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Nature is amazing for everyone: a variety of flowers, animals, landscapes! Let’s stop our attention on wild flowers – there are so many of them that you are amazed! Wildflowers are accustomed to wild conditions, unpretentious in care, which makes them desirable in summer cottages and household plots.
Wild flowers are also known for their healing properties – they are used both in cooking and in cosmetology. Each region has its own flowers, presented in the form of perennials, annuals, biennials. A wide range of colors of wild flowers pleases the eye: there are blue, and white and pink – in a word, admiration – and nothing more!
Let’s take a break from everyday worries, questions that torment our heads, and look at the most beautiful wild flowers.
10 Lungwort
В Honeycomb it is unlikely that you will succeed in not falling in love, and why prevent this feeling? It is grown mainly as an ornamental plant. Why is she so good? From early spring, the lungwort begins to bloom with delicate bell flowers, forming neat bushes. And how many varieties of this beauty – choose to your taste!
The plant is used to treat lung diseases. This flower has its own secret – when snow falls in winter and the first rays of the sun peep out, inflorescences in the form of petals make their way from last year’s foliage. This is a honeysuckle. It has a lot of sweet nectar. There is a legend that the beginning of Adam is in the blue bells, and the beginning of Eve is in the pink bells.
9. Crane
Crane (or in other words geranium) – the queen of window sills, if we are talking about a home flower. But her meadow relatives are little known to anyone. Walking through the meadows, many could see pale blue flowers – these are the relatives of geraniums. True, few people know that blue flowers are called crail.
There is also forest geranium, but it is distinguished by red inflorescences. Inflorescences of meadow geraniums used to be often added to tea – they have a sweetish taste. The Slavs had a belief that if you carry geranium petals with you, your loved one will definitely reciprocate. Crail blooms in June or July, and the flowering period lasts about a month, but each flower blooms for no more than two days.
8. Sporenik
The flower has a second name (and it is more common) – delphinium, although it has a lot of them: juices, disputer, field larkspur … The plant includes about 450 species, sometimes it is allocated to the adjacent genus of sorrel, which includes about 40 herbaceous annual plants. Spur is an old name.
The name spur probably comes from the shape of an outgrowth-appendage on the upper sepal, resembling a cavalry spur. In Russian, the name delphinium is most often found. The plant has the ability to bloom in huge racemes, but this does not protect it from the possibility of breaking from the wind. The best solution is to grow the plant along the fence, attaching each shoot to a support.
7. Iris
How many pleasant associations are caused by this flower – iris! The ancient Greeks called Irises – fragments of the rainbow on the ground, they look great. These flowers are unpretentious in care, together with which they give a charming flowering and aroma for a long time. Gardeners advise planting irises on their plot – you will not regret it.
There are about 250 species of this plant, which is probably why it got its name. Iris means “rainbow” in Greek. It is impossible to look away from the beauty of this flower – blooming, it shows all its beauty. It is especially pleasant that the iris is a frost-resistant flower, easily tolerates a harsh cold climate.
6. Aquilegia
Beauty is in simplicity – do you agree with this? If yes, then you will definitely like aquilegia! This flower is an unpretentious, frost-resistant plant that requires minimal care. Aquilegia is also called “catchment” or “perennial catchment”. After flowering, boxes appear in place of flowers – small black seeds ripen in them.
Aquilegia grow in low bushes, their leaves are different and very beautiful. The flowers themselves are lowered like bluebells. This plant is a perennial, so it does not require special care. Quite a flower can coexist with any other flowers, without interfering, but rather, complementing the overall picture.
5. Lily of the valley
Lily-of-the-valley – stunning flowers, look very sensual and gentle. Seeing these in flower shops, you wonder where they grow? Lilies of the valley grow in regions with a temperate climate: in Europe, in North America, in Asia Minor, in the Caucasus. Lilies of the valley are also found in China, they also bloom in Russia – in the Kuriles, in the Crimea, etc.
The aroma of lilies of the valley can turn your head! It is quite possible to plant in your country house. During planting, they are already blooming, unpretentious in care, from which we can conclude that this is an amazing flower for giving. It does not need to be watered often, it does not need bait. Many people like lilies of the valley not only for their enchanting smell, but also for their charming appearance.
4. Digitalis
Another very beautiful plant – digitalis. She is not afraid of any frost, over time she becomes a beautiful weed. The flowers fade, and the seeds scatter in a circle of 5–10 cm. In late autumn, small bushes grow – such a wintering. Digitalis is an unpretentious plant that blooms in late May – early June.
Foxglove flowers are tall, more than a meter. Grow fast. Inflorescences are very similar to bells. It is worth bearing in mind that the plant is poisonous – keep children away from it, they all want to try it. As soon as the seeds ripen, they fly like dust and sown themselves. Minus the plant can only be put for toxicity.
3. Thrift
Thrift – a beautiful plant that can decorate your garden. It blooms successfully without any hassle. Differs in frost resistance, quietly hibernates without shelter. Flowering begins in May – it is long and very beautiful. Armeria reproduces in different ways: you can plant seeds before winter or take a basal process with a “heel”.
Armeria is most suitable for decorating rockeries, alpine slides. There are many varieties, so it is difficult to single out any one – they are all beautiful in their own way. The plant grows well in full sun, in dry, well-drained soils. You can land nearby armeria of different colors, and they will complement each other well.
2. Bather
Bather is a perennial herbaceous plant, belongs to the Ranunculaceae family. The plant loves moist soil and can hardly tolerate drought. Feels most comfortable in partial shade, but can also grow in the sun. Peduncles develop over the course of two years – they look amazing.
You can plant a bathing suit next to other flowers – it all depends on your imagination. The main thing is to moisturize the plant well. For example, you can make bouquets from a bathing suit, combining it with tulips. The plant blooms profusely, unpretentious in care, grows well. The flower is orange and yellow.
1. Gentian
Completes our selection of the most beautiful wildflowers gentian – she is so beautiful that it is impossible to pass by a bush! The flowers of the plant are collected in bunches at the end of the shoot. In cultivation, this species is very easy, needs a sunny place for normal growth. Gentian becomes less attractive in the shade.
A dwarf species native to California. The height of the plant does not exceed 10 cm. Unlike multi-colored gentians, blue ones can be seen on household plots from the tundra to the mountain belt of the North Caucasus. The genus of the plant has 400 species, the most spectacular are the “Blue-eyed Princesses” that bloom with the onset of spring.