Дом и сад №58 4 Happy occasions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Gardens are all the more enjoyable for an element of surprise, and Janet Dring’s is especially so because so many of her plants are self-seeded. «I never quite know what’ll come up each year, so there’s always some lovely surprises in store», - she explains. Stroll around her Lincolnshire garden set amidst rolling fields, and it is impossible to avoid self-seeded clumps of love-in-the-mist and poppies — both Californian and field varieties. «These are the result of sprinkling a couple of packets of seeds years ago», - she says. There is also Alchemilla mollis, with its unmistakable crown of golden froth, dainty Granny’s bonnets and foxgloves, all regular visitors to the one-acre garden and Victorian farmhouse. «Foxgloves have a knack of appearing in the most unexpected places where you’d never expect anything to even grow», - marvels Janet. Creative provocative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Les Jardins de Sericourt (Picardy, France) looks totally different from any other garden. Just imagine Louvre sculptures on display at the squares around… The same look the Sericourt green sculptures have, being boarded with forbs of poppies and centauries at the forestry backstage. Yves Gosse de Gorre, the garden’s owner, merges English and French traditions in a harmonious styles mixture, enjoying the habitual order destruction, so that a result becomes a modern garden’ unusual landscape. Garden museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Inspired by the Tate Modern, and the experience of the journey through its varied spaces, The Savills Garden examines the relationship between art and gardening. While preparing his design, Philip Nixon used the rhythm and geometry of pictures hanging on walls and sculpture on display in galleries to influence his thought processes. Designer Philip Nixon. In Scandinavian style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 The garden owner admires the Scandinavian styled gardens for they look simple and functional. That’s why his garden features low care, minimum of details and is designed in a harmony with the house architecture. City chic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 This enchanting City Garden features an array of gemstoneinspired plants and rich tapestry of colour and texture. The garden is inspired by crystalline formations and precious gemstones. Its composition of sequentially stepped water pools and warm limestone captures a moment of beauty. Designer Sarah Price. In a sunshine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Designed to resemble a typical London back garden, and featuring a range of drought-tolerant plants and other water-saving and eco-friendly ideas, the Mayor’s Sunshine Garden shows that you can have a beautiful garden while saving water. Designer Paul Stone. Art territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 This is a garden that combines a Cornish arts cafe with gallery space, and contemporary style with sustainability. This seaside gallery space is defined by its strong, sensuous curves — a simple representation of the Cornish coastline — to provide «safe harbour» for the artwork that has been created by students from University College Falmouth’s BA (Hons) degrees in Contemporary Crafts, Fine Art, 3D Design and Textile Design. Jungle in the city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Nigel Boardman has designed a garden based on the average size of a town garden within in a new urban development. For rest only! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 For those who consider the garden to be just a place for rest: people who don’t plan much of a garden care may find this garden design concept by Ella Akopyan very useful for their inspiration. Stylish associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 The article to follow the mixed border creation rules’ series. While selecting the mixed border flower cultures’ range it’s an approach that matters. The article’s author to offer considering one of the most widespread ones such as associative plants’ selection A perfect tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 While forming the demands for a perfect хвойное дерево in a mid-xxx garden, it’s a лиственница which fulfills all the expectations. Besides, this slim, beautiful and solid tree is a real landscape marvel, it features both winter frost and summer heat sustainability. Among the advantages there’s also a fact that it grows in almost any kind of soil; it doesn’t suffer from most of deseases. Ten Coniferous Commandments . . . . . . . . 64 The garden goods’ overdose all our garden care admirers have been dreaming of for such a long time is not the reason for euphoria. It’s mostly a push for precise, smart choice of new garden plants. «House and garden» asked Evgeny Tarasov to form 10 main rules we are to rely on while choosing conifers. Living protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Several flowers at the windowsills very often happen to be the urban people’s only link with the nature. Many house plants not only produce oxygen but also absorb harmful substances. Meet the plants, protecting a human indoors. Dendrological oasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 A small town of Pruhonice in Prague suburbs is well-known both in Czech Republic and far abroad. It’s historical natural landscape park with a castle and outstanding modern dendrological garden with rich decorative trees collections which have made it almost worldwide renowned. The XXI century houses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 The summary about the «BEAUTIFUL HOUSES» fair, caused a huge interest in the professional environment. The media exhibition holding «Beautiful houses»/WEG to have launched this essentially new large-scale exhibition this fall. An idea to invite the best architectural bureaus, design studios, construction companies and manufacturers on one common platform was supported by the Moscow chamber of commerce, the Union of Architects of Russia, the Union of the Moscow architects, the Moscow architectural society, etc. As a result, more than 100 companies have taken part in this professional forum. From November, 2 till November, 5th, 2010, over 14 thousand people visited the fair in the «Crocus Expo» exhibition center. Rencontre de jardins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Rendezvous in fall 2010 for the most beautiful landscaping event on the Riviera: «Rencontre de Jardins», in Gassin in the heart of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez. In the entirely vegetal park of the Derbez Nurseries, on more than 25 000 sq. m, this 6th annual fair was growing and gave place of honour to the innovations and new creations of the 250 exhibiters divided amongst the theme villages. This fair guided us in the development of outdoor spaces, from vegetal decor to outdoor furniture, all while integrating design and ecology, in order to participate in the protection of the environment and discover the trends towards a new way of life. About love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 A gift to the person you love is always a hard problem to solve. The first step is what to choose, while the second is how to present. It was our editorial staff who have chosen the gifts themselves, and the leading designer of Flower Fashion House «Elita-Flora» offered some charming flower decor solutions. Enjoy and be inspired! Ice food? Yes!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 How can we keep summer colours and tastes? Very simply. We should turn vegetables, fruits, berries and grasses into ice. In that case they won’t lose a considerable share of useful substances and — that’s the most important thing — you may take any of them any time you want. Ruslan Chuprin, chef of the «Modest charm of bourgeoisie» restaurant, to tell us some secrets of cooking with frozen ingredients. Under one roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Merging work and home in one building is the modern society’s popular idea. Need to overcome the big distances in megacities leads to considerable losses of time for our way to office and back home. Instead of wasting hours in traffic jams, we’d better organize a home office! Becalming simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Tatyana Tsiplyaeva, the TV-show «Events» presenter on «TV Center» channel, is as a matter of fact an urban life admirer. So she visits her country house (featured in the almanac «100 private houses. The recent years’ best houses constructed by the Russian and foreign architects») only for the weekend to have a rest from megacity rhythm of life, to relax, to take a walk in a garden silence. Halt for gourmets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 The barbecue and grill concepts cross: after all, both of them are connected with outdoor cooking. But differences nevertheless exist, and they concern the form more likely than the content. The guard of light and heat . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Electrical supply in Russia’s countryside unfortunately faults very often. To restore house lighting, to save frozen food in the fridge or to help to watch TV-show till its end — it’s the electric generator that can solve these many problems. The moto-plowman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 The times of manual garden are now far in the past. Russian gardeners widely use motorized tools and devices for soil processing. Today the given market segment offers a wide choice of various units. The article features a table with the Russian market’s most typical models. Sign of a good form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112 Covering of a soil layer with banking with most various texture, color, tactile properties is one of the correct ways to create an expressive garden landscape. So this article tells about purposes, decorative and functional capabilities and application features of various inert materials in landscaping. № (58)’2011 1 Contents 96 60 10 112
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