Beauty Crimean tulips in the Nikitsky garden

• Beauty Crimean tulips in the Nikitsky garden

These photos are especially appeal to those who do more outside the window there is snow. But the rest can be glad for handmade multicolored created by employees of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Crimea. Just a couple of hours in the garden, and impressions - the whole spring. Ready to watch?

In June 1811 in St. Petersburg Emperor Alexander I signed the "Decree on the establishment of the treasury in the Crimea the Imperial Botanical Garden", which allowed to make a "meridian of the Crimea" breech garden at a funding level is up to 10 000 rubles per year.

The institution should have to make a vast hotbed of all useful and ornamental plants in southern Europe, for distribution in the Crimea. In September 1812 the first plantings were made.

After three years, the botanical garden has produced its first catalog of plants, where the numbers in the implementation of 95 varieties of apples, 58 varieties of pears, berries 6 and 15 ornamental species.

In the 12 years of tireless activity director of the Botanical Garden Christian Steven has collected more than 450 species of exotic plants. The initial project included free placement of plants in combination with lawns and viewing sites.

The enormous damage inflicted garden occupation by German troops during World War II. Military destroyed a large number of plants, have taken a valuable herbarium collected Wolf.

Immediately after the liberation of Yalta in April 1944 in Nikitsky garden restoration work began. Garden director Anatoly Safronovich Koverga made truly a feat: having covered thousands of kilometers across Poland and Germany, found a herbarium taken out in a small town near Berlin, and took him to the Crimea.

fringed tulips:

Each year, the Nikitsky Botanical Garden held the ball chrysanthemums. In addition, exhibitions and parades of tulips, irises, daylilies, clematis and roses. This is just a parade tulips.

The name tulip European languages ​​goes back to the borrowed from the Turkish word turban, to be exact - to the Ottoman-Persian tülbend - the name of the fabric used in turbans. According to one explanation, it has recorded the name of the Turkish fashion XVI century decoration flowers turbans living on the other - only resemblance hat with a flower.

In the world there are 80 species of tulips. Center of origin and greatest diversity of species tulips - the mountains of northern Iran, the Pamir-Alai and Tien Shan. 10-15 million years of evolution tulips settled to Spain and Morocco in the west, to the Trans-Baikal in the east and in the south of the Sinai Peninsula.

Development of a tulip from seed to flowering plant takes from three to seven years.

In the middle of the XVI century, tulips were in Western Europe, and for a century and a half have been the most valuable ornamental plants.

Since the beginning of the XVII century and to the present world breeding center, tulips and growing international trade is based in the Netherlands. The country controls 92% of international trade in bulbs.