The theme of green plantings from wild trees and shrubs has always been and remains the most relevant. And not only when planting forest-park zones, but also to create a unique landscape design on homestead, country and garden plots.

Every spring, almost all gardeners think about the choice of plants that can be planted outside the house so that the area can become even more splendid.

What plants to choose?

The most popular when gardening are white-trunked forest beauties. Planting birch in the spring every year becomes the first priority of most summer residents. Just imagine the magnificence that will come from the birch grove located under the window! It will be a real highlight of the landscape and the envy of others, thanks to its many qualities.

In addition, planting birch in the spring brings incomparable joy. It is given both by the elegance of still thin stems, and the gentle rustle of just starting to bloom leaves. All this can transform garden work related to the planting of this plant, in beautiful moments of relaxation and detachment from any problems.

Reasons for choosing when planting a plot of birch

Forest beauty is especially preferable when creating designs on small areas, because the white trunk of a birch is simply created in order to visually expand the boundaries of the greened area. Moreover, thanks to the openwork crown of this plant, the site takes on a festive look.

Excellent external data makes the white-haired beauties undoubted favorites among the many tree species used for gardening gardens. Here are just some of them:

• Sliding shadow from a high raised crown, creating additional coolness on hot days and not interfering with the growth of other plants. In addition, birch, planting and caring for which do not present much difficulty, as if created so that numerous shade-loving and not fond of excessive moisture crops grow next to it.
• The branches, going down to the ground itself, can fulfill the role of a natural arbor, which attracts to hide from the heat in the hot afternoon. Rest in it will bring true pleasure.
• The gold of the autumn foliage of this tree will give the plot a magical, fabulous look.
• The roots of birch perfectly take away excess moisture and drain the area in which this plant grows.

All this makes birch plantations desirable on many plots, the owners of which strive to create a magical, fascinating look with the uniqueness of their homestead territories.

Useful properties of the plant

Birches have long been valued not only for their outward decorativeness, but also as a source of medicinal raw materials, and also it is capable of relieving stress and charging a person with energy. All parts of this tree have healing properties. Birch growing next to the house will be a real pharmacy for the site owner.

For use in recipes traditional medicinetested for centuries, you can collect birch catkins, its young leaves, to harvest birch buds. And the most valuable one, which gives a huge benefit, is unique in its taste qualities and is loved not only by children, but also by most adults. Every spring, during sap flow, you can enjoy this gift of nature.

Subtleties of using birches in landscape design

The appearance of the site is always the pride of the owner. Therefore, in order to make it unique, various subtleties are used to create a unique design. Here and the patio, and all kinds of Yes, you never know what other nuances can use an amateur gardener to his site favorably differed among many others!

One of these tricks and is the choice of birch for landscaping. Its use in creating the landscape is very diverse and depends only on the imagination of the owner of the site. The trunk of a birch is slender and snow-white, so these trees will look great in the form of small alleys, planted along and through groves in a certain area of ​​the territory or, if the area allows, a dense array.

Variety of plant species

What is the best birch tree from all its variety? No wonder such a question worries many amateur gardeners seeking to create a unique design on their plots. After all, a variety of species in this plant is simply amazing. In the middle zone, birch is represented by several dozen subspecies.

The best of them for growing in garden plots are such species as Dahurian birch, cherry, fluffy and warty birch. Each species has its own charms and certain nuances that are taken into account when planting and caring for this plant. Therefore, planting a birch in the spring should begin with the selection of a suitable species.

How to create such beauty? Subtleties of planting and care

So that green plantings, among which this white-stemmed tree is used, bring joy and not cause any special problems, it is necessary to take into account some nuances. Most gardeners for planting trees prefer the autumn period. But planting a birch in the spring is more cost-effective. At this time of year, the death of seedlings is minimal.

Care for birch, used for landscaping, is minimal. Here are some simple requirements that should be followed in order for the plant to bring only joy:

•   birch lies in the surface layer of the soil rather shallow, so additional watering is required in drought.
• In early spring, when the foliage has not yet appeared and the birch has begun to bloom, it is possible to feed the plant, for which for the most part mullein is used.
• Pruning the plant is not required, which significantly saves gardener's time. Only in spring should dry branches be cut.

Therefore, for any owner of a personal plot, a plant such as birch, planting and caring for which is completely trouble-free, becomes an ideal option in gardening the area. Do not worry about the fact that the plant can die from adverse weather conditions, because it not only has good frost resistance, but also quite drought-resistant.

What should beware of when choosing this plant for landscaping?

But, like all other plants, this tree has a negative side, which should be taken into account. This is a flowering birch. It begins in early spring, before the time when the leaves bloom, and can bring trouble to people who are allergic.

This is the only negative point when choosing whitelisting beauties for landscaping the territory. In addition, it can be avoided by using anti-allergy medicines. Therefore, do not deny yourself the desire to have this miracle tree on your plot!

  Zulfiya Alukaeva

1. Familiarize children with a tree: title, short and emotional description with the help of L. Kavalyak's verses

Outside the window birches

In holiday dress,

The breeze sways

Sunny strands.

Leaves fall off

Bedcover

And cover the ground

Light blanket.

And spring will come -

Earrings are hanging again,

The branches decorate,

Like the dress brooches.

To conduct a game to distinguish trees "One, two, three - under birch run» .

2. Do birch has a trunk.

Birch is very high, much higher than children. To look at its top, you need to raise your head. Below, near the ground at birch trunk. He alone, solid, covered with white bark with black spots. The barrel can be stroked, hugged, lean your cheek. Around the trunk, you can drive a round dance.

3. Have birch trees   many branches and leaves.

At the top of the trunk birches many branches. They are long, thin, black. Some branches hang and look like braids. On the branches there are many, many leaves. Under the branches near the trunk, you can stand up, hide from the rain, the sun - they are like a roof over your head.

4. What are birch leaves?

Have birch leaves. They are all on the branches, high above the ground. Yellowed leaves fall to the ground and lie under a tree. (Suggest children to raise leaves birch trees and consider them). The leaves are small - less than the palm. Each leaf has a stick (petiole). At one end they are round wide, at the other they are narrow, ending in a sharp "Spout". Leaf Edge birch teeth.

5. What happens to birch in winter.

Winter. Birch cold. Therefore, you need to cover the trunk near the ground with snow. Our birch is sleeping, waiting for the onset of spring, warmth, to wake up and please us again with its beautiful outfit - green rustling foliage.

6. What happens to birch in spring.

With the onset of spring our birch   wakes up from a long winter sleep. When the sun begins to warm on the trunk and branches birch trees   sweet begins to flow birch juice. Birds love him, and he also benefits people. In juice there are a lot of vitamins useful for health.

Spring y birches appear earrings, and then from the swollen buds appear green leaves, which will delight us with its beauty and rustle.

7. Birch - a beautiful tree. She has white bark - this is not the case with other trees. She has beautiful openwork branches with leaves. About her they say: "Curly birch tree»   it is nice to look at her when she is calm (no wind)   and when she rustles and sways under the wind. It is interesting to look at the sky, the sun through the leaves and branches.

Birch - live: branches, trunk, green leaves - all living things. She needs water - rain pours, she drinks this water. Without water birch dries up. Birch should be protected: do not knock on the trunk, do not scratch the bark, do not break branches. How nice in the summer to rest near our birch trees.

Publications on the topic:

The cycle of observations in the nursery group "Observation of trees in winter"   The main goal: To acquaint children with the world of plants - trees in the winter, to cause the desire to carefully treat nature. Expected results:.

The cycle of observations of spruce in winter in the second youngest group   Objective: to develop the mental and verbal activity of children; to raise interest in nature. Observation number 1 Subject "Meet the fir" Purpose: show.

The cycle of observations of the hedgehog in the middle group   Observation 1. “What kind of animal is this?” Purpose: To acquaint children with an animal — a hedgehog, to arouse interest in it. Observation: Guys, we.

The cycle of observations of water with children of the second youngest group   Ministry of Education of the Nizhny Novgorod Region State budgetary educational institution of continuing professional education.

The cycle of observations of the goldfish (younger preschool age)   CYCLE OF OBSERVATIONS FOR GOLD FISH (younger group). Observation number 1. "Who lives in an aquarium." Objectives: to acquaint with aquarium fish; to report.

Diary of weather observations. One of the methods of environmental education for preschoolers is observation. Every day we walk with.

Abstract walk "Watching birch"   Municipal preschool educational institution " Kindergarten   with. Mikhailovka, Saratov region of the Saratov region.

Abstracts of observations in nature for children 5–6 years old   1. Snow observation. Purpose: to cause positive emotions from falling snow, fresh frosty air, to bring up the ability to see beauty.

"Lesson of courage" (from my observations)   Kindergarten is the place where the child gets the first communication skills in a team, where his creative abilities are revealed, where he is.

Summary of excursions in the autumn park "Acquaintance with the white-trunked beauty - birch"   Acquaintance with the white-haired beauty (excursion to the autumn park). Tasks: - To give children ideas about the tree as a representative of the living.

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Russian birch

Sergey Andropov

I love the beauty of Russian weeping birches,
   The charming smell of their buds and spring leaves,
   Brilliant tears on the branches from the morning dew,
   And gold crowns in the suburban autumn landscapes.

My ancestor is distant, once the paper did not know
   And birch relatives helped him in his life.
   On their birch bark, he wrote our history
   The message of ancient Russia for Great Russia.

As grandfather told me, and these are not just words
   In the birches of the family was all Russian power,
   Their life was decorated with birch bodies,
   And birch fed the birch porridge * in hunger.

A snow-white birch trunk has been broken through,
   And near my father was wounded in the battles near Moscow,
   And if he had found death at this birch tree,
   That would not be us in this world with my sister.

But birch sap was dripping on the fighter's wound,
   And the soldier’s helmet is like a widow’s tears at the grave.
   The nurse of the medical battalion found at her father's birch,
   And birch sap quenched his thirst.

And I will not forget how the wind ruffled my curls,
   When I met my beloved birch grove,
   We drank birch sap, I hugged her,
   And we sang a great song to us a gentle breeze.

I bow to the Russian birch, to the very roots,
   In verses I will sing its wonderful forest groves,
   I will remember her, and at once sadness will dissipate,
   In foreign cities far from the beloved Russia.

Arkhip Kuindzhi Birchwood, 1879

Like a misty distance of the fields for half an hour
   Passed a sudden rain oblique stripes -
   And again the sky is deep blue
   Over the fresh forests.

Warm and moist shine. Smell of rye honey
   In the sun velvet wheat is cast,
   And in the green branches, in birch near the border.
   Blithely Orioles Talk

And cheerful forest sonorous, and the wind between birches
   It blows gently, and white birch
   Dropping the silent rain of their diamond tears
   And smiling through tears.

   Arkhip Kuindzhi, Birch Grove, 1901

Sad birch
   At my window.
   And a whim of frost
   She picked up.

Like a bunch of grapes,
   The branches ends hang, -
   And glad to look
   All mourning outfit.

I love the game of the day
   I notice on her,
   And I'm sorry if the birds
   Shaken the beauty of the branches.

A. Fet. 1842.

   Arkhip Kuindzhi Sunlight in the park

Under the diminished sun
   Autumn, later sometimes,
   Their every leaf glitters chervonets
   Over the silvery bark.

   Shishkin Around the cottage

Oleg Shestinsky

   "I do not think of Russia without a birch ..."

I cannot imagine Russia without birch, -
   So she is Slavonic,
   What, perhaps, in centuries of other
   From birch - all Russia is born.

They sang under birch trees and got married.
   We chose horses at the auction;
   Dear mothers were buried
   So that there were birches in the legs.

Therefore, to know birch in the spring
   Human life live:
   That laugh green foliage,
   That tears shed tears.

   Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin. Birch and rowan. 1878.

Nikolay Rubtsov

I love it when the birch is noisy
   When the leaves fall from the birch trees.
   I listen - and tears run
   On the eyes, weaned from tears.

All wakes up in memory involuntarily
   Will respond to the heart and in the blood.
   Will somehow joyfully and painfully
   Like someone whispering about love.

Only more often prose wins,
   Like the wind blows gloomy days.
   After all, the same birch makes noise
   Over my mother's grave.

In the war my father was killed by a bullet
   And in our village near the fence
   With the wind and the rain rustled like a beehive,
   Here is the same yellow leaf fall ...

My Russia, I love your birches!
   From the first years I lived and grew up with them.
   That's why the tracks
   On the eyes, weaned from tears ...

   Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin. Stream in a birch forest. 1883.

Alexander Prokofiev

I love Russian birch,
   That light, then sad,
   In a white sundress,
   With handkerchiefs in pockets,
   With beautiful buckles,
   With green earrings.
   I love her, most,
   With smart shoulders,
   That clear, vigorous,
   That sad, weeping.
   I love Russian birch,
   She is always with her friends
   Spring dance,
   Kissing, as usual
   It goes where it is not bordered,
   Sings where not allowed
   Under the wind down the slope
   And bends, and does not break!

   Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin. Summer landscape with birch.

Vsevolod Christmas

A little sun has warmed the slopes
   And it became warmer in the forest,
   Birch green braids
   Spread from thin branches.

All dressed in a white dress,
   In earrings, in lacy foliage,
   Meets hot summer
   She is on the edge of the forest.

Does the storm sweep over her,
   Will cling to the marsh mist, -
   Rain shaking off, smile
   Birch - and again fun.

Her lightweight outfit is wonderful
   There is no tree for the heart
   And a lot of thoughtful songs
   It is sung by the people about her.

He shares joy and tears with her,
   And so her days are good
   What seems - in the noise of birch
   There is something from the Russian soul.

   Levitan "Birch Grove"

Mikhail Matusovsky
   Birch juice

As soon as the snowdrop blooms on time,
   As soon as the first thunderstorms approach,
   On the white trunks appears juice -
   Birchs are crying, birches are crying.

How often, getting drunk from a bright day,
I wandered at random along the spring channels,
   And the motherland generously watered me

Sacred memory storing about everything
   We remember the hills and country roads native,
   We have a difficult service today
   Far from Russia, far from Russia.

Where are these fogs of the native side
   And the branches of birch trees that bend over the creek?
   Here you and I absolutely must
   Once to return, once to return.

Open to us, Fatherland, your open spaces,
   Cherished thickets inadvertently open
   And just like in childhood, I get drunk
   Birch sap, birch sap.

   Igor Grabar. Abramtsevo. Plethen, 1944

Mikhail Matusovsky

Where does homeland begin? (excerpt)

Where does homeland begin?
   From the cherished bench at the gate,
   With the same birch tree in the field,
   Under the wind, leaning, growing.
   And maybe it starts
   With spring starling
   And from this country road,
   Which is not visible end.

   Igor Grabar. Birch Alley, 1940

Sergey Yesenin

White birch
   Under my window
   Covered up with snow
   Similarly, silver.

On the fluffy branches
   Snow Border
   Paint brushes
   White fringe.

And there is a birch
   In sleepy silence
   And the snowflakes are burning
   In the golden fire.

And the dawn is lazy
   Circling around
   Sprinkle branches
   New silver.

   Igor Grabar. May evening, 1905

Heinrich Uzhegov

The snow-white symbol of Russia ...

The snow-white symbol of Russia
   Along the roads are rows of birch trees,
   Happy over them - the dome of the sky is blue,
   At night - the fluttering of bright stars.

Light birch shadows
   From childhood on my fate lay,
   How does the light leaf fall
   On the palm of a warm land.

And when in a foreign cold sea
   Surge of the homeland sadness
   I see chamomile in the open field
   And the birch distance forests.

At this moment I want to involuntarily
   To bring a breeze here
   The song of stateliness calm
   White-stemmed birch.

   S. Panasenko May. Birch trees

Tatyana Gerasimova

Birch trees vulnerable

Birch trees, vulnerable
   Russia stored,
   They stand and lean in the belt
   Wheat spikelets

And the field is worried
   And waves flaunts
   What are chasing each other
   To the birch woods.

Thousands of years have passed
   More centuries will pass
   And you, relatives, will
   Bows beat the ground.

You forgive people everything
   Open spaces
   And for a long time the path of Russia
   Shine in the darkness!

Friend, birch,
   Rosinochki, like tears,
   Thinking thoughtfully,
   Oh, how my soul hurts!

Forgive us if you can,
   After all, you do not have something more expensive
   Keep Russia treasured,
   And Russia will save you!
   S. Panasenko Spring. Birch trees

June was going through the river
   And he took the birch for the girl.
   I went to her, sat on the shore
   White you ... as if all in the snow.
Here's a green leaf for you,
   As you wave it - the day will not be hot.
   Here is the other - spread on weight,
   Full handful he will take the dew.
   The third sheet is noisier than these!
   He will sing songs at dawn,
   Head tit swallow,
   The sun bewitches you ...
   And June went green ford,
   And melted in the dawn's mist ...
   And birch, in front of all the people,
   Early in the morning broke out foliage.

S. Ostrova

   P. Semyachkin Birch Grove

In the spruce forest everything is unobtrusive,
   Muffled by his tones.
   And suddenly a white-white birch
   In a gloomy spruce one.

It is known that death in humans is simpler.
   I also saw myself an hour ago,
   How did it start in the far grove
   Cheerful, friendly leaf fall.

Vladimir Soloukhin

   V.Polenov Birch Grove

I cut a birch with a sharp ax,
   Tears rolled down over the bark of silver hair.
   You do not cry, birch, poor, do not sey,
   The wound is not fatal, you will heal by the summer,
   You'll show off, leaves are removed, -
   Only diseased heart   will not heal the wounds!

A. K. Tolstoy.
   Summer 1856.

   V. Alexandrov Birch

North Birch

Above the lake, above the forest creek -
   Elegant green birch ...
   “Oh girls! How cold in spring:
   I’m shaking from wind and frost! ”

That rain, hail, snow, like white fluff,
   That sun, shine, azure and waterfalls ...
   “Oh girls! How cheerful the forest and the meadow!
   How joyful spring outfits are! ”

Again, frowned again, - again
   The snow flashes and boron buzzes severely ...
   “I'm trembling all over. But only not b
   Green years! After all, the sun will be again. "

Ivan Bunin.

   When, by light blue
   Born, oozing laziness

   The boiling waves of the lake.
   Laughing, laughing, cheerful Lel
   Rays black hair.

Sergey Gorodetsky

   Andrei Schilder. Birch forest. 1908

I loved you on amber day,
   When, by light blue
   Born, oozing laziness
   From each branch grateful.

White body, white as hops
   The boiling waves of the lake.
   Laughing, laughing, cheerful Lel
   Rays black hair.

Sergey Gorodetsky

   from internet

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My favorite tree is birch. This tree is a symbol of Russia. Probably, in all poems, books and songs the birch tree is compared with a young girl. I think that such a comparison is successful. I also think that the thin and white birch tree is like a girl. It is as flexible, as clean and luminous. Well, mature and old birch trees look like adult women. They are as strong, powerful as they are beautiful.

Spring birch wakes up from a winter sleep one of the first among other trees. It is resistant to frost, so, most likely, the spring frosts, frequent in our country, did not damage it in any way. Its leaves have not yet blossomed, and the nutrients, various types of sugars accumulated over the past summer, are already beginning to move under its bark. They tend to rise to the blooming leaves to feed them.

This “nourishing” nutrient mass is called birch sap. Foresters who work in Russian forests and groves, in March, already hurry to gather birch sap. And the month of April is also a good time to collect this valuable product.

Birch sap is of great value: it has healing properties, cures diseases. Both adults and children drink it with joy. But it is necessary to collect birch sap very carefully, carefully, so as not to destroy the tree. Although birch grows very quickly, it can be drained by improper methods of sap collection.

But it is so important to preserve the beauty, the nurse and the birch. After all, she is still going to bloom, put on her famous green "earrings" and flaunt again until next spring. So the birch must be treated so that after collecting the spring juice, she met many more, many springs in a row.

Option 2

As soon as the snow melted in spring, one of the most beloved trees by our people is already awakening to life. It adorns the streets of cities and parks, as well as forests and fields. It grows almost everywhere. This is birch.

Spring has not yet come to the world, and under the white birch bark juices are already rapidly running. A beautiful tree after winter sleep is preparing for a new pore of the year.

First, bright green birch buds swell. They then unfold into sticky, fragrant leaves. I adore their smell after the smell of winter and dampness - after all, it is a real fragrance of spring and life! At first, these leaves are small and look like hearts. Little by little they become larger and put a white tree in clothes of fresh greenery. Then the birch decorates itself also with odorous light green earrings.

There are birch with gray bark, even with black. Science says that there are about one hundred and forty species of this tree in the world. But the most beautiful is white birch. In the spring, she resembles a thin young girl. Flexible birch as if dressed up in a dazzling white outfit, sometimes with black stripes. And on top is also a bright green cloak thrown over. In addition to the elegant costume, this beauty also puts on earrings.

Spring birches give us, in addition to enjoying their beauty, another valuable thing. This is birch sap, which is very useful to drink, especially for children. Forestry can collect this healing drink carefully, so as not to harm the tree. But there are “gatherers” who do it cruelly, leaving cuts in the tree, like open wounds from which sap flows in vain. You can not do this, birches must be protected. And then every spring beauties in earrings will delight us with their slender figures, fresh aromas and, if necessary, a nutritious drink.