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Designer Irina Glik

If I didn’t do interiors, I probably would have started making gardens. This is my big hobby and a real passion. Many moments of plant transformation pass before your eyes, and it’s incredibly exciting. It so happened that in the strange summer of 2020, during forced isolation, the garden became my main study.

A fragment of the patio.

My garden is 20 years old. I started laying it from scratch on an empty loamy territory. She drew inspiration and knowledge from English gardens, regularly visiting the garden exhibition in Chelsea. I wanted to create a small garden on a small territory, where I could walk for a long time.

It was very important to make the right layout, clearly understanding which zones are needed. As a result, the main lawn appeared. I have laid many paths around it. Laid them in such a way that there was room for curbside gardens along them. Probably they, or rather their change in the process of moving along the path, gives the feeling that the garden is large.

The central lawn.

“Color harmony is very important to me”

“I wanted to create a small garden on a small territory, where I could walk for a long time”

The Japanese kindergarten is located in the farthest corner. This, of course, is not an academic Japanese garden, but rather my interpretation. It could be called the rocky garden. It all started with finding the right stones — for streams, for the shores of ponds, for paths. I was lucky enough to find a large gray block — the basis for the waterfall. It was not an easy task to create a landscape out of these stones. After all, it is necessary that everything looks as natural as possible — a real landscape in miniature.

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I built a pavilion near a small pond with a view of a waterfall and a stream. On the shores of the ponds are medium-sized and dwarf forms of pines and junipers, rhododendrons, azaleas, silver loch, my favorite tree-like peonies and hydrangeas, Japanese maple and red-flowered apple tree. It is separated from the main garden by a bamboo fence and taller trees: weeping birch and larch, black pine and cedar. It’s amazing how many plants fit on this site. Some I form, and some have already harmoniously sprouted into each other.

“It is necessary that everything looks as natural as possible, a real landscape in miniature”

Of course, the selection of plants is very important. Laying a garden, you need to immediately have an idea how adult forms will look.
I acted intuitively: the perimeter is tall trees, an accent red oak on the main lawn and a chestnut tree near the patio. But even I cut them regularly. The middle tier consists of ornamental shrubs and low trees. Perennials add color, and creepers add romance.

Of course, in the beginning I experimented with different types. I wanted to plant everything!  Then, by natural selection, there were those who liked to grow in my garden. Now it seems to me that it is not necessary to follow the path of the experiment. There are a huge number of species that grow beautifully in our strip.

“Perennials add color, and creepers add romance”

Planning different zones, I immediately decided where the priority color would be. Color harmony is very important to me. Somewhere blue dominates me, on the main lawn and around it there are various shades of pink from the most delicate to deep purple and cherry. The white and yellow kindergarten exists separately. Yellow and white roses combined with white hydrangea create such a romantic country mood.

And of course gazebos! I have three of them! If you have created beauty, then you need to create an opportunity to enjoy it regardless of the weather. In the pavilion of the Japanese kindergarten, I like to work, gather my thoughts, or just sit in the rain and meditatively observe how beautiful wet stones are.  There is a gazebo with a hammock in the “forest”. This is what I call the part of the garden where cedar pines grow, as well as many plants that have moved from the main garden for various reasons.

Gazebo in the forest.

Closer to the house there is a “front” gazebo with a round table. The front door is because there is a huge chandelier hanging in it. Once Kirill Istomin used it to decorate the Semifreddo restaurant. Then the restaurant moved to a new location, and there was no place for the chandelier there. I begged for it, repainted it in a light green color, and now it, in a composition with cornflower pillows, fits perfectly into the garden landscape.

Front gazebo.Dorozhkin Alexey

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