Hi, my friends Steemians. Today I want to congratulate everyone on Easter! In Russia, many people love and appreciate this holiday.
We again go on an excursion to the famous Sochi arboretum, where each alley is gorgeous and will impress any tourist who came to this warm southern coast of the Black sea.
You will see the rarest plants brought from different parts of the globe. Fountains and picturesque glades, where you can spend your day off and just take a walk in the fresh air in the shade of thick cypress, pine, Redwood and cork trees.
Getting into such fantastic beauty, you forget about everything, you begin to enjoy the surrounding nature and listen to a bird's motley nose. However, some of the local feathered inhabitants were not ready to pose for the camera. For them simply not keep up :)
And how many beautiful fountains in the arboretum, look at one of them. This one is called "Cupids". It is located not far from Sergey Khudekov's cottage (about which I have already told) and is the Central fountain of the Park.
All these beautiful figurines were cast from cast iron by order and personal sketches of the founder of the arboretum. A fountain installed in the century before last. All sorts of palm trees, cypresses, and wonderful magnolias grow around it today, and Japanese koi carp swim in the pool and lilies bloom.
In the Park you can meet a white shrubby cinquefoil. Such beautiful flowers somehow called Potentilla, even pity. Once in ancient times, the aroma of this plant breathed hero Ilya Muromets. Tell, that breathing the his infusion, man becomes and stronger, and more powerful.
This variety is called Abbotswood. Bushes reach a height of one meter, they have a dense cushion-shaped crown and pale green leaves. Close to a shrub like the Chinese rose, and the shrub is sometimes called the Kuril tea, or five-leaf.
I liked it and here these orange rose hips. It was noticeable from afar. And the birds next to him were a lot, apparently, also flocked to its bright fruit.
Pay attention to the flowers below. Very peculiar, they reminded me of spiders, although painted in a beautiful lilac color and collected as if in a brush. And yet they are very sticky, be careful! :-)
Kleoma really beautiful name? It was brought here from far North Africa. There it grew in dense impenetrable woods. But not everyone will like the smell of it. It is very peculiar, you will feel something repulsive-you will pass by.
I liked to walk in the yew-boxwood groves. And cones are the most beautiful here and squirrels and woodpeckers.
Palm trees in General, a sight for sore eyes. Seen here are even creeping. As soon as she was able to survive, because even the wind and the storm, and the local inhabitants, and tourists could come for a young tree.
Wherever you look — everywhere you see something interesting and attracting attention. Here you will meet and Moorish gazebo and cottage Khudekov, he built for his beloved wife, and a lot of attractions that are located in different parts of the Park. And what in the arboretum arborvitae or more commonly called the Northern white cedar, see for yourself.
This variety of Western thuja is considered Scandinavian. It was bred back in 1950 in Denmark. Thuja Smaragd have the right natural geometric forms of the crown, they do not require special care and pruning branches, grow so beautiful by nature.
By lagerstroemia certainly not pass, a very beautiful plant. It is called Indian lilac, although the shrub native to China, belongs to the family derenikovich. This unusual name was given to this plant in honor of the Swedish merchant Magnus von Lagerström.
In the arboretum a few meters you can find a variety of representatives of the flora. Their rare leaves, seeds, fruits, inflorescences fascinate and delight. Everyone wants to take a picture and look closer, learn about everything and read on special signs that are near each tree or shrub.
Below the photo brazilwood, I sometimes think that with each new post I become an Amateur botanist :-)
This plant was named in honor of the Italian botanist A. Cesalpino back in 1703. And at the beginning of the XII century the plant was brought from distant India, and then called brazil. After Columbus discovered a new land, the territory rich in these plantings beautiful and bright exotic flowers and called Brazil.
This wonderful plant is able to form closer to the night, and in the morning with the first rays of the sun — to open. You will be in Sochi, try to wait for the evening and watch the wonders that nature holds. You will also see her most incredible and long stamens, which, like the tail of a Firebird gracefully drooping down.
Every tree in the arboretum also deserves our attention. On these high beauties discovered a small birdhouse. Look how it's wrapped in vines, a real natural symbiosis.
What else is remarkable because of the fact that the arboretum is almost in the center of the city. From different parts of the Park you can see beautiful high-rise buildings, cable car and other attractions of the southern resort. There are in the arboretum, and casual arrangement of Japanese pampas grass or as it is called — cortaderia.
It is a cereal, the people they are called sweeps, because they form a panicle, which are the main ornamental feature of this plant. Cortaderia grows quite quickly, sometimes it was possible to meet the grass more than 3 meters in height, just like a small tree. They are very soft and fluffy to the touch.
Pine I decided, too, photograph. They have such a beautiful crown and needles that pass was simply impossible.
Our ancestors have always considered pine a symbol of immortality and vitality because of its evergreen needles. On this photo — black pine. By the way, there are more than 24 species of conifers in the arboretum.
Often, looking at pine, I remember a wonderful Greek legend. * Once upon a time there lived a beautiful nymph of the morning dawn named Pitis (Latin name pine — pinus). It was hopelessly in love with the mighty God of wind Zephyr. One fine day the nymph decided to get rid of the claims of a powerful God and turned into a beautiful slender tree. So, and there in the Land of pines*. Beautiful legend.
It is already bright red Canna garden. They can be seen from afar.
The flowers are somewhat similar to gladiolus. But what really struck me was the flowering of these snow-white beauties.
Perhaps you are familiar with euharis, beautiful flower that is often called the Amazon Lily. They are so delicate and refined, it is a pity that they do not have a fragrant smell.
And now it seemed the sea. From here the Black sea looks very attractive. Perhaps, you have wanted after such a "long" walk to swim in the warm waters.
Right under my feet I found this lovely flower. What a pretty, downright spread along the ground.
Did not want to leave, everywhere silence, nature seems to have stopped, and there is heard the singing of the Nightingale, or the twittering of other feathered inhabitants.
You will be in Sochi, I advise you to stroll through the magical alleys of this Park and see all its splendor with your own eyes. I am sure that impressions of what I saw will be remembered for a long time.
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