Garden melodies

Whether you have noticed that in all beautiful gardens he sounds his own melody? In romantic landscapes pour the sounds of the Waltz, in dense and shady romances and elegances, in strict, leveled on Lineberry - Symphonies and Cantata

In the garden, Zoe Sushenko today reigns full harmony, the coordinated sound of flower duets, the trio, quartets forms a magnificent ensemble of paints and forms.

All 12 years ago, when a small plot of land was bought in size of 12 hundred and 30 km from Veliky Novgorod, on the banks of the Vishera River. Hospital, the soil turned out to be heavy clay, so the traditional method of growing decorative plants was not suitable.

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1. Iris Bearded Dwarf, Armeriya Primorskaya, Rights Bouffloy, Rangery, Feel perfectly with a flower garden.

2. Summer "dry stream" is almost completely hidden by the born curtains of cereals and perennials.

3. White-green ragged stems emphasize the sophistication of the color of the gentle-pink lily Asian "Lollipop".

4. Another variety of Lilies Asian Aelita is distinguished by high winter hardiness and abundant blossoms in the flow.

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5. Along the "stream" plants are planted by the plants of a calm green-blue gamut: Lofant Mexican, a dye dog, Veronica widecatized and narrow-on, rags bulbous. Attention is attracted to the bright leaves of the geihans "Purple Castle".

6. One of the spectacular cereals barley grivoy. His silk spikelets are beautifully overflowing in the sun. It is grown in the vortal strip as an annual, but he successfully tolerates warm winter.

7, 8. Compositions with decorative cereals.

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9. Ammsonia Tabermontana is a rather rare guest in our gardens. Meanwhile, she is durable, frost-resistant and unpretentious. Flowers with gentle blue star flowers from May to June. When growing in the Sun differs compactness.

10. Light yellow shades of dye, the silent one and solidago are harmonized with the blue inflorescences of the syngistered and dolphinium.

11, 12. Lilia Leopard and Dolphinium large-flowered "Blue Butterfly".

One of the successful solutions Zoe was to create raised flower beds. For their arrangement, a layer of turns was removed from the ground, the soil was covered with the formal cavity and plants were already planted in it. Asthenka laid out granite boulders.

Another find was the creation of a gravel flower garden, which today, in fact, is a visiting garden card. In addition, it was necessary to harden the time for its structure: first of all, on the placed area, it was chosen to 20 cm of the soil, in the resulting deepening, first 10cm sand was flooded, then gravel. Each layer thoroughly tumped. Then the wells were made in gravel, filled them with the finished ground and the landing was made directly into it.

Tells the owner of the garden

I am often asked if I used a non-woven material to combat weeds in a gravel flower garden. No, since I think it is unreasonable. First, in such cases, landing has to be carried out into cruciform sections of the material, which subsequently makes it difficult to remove, transplantation, plant division. After all, they over time are strengthened with roots in the material, so it is almost impossible to withdraw even one of them without pulling the entire substrate. Secondly, the weeding is greatly difficult. Personally, I easily remove weeds from the gravel of the weeds, loosening it and transplant the plants. For the gravel flower garden, sun-bruised plants with sowing leaves and silver-gray coloring such as oatmeal is szay, cleaning woolly, carnations, mochads, lavender, wormwood, sage, buttons. "Architectural" specimens that attract the attention of their dimensions, shape, unusual leaves should be present to both: for example, Korovyak, Kovyl, Fennel. I do not recommend using "aggressive" shrubs and herbs of thyme creeps and silent hexagonal and caustic.

Zoya Sushenko

A similar type of flower garden is well suited for plants with a shallow root system, soil and those that do not require fertile land. Of the first "settlers", which, for example, live in the gravel flower garden, renting camneur, shadowed camneur, cochlobal phlox, stachis woolly and syngineer.

Opinion of a specialist

Garden Zoe Sushenko is located in the vicinity of Veliky Novgorod. The traditions of bright flower decoration here were developed much wider than in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Iodine from the features of this garden - just an abundance of perennial colors with a sufficiently modest amount of trees and shrubs. The entire central part of the composition is open to look, and due to the end-to-end view of the front, medium and rear plans are mixed. The garden becomes a little bit, mischievous. It is very difficult to avoid dissonances, it is not easy to find a common topic for the entire site. Here this task is solved perfectly. Thanks to the work of "wide strokes" - large arrays repeated in several places, elements acquire wholeness. A large number of diverse cereals, decorative all year, gives the garden lightness, airiness and at the same time visually increases its area. The clocking of cereals very naturally looks stony areas with high mountain herbs, shrubs, flowers. The presence of small segments around the perimeter of the territory with its microclimate made it possible to expand the range of collectible plants.

Gleb Kalyuzhnyuk, landscape architect

Garden melodies

Tells the owner of the garden

Opinion of a specialist

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