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The Il Nature company has embodied the park for a private customer in the Moscow region in the traditions of an old Russian estate. In Russia, this trend in gardening art is now one of the most relevant.
Classic garden
Linden alley in the shape of a “ball on a trunk”.
Everything flows, everything changes, and you have to do something about it
The main decoration of this park, spread over one and a half hectares of old spruce forest, is the river. You don’t need to be a landscape specialist to know: even the smallest river improves the microclimate of the park, increases the comfort of recreation areas and adds romance to them. But you need to be a specialist to know: the river can become the main problem in the work. “Before we cleared and deepened its channel, gave it a clearer outline and strengthened the banks, during floods the river spilled over the entire site, from fence to fence,” recalls the art director of Il Nature, Alexander Grivko. – The flooding was facilitated by the close standing of groundwater. I’ll make a reservation right away: the work on strengthening and clearing the banks was carried out very carefully – so as not to change the water balance of the site, not to disturb the coastline, the natural speed of the watercourse and the natural ecosystem of the reservoir as a whole. ”
And by the river, and by the river …
Water-loving plants are planted along the banks – irises, hosta, loosestrife, derain, willows. For them, the more humid, the better (under normal conditions, the willow has to make a special clay “lock” that retains moisture). Naturally, no one tried to plant roses, maples or lindens by the river. They are afraid of spring floods and especially cold melt water – lindens should be planted in places where there is no stagnant water.
Hygrophilous plants are planted on the banks of the river.
On the shore there are moisture-loving irises, loosestrife, hosta, white turf, buzulnik. Along the path leading
to the bridge, – spherical euonymus.
The bank slopes were reinforced with geogrids and turf.
All attention is on nature!
“The customers wanted the park (and this is a park, not a garden, since its area is more than one hectare and it has all the park elements: alleys, pavements, squares, walking paths) … so, the customers wanted the park looked as natural as possible. Therefore, we did not introduce complex forms and multi-level parterres (typical for French regular parks) into it, there are no sculptures and fountains. And even the lighting is thought out in such a way that the lanterns do not attract too much attention. Behind the house, we preserved areas of the virgin forest, only slightly tidied it up: removed the weed undergrowth, healed the trees, laid paths, planted groups of flowering shrubs, arranged mixborders, installed electricity. But nevertheless, the full impression that you are in the forest remains. Another distinguishing feature of this park is the lack of variegation. It is built on different shades of green, although, of course, there are flowers here too. How can you do without them? “
Photo #1 Tall lanterns are installed only in the forested part of the park. Paniculata hydrangea is illuminated with low bollard lanterns. Photo #2 Birch arches are a Russian alternative to French rose bersot.Photo #3 The main road to the house is paved with silver-gray granite paving stones. Photo #4 Tall lanterns are installed only in the forested part of the park. Paniculata hydrangea is illuminated with low bollard lanterns.Photo #5 In front of the forest part of the site, a parterre row of barberry, hosta, viburnum and holly maples was planted.Photo #6 View from the windows of the second floor.
He is Russian. This explains a lot
“The park’s design is based on the tradition of old Russian estates,” says Alexander. – Today it is one of the main trends in Russian landscape gardening art. More and more of our customers are drawn to Russian traditions and deviate from European trends. We tried, as far as possible, to revive the authentic look of the Russian estate. Let’s be frank: the traditional landscape gardening art (just as art) has been lost in Russia. I do not mean Peterhof (this is 100% Europe). We are talking about a Russian tradition, the ancestor of which is considered the brilliant scientist-breeder Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov (there will be time, be sure to visit his museum-estate “Dvoryaninovo” in the Tula region – you will not regret it). Historically, Russian parks included elements of all European parks with the replacement of heat-loving overseas plants with local ones (many varieties were bred by A.T. Bolotov in the XNUMXth century). This project uses elements traditional for Russian parks – for example, rowan and birch arches (analogous to French bersot of roses), linden trellises, hawthorn hedges, “balls” of holly maples (from the window of the second floor they look like large green beads scattered on the site), unusual weeping elms on high trunks (they form wings in front of the entrance to the area for tea parties). With the existing spruce forest, we have planted compact-shaped breeding trees near the house (they reach four meters in width, and they stretch up to a maximum of two in height). The euonymus, the shapeless bushes familiar to everyone, appear here in the form of neat balls. The real pearl of this park is the holly willows with a crown in the form of an open fan. Local plant species not only help to organically fit the park into the surrounding nature, but also make it unpretentious in care (the only plant that needs to be covered for the winter is roses, trees are cut at most twice a season). ”
The central square in front of the house is framed by a hawthorn hedge. Globular euonymus grow in a ring of Japanese spirea.
The floor of the “green living room” is paved with chipped sandstone with a grass seam. For this, the gaps between the stones were covered with earth mixed with seeds of shade-loving lawn grasses.
The entrance to the tea area is flanked by a pair of weeping elms. Retaining walls are made of sandstone.
In the best traditions
“This park is Russian, built on the traditions of Russian landscape gardening,” the authors of the project proudly say. It is interesting that A. T. Bolotov set himself similar tasks. In the XNUMXth century he wrote: “It would not be a little shameful for us when we had gardens, neither English nor French, but our own and invented by us, and when they became Russian!”
Design and implementation of the park – Il Nature, art director – Alexander Grivko, t. 797 4740.
Sketch of the general layout of the site
The total area of the site is 1.5 hectares.