Дом и сад №51 4 Moscow Landscape Fashion Week . . . . . . 14 From March, 10th till March, 13th, 2010 the III International specialized exhibition «House and Garden. Moscow Garden Show» will take place in Moscow. It’s organized by World Expo Group, with information support of the «Beautiful houses press» Publishing House. «Crocus Expo» Exhibition center will welcome the next year’s show. The exhibition, with total venue of 5 000 sq. m, will include such directions as «Landscape design», «Garden furniture», «Garden technics», «Barbecue», «Flowers and decor». Within the frames of the exhibition the international conference «Fashion trends in landscape design» will traditionally be held and the «Fashion for landscape» competition. For the third time landscape designers will gather to exchange their skills and experiences and to demonstrate the most interesting ideas at their workshops and by their design works created for competition. English landscape designer Andrew McIndoe will be the 2010 conference visitor. More than 20 000 experts are expected at the fair. Queen of flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Gardening is a way of life at Rose Cottage. It’s the fourth that Mrs. Griffiths has created and as she started just five years ago on a plot, which can only be described as a stony field that featured a sloping grassy football pitch with two goalposts, she is obviously a pretty dab hand at it. A creative eye plus an in depth knowledge of plants and the strength of an ox are the essentials that Mrs. Griffiths has, plus of course a devoted husband, who will do anything she asks. The best years in a garden . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 At the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009 the English company Hillier presented the project «Gardening for the Time of Your Life». The garden designed by landscape designer Andrew McIndoe, won a gold medal, Hillier’s 64th one. Our exclusive is that Andrew McIndoe told about the project involving visitors into a travel, through a series of small gardens reflecting various stages of the gardener’s life. Easy-kept garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 The country garden appeared due to creative cooperation of the plot’s owners and Maria Proskurnina, landscape designer, is 7 years old. In that landscape project ideas which helped to generate the garden structure with the plants demanding minimal care, are presented. Feel the breath of the fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 While designing a garden, the landscape architect always keeps in his mind that he is working with the living things having feature to change eventually — and every year, and with each following season, each time creating a special artistic image. Seasonal plants’ colour change and these effects’ highlights became defining in garden designing for «Il Nature» company’s landscape architects. The giant has come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Children’s memoirs on a country life make you feel warm alike the summer sun. They refer to those life attitudes and positions that remain in everyone of us and do not vanish as time goes by. Therefore the «ARTEESHOK» architectural group’s designers created this garden for its owners would like to come back there again and again. As a result the modern styled garden appeared, with the landscape’s decorative elements inspired by the French artists’ vanguard painting of the beginning of the XX-th century. All the seasons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 The landscape styled garden was designed for a family living in a country house all year around. The owners love the nature very much, and their wish to keep the wood plants was supported by the designers. Garden eclecticism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 On the ungeometrical plot with the smoothed relief and an incline to the entrance gate the rare wood with prevalence of ordinary pines, some spruces and birches. In order not to conflict with natural landscape features and to underline stylistics of the house designed in classical traditions, elements of regular and landscape gardens are joined. Eden on ruins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 The garden of Vaughan Aston, designer, confirms the idea that the nature can be independently restored, updated and revive after serious destructions and accidents — its force is huge. But today, during an epoch of the postindustrial society, natural resources create new Eden after an industrial Apocalypse… Feeling the romanticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The project of Tommy Walsh and Kirsty King is called «Senses StimulatED». The garden represents the cozy landscape space creating an atmosphere of privacy. The theme of love, romanticists, sensuality, which is in the air, makes a garden a perfect place for appointments. There is no place to boredom and satiety here. Only harmony and charm of silent summer nights remain in memory forever. Childhood islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Reminiscences on fine hot summer, when days were long and nights were short, when time seemed infinite, and a school vacation — eternal, became a basiс idea of the garden project designed in nature garden’s style. Here children feel freely, and adults recollect their happy days when they were small. The designer of the project is Simon Harman. My beautiful garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 The strong voice of well-known singer Pelageya is the one to remember at once, and her repertoire is popular for its originality. Therefore the talented performer who arrived to Moscow from Novosibirsk ten years ago, is popular not only in Russia, but also abroad. So does not enjoy her garden very often. But when it nevertheless happens, the singer enjoys an idleness in the open air with a great pleasure, admiring surrounding landscape. Adult tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 There is a vast range of ideas on a perfect garden, but the garden’s main ornament is trees. Adult trees are the best decor and ornament of a garden, they will give a form and a volume to it, hide any lacks, protect from onlookers and give a feeling of a coziness and a comfort. The large-sized trees will help to create a grown-up garden in a short period. Decorative potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Euonymus is one of the most worthy plants among deciduous breeds. Their possibilities for of decorating a garden are not quite estimated and realized yet, though the potential is conclusive and obvious. First of all, euonymus has a graceful all-year-long head, extremely rich autumn foliage and, certainly, original colourful fruits, unique in flora. Evgeny Tarasov tells about decorative possibilities of euonymus. Gift of Tibet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 At the Tibetan heights marvellous landscapes are fascinating, but the oxygen lacks. Infinitely various vegetation is also breath-taking. Among the brightest and impressing floristic wonders of region, there is, undoubtedly, a meconopsis — a relative of well-known poppies. This material of Evgeny Tarasov, traveller and gardener, is about the meconopsis’s requirements to its areal. In Show Tatton Park gardens . . . . . . . . . . . 90 From July, 22nd till July, 26th in the historical place of Tatton Park, in the territory of the manor located in small town of Natsford (Great Britain), there 11th exhibition of Royal gardening society Show Tatton Park took place. Irina Belogrud, the Gran-prix winner of «Fashion for landscape» competition within the frameworks of «House and Garden. Moscow Garden Show» in April, 2009 tells us about the most interesting gardens of the show. Trends from the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . 96 More and more floristic designers and manufacturers of flowers and plants unite their forces to have a possibility to inform and inspire their clients. Within the frames of the «Flowers-2009» the Flower council of the Netherlands organized a workshop of well-known arranger Andreas Verhejen. Decorative accents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Art of internal space decoration is known since the ancient times. Palace interiors of Ancient Egypt were decorated not only with sculptures, coverings, furs, and also houseware. Red and black antique vases played an important role in home decoration. What is a role of a vase in a modern interior? Change of paints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Each season has its own colour palette. Nevertheless sometimes you may wish to vary black-and-white graphics of the late autumn, turning smoothly into a winter. Unusual ideas of artists Carol Hummel, Agnieszka Gradzik, Wiktor Szostalo and designers of «Moonlight» and «Jonny`s Sister» companies will help to do it. Wooden-and-stoned house . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Round logs laying is one of the most ancient methods of building. Cut down in strictly certain season and dried up to the necessary standard, the trees’ trunks were used for creation of the real masterpieces surprising with their beauty, practicality and ability to resist to destructive influence of time. Today the traditional technology has got a new life. Survivor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 She can be met both in garage of the Russian car enthusiast, and in the Indian yogi’s home, and in «stationary» magnificence of a country residence’s fireplace hall. The bourgeous-styled stove, being the basic and mass heatproviding home device in the past, is still popular at the today’s heating equipment market, appearing there in different forms. Personal massage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 The idea of healthy rest and effective relaxation is on top always and forever. One of the given theme’s variations is spa-pools which appeared in our market about 15 years ago. For each potential owner of that wonderful device there was a real possibility increase a quality of life. The caught blizzard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 A snow shows in the evident image the law of transition of quantity into quality. The first snow raises our mood, wrapping the world up with a whiteness and doing its inexpressibly pure. But the further growth of a snow layer rather complicates movement on a plot. And if it has had time to melt and to freeze again, we talk on the snow-and-ice mass then, aggravating the given problem. The snow-removing technics is created to solve this kind of problems. № (51)’2009 6 Contents 78 38 90 120
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