Perhaps no other plants evoke as many emotions as. Spring teases with the first truly warm rays of the sun, the first thawed patches and timid streams, but it is the primroses that have appeared, these small but very bold plants that speak of the final arrival of spring.
Perhaps primroses do not please with a special richness of colors or duration of flowering, but almost all of them are very undemanding to care for. It is important only in the fall to choose the right place for them to land. Primroses (both bulbous and rhizomatous) prefer places with good lighting and moist soil, but without stagnant water. If bulbous primroses, so that they please with flowering in spring, must be planted in autumn (exception - hyacinths and crocuses), then hellebore or lungwort can be planted in the spring.
Advice! Primrose plants must be planted in company with perennials, which will replace them after flowering ends.
Let us consider in more detail which flowers will be the first to fill the garden with flowering after hibernation.
Snowdrop
- Other name - galanthus. A very cold-resistant plant that appears in the garden, the snow has just melted. In spring, it blooms one of the first, even frosts cannot greatly damage flowering.
Snowdrop, like other types of small-bulbous, is not demanding on the soil, but prefers loose, moist, nutritious soil, well-drained, with stagnant water, the bulb dies. The best place for planting is under trees, under shrubs, which do not create a dense shade in early spring.
Advice! Watering will be required only if the winter was not snowy, and the spring is very dry.
Snowdrop is an ephemeroid, the aerial part of the plant dies off after a short vegetative period. Propagate - baby bulbs, the best period for transplantation is July-September.
Scilla
Another flowers that many associate with spring, although they are considered to be forest dwellers, where blooming blueberries form sky-blue lakes in the clearings. But these spring primroses will find their place in the garden - in rockeries, alpine slides. Blue scillas on the lawn, among the still bare bushes and trees, will look great.
The Siberian blueberry is the most famous among us - it blooms at the end of March, it is easy to recognize it by its piercing blue bell-shaped flowers. But varietal species are much more diverse - they can be white, blue, purple and even pale pink.
Scillas are bulbous perennials, non-capricious and independent plants, the best place for which will be the canopy of an orchard, with loose and fairly fertile soil. They reproduce perfectly both by self-sowing and by dividing the bulbs, and can comfortably grow in the same place for decades. Fairly winter-hardy, but it is better to cover the place where they grow with an armful of foliage for the winter.
crocuses
Botanical species bloom first (it may even be the end of February), later - in April - numerous hybrids of crocuses. The best thing crocuses look in a group - this makes their bright colors even more expressive and noticeable. You can both combine different types of crocuses, and combine them with other primroses.
Crocuses look especially expressive against the background of stones, the contrast of delicate flowers and strict boulders looks decorative, which is why these spring flowers are invariably planted in. Crocuses look great on lawn, but it should be noted that it will be possible to start mowing the grass only after the leaves have completely withered.
Advice! Spring-flowering crocuses are planted in the fall, while they feel equally good both in the sun and in the shade, but in sunny areas the flowering will be more abundant, and the flowers will be brighter. Like other bulbs, they prefer loose and permeable soils; when water stagnates, the bulbs rot.
Care is minimal, there is no need to dig up crocuses annually for the winter. Withered flowers are removed so that they do not spoil the beauty of the composition. For the winter, the place of their growth can be mulched with foliage or compost. Crocuses, like other bulbs, are propagated by daughter shoots-bulbs - having planted one, after 2-3 years their dense nest will appear in this place.
Advice! If you want crocuses to bloom early, plant them in the sunniest place, where the snow will melt first.
Iridodictium
These flowers are also called irises-snowdrops, they bloom in early spring, as soon as the snow melts. These are frost-resistant bulbous perennials, although in appearance they resemble ordinary irises. They are low, but very attractive and graceful, with bright original color flowers (pale blue, purple, blue, cyan, purple, red, orange) with a diameter of 5 to 7 cm, with a fancy ornament of spots and stripes on the petals.
On a note! Due to their small (up to 10 cm) growth, they are perfect for rocky gardens; at the time of flowering (March-April), they will make an excellent company for other bulbs. On the lawn, it is better to plant them in a group; in a single landing, it will be too inconspicuous.
Caring for iridodictium almost completely repeats caring for tulips. They love light, well-drained, nutritious soils, but most importantly, they are very sun-loving, this is very important to consider when choosing a place to plant. For the summer, it is better to dig out the bulbs, the main sign for this is the leaves that have begun to die off. They are planted simultaneously with tulips, in early autumn. The best propagation method is vegetative, one adult bulb usually produces 1-2 replacement bulbs.
Vesennik
- The origin of this name is a translation from the Latin name - Eranthis (Eranthis) , which means "spring" and "flower".
Often these are the very first spring flowers, which are ahead of even frost-resistant snowdrops. Single flowers (yellow, cup-shaped, no more than 3 cm in diameter) sometimes just make their way through the snow, accompanied by graceful bronze-green leaves. Flowering lasts about 2 weeks.
Drawing snowdrops using non-traditional drawing techniques for children 5-7 years old
Botyakova Tatyana Alexandrovna, educator of the Krasnoborsky kindergarten "Kolosok" Krasny Bor, Nizhny Novgorod regionMaterial Description: The master class will be useful for preschool teachers and parents in order to develop the creative abilities of children. This material is suitable for carrying out visual activities with children of the older group.
Purpose: interior decoration, a wonderful gift for loved ones, and can also be used as a product for an exhibition.
Target: execution of a spring landscape using non-traditional drawing techniques.
Tasks:
Educational:
- to form the ability to create an image of snowdrops using non-traditional drawing techniques.
Developing:
- develop a sense of composition, the ability to notice and reflect the beauty of nature in the drawing;
- develop fine motor skills of fingers;
- to develop the creative abilities of children;
Educational:
- educate independence, accuracy.
Snowdrop is the first breath of spring. It got its name from the ability of the plant to break out of the ground and bloom with the first warm spring rays of the sun, when the snow melts a little. Translated from Latin meaning "milky flower". Probably, this name reflects the delicate snow-white color of the snowdrop.
There are many legends about snowdrops. One of them says that when God expelled Adam and Eve from Paradise, it was winter on earth and it was snowing. Eva froze and began to cry. She sadly recalled the warm gardens of Eden. To console her, God turned several snowflakes into snowdrop flowers. So the first flowers on Earth may have been snowdrops.
According to another Russian legend, once the old woman Zima, with her companions Frost and Wind, decided not to let Spring come to earth. But the brave Snowdrop straightened up, spread its petals and asked for protection from the Sun. The sun noticed a fearless flower, warmed the earth and opened the way for Spring.
snowdrops
The Snow Maiden cried
Seeing off the winter.
Sadness followed her
Everyone in the forest is a stranger.
Where I walked and cried
touching birches,
Snowdrops have grown
Snegurochkins
Tears.
Timofey Belozerov
Materials:
- gouache;
- landscape sheet;
- brushes;
- coarse salt.
Execution sequence:
We take a landscape sheet of paper, arrange it vertically. To tint the sheet, we wet it with water and shade the paint on it with a brush from deep blue to blue.
With a thin brush we draw the stems of future snowdrops and grass. It is difficult for children to draw immediately with a brush, so you can draw all this beforehand with a simple pencil.
Draw snowdrop leaves.
When the paints dry, you can start painting the buds of the snowdrops themselves with white gouache. You need to draw quickly so that the paint does not have time to dry.
Sprinkle with coarse salt.
Shake off the salt.
Using the poke method, we apply a snowball and also sprinkle with salt, shake off.
The picture is ready.
It remains to arrange it in a frame.
When it got warmer outside the window, the snow began to melt, and inspiration appeared, it's time to take paints with the child and draw spring.
Spring, which everyone looks forward to after a frosty and snowy winter, brings not only changes in nature, but also changes in the mood of a person. It becomes upbeat, joyful, you want to be renewed, like nature, you want to create and create. And then the kids were given the task to draw an early spring, so you can combine your creative impulses with its implementation.
How to draw early spring with children in stages with paints for beginners?
Simple, feasible for children several options are offered.
Early spring is swelling buds on trees and bushes, which are getting larger every day and are ready to turn into young leaves or flowers. Therefore, you can first draw a branch using a wider brush for this, and then draw small shoots and leaves on the branches with a thinner brush.
To make the drawing bright and life-affirming, the sheet on which the branch is drawn can be pre-painted, for example, in blue.
Children's drawing of spring with paints: steps 5-7. 
Children's drawing of spring with paints. Early spring is the first flowers.
We draw a snowdrop, a tulip, any other flower with petals around the core. In children, such uncomplicated drawings will turn out well. Above the flowers, children will be happy to draw a cheerful bright sun. Those who are older can add an insect to the drawing, which will enliven the image.
Spring flowers in stages: snowdrop. 
Spring flowers in stages: narcissus. You can also suggest drawing a landscape, such as hills that are gradually but steadily falling snow. Therefore, in some places it will be necessary to leave the white color in the picture, and somewhere already paint over the hill with a dark brown color. Again, let the bright yellow sun shine over the hills and ravines, bringing the long-awaited warmth closer.
Spring landscape. An interesting option is to create a drawing in a non-traditional form just with paints and brushes, but, for example, by dipping a small diameter of the bottom of a plastic bottle into paint. So, a branch is preliminarily drawn. Then the bottom, which has bulges, is imprinted on it, as it were, a very elegant and beautiful drawing is obtained, and it is interesting for the child to use different methods of creating it.
VIDEO: Draw SPRING
How to draw spring in the forest in stages with paints?
- Spring should be painted with bright colors - blue, yellow, brown.
- The composition of the drawing is determined, for example, a forest standing in the distance and a field in front of it.
- The horizon line is marked, and it is not necessary that it be in the middle of the sheet.
- The contours of the forest are outlined against the sky, the shades for the trees are selected. Trees can be painted in a circular motion with a brush. We remember the rule: the farther the object, the more vague its image should be, and vice versa.
- The sky is painted with diluted blue paint.
- I detail the trees with the help of thicker and brown paint. By mixing blue and bright yellow, you can get a delicate green tint of young foliage.
- Now we draw melting snow, we make clearings in the forest with the help of brown paint.
How to draw spring with gouache quickly?
- Take a sheet of paper and gouache paint. Mix white and blue colors, paint over about a quarter of the sheet with the resulting one. It will be the spring sky.
- Mix white, blue and red paints to get a lilac-purple hue, and in a circular motion in the upper part of the picture we make the outlines of the forest in the distance.
- Apply some white or blue paint on top to get volume.
- In the foreground, blue and white paint can depict a melting shapeless snowdrift.
- Add yellow paint to the center of the picture, separating it from the image of the forest and from the snowdrift with white stripes.
- Detail the image of the forest by painting the trunks and twigs of the trees in the forest with a more saturated blue color. On top of the yellow background in the center, add green young sprouts.
- When you're done with the background, wait until the drawing is completely dry.
Next, you can draw birch trees, they are just getting ready to wake up in early spring after winter. First draw their outlines. - Cast shadows on the white contours of the birches with blue paint.
- Then add texture to the birch bark by mixing black and white paint.
- Draw twigs on the birches, put black paint on the trunks to finish the bark.
- Finish the drawing by adding brown and white paint to the ground to show that somewhere the snow has already melted, and somewhere else it has been preserved in a shapeless form.
Spring in gouache. 28 very first spring flowers with photosWith the appearance of the first flowers in our gardens, real spring begins. These tender touching creatures, which appear before others, fill the soul of any gardener with joyful awe. I offer a selection of flowers that are the very first to wake up after a winter sleep.
1. Snowdrop (galanthus)
This flower is familiar to everyone since childhood. Who does not remember the fairy tale "12 months"? These unpretentious touching flowers with white bell flowers are among the first to appear in early spring. Snowdrops bloom for about a month, they tolerate temperature extremes well and are not afraid of early spring frosts.
2. Scilla (scylla)
Scilla is sometimes called a blue snowdrop, because of its resemblance to the latter, and also because it appears as soon as the snow melts. In fact, they are different plants. These blue or blue flowers also do not frighten spring frosts.
3. Hellebore
The name itself suggests that it blooms in the cold. In the south, hellebore blooms in winter, at the end of February. Its buds and flowers are not afraid of frost or snow.
4. Erantis (spring)
These sunny golden blooms will add mood to a dull spring garden. Erantis also blooms in early spring, in March-April, and is not afraid of frost and snowfall.
5. Primula (primrose)
There are many varieties of this plant, only a small part of them is grown in culture. Primroses bloom profusely and for a long time in early spring, in some species repeated autumn flowering is possible.
6. Lungwort
Lungwort blooms in April-May. Grows well in light, well-drained soils. After flowering, it forms many colorful leaves.
7. Crocus
Bright low crocus flowers also appear along with the first spring warmth. Crocuses bloom for a short time, only 5-7 days, without a transplant in one place they can grow up to 5 years. There are types of crocuses that prefer to bloom in autumn.
8. Periwinkle
The evergreen periwinkle retains its foliage even under snow. As soon as the soil begins to thaw, it forms new shoots, and in April it is covered with pale blue flowers.
9. Adonis or Adonis
Bright yellow, like little suns, adonis flowers appear on the very first fine spring days. Prefer well-lit areas and light fertile soil.
Chistyak spring appears immediately after the snow melts. Its cute yellow flowers fully bloom only in the bright sun, that is, in the middle of the day, and close in cloudy weather and at night.
11. Liverwort
The liverwort is popularly called the coppice, because it does not like open places and grows only in the forest. Her elegant, bright blue lush bouquets are so nice to find in the forest after a long winter.
12. Violet
Fragrant violet is a perennial early spring plant. During flowering, the whole district is filled with its aroma. In the south, if a warm long autumn is issued, the violet may bloom again in October-November. And it happens that its flowering continues all winter.
13. Muscari
Muscari or mouse hyacinth is a perennial bulbous plant. Its tiny bell flowers are collected in racemose inflorescences of blue, blue, purple or white, depending on the species. There are also bicolor species of this plant.
14. Whiteflower
The spring belotsvetnik blooms in April for 20-30 days. The height of the plant is 20-20 cm. Green or yellow spots are clearly visible at the ends of its white bell flowers.
15. Chionodoxa
Chionodox appears in early spring, it is also called the snow beauty. The leaves of this plant appear at the same time as the buds. Flowers can be solitary or collected in small inflorescences. Chionodox is white, blue, blue or pink.
16. Pushkinia
Pushkinia is a herbaceous bulbous plant 15-20 cm high. The flowers are collected in racemose inflorescences of white or blue color. Blooms in early spring.
17. Corydalis
Unpretentious frost-resistant plant, blooms in early spring. Corydalis reaches a height of up to 20 cm. After flowering, its ground part dies off, after which the plant is not afraid of any mechanical impact, it does not care about trampling or digging.
18. Iridodictium (iris net)
These tiny bulbous irises bloom in April and give off a pleasant fragrance. They reach a height of 10 cm. They grow well in sunny areas, but they also tolerate slight shading.
19. Kaluzhnitsa
Kaluzhnitsa is very similar to chistyak, but these plants still have differences. The foliage is preserved until October, this is their main difference. Prefers well-moistened swampy soils.
20. Anemone or anemone
This plant is called anemone because the petals of most species fall off easily in the wind. Depending on the species, anemones may bloom in early spring, summer or autumn.
21. Hyacinth
Hyacinth can rightfully be considered a favorite of the spring garden for its spectacular inflorescences and amazing intoxicating aroma. These plants begin to bloom in April and delight with a rich palette of shades of white, blue, orange, yellow and pink.
22. Hyacinthoides
Another early spring plant. Outwardly, this plant resembles a blueberry, but has larger and elongated flowers. There are plants of white, blue and pink flowers. Blooms for a long time, up to three weeks
23. Bulbocodium (brandushka)
This is a very beautiful stemless multicolor, forms 2-4 flowers surrounded by leaves. It blooms for two weeks, spreading an intoxicating aroma around itself.
24. Brunner (forget-me-not)
Herbaceous perennial up to 40 cm high. This unpretentious frost-resistant plant grows well in shady corners of the garden. The flowers are small, collected in apical inflorescences. Blooms in May.
25. Tulip
Wild varieties of tulips, unlike their cultivated counterparts, bloom much earlier, as early as April. In total, there are more than 100 species of this plant.
26. Narcissus
This is a perennial plant with a huge variety of varieties and hybrid forms. Blooms from March to June, depending on the species.
27. Grouse
Perennial bulbous plant with large flowers. Blooms in early spring. The hazel grouse got its name for the similarity of the color of the flowers with the feathers of the bird of the same name. The most popular are the chess hazel grouse and the imperial hazel grouse.
28. Poultry farmer
Bulbous perennial ephemeroid, blooming simultaneously with blueberries and snowdrops. White star-shaped flowers are collected in racemose or corymbose apical inflorescences.
To everyone who looked, have a wonderful spring day and a sunny mood!
