Брусника (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) в декоративном оформлении исторических садов и парков Санкт-Петербурга

Abstract

In the XVIII century in Russia developed regular style gardens, one of the main elements of which was the parterres. As before, the green outline of the decore on theparterres is performed by the Buxus. In St. Petersburg, still in the Imperial times, a cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) was used to replace a badly wintering the Buxus. In modern times, the first attempts to return cowberry to the assortment of historical gardens and parks of St. Petersburg were in the 1980s, and later - during the restoration of the Summer Garden (2009–2011), which is a monument of landscape art of the 18th century. On the parterre of the garden in 2011 was planted 7545 copies. cowberry of variety Koralle, brought from Holland. For six years of growth of cowberry in the parterre of the Summer Garden, the preservation at the moment is about 62,5 %, which can be considered a good result, given the almost absent experience of using the species in the gardening of the central gardens of the metropolis. Work is planned to improve the condition of cowberry on the parterres of the Summer Garden.