The first spring flowers bloom in the capital’s parks.
While walking through the city parks, you can see purple crocuses, snowdrops, daffodils and hyacinths – in total, about 800 thousand bulbous plants bloom in Moscow.
Preparations for the spring season began in November: landscape architects and agronomists planted bulbous crops and insulated the flower beds with a special material that retains moisture and protects the plants from the cold.
More than 300 thousand bulbs will bloom in the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve – tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and muscari of various varieties. In Gorky Park on the Crimean bank, crocuses, daffodils and irises are already blooming, and near the Golitsensky pond, purple crocuses have bloomed. In April, lungwort, coriander, goosebush, anemone and guillemot also appear.
In Kuskovo, primroses can be seen in different areas of the estate: snowdrops grow near the Italian house, and crocuses – in the hallway between the palace and a large stone greenhouse. In the game alley behind the Dutch House, snowdrops, crocuses, white roses, lungwort and muscari are blooming. Later, tulips, daffodils, lilies, irises and other spring plants will bloom in the garden near the Dutch House, according to official reports. Website Mayor of Moscow.
Despite the deceptively warm weather Moscow experienced at the end of March, the thermometer dropped significantly in April. How to protect plants from unexpected cold snaps was explained by the teacher of the gardening course of Russian Railways gardeners, blogger Svetlana Samoilova.