Plants. Midsummer

The sky shines clear blue. But when the clouds gather, they break out heavy rains, loud thunder, and sometimes fatal to crops by hail. In the middle belt of July has the greatest amount of precipitation compared with other months (on average). Only in the second half of August, average daily temperatures begin to decrease rapidly, becoming cooler nights and more and more appears in the forest of yellow leaves - the first harbingers of autumn. The second period of the summer, as we established, begins with the flowering limes. In the middle zone there are two types of lime: large-and small-leaved. The first few blooms later than the second. More properly considered for the beginning of a sultry summer, the pores of the second period of time, small-leaved flowering limes (for the central region), the average time for which Moscow has a mid-July (at Zdanovsky - July 13). This kind of lime is more convenient to choose for the middle band, because here he found almost everywhere in the woods and groves, while large-grows only in gardens and parks and is the area where it can not be found. To find out what kind of lime you're dealing, we must remember the distinctive characteristics of both species. In small-leaved leaves both sides glabrous, beneath the gray-green, in the corners of the veins with reddish beards. In large-leaves much more green on both sides, bottom, along the veins myagkovolosistye in the corners of the veins with whitish beards. Another sign is even more striking: poluzontik inflorescences large-lime has two or three flowers and a small-leaved it is no less than five to seven flowers, and sometimes more. Kidney in the first type naked, the second-hairy. Bloom lime is of great importance in the economy beekeepers. Limes give a wonderful fragrant honey. This is the last rich collection, which falls to the lot of bees. After ottsvetut lime, mining bees decreases sharply, and only where the sow buckwheat, bees are still good the surcharge so-called "buckwheat honey." Flowering plants is becoming smaller. The meadows, glades, shrubs bloom gold hunters, the clay cliffs, along roads, ditches along the edges of shrunken, in vacant lots - blue blossoms of chicory. Wet and marshy meadows, still untouched by the scythe, in the grass between the shrubs you can find beautiful white flowers Belozor. Fine and pretty big star out of five white petals on the harmonious stem, wrapped in the middle of an oval leaflets, stands out among the green grass. Blooms from mid-August he was. In peat bogs in bloom in July sundew. Its small white flowers are collected at the end of a long stalk, peduncle in a small brush. Sundew belongs to the so-called insectivorous plants. Its location is rounded rosette leaves seated many subtle capitate outgrowths. Thickened on the ends of these hairs, cilia stand shiny droplets of sticky fluid. Grounded on a piece of small insect (midge, gnat) sticks, and the cilia, stooping, pressed it to the list. Sundew released liquid has digestive properties, and the soft parts of the insect to digest. Sheet suck dissolved proteins, and thus acquire the necessary sundew her nitrogenous compounds. In July of the same, and in August, continued to blossom, "some aquatic plants: white water lily, or water lily, spatter-dock, or yellow water lily. Different types of pondweed or bloom, or even continue to bloom in July or even August.