Spring and early summer spread out splendid colored carpet in vast expanses of our country.
If you come into conifer wood, you can see fine white flowers with pink tint. It is oxalis, a small fragile plant. Its leaves are rich of vitamin C and eatable. People cook soup, salad and sauce from them. But it can be chewed uncooked too.
At the beginning of summer there is blooming of bead ruby in such wood. Bead ruby is tiny elegant plant with light white flowers and nice smell.
Snow has not time to get off as lungwort begins to bloom in the deciduous forest. There are dark pink and blue flowers on the same stalk.
In Voronege region, oak woods keep still safe. In spring there is much sun and light there. In addition, huge meadows of snowdrops are in blossom under trees undressed of leaves. Large violet flowers remember shapes of bluebells.
Adonis (cuckooflower) blooms there too. Its big yellow flowers look like stars with many lights.
At the end of spring or in early summer, wild rosemary is in blossom on marshes.
Like rosemary, myrtle is such evergreen plant. In winter, its leaves grow brown. However, in spring they become green again. They blooms tiny white flowers.
In spring, there are blazing poppies, blooming globeflowers and geranium.
From June our nature begins to offer people its mysterious presents - BERRIES!
At first strawberries has been mature. Not habitual from greenhouses, but those aromatic berries whose dark red fruits hide under green leaves on wonderful clearings, on warmed sunny knolls and in shady birch groves. You can make arid them, preserve, or put it into the mouth with big hands enjoying an extraordinary taste of this wood present. Strawberry has come to the end, but the forest is not growing scanty.
Bilberry waits on tiny boggy hillocks. Bramble creeps on steep knolls.
Wild raspberry-canes die of very soft fruits. It seems that they call: “GATHER ALL BERRIES, PLEASE!”
CEP (it is called a mushroom either) grows under thick boughs of conifers, but sometimes it can also stand proudly on the open space Ceps grow always family. If you happen on one, find others. Ceps are the main prizes for mushroomers Orange-cap boletuses are to be found in such forests. It has made arid too. They are the second mushrooms in the wood
Brown-cap boletuses are very nice mushrooms! People go mushrooming in wonderful birch forests, fully impregnated with sunbeams. By the way, you should not take an overgrown old mushroom. It can fall to pieces and be wormy.
Russules grow everywhere. They get into last year birch leaves, hide under boughs, and bury themselves into fallen needles. There are different colures bonnets on them. Legs are fat in contrast to thin legs of death cups! You should put them into the frying pan with onion and oil at once. Delicious!
Chanterelles (small firm red mushrooms) grow in conifer woods. You can fry and salt them. They are very tasty.
In addition, wild nature offers us many different mushrooms: boletus, saffron milk caps, milk-agarics…
Don’t take death cups only!
