2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
It seems that Leningrad, having become St. Petersburg, has lost some of its "fun traditions", and therefore met me at the end of May this year not with a "traditional rain", but with pink and white shrubs that grow in abundance along the roadsides and in courtyards. numerous high-rise buildings. The violent flowering was not disturbed at all by the cold, nosy wind blowing, oddly enough, from the south. Later, there were rains, short, but rapid, after which the vegetation became even more beautiful and pleased the townspeople
Chubushnik variety
The main photo shows its spring-summer flowering shrub, which is a representative of the genus Chubushnik (Latin Philadelphus). Some Russian gardeners call such a shrub Jasmine, guided by a floral scent, which is incorrect, since, according to botanical criteria, these two plants are not even close relatives. Chubushnik belongs to the Hortensia family, and Jasmine belongs to the Olive family. If we are looking for their relatives, then for Chubushnik these are plants of the Hortensia genus, a very popular decoration of today's Russian gardens. For Jasmine, these are plants of the Olive (or Oliva) genus, which give a person healthy olive oil, as well as Lilac, which is well known to Russians.
Three or four centuries ago, Chubushniks adorned the tsarist and boyar Russian gardens, and today they feel great on the ordinary streets of St. Petersburg. Most likely, this specimen is a hybrid species of Chubushnik, which is unpretentious to soils, to lighting, and also firmly endures St. Petersburg winters. Its relatively large flowers form racemose inflorescences, gathering from three to nine pieces in one inflorescence. From the "glass" of snow-white petals, numerous stamens peep out bravo - the last picturesque touch of flowering.
Rosehip pink and white
It would seem that today it is difficult to surprise gardeners with Rosehip. However, Peter managed to surprise and delight me with huge Rosehip bushes, abundantly covered with delicate flowers. These were bushes with traditional pink flower petals, as well as white double flowers, not inferior in their magnificence to garden roses. One involuntarily recalls the words of the song about "White Rosehip" written by Andrei Voznesensky for the Soviet rock opera "Juno and Avos", the music for which was written by Alexei Rybnikov:
White rose hips, wild rose hips
More beautiful than garden roses."
Mountain ash
This year the Rowan ordinary bloomed profusely in St. Here is such a beauty growing under the window of my sister's apartment, reaching up to the fifth floor with its top:
Last year, the tree was occupied by some spiders, entangling all the branches with a whitish cobweb. This year they moved to other types of trees, and the Rowan, with a sigh of relief, pleased the world with abundant flowering. By mid-June, the flower petals flew around, the tree "faded" a little, but one can already imagine the bright autumn brushes of the Rowan, under the weight of which the strong stems of the tree will bend down.
Lilac, a relative of Jasmine
I was in St. Petersburg from May 20th to June 20th. The lilacs had already faded, but in some places the lilac or white clusters-inflorescences still held firmly, filling the footpaths with a delicate aroma. Such modest white inflorescences adorned the path to the entrance of one residential building:
Japanese quince or Japanese chaenomeles
On the streets of St. Petersburg I met a low, but spectacular shrub, the branches of which were decorated with orange-red picturesque flowers. It turned out that this bright splendor came to our northern lands from the Land of the Rising Sun and remarkably took root on the lands where a couple of centuries ago there were impassable swamps:
By mid-June, the elegant petals flew around, and miniature fruits remained on the branches, promising a good harvest of Japanese quince by autumn. For the winter, small simple leaves will also fly around to make it easier for the plant to survive the St. Petersburg frosts.
Chestnut from the Beech family
Another thermophilic plant - Chestnut, delights passers-by with its intricately carved large umbrella-leaves and candle inflorescences, consisting of outlandish multi-colored flowers. At the moment when I photographed the Chestnut, the flowering was already declining, and therefore the inflorescence does not look as graceful as it looks during the period of active flowering. But, all the same, a very picturesque creation of nature, isn't it?
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White Melilot
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Sandman White
Sandman white is one of the plants of the family called cloves, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Melandrium album. As for the name of the family of the white doze itself, then in Latin it will be like this: Caryophyllaceae Juss.
White-felt Dubrovnik
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Picturesque Lawns Of St. Petersburg
The first half of June this year did not indulge Peter with summer warmth. It seems that the day is long, and the sun happens in the heavens, but the cold wind makes older people keep their warm jackets. Young people are in a different mood: since summer has come, down with warm clothes. Taking an example from the young, the city lawns turn green and fragrant, delighting the residents of St. Petersburg with lush greenery and picturesque diversity of flowering
