Дом и сад №57 4 Kingdom of snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Snowflakes on the tree branches, waist-high snowbanks at the gate, frosted windows…in the wintertime garden life dies down till spring brings sunny warm days. Details creating a special mood of coziness and holiday expectation become even more important in this kingdom of sleep and peace. Pink dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The unexpected vision of a cottage draped with roses and clematis nearly scrambling into windows peeping out from beneath a thatched roof stops passers-by in their tracks on a remote Dorset lane in high summer. Just add up some fragrance, clouds of butterflies and a tame, hopalong blackbird with a penchant for grapes, and you got a postcard picture that came alive. ‘We’ve always dreamt of having a home like this, and being thatched it screams out for a cottage garden,’ says Helen Verity who works for the police authorities and shares Rose Cottage with her retired husband Peter and a brood of holidaying grandchildren. Vacation in a green room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 This garden is designed to demonstrate ways to improve your living space and to use the max of your surroundings by literally bringing the outdoors inside. Visitors will be taken on a journey to discover and explore a transitional space that can be partitioned to provide a comfortable safe haven for a good night’s sleep, but can also be opened up to provide an inspirational space to entertain and enjoy nature. Designer Sarah Eberle. In the English style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Can you create a little England within Saltykovka village region where there is still a chance of ground frosts in June, those ground frosts are very likely in August and the temperature differences are far off the norm? The answer is hidden in the ‘Liniya 8’ design bureau’s project. On a visit to forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 The forest plots have unquestionable advantages but they are much harder to be landscaped. One of the reasons is linked to a suppression (shadowing), the most significant forest ecology feature. A landscaper Nanaliya Borisova presents a project of a landscape garden with the forest territory. Garden pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 To keep the feeling of vast space in the garden on the almost square territory, major part of which is allocated to airing dogs, a designer Marina Leonova offered a clearcut laconic layout without an active saturation with various architectural and planning elements. Timeless garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 The project of Evgeniya Nikitenko and Milana Sushchinskaya for the «Garden for the Star» contest was a lyrical Russian garden dedication to Nikolay Drozdov. That garden is based on poetry of fading, beauty of passing, of falling away, of mystery and liaison to the past. Out of journey of life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The Laurent-Perrier Garden is a garden of reflection and it is inspired by the ‘journey of life’. It is also an element of a larger garden attached to the modernist house of an Italian art collector. It commemorates an important personal event in the life of the collector and the ‘journey of life’ theme refers to his personal biography. However the garden’s symbolism suggests every creation’s evanescence. Designer Jinny Blom. 600 days on Mars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 This garden is a terrestrial space garden situated within an imaginary dome on the planet Mars. The garden belongs to an astronaut on a 600-day odyssey and explores the psychological importance of man’s relationship with his environment. Beware of what you wish for . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Taking the story of Adam and Eve as a motif this garden combines technology, art and nature to create a visually and intellectually entertaining piece. The installation is interactive, allowing visitors to explore the central themes of temptation, exclusion and voyeurism. Forest harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 An irreplaceable presenter of the FirstTV-channel courageously partaking in all its extreme projects Larissa Verbitskaya acquired her and her husband’s serene harbor in the nature very long time ago, in 1998. And ever since she had always been gardening among the fur-tree forest all by herself… until she met a gifted landscaper Irina Belogrud at the «House & Garden. Moscow Garden Show» exhibition’s contest «Garden for the Star» in 2010. Now the outlook of her lot started changing dramatically. Harmony of four elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 A countryside house of Igor Livanov, a celebrity actor, is guarded by a two-year-old alabai dog Umka and a sullen libertyloving cat Zinka (picked at the station ages ago). The surrounding territory happily hosts numerous birds, frogs, lizards, hedgehogs, squirrels and even ermines. And a picturesque garden is the result of Igors’ own efforts who sees this hard work as a pleasant recuperating hobby. International fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 The garden trade fair «spoga+gafa» closed in Cologne with satisfied faces and the best of moods. 40 800 trade visitors from 106 countries travelled to the international meeting place for the garden and leisure market in the Cathedral City to obtain a comprehensive global market overview of the trends and new products in the sectors garden creation, garden living, garden care, garden excellence and garden basic. A total of 2056 suppliers from 57 countries presented their product ranges in Cologne. Russian garden on French Riviera. . . . . . . 79 The 6th «Wonderful Gardens of Saint-Tropez» exhibition became a vivid festival for Cote D’Azur inhabitants and hordes of tourists that were on holidays there during September 10–13. Traditionally it was held on the territory of the famous «Derbez» holding’s exotic plants orchard located in the Saint-Tropez bay. One of the exhibition’s main events was the Russian pavilion and the garden created by decorators of the Russian House of design and the «Detali» schooling studio. Leopard’s leap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Hamish Mackie is widely known in the art lovers and collectors’ circles. His unique sculptures of silver and bronze portray fauna so authentically that time seems to stand still in a dashing leopard leap or in a gracious antelope run. On the verge of his personal exhibition in the London gallery at Cork street Hamish Mackie was interviewed by our special correspondent Svetlana Kononova. Garden in a bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 In the early 30s of the 18th century Nathaniel Ward, a London doctor and a naturalist, made an epochal invention that was named a «Wardian case» in the botany history. This construction played a colossal part in the indoor floriculture’s development and became a predecessor of modern bottle gardens, florariums, floral windows and ‘living showcases’ for plants. The principles of a bottle gardening are explained by Dmitry Gosse, Cand. Sc Biology. What do fur-needles cry about . . . . . . . . . . 88 Decorative coniferous trees’ heads — with all their strictness — are rather different and distinctive. The cultivated set’s special place belongs to species and cultivars with freefalling long branches that shape up a so-called ‘crying’ head.Agardener and a traveler Evgeniy Tarasov tells us about the most picturesque, colorific and exquisite plants of the acerate kingdom. Ornamental Grasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Professionals gladly use grasses in landscaping since they are very likely to compliment any arrangement. But it may not be so obvious for the amateurs of decorative gardening. A landscape designer Valeriya Ilyina made up an article on practical usage of the grass’ special, seemingly suppressed appeal. According to the mixborder rules . . . . . . . 100 The first attempts of the garden experiment lovers to make a mixborder usually fail because the flowerbed vegetation is chosen and planted without considering certain rules. So what should they know before getting down to mixbordering? Olive lowland exotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 In the South-East of Italy Apulia’s hills, covered with millennial olive trees, hide a wonderful natural oasis of the botanic garden ‘Lama Degli Ulivi’ in Italian meaning ‘olive lowlands’. To get there a traveler should descend the natural terraces-steps to the terrestrial depth. Here, in the water-eroded three-hectare doline, a wanderer will discover a mysterious and marvelous world. Fairy-tale garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 How do you think whether a wooden house can be luxury or not? The answer is certainly yes, it can. High cathedrallike ceilings, grand fireplaces with stone portals, and many more — all that impresses much. The «Perma-Chink Systems» sealants and finishings are used in the construction. Vertical patio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Designed by: PIQUE llc. Completed: 2007 in Seattle, WA. Built by: Gordon Carpenter Construction. This backyard patio, situated on a small urban lot in Seattle, granted us an opportunity to explore the way a very simple and reserved architecture can liven up space and continually surprise and captivate its owners. Traveling trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The representatives of «Puls Prirody», «Russkiye Gazony» companies and «Usadba» design studio chose the roundtable format to discuss different issues of using large-sized plants or grown trees and shrubs. Fighting snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 A review of the specialized show-clearing equipment for the private lots. № (57)’2010 6 Contents 94 58 116 122
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