Classic garden
Garden in Russian style
Alley of limes in the form of a "ball on the stem." Everything is flowing, everything is changing, and with this one has to do something. The main ornament of this park, stretched out on one and a half hectares of old spruce forest, is a small river. You do not need to be a landscape expert 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 have to be an expert to know: a river can be the main problem in the work. "Before we cleared and deepened its channel, gave it more distinct outlines and strengthened the banks, during the flood period the river spilled throughout the site, from the fence and to the fence," recalls art director of Il Nature Alexander Grivko. - The flooding was facilitated by the close groundwater table. At once I will make a reservation: work on strengthening and clearing of coasts was conducted very cautiously so that not to change a water balance of a site, not to break a coastline, natural speed of a watercourse and a natural ecosystem of a reservoir as a whole ». And by the river, and by the river ... On the shores there are planted moisture-loving plants - iris, host, verbain, deren, willow. For them, in general, the wetter, the better (in ordinary conditions, it is necessary to make a special clay "lock" that retains moisture). Naturally, no one tried to plant roses, maples or limes near the river. They are afraid of spring floods and especially cold thawed water - limes should be planted in places where there is no stagnation of water. 
On the banks of the river planted moisture-loving plants.
On the shore there are moisture-loving irises, a verbain, a host, a white deren, a buzulnik. Along the path leading to the bridge are spherical spindles.
The shore slopes were strengthened with the help ofgeogrids and rolled lawn. All attention is to the nature! "Customers wanted the park (and this is the park, not the garden, since its area is more than one hectare and it has all the park elements: avenues, pavements, squares, walking track) ... so, the customers wanted the park to look as natural as possible. Therefore, we did not introduce complex forms and multi-level parterres (typical for French regular parks), 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 have preserved the parts of the virgin forest, only slightly brought it to order: we removed the weedy undergrowth, treated trees, paved paths, planted groups of flowering shrubs, arranged mixborders, and conducted electricity. But nevertheless, the overall impression that you are in the forest remains. Another distinguishing feature of this park is the lack of diversity. It is built in different shades of green, although there are flowers, of course. How without them? "
Photo # 1 High lights are installed only inforest part of the park. Paniculata hydrangea is illuminated with low bollard lanterns. Photo # 2 Birch arches - 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 High lanterns are installed only in the forest part of the park. Paniculata hydrangea is illuminated with low bollards. Photo # 5 A parterre row of barberry, hosta, Viburnum and Norway maple is planted in front of the forest part of the site. 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 18th 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 the wings in front of the entrance to the area for tea drinking). With the existing spruce forest, we have planted compact-shaped breeding trees near the house (they reach four meters in width, and 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 - these are roses, trees are cut a maximum of two times a season) ”. 
The central square in front of the house is framed by a hedge of hawthorn. Spheriform growth sprouts grow in a ring of Japanese spiraea.
The floor of the "green living room" is paved with a crushed sandstone with a grassy seam. For this, the cracks between the stones were covered with earth with an admixture of seeds of shade-loving lawn grasses.
The entrance to the tea party is flanked by a coupleweeping elms. The retaining walls are made of sandstone. In the best traditions "This park is Russian, built on the traditions of Russian landscape architecture", the authors of the project proudly say. It is interesting that such tasks were set by A.T. Bolotov. In the 18th century he wrote: "It would not be a shame for us that when we had gardens, neither English nor French, but our own and invented by us, and when they would be called Russian!" The project and implementation of the park - company Il Nature, art director - Alexander Grivko, v. 797 4740. Sketch of the master plan of the site The total area of the site is 1.5 hectares.
