Chrysanthemum - without chrysanthemums. This year the traditional exhibition of autumn colors in the Nikita Botanical Garden opened with a delay of almost 3 weeks. But it did not save the situation - all of chrysanthemums in bloom only a quarter. All because of the sudden cold weather on the peninsula. According to the workers of the garden, seeing this for the first time in many years.
The botanical garden walk disappointed tourists. Variety of colors, for which they each fall come here, this year there. Of the 25 000 bushes of chrysanthemums - flowers only six thousand.
Employees say Botanical Garden, planted 300 varieties, of which more than 30 - are new. But almost nothing to show. Bloom only melkotsvetnye chrysanthemums. Tall keep their beauty in the bud.
Natalia Smykova, botanical garden worker: "So far, the varieties of new products, almost all varieties had already bloomed melkotsvetkovye, and from the large-flowered varieties of 4 varieties".The main reason for the limited
ball chrysanthemums - weather conditions. Cold rain and low temperatures this fall for the first time in nearly fifty years of history show, canceled a mass of beautiful blooms uvetov.
Tatiana Melnik, a member of the Nikita Botanical Garden: "Here's a chart, in this case in November and October came and the year. If you look at the past year, the temperature reached 20 degrees this year, it does not rise above 13".
But the exhibition is may appear in all its beauty, they say Nikita Botanical Garden staff. If in the near future, the air temperature will rise at least five degrees, a few days in the 30 hectare site will become a multi-colored fragrant carpet.