Дом и сад №48 4 Life valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Were it not for the narrow track leading off a high-hedged Devon Lane, there would be no clue to the whereabouts of Oxton valley, home to Sir John and Lady Jennings. “I’d known the village of Oxton for years from riding through the local countryside, but had never discovered this valley,” points out Lady Jennings who finally visited in 1996, following several fruitless years of house-hunting. “We’d been looking for an exceptional location when by chance we heard that a house in the valley was up for sale. By the time John and I reached the top of the drive, we’d decided to buy it,” she recalls. A study in natural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Rocky composition in which artificial origin it was hard to believe, the land owners saw in their friends’ garden. At once they wanted to create something similar in their own garden. However after the careful analysis of the territory and consultations with the owners Irina Khomenko, landscape architect, offered another plan. Simple shapes of a pond and a cascade, a wide palette of natural materials shading colours and structures, and uniform colour scale became the main components which defined a new garden’s character. The world is not enough. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 It often happens that we have not enough area to realize our ideas at our country site. Having looked through 1750 sq. m site in a villa community under construction not far from the town of Lipetsk, authors of the project found the solution, connecting two styles — regular and naturalistic. Sunny mix border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 The raised flower bed of “bearded” irises and the thirty three meters long mix border hedging the driveway to the house, were not provided in the initial landscape planning. They appeared there later, by occasion. Please find here a story about mix border metamorphoses, which became not only a driveway highlight, but also a favorite place for walks of parents with kids. Tiny Alpians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Original synthetic gardening direction, a socalled “rock gardening”, invented by Englishmen in the XVIII-th century, is aimed for man-made rocks, taluses and plateaus created alike natural landscapes, to be occupied by different plants from all gardening groups. This style’s trendsetters invented a special term— “alpines”, meaning those kinds and grades of all the named groups of medium or tiny size, and also featured frost tolerance. Evgeny Tarasov, gardener and traveler, collected a unique Alpians collection in his own garden in the Moscow region. He is telling in this article about features and advantages of these plants having come to stony gardens. Many faces of geranium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 The Geranaceous bloodline, despite rather small structure, plays a huge role in a modern garden. The secret of their popularity is obvious — only few grassy plants possess so valued combination of advantages: variety of sizes, textures and colourings together with frost tolerance and unpretentiousness. Giardino segreto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 At the time of the Italian Renaissance “giardino segreto” ment “a secret garden” and concerned the small territory included into the general architectural park plan. Here you will find the article on traditions of the similar space’s design under the book of E. Klukert “Landscape gardening art of Europe: from antiquity up to the present days”. Rotterdam oasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 It is surprising, but the Netherlands, occupying the space, smaller than the Moscow Region, won the leading positions in the world’s agricultural manufacture. Besides, in this small country there are 16 botanical gardens, possessing extensive and interesting collections. One of them is the Trompenburg. About beauty and use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Vegetable crops are getting the increasing popularity in landscape design. They allow to create unique garden landscapes and to prepare tasty dishes. Yury Andreev, Chief of the Timiryazev Academy’s Vegetable growing department, is telling about useful and decorative properties of a celery, a basil, a leek and a cauliflower. In pagoda’s shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Producer and director Lina Arifulina’s house, looking like a real castle, is surrounded by the secret Japanese garden. In this garden there are no beds with bright colours. One of the main landscape elements is a Japanese pagoda built in conformity with national traditions of the Country of a Rising sun. Playing with contrasts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Wooden house with a modern design can look original. The building’s upper floors coated by boards are opposed to a brutal stone laying of a socle, and the traditional roofing tile “peacefully” adjoins to the flat planted roof. The house planning is also contrastingly constructed. Transparent beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Glass is a unique material which advantages are proven through the centuries. Made of natural components and by modern technologies, it can decorate any living space. Flower vases, ware and accessories made of glass become the integral attribute of fashionable and elegant home today. Beach mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Despite a long-term habit to spend holidays far from the Black sea coast, in the most sunny and long-awaited season’s days off we rush to our country houses and summer residences. Today we will support a summer mood by means of a garden furniture: chaise lounges, rocking-chairs and other nice garden furniture items. A dream a man can get . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Everyone dreams on his own pool. But a stationary pool construction is rather expensive thing. Maintenance is not less expensive. So what a man should do? The answer is simple: a man should get a modular pool. Summer in the cool shadow. . . . . . . . . . 120 In the summertime everything pleases you — good weather, beauty of the nature, rest in the open air. But frequently all that is spoiled by scorching solar beams. We offer our readers some ideas and solutions how to avoid troubles and to keep a good mood. Water of life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Neighborhood to a natural reservoir is not every country residence’s feature. But if a little bit of desire and certain efforts — and you can arrange an artificial reservoir directly at your country site. Correctly designed and arranged, an artificial reservoir can not only become a decorative landscape object, but also to improve territory development. 5 models of water vacuum cleaners . . . 130 Ponds and reservoirs are the best features of any garden sites. However these systems demand regular maintenance. A vast range of various techniques is needed to take off foliage, waterweeds, silt and dirt. Usually these devices are designed by a vacuum cleaner principle. № (48)’2009 3 Contents 90 80 122 110
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