Sergey Kalyakin is a gardener. German private gardens. Three directions for the development of German private gardens

Historically, the style of garden art in 20th-century Germany has been identified with the naturgarten. Based on the selection of authentic plants for the environmental conditions of each specific location, and, as a result, easy and low-cost to maintain, the natural garden was popular throughout Northern Europe, but it was in Germany that it reached its apogee. Having traveled through German gardens from south to north and from west to east, I came to the conclusion that naturgarten is no longer the dominant garden style. What is it like, a modern private German garden? What happened to the natural garden? Let's try to find answers to these questions.

The appearance of each garden is formed not only under the influence of the desires and hard work of its owners. There are objective and subjective factors that leave an imprint on any private garden of the average citizen of each particular country. The range of these factors is quite wide: from the geographical characteristics of the area to the national mentality, but within one country, I think, this range is unique.

For the German garden objective external factors influence of steel:

1. The legendary German bureaucracy with strict legislative regulation of the smallest issues of building a private house: from what the color of the roof should be to the minimum number of parking lots on the site. Strictly observed norms of distances from structures and plantings to the boundaries of the territory And. Even the species composition of hedges along the perimeter of a plot of land is often regulated by local municipalities by compiling a list of plants acceptable for use. On the one hand, this has its advantage, because German villages, unlike Russian ones, look from an architectural point of view as a single whole, and not “some go to the forest, some for firewood.” On the other hand, this entire list of requirements and approvals creates serious restrictions in the design of the house and garden.

2. Latest events modern history– German unification, expansion European Union and the introduction of the euro - greatly weakened the country's economic growth: prices rose rapidly, and wages stagnated. As a result, the most sold items were very small, by our standards, areas from 2.5 to 4 acres, and even now only very wealthy Germans can afford to buy as much as 6 acres of land. It is clear that a house on such a plot will always be a dominant feature, no matter which way you look at it, it will always be close to the road, and from the remaining area you also need to subtract the space for a parking garage. As a result, we get a small garden in its classic version.

3. The country is characterized by very uneven terrain, especially in its most densely populated lands. That's why terracing the site and using retaining walls here is a traditional landscape technique. The abundance of various local stones allows you to show maximum imagination not only in the choice of materials and paving patterns, but also in other rocky undertakings - be it rockeries, dry and wet streams or small architectural forms. Stone in a German garden appears in all roles - figuratively comparing it with a Russian garden, from chain-link mesh to decorative bark.

4. Climate in Germany it is very, very mild: the Gulf Stream provides the northern part of the country with an additional portion of heat, and in the south the sun shines all year round. This allows the Germans, firstly, to grow more capricious heat-loving plants in their gardens (huge clumps of cortaderia in the north of the country and palm trees in Bavaria come to mind), and, secondly, to focus their garden design on deciduous evergreens. However, differences in gardens depending on geographical location Still, there is: in the north you can feel the proximity of England. For example, Maxwaldpark, one of the large landscaped parks, is designed in the style of Gertrude Jekyll. Northern Germans are drawn to cool colors; the main colors here are white and blue. The southern lands are much brighter: the typical landhouses here with balconies along the perimeter are hung with flowerpots with petunias and pelargoniums, the use heat-loving plants and the succulents sometimes make you think this is more of a Mediterranean garden than a German one. Walking through the huge private garden - the island of Mainau on Lake Constance - you will often feel like you are in Italy.

5. German history has undoubtedly left its quirky imprint on German garden style: The turbulent twentieth century became for this country a century of both partition and reunification. The consequences of these tragic events are still visible. Eastern lands ( former GDR) keep the traditions of Karl Forster. It is here that he lives on private property naturgarten, and the gardens themselves look very natural, although, I do not rule out that it is only for the Russian eye. Time-cracked paint on a wooden pergola covered with nasturtiums, cereals among simple flowers, cozy neglect, but not made for show, as in glossy magazines, when they want to show a “natural” style, but natural, necessary for East Germans for peace of mind. All this does not exist in the Americanized west of Germany with its typical German garden described below - most of it complacent, sterile, “staged”. This is due not only to many years of transatlantic influence, but also to the subjective characteristic features of the German national mentality.

6. Ordnung muss sein. " Order comes first " is a favorite German saying. When pronouncing this phrase, a typical German has a very spiritual expression on his face. Innate love for cleanliness, in the opinion of the Russian man in the street, sometimes takes the form of quiet insanity. Saturday and Sunday morning lawn mowing, when all normal people should still be basking in bed, periodic plucking of the seed heads of pansies and the complete absence of weeds in flower beds and paving cracks are the smallest sacrifices that Germans can make in order to maintain order. It comes to the point that large distances between plantings of perennials are deliberately left so that one can freely walk and weed. And then wash the tool until it shines (or even disinfect it) and put it on a specially designated shelf in a garden shed with starchy white curtains on the windows.

7. The Germans have amazing property combine the incongruous . Even in the most practical decisions (and the Germans are famous pragmatists!) they will always add a drop of romance. For example, when choosing garden lamps, a typical German will always ask the question: why spend money on stationary lighting if the Moon exists, and among less global luminaries - torches, lanterns solar powered and candles, which will also create a more intimate mood in the evening garden? Stationary light, well, at the entrance to the house it is necessary, but only with motion sensors. Such savings will justify the costs.

8. The love for comfort and relaxation pushes the Germans not only to be neighbors with Russians at the resorts of Turkey, but also to carefully plan their site under the motto “ Minimum worries - maximum pleasure " This approach dictates a certain structure of the garden: usually it is a large lawn or paving areas larger than the planting area, sometimes with tapeworm, sometimes without. Indeed, fewer plants mean less work. The desire to have as much free time as possible also explains the attachment to coniferous and evergreen deciduous trees and shrubs, which are decorative all year round and do not require special care - plant once and you can safely relax all four seasons. Rarely does anyone grow summer plants from seeds - seedlings cost a penny, are purchased as needed, and the plants are thrown away immediately after they lose their decorative properties. One of the main elements of the garden is a recreation area with the obligatory barbecue (meat in all its forms is traditional German food) - the American version of our kebab, around which the whole family gathers every weekend. You may ask, how does this fit in with lawn mowing and plucking? pansies? Yes, order comes first, and then the barbecue. Plus, doing a little gardening is also fun.

9. The need to show a certain level of wealth and be at least no worse than your neighbors is another characteristic German trait. It is usually reflected in design of the entrance area - deliberately for show, for a casual observer from the road. This pseudo-openness, beautifully flowering plants, usually hydrangeas, roses, clematis, architectural grasses, yuccas are designed to create the impression of stability and prosperity, and serve the same role as a photograph with a snow-white smile of thirty-two teeth on the resume of an ordinary German. The seasonal change of container plantings and decorative decorations at the entrance and on the balcony often turns into a competition between neighbors - who has it brighter, more interesting, more beautiful. The reason for changing the scenery is not only holidays (Christmas, Easter), but also simply, for example, the beginning of autumn.

10. Despite all the friendliness and apparent openness of the Germans, in city gardens (or in dense buildings) the boundaries of public and private are very clearly marked. This is manifested not only in the lowered blinds on the evening windows, but also in the presence of a strictly defined private area in the garden, to which only close people are allowed access. If there is a plot behind the house, it is usually hidden from neighbors by high, dense hedges. In villages where houses are more sparsely spaced and there is plenty of beautiful scenery, owners can afford to use beautiful landscape views in the structure of the garden without fear of “coming under surveillance”.

11. The Germans are more natural engineers and architects than gardeners. Germany is home to beautifully landscaped parks, stunning urban greenery and creative water features. In private gardens and public parks you can see many compositions that are successful from an architectural and coloristic point of view. But at the same time, the Germans, unlike the British and Russians, completely no botanical interest – what difference does it make what this variety is called, the main thing is that it looks the way it should. Therefore, very often in garden stores you can see, for example, roses with the label “Hybrid tea rose” and a photograph of the flower, without indicating the variety. Here everyone is their own designer, so professionally designed small gardens are a rarity in Germany.

12. Love for the small homeland and its history is reflected in private gardens. In the former coal-mining regions of North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, you can often find a worn-out mine trolley, adapted for a flower garden. It looks touching, if not fabulous. Speaking of fairy tales, it was in Germany that garden gnomes were invented and their figurines were generously placed in their gardens. Sometimes they look appropriate, sometimes they are obvious kitsch, but it is clear that this is a typically German way of decorating a garden. The Germans usually don’t limit themselves to gnomes, and garden centers sell dozens of options for plastic ducks for the pond, cats and dogs for the garden and garden sculptures from various materials. I don’t presume to blame the Germans for such a love of decoration, but, in my opinion, there is a clear overabundance of small architectural forms in their gardens.

13. Residents of Germany are hardworking people, and, like Russians, they are drawn to the earth, because such a pastime helps them relax and unwind in nature from home and office, solely for their own pleasure. Many city residents who have green spaces only on the balcony, they rent “dachas” - plots of land of one or two acres, unsuitable for construction, usually along railways, only to garden to their heart's content on weekends. It's amazing how these German dachas similar to ours, only a little smaller and more well-groomed. A vegetable garden, a shed, sun, air and good beer are one of the German recipes for happiness, and this is confirmed by statistics. Societies of summer residents are growing year by year, and the average age of their participants has become ten years younger since the mid-nineties.

Three directions for the development of German private gardens

Having traveled the length and breadth of Germany, I came to the conclusion that the private German garden is now developing in three main directions.

The first, and most numerous, is the typical Americanized cottage garden , in which the lawn and barbecue play a dominant role, is now most popular among the middle class.

Second way - exclusive theme gardens , which reflect the hobbies of the owners, for example, oriental (Japanese, Chinese or an explosive mixture of both), antique (when the garden focuses on small architectural forms in the form of old things and cute rusty pieces of iron), bonsai garden or Mediterranean. This path will always exist, but will never take a leading position and will not become a national garden idea.

I would venture to suggest that most likely the German garden will trample at a crossroads and choose the third option with its new style - ecological garden . Recently, Germans have been paying more and more attention to the environment, ranging from waste sorting, the use of solar and wind energy, extremely stringent exhaust gas standards, and ending with government support for the National Garden Exhibition, the main idea of ​​which is the remediation and reclamation of lands affected by environmental pollution. disaster. So in 2007, the former uranium mine in Ronneburg was reborn from the ashes into a blossoming valley.

Already now, in private German gardens, qualitative changes based on an ecological approach are slowly but surely taking place: from house design, the use of solar panels and vertical gardening, the widespread use of composting and mulching and rainwater conservation, and ending with green roofs, planning special plantings and feeders with drinkers to attract birds and insects. Naturgarten as a style created on the basis of planning flower beds taking into account the environmental requirements of plants, is now rare. It remained in historical gardens and parks, in a few gardens of enthusiasts, but new round it is already visible in ecological gardens. There are more and more green roofs, honey plants and living creatures in the garden, more and more cereals, more and more environmentally friendly design solutions. I think this is a good guideline for our, as it seems to me, not yet defined Russian garden.

Interview

"Now this is no longer your father's garden -he is yours. And you are responsible for everything:and for the beauty that people loved so much, and formistakes,” wrote one of the visitors inguest book by Marianne Forster.

The famous German plant breeder Karl Forster founded his garden on the outskirts of Potsdam in 1912. Over its almost century-long history, this picturesque corner has experienced both prosperity and almost complete desolation. But thanks to the efforts of the city council, it was reconstructed in 1981 and opened its doors again. Later, the daughter of the great gardener, who worked in Belgium and created about nine hundred “green projects” there over 30 years, returned home. We met with her in the cozy “sunken” garden in front of the house.

— Mrs. Forster, your father went down in the history of gardening as one of the founders natural garden. Lately there has been a lot of debate about what a “real” naturgarten is...

— How much has changed in your garden since you returned from Belgium?

— You have traveled a lot. Can we say that the gardens have a national flavor?

—Have you ever had an argument with your father? Did he have a difficult character?

— Karl Forster was an outstanding breeder. How many varieties does he have?

Now it is difficult to say, it is believed that from 300 to 600. Father sowed seeds, selected the best seedlings, and the rest went into compost. He observed the selected specimens, observed them, and observed them again. If they remained just as good after 5 years, they were multiplied and put on sale. Karl Forster never patented new cultivars, he wanted them to be available. If a variety is distributed all over the world, it means it is really popular. However, nowadays even translating the name often becomes a problem. Although how can you translate ‘Eva Foerster’ into English? But it can be worse. If you look carefully at some catalogs, you will find Karl Forster varieties under completely different names. Be careful: old well-known cultivars are sold as new items.

— You mentioned a variety named after your mother. Are there plants named Marianne Forster?

— And translated into Russian “If so, then so" By the way, do you have Russian varieties growing in your garden?

— We grew Gagan’s phlox ‘Success’. In the morning and evening it is blue, and in the afternoon it is purple. And there's nothing you can do about it.

“From my father’s time, only trees and bushes remain here.” I plant a lot of annuals. On discount with perennial plants From time to time there may be gaps in flowering, this is where annuals come to the rescue. Besides, I want to have flowers for home bouquets all season long.

- Which color combinations do you find the most beautiful?

— I like everything, but there is one thing: you won’t find orange plants in this garden. I still have one poppy left, which I tried to get rid of even with the help of Roundup, but it still grows every year. Orange just doesn't suit my garden, it doesn't go with anything.

— Your garden is beautiful at any time. Which season do you think is the most decorative?

— My father believed that there are seven seasons in the garden: winter, pre-spring and spring, early and high summer, autumn and late autumn. Seven completely different natural landscapes. I love autumn - it's the most beautiful time. The beginning of the year is very sad: the dried grains have already been cut, the ground is bare...

— Definitely not in a rock garden; I’m not into rock garden plants. More likely in the sunken garden in front of the house. I like to sit on a bench between birch trees and a pond. Or admire beautiful view from the terrace: the garden and the house should be one. By the way, an artificial island in a pond on styrofoam plates is a very practical find. Thus, the water practically does not freeze. In summer, self-sowing rudbeckias bloom on this small piece of land.

— Light sand on top, slightly improved with compost, clay underneath. There is no talk of any fertility, so we have two golden rules. First: during any transplants, my gardeners always throw away the old soil. It can be infected with diseases and pests and become exhausted. Second: we try to use only organic fertilizers.

— At the same time, you have achieved such stunning decorativeness and such a variety of plants... What would you never plant in the garden?

“I don’t want to have bamboo in my garden anymore.” If only with a seven-millimeter rubber limiter, not a single root will penetrate it. Besides, nothing tall: I already have enough shade. Problems may also arise thorny plants, they can cause serious injury. Despite this, my Juliana barberries on the spring path are the most beautiful in the world. Evergreen, they bloom yellow with blue berries and stunning fall color.

- The most interesting story happened in the early 90s with grape snail. My mother was lying on the terrace, she was bored and I wanted to cheer her up. I found a snail in the garden, put it on a tray and added hosta flowers. She gobbled them up very quickly. Mom became so attached to her that she decided to name her Karl. We wrote the name on the house to distinguish this snail from others. Sometimes visitors would meet Karl in the garden; he was very funny. And there are really a lot of birds here. I feed them oatmeal and fat balls. One day, a friend gave me a bunch of dog hair. I stuck it in bird house. And now tits constantly fly into it for wool for nests. Have you ever seen a tit with a mustache? I constantly try to photograph them, but, unfortunately, I have never captured this moment.

- You have so many flower vases...

“This is a passion we share with my father.” Everything is filled with vases. Previously there were three hundred of them, now there are only 250 left. But there is still no suitable vase for the bouquets.

— Karl Forster once said: “If I come into this world again, I will become a gardener again...”

- “.. because this profession is too big for one life”, this must not be forgotten!

— Would you become a landscape architect again?

— I would become an architect, I like nice houses. And I can get really angry when I see bad ones.

— And finally, a wish to our readers...

— My father said: “He who is satisfied with his garden does not deserve it.” Don't be afraid to be unhappy!

LITTLE Tricks of Marianne Forster

— If you pinch a third of the phlox buds before flowering, the bush will bloom longer. White and pink phlox respond well to this procedure, red ones - the worst.

- Everyone is too tall herbaceous plants(gelenium, tall rudbeckias) you can remove the growing point. The bush will gain more lush view, and the flowers are better distributed in height.

— Pick off faded flowers in a timely manner, this stimulates the flowering of neighboring ones. Using scissors you can prolong the flowering of each plant.

Garden address: Potsdam-Bornim, Am Raubfang 7. Open to the public every day from 9-00.

— Mrs. Forster, your father went down in the history of gardening as one of the founders of the natural garden. Lately there has been a lot of debate about what a “real” naturgarten is...

— In such a garden, the plantings look natural, color combinations They don’t hurt the eyes, and the stone doesn’t dominate. Even a classic symmetrical base can be filled with plantings in natural style, like here. A tourist from England once told me: “Your garden looks as if each plant has chosen the place where it would like to grow.” This is a big compliment. You shouldn't be afraid to experiment. My father always joked that harps and timpani played in our garden. Harps are sun-loving aerial grasses, and timpani are hostas that prefer partial shade. However, they grow beautifully together for me. Karl Forster worked more by eye.

— How much has changed in your garden since you returned from Belgium?

“Eighteen years ago I didn’t find a single grain here.” It was so sad to see restoration plantings when the garden became a historical monument. That plan proposed easy-to-maintain but insanely boring curbs in the spirit of highway landscaping. I decided to change everything. People must be surprised to see a new plant every couple of meters. I now have twenty-seven different grains. This is a truly successful result. My favorite is miscanthus. Graceful in summer, bright late autumn, they endure any conditions. Miscanthus is a plant for all situations, tolerates any conditions.

— You have traveled a lot. Can we say that the gardens have a national flavor?

— How to say... In France, for example, there are much more formal gardens than in Germany. And even in private there are differences. In France, they don’t plant anything special at the entrance for passers-by. Only upon entering the territory do you receive an invitation to explore the garden. In Germany, everything is different: we show everything in the front garden, we start from the street. And the garden behind the house is boring. The lawn usually takes up the lion's share of space and time.

—Have you ever had an argument with your father? Did he have a difficult character?

- Yes. He was mainly engaged tall plants, because he himself was two meters tall. I told him: “We, little people, must always lift our heads up. Please plant something lower.” He answered: “But it’s beautiful when tall plantings create the background.” I insisted: “It’s a pity that you can’t see the flowers.” But in matters of color, we always agreed: blue is our favorite color. My father was a very trusting and friendly person. He always expected the best from people and believed only in the good. “A person cannot be bad at all, this does not happen,” he always said. Only once did I see him get very angry when the gardener scattered fresh pig manure straight to the beds. From a careless attitude to work, he could explode.

— Karl Forster was an outstanding breeder. How many varieties does he have?

— Now it’s hard to say, it’s believed that from 300 to 600. My father sowed seeds, selected the best seedlings, and the rest went into compost. He observed the selected specimens, observed them, and observed them again. If they remained just as good after 5 years, they were multiplied and put on sale. Karl Forster never patented new cultivars, he wanted them to be available. If a variety is distributed all over the world, it means it is really popular. However, nowadays even translating the name often becomes a problem. Although how can you translate ‘Eva Foerster’ into English? But it can be worse. If you look carefully at some catalogs, you will find Karl Forster varieties under completely different names. Be careful: old well-known cultivars are sold as new items.

— You mentioned a variety named after your mother. Are there plants named Marianne Forster?

“I once told my father that my mother had “her” phlox, but I had nothing. Then he showed me a yellow chrysanthemum: “We’ll call it ‘Gold Marianne’,” he said and I agreed. In general, there were a lot of oddities with the names. Do you know how the Wennschondennschon variety appeared? When my parents stood near the phlox bed, one said “Wenn schon”, the second “Denn schon”. This is how this name was born. I don’t know why, but it’s always written in one word.

And immediately a question. galenven She gave me a plant last year that didn’t bloom. It doesn’t want to bloom for me either. What could it be? one of the zopniks?

Amsonia, Mer fescue, pike.

Agastache Alabaster and peony Sarah Bernhardt. Autumn picture.

Veronicastrum virginiana Roseum has turned yellow. Handsome!

Sporobolus spreading after rain. All in drops, and the seeds are like drops.

And this is its autumn color. Sporobolus is accompanied by Echinacea and Gaura.

Siberian Spodiopogon still tries to color itself before withering. But he rarely succeeds)))

Spiraea japonica f. large-leaved - fire and nothing more!

I really like the way Pink Brushes burnet looks after flowering. Here she is accompanied by Echinacea, molinia Kalr Foerster, and white Sibirica dogwood acts as a background.

The black elderberry Black Lace (Eva), which I plant on a stump every year, has produced shoots of record length this year. Next to her sits the white Elegantissima dogwood, and behind her - hedge from white Sibirica wood.

Yellow-terracotta-brown broadbell grandiflora. I grew up in 2016 and left everything. Let's see what year the seedlings will bloom.

Green Phlox paniculata Pleasant Feelings.

Viridescens

He is also amsonia.

I discovered that I have a non-blooming cirrus bristle. Strange! The Transparent prayer line bent over him.

Already yellowed Windspiel molina, Gorgeous ornamental apple tree and Limelight paniculata hydrangea.

Molinia Karl Foerster, pinnately Viridescens, rudbeckia shiny Goldsturm.

A Karl Foerster molina hedge along a white Sibirica hedge (left), a Windspiel molinia (right) and a Gorgeous apple tree.

Miscanthus chinensis Kaskade.

Gorgeous decorative apple tree.

Kirengeshoma palmate, short-haired reed grass Mona and autumn anemone.

Hydrangea paniculata Limelight and apple Gorgeous.

Willow sunflower in bloom.

Gillenia trifolia is now completely red.

And her pink-flowered variety Pink Profusion too.

Chinese gentian decorated. I was told that it was probably rough gentian.

Lindheimer's Gaura lies down after the rain. By the way, I recently learned from the German botanical press that the genus Gaura was included in the genus Evening primrose, so now the correct name would be Evening primrose Lindheimer. It’s somehow quite unusual, isn’t it?

Bluehead yuccolifolia, Echinacea purpurea Alba, Molinia Transparent and Stachys Hummelo.

Dendranthema Dernier Soleil, aster cordifolia Little Carlow and amsonia.

They are also the Windspiel lightning line.

Green Fountain leather skumpia.

October 2008 No. 11 (46)

PLOT

Away

"Happy birthday, Mr. Brooks!" In September, the most famous landscape designer England is 75 years old. SergeyKalyakin congratulated John Brooks on his anniversary in his own garden.

Special project

« Family and school: fun holidays» How to beautifully design a pond? Can playground to be interesting, cozy and safe at the same time? Where can you barbecue without damaging your garden? Landscape architect and dendrologist Alexander Sapelin together with the Tulipov family seeks and finds answers to these questions.

My garden

School of Design

"At the right height" Stage, podium, podium - we raise above flat surface usually what deserves our close attention. Flowers also deserve this, says Candidate of Biological Sciences Andrey Lysikov and offers you several options for raised beds.

A simple solution

"About the gate" Gate - portrait of the owner of the garden, counting Olga Ivanova. And he presents to you a work of garden art, the creator of which is endowed with a sense of humor, artistic flair and an unconventional outlook on life.

Garden culture

"Die Hard 5" About Walnut Much has been written, and absolutely everyone knows it. Other representatives of the walnut genus are discussed much less often - and there are about twenty of them! Candidate of Agricultural Sciences Alexey Antsiferov recommends five of them for growing in our gardens.

Everything is alive

« Song about hares“As a child, it seemed to us that they were all sweet and kind, like Stepashka. And only when we encountered them at the dacha, we began to doubt: are hares really that white and fluffy? A biologist from St. Petersburg sings a song about hares Andrey Ganov.

Everyday life of a gardener

"All sleep" Unpredictable winters in our latitudes are a serious test. Both for heat-loving plants and for inexperienced gardeners. Especially after such a wet summer as last year. How to help plants prepare for winter, explains Irina Bochkova.

Let's do it together

"Rose in the Cattail" To climbing roses survived the winter cold without loss, you need to take care of shelter. Let's build it together with the designer Elena Buevich from the well-known cattail, thickets of which are found in swamps, along the banks of lakes and rivers.

Rose garden

"Touches to the portrait" Stripe is the simplest and at the same time complex pattern for a couturier, an interior designer, and a gardener. A collector writes about the best “variegated” roses Tatyana Zhirkova.

FLOWER GARDEN

Flower of the month

"Oktyabrinki" We all dream of flowers that don't require our constant attention. About flowers that, after planting, can be safely left to fate, without any fear for this very fate. And such plants exist. Marina Vasilyeva from St. Petersburg professionally deals with perennial asters and shares his experience with us.

New items

"The most unique" Where can you see the “hottest” garden innovations? Of course, in Holland, at the international exhibition Plantarium, which was recently held in the city of Boskop.

Solo

"Neither from the rain nor from the sun" Delicious and poisonous, rare and growing everywhere, these plants attract attention with their unusual appearance And pleasant aroma. Lelya Golovanova talks about the most decorative umbrellas for your garden.

Composition

“No moping!” What to do if autumn garden landscapes make you sad? Englishman John Cock, owner of the famous English garden Bury Court in Surrey advises: play with contrast.

"Green" alphabet

Tripsacum dioecious, southern reed, medium tremors, large hakonechloa, whose reed grass and spreading roughweed are described by the collector ornamental grasses Tatiana Zheltovskaya.

GARDEN

Vegetable bed

“This is parsley” You may not grow cucumbers and tomatoes, forget about potatoes and completely neglect carrots. But parsley... There is always a place for this vegetable in the garden, he believes Tatiana Kazakova. If not in the garden, then maybe in the flowerbed. As a last resort, in a pot on the windowsill.

Herbalist

"Bitter spirit of wormwood" Vermouth, absinthe... Don't think that Olga Ivanova I decided to write about alcoholic drinks. We will talk about wormwood, which bears these names in German and French, respectively.

Green collection

"Fat and Beautiful" Many people dream about this indoor plant, which blooms beautifully, does not require special care, can tolerate both the lack of light and the dry air of a city apartment. Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexey Bobrov confirms: the choice is not that great. But, undoubtedly, one of the first on this list will be Kalanchoe.

Winter Garden

"Laws of the Home Jungle" Perhaps it is precisely because of the long, dreary autumn and gray-white winter that the most popular type winter gardens Ours has become tropical. But there are other reasons, he says. SergeyIsaev and tells how to create a “jungle” at home.

Home doctor

"The common cold: myths and facts" The cold season, which opens in October, reaches its peak by November. It’s rare that a gardener will avoid an acute respiratory scourge after planting bulbs in freezing rain or covering roses on frozen ground. Ekaterina Savostyanova advises: prevention is the best way to avoid trouble.

Gardener's kitchen

“Sit on a tree stump, eat a pie” If you don't know what to do with pumpkins grown on own garden, try making placinte according to the recipe from the new book “About Pies” - the most tender Moldovan flatbreads with juicy minced meat.

ARSENAL

Constructions

"Third Eye" To protect their home from intruders, people have come up with locks, various sensors that give signals about ongoing violations, and cameras that allow these same violations to be observed and recorded. Gennady Sytnik And Tatiana Eremenko assessed the CCTV camera market from a consumer point of view.

Technique

"Snow is falling" Just a few years ago, snow removal on suburban area was perceived as an inevitable labor task performed manually. Now the shovel is no longer needed. Snow blowers have become available to almost everyone. A tour of modern snow removal equipment conducts Andrey Krotkov.

Convenient for living. So over the course of ten years they raised the level of the site - by about half a meter, about one and a half. I even had to buy an old dump truck: during all this time, they brought 150 trucks of sand onto their 30 acres, and they didn’t even count how much land. To ensure dryness, the house was placed on an embankment.

They dug about 20 m long, the deepest place is now 1.7 m. It is without -. The site is designed so that all water flows into the pond. And from it through a drainage ditch after heavy rains and melting snow excess water goes into the common channel. , Sitniki, feel great. The pond has become completely self-sufficient - there is no need to even weed it anymore.

Weeping Gnome- very flexible. Local winds constantly swayed the tree along with the supports, and after severe weather Weeping Gnome always lay in the pond. The problem was solved by driving it one and a half meters into the ground. metal pipe. The tree is 9 years old; it has been shaped over the years to obtain an openwork crown on a thick trunk. After severe pruning, it “shot out” new shoots and grew taller than usual.

It is believed that drought-tolerant plants do not tolerate stagnation and groundwater. This is mistake! They grow well on the shore of a pond. More than ten years ago, Olga bought seedlings, dug small holes in clay, filled them with loose soil and planted them at random. Now all guests of the garden are amazed by these luxurious coastal specimens of mountain pine.

The soil taken out from the pond bed went onto the slopes around the house, and they poured it on top fertile land and made it out of three. Installing stones and planting alpines is creative work. To achieve harmony, you have to redo it more than once. However, the first steps of the stone staircase are already overgrown with plants and look very natural.

Among the 25 cubic meters of stones imported for rolling pins, there were some unusual specimens. From the big flat stone They “created” a table, and they picked out a chair for it. Now the only thing missing is a chair - maybe there will be another one.

Olga and Vasily choose plants that do not need to be “pulled by the ears”: they should both enjoy life themselves and please their owners. Therefore, evergreens are a logical choice as the basis of a northern garden. Year-round decorative, low maintenance, winter hardiness and a wide range of- everything speaks for them.

It was not planned to plant, but a friend gave me several varieties, and they fit into the flower beds. Now there are favorites: absolutely unpretentious and profusely blooming Cinderella , blue Blue Paradise , smoky Ural tales , capricious, but beautiful Blue joy and gentle Girl's blush .

Under separate place there was none, so it was made into an extension to the barn - it turned out very convenient.

In this garden it is held in high esteem. For example, Spartina is unpretentious, large, but graceful. They say that this plant will sit and sit and then explode, but its aggressiveness does not appear on local clay. Siberian spodiopogon feels great. Although he has one significant drawback- leaves lose their decorative effect early and quickly become rusty-yellow. But the molinia, which turns bright yellow, is decorative all autumn.

4 small discoveries of Olga Kobets

1. The best way save your favorite varieties of lilies from - plant them in containers and dig them into the flower garden.

2. The new golden cob is very tasty! It has a dry-tear leg, but it is more convenient to cut off the branches and disassemble them on the veranda. Straight berries with short branches - into a meat grinder, squeeze out the juice. This one has no offspring at all, at least on local clay.

3. Driftwood is good not only for design, but also for creating a good microclimate. Place them in places where there is a constant draft, and the plants will feel better.

4. Vangutta Gold Fountain provides an attractive yellow “spot” in the flower garden and at the same time winters well.