Дом и сад №52 4 Designers’ gardens contest . . . . . . . 14 From March, 10th till March, 13th, 2010 in the «Crocus Expo» International Exhibition Center (Moscow) the 3rd international competition «Fashion for landscape. The celeb’s garden» will take place within the frames of the «HOUSE and GARDEN. Moscow Garden Show» exhibition. Landscape architects and designers, experts and students will take part in this competition. Which special feature is creation of exhibition gardens — gardens which allow to highlight the participating designers’ creative potential. All the projects presented to the contest will be devoted to the Russian celebrities. The competition Grand-prix’s sponsor is the Zelari Piante company (Italy). A house, a lake, a cloud. . . . . . . . . . 16 There is nothing about the terraces of Victorian houses in Avenue Road in west London to suggest that anything out-of-the-ordinary lies behind their sober front doors. However, a few steps inside the home of Rex Bunnett and John Muir show that this is the exception. Instead of the usual, nondescript rear garden, a stylish, decked outdoor room unfolds, a delightful view in any season. ‘Our garden is an extension of the house, giving us views from every window at the back, so whether we’re inside, or standing at the kitchen sink, our garden is always part of our lives,’ explains Rex. Landscape in window frame. . . . . . . 24 Please enjoy the interesting history of Andrew and Rosamond McIndoe’s garden, occupying almost 2 acres in the North-East of the Sandhill farm (which is situated in the Sheffield suburbs, Hampshire, Great Britain). At the present time the house celebrates its 10 years’ anniversary, so it enters its grown-up period. On March, 11th Andy McIndoe, garden expert, author of many specialized books on garden, will make workshops Moscow within the frames of the «HOUSE and GARDEN. Moscow Garden Show» exhibition. Regular element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 The garden in the French regular style associates with artificially organized nature, fine open spaces, pleasure and the XVII-th century. The reference to the style, which has become classical, today first of all can be interesting by its possible interpretations. One of them is offered by Alexander Grivko, landscape architect. Walk on «Revital Park» . . . . . . . . . . 38 In the places where at the beginning of the XX-th century there was of a Ryabushinsky merchants’ manor, near the Balashihinsky forest, the «Revital Park» was established. This is a sanatorium with the fine green space, occupying a territory of about 8 hectares, including the last pond from the cascade running into the small river of Pekhorka. The modern territory of «Revital Park» is designed as a labyrinth of thematic gardens, each of them has its own name and history. Garden on difficult hillsides . . . . . . . 44 There is a story on a kitchen garden located on a southeast hillside of a site in Ekaterinburg suburbs. It had been unkept for a long time and grown with tall weeds, but once it has turned into picturesque garden with inner and open space. The authors of the project are landscape designers Mr. and Mrs. Sergeevi. Mediterranean courtyard . . . . . . . . . 50 In the Tver state university’s Botanical garden there was created a number of expositions of a various geographical, landscape and historicaland-stylistic orientation. In summer, 2007, the idea of a «Mediterranean courtyard» mini-garden was realized. The group of the Tver state university’s biological faculty took part in development and realization of the design project and under the garden staff’s supervision. 7 kinds of flower beds . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Creation of flower beds is the last «chord» in the site development. This garden design’s decorative element appears when the site’s functional zones are fixed, paths are laid, trees and bushes are planted and a lawn is made. Marina Ponomaryova, landscape designer, tells about a variety of flower beds for the different decorative purposes. Coniferous collection . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Among various kinds of coniferous plants Evgeny Tarasov chose those ones which could form a base of a decorative collection. All the presented candidates correspond to three criteria. They are decorative, easy-care and available in the domestic market. Heather garden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 One of the most interesting landscape ideas which allows to design the allocated garden zone, — is a heather garden. Its main inhabitants will be the ericaceae, including a heather, an erica, rhododendrons and other plants. Please enjoy the story told by Evgeny Tarasov, traveller, gardener and photographer. Floral world. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 What can a trefoil surprise with? To answer this question you should see a trillium — the refined, original America-born plant. Three leaves and a flower with three petals create unique trillium’s shapes which should be appreciated by the Russian gardeners (especially by shadow garden admirers) in the nearest future. Union of earth, water and creativity . 82 Le Manoir d`Argences, the castle dated the XVII-th century, occupies a territory of three hectares in several kilometres to the south from a small town of Coutans that is on the way between Cherbourg (remembered to the world from a melodrama «Les paraplues de Cherbourg» with Michel Legrand’s touching melodies) and not less known mountainmonastery Mont Saint-Michel. Today the D`Argences manor belongs to Carolina Lecardonnel. In 2009 her garden won the 1 prize in Top des Parks — the international European contest of the best gardens and parks. Under the Italian sun . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 By Associazione Nazionale dei Vivaisti Esportatori invitation and thanks to ICE initiative (Italian Institute of Foreign Trade) on June, 2009 Russian journalist delegation had visited Italian Nurseries. The program proved to be a very fruitful. They had visited 9 floricultural regions and 14 nurseries. The following review is about this marvellous trip. Half the house — half the garden . 110 It is a real pleasure — to have a country house. It is even better, when the verandah is built on to the house, and you may drink tea in summer evenings there. And it is absolutely remarkable — to have a winter garden where you may enjoy direct contact to the nature any time of the year. Here there is an article the winter garden, its differences from a greenhouse and the ways of development. Cottage Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Once make a decision to live in the country we forced to leave our country house at times for a day at other times for half a year. All the time we worry: what is happening at our house? Do thieves break into the house? To be sure that your house is safe from theft we strongly recommend you to think about the house security. № (52)’2010 1 Contents 24 70 32 110
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