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White clover

 

 

White clover is a great pleasure in the courtyard grass, it tolerates mowing as well as trampling and flowers prettily, smelling of apples rather than honey. In evening dusk it folds its leaves for the sleeping period and looks fresh again in the morning dew.

 

The inflorescense of the white clover is a globose head, and the head can contain up to 80 flowers. The flowers, rich in nectar, are pollinated by all sorts of two- and four-winged beings. From the flowers tiny pods develop that usually contain two seeds.

 

In the courtyard grass the clover spreads as if by itself, there is much benefit from it because with its nitrogen-fixating roots the soil of the lawn will be fertilized and the lawn-maker has no need to add additional fertilizer. The  other clovers in our meadows are not creeping, but for the white clover the creeping habit provides an opportunity to spread vegetatively. The stems of the plant develop roots at the joints, and the new plants make the pleasant clover carpet of the lawn denser and wider.