Defoliation in the second half of October

We have already mentioned that the trees lose their leaves are not in the same time. To lilac, for example, leaves, and, moreover, green, lasts longer than most of our shrubs and trees. Long and well has brownish and dried leaves are held late in oak, some of them remain on the branches until spring. But be that as it may, the end of leaf fall we call the time when the forest bare, and the few surviving leaves of the lilac garden behind bars and bundles of dried leaves on the oak can not change the picture of the ensuing nakedness of the forest. But what happens next with the fallen leaves? Do not think that they disappear entirely without benefit. Will take months, years - and from decayed leaves, a layer of humus, from which tuchneet forest soil. What has been lost, return ever again through the roots of trees and grass. Plants are now graduating from its annual cycle of development. Those who return to life next spring, set aside sufficient reserves of nutrients. They will need later, after winter, with the return of warmth for growing spring shoots, leaves and flowers. In thick roots, tubers, bulbs and rhizomes of plants accumulated starch, sugar and other substances. Potatoes collects piles of starch in its underground tuber - potato, carrot, beetroot - sugary juices in the fleshy roots; snowdrop goose onions, lilies - in thick Zvlnas their bulbs; cuckoo tears, Venus shoes, Lyubka - in root tubers. However, the plant life in the middle of October had not yet completely freezes, if the band does not come too early frosts. Meadow grass and tenacious grasses still somewhere between the obsolete green yellow and brown stalks. Painful dry sagebrush, silvery cinquefoil often retain remnants of its crumbling beaters on the protected and sun-heated slopes. But the tenacious all is common dandelion. He is now turning yellow in some places along the road until the frost.