flower is Galanthus. In Greek it means “milky 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 expelled from paradise, and at this time the snow was falling. The first woman wept, and where her tears fell, the snow melted, and snowdrops appeared in that place.
There are about 19 species of this plant. The flowers are white, up to 3 cm long, inside they can see a greenish rim. They are unpretentious, easy to breed. They are not touched by rodents and other animals, because. they are poisonous.