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Plants that following the long winter months, the first bloom and also make us special emotions. Despite prevailing outside your window frost, bravely cut through your surging patches of snow. Flowers emerging view raises hopes that following the harsh winter and whitened, come coveted and long-awaited spring.
One of the original blooming flowers is Galanthus nivalis snowdrop. It owes its name milky white flowers. Latin name comes through the words gala- milk and also anthos - flower. The plant originates via central Europe. Very often we see them for the edge of the natrual enviroment. Snowdrops grow rapidly, spreading seeds and bulbs and trained. Flowers grow in March and March. Snowdrop bulbs should be planted in September at the depth of approx. 10 cm. Snowdrops grow best with a bench and cool. The soil should be fertile and moist.
Snowdrops do not require special care. Under favorable conditions, these flowers form big clumps, also easily spread. Reproduction of snowdrops is easy. Large groups are separated into smaller flowers right after flowering. Separate the bulbs little one then. You can also collect seeds or wait before flower itself will propagate.
The most common disease that attacks the snowdrops are usually gray mold. It distorts the foliage, and on the bulbs and leaves from the ground, you will notice raid mycelium. Diseased plants should be discarded, and the remaining squirt fungicide.
Flowers snowdrops can open and close according to the temperature near Londonderry. This phenomenon is important during the process of pollination. Open the sun flowers have the greatest chances of pollination. These movements are caused by the faster growth of leaves sepals for the inner side, which causes them to flare up. At lower temperatures rapidly growing outer the main leaves and flower a century.
Snowdrops were subject to strict species protection. However, this protection applies to plants from the wild and if anyone want to have a bouquet regarding snowdrops, it can pluck them from a garden.
You should also understand that snowdrops are poisonous because they contain a substantial amount alkaloids. Ingestion may cause heartburn flower, and contact with the root can irritate the pores and skin.