Biography of the bell

And what are you ringing on the day of a cheerful May, in the middle of a certain grass shaking your head? This is the beginning of a wonderful poem by A. Tolstoy, who has long been put on music and has become a romance. The poem is not about nature, but about the fate of man, about the meaning of life. Well, what about the bells? Which of them could the poet meet in the steppe? It is unlikely that the “hero” of the poem was the most famous bell of the spreading Campanula Patula.

It grows in the meadows and in the steppes, it can bloom "on the day of the cheerful May", but its flowers are purple, not blue. Many people think that blue is a woven blue one. But remember the location of the “in order” of the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, purple. Blue is an independent color, it is between green and blue. The artists have a paint called "Blue Fc", so dark that it seems almost black.

If you add white to it or dilute it with water, you get a pleasant pale blue color. Botaniki is not artists, they often call the blue blue whisk of flower. Let's get back to the plants again. Perhaps the poet was inspired by the chubby bell C. The color of his flowers is light blue, almost blue. But, most likely, the author of the poem did not see a bell at all, but a Bell of Adenophora, a plant from the bell family.

The bell is found in the steppes, in meadows and glades in light forests. His bowed blue flowers with the slightest blow of the wind "shake their heads", and it seems that they are a little bit. Outwardly, the bell flower differs from the bell in that the pestle column is far from the corolla. In the family - more than 80 births and approximately species. The bells of bells counts to the species, of which in the suburbs it occurs at least in the meadows often a bell bored with a coat Glomerata with a whisk of bright purple coloring.

Its flowers in the inflorescence are so closely pressed to each other that they not only do not “shake their heads”, but they can not at least slightly turn aside. All flowers "look" up. On the southern, sunny slopes of the hills and along the steppe plains, the Siberian bell grows C. Despite the name, it is found in the European part of Russia. In the meadows, among shrubs, you can find a slender tall plant with a dense long brush of pale, almost white flowers.

This is the Bologna bell C. But the ropun -shaped bell C. Its purple flowers are collected in a one -sided brush. Young shoots and fleshy roots are edible and even tasty. In the garden, this bell can grow arbitrarily long, often turning into a weed. Many bells are found in the mountains. Some "climb" to a great height, to the glaciers, where they grow in the crevices of bare rocks. These are stunted species with rather large flowers.

These are the bell of the three -toothely C. The three -toothed bell - the tall of everything, it has leaves with three small cloves at the top and light lilac, directed flowers with a diameter of up to 3 cm.

Carpathian bell lushly and longly blooms in the first year after planting. On sale now there are many types and varieties of stunted abundantly blooming perennial bells: spoon -hungry C. The bell is spoon -hungry wintering, grows well on the alpine slide. Gargan bell is better succeeded in partial shade. Both species bloom for more than a month. So that they please us even longer, it is necessary to cut the dried peduncles in time.

There are in nature "Forests of Forests". These are the perennials of the nettle bell C. Both species live in shady broad -leaved and mixed forests. They are distinguished by unpretentiousness and grow for a long time in the garden in one place, annually increasing the number of peduncles on the "bush". In the bright forests and on the edges there is a peach -clip -shaped bell. It has long been diluted in gardens.

There are forms with pale blue and white flowers. The plant is two -year -old, in the first year it forms a socket of narrow leaves spread on the ground, on the second - blooms and propagates well by self -sowing. If in the spring, collect the overwested sockets from all corners of the garden in one place, you will get a wonderful bell clearing. For more than three centuries, the Middle C Banner grows in the gardens.

Its flowers are white, blue, purple, pink. Particularly spectacular flowers with overgrown cups painted as a corolla, - real bell roses! You can distinguish different bells from each other in the shape of leaves, which is often reflected in their names. Bells also differ in size and coloring of flowers. The tooths of the corolla are longer or shorter, wider or already. And the structure of the flower is the same: a cup of five fused cups of the car, a corolla of five fused petals, five stamens, one pestle.

In all types, the fruit is a box, and tiny droplets of white juice protrude from the torn sheets of the torn sheet. Among them are Platycodon Platicodon and Codonopsis Codonopsis. In the middle lane of Russia, a vestikon broad -collar can only be found in gardens. The flowers of this plant have an unpleasant odor, for which the locals call it a "smelly bell."Platicodon and codonopsis are valuable medicinal plants.

The root of the codonopsis in its action is close to ginseng. At first glance, it does not look like a bell bugrian Mountain Jasione Montana. At the top of its stem is an inflorescence of many small flowers in the form of a blue "ball". But the structure of a separate flower gives out a representative of the bell family in it. Although it is named a bucket mountain, it is also found on the plains, mainly in the southern and western regions of Russia.

The plant is unpretentious, it grows rapidly on sandy soil and blooms for a long time if you remove the stems with wilted inflorescences in time. The flowers of unprecedented blue do not belong to the bells at all, although they are similar. Gentiana's bitterings have their own family - bitterness. In wet meadows, you can still find the pulmonary bitterness. Unfortunately, it is often torn for bouquets, and this plant multiplies most often with seeds.

Surprisingly good bitterness in high -mountain meadows. Some of them are planted in the garden on stony slides. Steppe, meadow species develop better in open, sunny places, forests - prefer shadow and partial shade. Low -growing species can grow on poor soil or require the introduction of lime to the soil. Bells propagate most often with seeds and dividing basal sockets.

The bells are peach -leaved, rapun -shaped and broad -leaved propagate self -sowing. Seeds of some species require stratification - for this from mid -October to mid -November, before freezing the soil, they are sown in moist soil. Winter sowing is also possible. Take a container with a depth of 10 cm with a hole in the bottom. Pour drainage and fill with a light nutrient mixture.

Cover with snow on top, and when it melts, they sow the seeds. The container is covered with a film and left in the room for two to three days, and then buried in the garden in a snowdrift in a shaded place. In the spring, when the snow melts, the soil in the container is watered with foundazole protects from the "black leg" and covered with non -woven material. Divide plants in the spring.

But many types of transplantation do not tolerate the transplant: they have very vulnerable core or shonovable roots. Signatures to illustrations Ill. Flower structure: a cup of five fused cups, a whisk of five fused petals, five stamens, one pestle. In the figure: 1, 2, 3 - the bell of the rapunceravia; 4 - Codonopsis Clematis -shaped; 5 - Platicodon. Kolokolchkov family: 1 - sprawling bell; 2 - chubby bell; 3 - bored bell; 4 - Rapun -shaped bell; 5 - nettle bell; 6 - broad -leaved bell; 7 - a bell of a perspiral garden form; 8 - Lilyl -shaped bell; 9 - Platicodon; 10 - codonopsis; 11 - Mountain Bukashnik.

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