World of plants and trees | №4 (85) "2015
No matter how many plants there are in your garden, when peonies bloom, all the attention belongs to them. They attract the eye, enchant with their power, color and aroma, beckoning you to come up and admire them up close. Peony is the king of the June garden! But at the same time, there is usually not a lot of it in private gardens. Perhaps because the plant is not given a chance to fully develop its capabilities. From the point of view of landscape architecture, peonies should be treated not as ordinary perennials, but as medium-sized shrubs.
In this case, there are many more reasons to plant a peony. Knowing about the possibilities of using these plants in the landscape, you can find a place for its varieties and varieties - and enjoy their flowering longer. Landing spots herbaceous peonies in the garden and the options for their use will seem unexpected to some, but take a closer look and you will discover this plant from a new side.
1. Parking lot
The height of some varieties of peonies reaches 1.5–1.8 m (for example, varieties “Scarlett O’Hara”, “Convoy”, “White Innosence”). This fortunate circumstance will allow you to hide the car behind flowering bushes, which will turn green after flowering. hedge.
2. Front garden
The entrance area is the traditional place for peonies in any country garden. You can emphasize the grandeur of the entrance to the house by planting rows along the path or planting three bushes of the same variety together. Adult clumps will reach one and a half meters in diameter, they can bear up to two hundred flowers. The spectacle will be impressive.
3. Pioneer
From peonies you can create a separate rose garden-type garden in a regular or other fancy layout, hiding it in hedges or behind a fence. Select varieties with different flowering periods (for example, “Nosegay”, “Earlybird”, blooming from the third decade of May, and “Edit M. Snook”, “Paul Bunyan”, blooming in June), place a bench in this garden, and from the middle May until the end of June it will be your favorite holiday destination. And if you plant herbs and fragrant annuals, then in the summer it will be a garden of aromas.
4. Far part of the garden
By planting peonies away from the house - with a view across a clearing or other open space, you will see them from the windows as a bright spot, inviting you to stroll through the garden, come closer and enjoy the beauty and aroma of flowers.
5. Groups
Even if you are not a fan of flower beds and only love lawns and trees, peonies are excellent partners in tree and shrub groups. Planted in front of large bushes such as lilacs and jasmines, they successfully cover their “legs” and are combined with spirea, cinquefoil or barberry. Peonies work as a great foreground, bursting with vibrant color in June. So-called landscape varieties with a dense bush and numerous simple or “Japanese” flowers such as “Little Medicineman”, “Honor”, “White Cap”, as well as ito hybrids, are more suitable for this purpose.
6. On the rocks
Peonies are also appropriate in rock gardens! If this is not a hill with miniature alpine plants, but a large rocky area, a slope, retaining wall, then neat low-growing bushes 25–40 cm high (for example, varieties “Early Bird”, “Elfin Beauty” or “Burnished Bronze”) will go well with conifers, small spireas and other compact plants.
7. Flower beds
Peony fits perfectly into almost any mixborder as a foreground (ito-hybrids, dwarfs), middle or background plant. Soloing in June along with salvias, Siberian irises, and onions, it will then create a wonderful green background for perennials blooming in the second half of summer and autumn.
8. Colored balls
Our European neighbors often decorate their gardens with balls of trimmed boxwood. In the Russian climate, they can be replaced with spherical thujas or... peonies! The ito hybrid bushes have such a regular rounded shape that they are quite capable of playing their role. Of course, itoh hybrids will not give the density of boxwood, but the image will be created.
9. Hedge
As we have already noted, peonies can serve as a hedge. It is especially effective to surround a residential area with it: a vegetable garden, a playground, a pool area, and so on. In this case, it is better to plant one variety that you like best.
Once you start thinking in this direction, you will probably find even more interesting places for peonies and, having planted them this fall, you will enjoy these beautiful relict plants for many years.
Ito hybrids in the landscape
Ito hybrids are so different from herbaceous peonies that they are perceived as a different plant.
We admire not only the unusual colors: lemon, yellow, lavender, purple, plum, apricot, but also carved foliage, round bushes leafy to the bottom, and unusual shades of leaves in autumn. The shape and color of flowers and leaves of itoh-hybrids, obtained by crossing a tree-like hybrid with a variety of milky peony, were inherited from the first parent, and winter hardiness - from the second, which belongs to herbaceous perennials, in which the above-ground part dies off in winter.
Itoh hybrid bushes are very attractive in the landscape. These peonies, especially compact varieties, can be planted at the front edge of mixborders, since their bare stems are not visible and the bushes do not fall apart. Due to the sequential opening of the buds, flowering lasts longer. Adult bushes bloom for up to three weeks. All itoh hybrids have fragrant flowers. In autumn, the foliage remains for a long time; frost changes its color to copper, red and purple. Almost not affected by rust.
6 ito hybrids from the Dragon Garden
In the Dragon Garden of Evgeny Sapunov, 220 varieties of peonies were collected. One of them belongs to the group of trees, 26 are ito-hybrids, the rest are milk-flowering and herbaceous hybrids.
"Court Jester"
Author of the variety: Roger Anderson. 1999
Small yellow-orange flowers with flashes of red-burgundy contrasting with golden threads of stamens and red stigmas. As they fade, they become creamy-yellowish. Then secondary buds open, prolonging the flowering of the bush. Similar to fashionable cactus varieties.
"Anderson's Kaleidoscope"
Author of the variety: Roger Anderson. 2006
A low shrub (80 cm) full of purple-pink flowers with creamy touches and splashes, it will impress in the garden. The petals are narrow, sometimes jagged.
"Bartzella"
Author of the variety: Roger Anderson. 1986
The most famous ito hybrid in our country. The golden masterpiece is one of the most beautiful among yellow peonies. The huge bush is strewn with large double flowers up to 20 cm in size. Beautiful finely dissected leathery foliage. Lemon aroma.
"Cora Louise"
Variety author: Roger Anderson
Registered in 1986. Named after the author's grandmother. Large semi-double, lemon-white flowers are pinkish when opening, then turn white with dark lavender spots at the base of the petals. The height of the bush is up to 85 cm. It blooms in June. The aroma is light.
Peonies of domestic selection
The selection of herbaceous peonies in the Soviet Union began in the middle of the last century. It was carried out on the basis of French and Dutch varieties obtained from European nurseries through the Institute of Plant Science (VIR) in Leningrad. To create new varieties, we first used the method of open pollination of plants, followed by selection of the most promising seedlings. Subsequently, the method of selecting parental pairs was used to obtain peonies with certain decorative characteristics.
In Moscow, breeding work was carried out on the basis of the GBS RAS by leading researcher N.S. Krasnova. She created a large number of varieties of peonies, which were distinguished by their varied colors, double flower shape, large size and resistance to adverse weather factors. Its varieties “In Memory of Academician Tsitsin”, “Varenka”, “In Memory of Gagarin”, “Surprise”, “Arkady Gaidar” are very popular among domestic peony growers.
“Varenka” (1957) - terry, rose-shaped, pink with a lilac tint, shiny (photo 6).
Breeding work was also carried out in the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University by A.A. Sosnovets and V.F. Fomicheva. They created about 30 varieties of peonies, including such outstanding varieties as “Solveig”, “Eaglet”, “ White sail", "Iceberg".
"Solveig" (1961) - terry, pink; light pink with a creamy tint. The flower is very large (photo 2).
Z.M. Archer at the Altai Experimental Horticulture Station in 1963 created the peony “Altai News” (photo 1), which can be considered the pride of domestic selection. The flower is simple, bright lilac-pink. The corolla is two-row, with large, originally folded petals. Flower diameter is 14–15 cm. The bush is tall, 100–120 cm, compact, grows quickly. The stems are strong and thick. The leaves are pointed, bright green. Early, abundant flowering.
In the Central Republican Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR E.D. Kharchenko, I.A. Tyran and V.F. Gorobets developed wonderful new varieties of peonies - “Bereginya”, “Mriya”, “School Waltz”, “Swan”, “Pearl Placer”, “Svitoch”.
“Pearl scattering” (1989) - a Japanese-type flower, the corolla is pearlescent, lilac-pink, the staminodes are long, yellow-pink (photo 3). Fragrant. Height 80 cm.
"Svitoch" (1989) - very early flowering period (photo 4). The flower is large, double, red-crimson. Bush 70 cm high, compact, strong stems. Grows well and is disease resistant. The aroma is weak.
Also, many varieties were created by amateur breeders in Russia. More than 50 varieties were developed by M.I. Akimov. Among them are “Polonaise”, “Spark of Hope”, “Golden Fleece”, “Lada”, “Major Gagarin”, “Olympics-80”.
“Olympics-80” (1976) - a pink flower, tall, pyramidal in structure, the central petals are beautifully curved, light pink in color. Sometimes Japanese-type flowers with light yellow, contrasting staminodes appear on the bush. The flower is medium size, up to 16 cm. The bush is low (60 cm), the stems are strong, it grows well. Fragrant (photo 5).
Our contemporary V.M. Dubrov is still creating beautiful new varieties of peonies. “Svetlana Udintseva”, “Mom’s Heart”, “ Kuril Islands", "Coolness", "Eternally Living" are some of its most popular varieties.
Agronomist and breeder Yu.P. lives and works in Mozdok. Potapov, and in Kazakhstan - breeder A. Skakodub. They created many beautiful varieties of peonies that are not yet very well known to our peony growers.
Peonies of domestic selection have high decorative qualities and deserve wider distribution in our gardens. Serious work to popularize these peonies is being carried out by the “Peonies” section of the “Moscow Flower Growers on Novinsky” club. The collections of the section members contain a large number of varieties of domestic hybridizers, which are exhibited at the club’s annual exhibitions and take prizes.
We thank Natalya Efimova for her help in preparing the material.
Text: Anna Pokrovskaya, Evgeny Sapunov
Photo: Evgeny Sapunov, Natalya Efimova
Today I have a good gift for flower growers who have already begun to prepare for the new summer season and are looking for information on flower bed designs.
I offer you a diagram of a continuous flowering bed with geranium, iris and peony. This flower bed (1.50 x 1.80 m) requires a sunny location with normal garden soil. In the West, such flowerbeds are called Three-Seasonal - they are beautiful in spring, summer, and autumn.
Thanks to the different flowering periods (from May to October) of the herbaceous perennials selected for such a flowerbed, the composition remains attractive throughout the entire gardening season.
To get an idea of what flowers look like in their “bloom” period and what each plant contributes to the design of a flower garden, the picture shows them all in bloom.
Deciphering the flowerbed diagram
1 — All year round attractive geranium large-rhizome(Geranium macrorrhizum), grows at the edge of the flower bed, blooms in June-July, has a beautiful autumn colors leaves and reaches 30 cm in height (4 copies).
It is very easy to care for, and in the fall, when the cold weather arrives, it can be transplanted into a flowerpot and placed in winter garden or even take her from the dacha to a city apartment.
2 - Here, in the foreground, is a sedum(Sedum) Herbstfreude 50 cm high: at first it decorates the flowerbed with attractive fleshy leaves, and starting in September with beautiful inflorescences (3 copies)
Sedum is a succulent, a light-loving plant, so try to choose a place that is not very shaded.
3 - A narrow blue ribbon made of Siberian iris flowers(Iris sibirisa) blue color decorates the flower garden in May-June (4 copies). You can experiment by planting irises of different colors.
4 - To the left of the irises is golden yarrow(Achillea) Coronation Gold with “flying saucers” of yellow inflorescences that soar in the air from July to September at a height of 70 cm from the ground (1 bush). A very unpretentious plant that requires almost no feeding.
5 - In May, the peony becomes the center of the composition(Paeonia) Rubra Plena (1 bush). It will decorate any garden with its huge crimson flowers!
6 - Blue-green ornamental grass growing right next to the fence - switchgrass(Panicum) “Heavy Metal” (1 bush), which grows in height up to 80-120 cm and blooms starting in August.
7 - Blooms almost simultaneously with millet impressive, 80-100 cm high common chinstrap(Echinops ritro), 1 bush.
Option for a continuously blooming flowerbed of 30 plants
A clipping from a magazine with a diagram and names of recommended plants for planting in a flower bed.
And another option for a flower bed of continuous flowering.
A flower bed with peonies stands out with its abundant bright blooms. These flowers are not solo plants; they look great in group plantings.
How to plant peonies in a flower bed
The bushes are spreading, the flowers are large, reaching 20 cm in diameter. In group plantings, they should not be planted close to other plants so that the peony can be seen from all sides.
A flowerbed with peonies looks very beautiful during the flowering period
Flowers planted in a flowerbed must have the same requirements for growing conditions. Next to peonies it is worth planting plants with smaller inflorescences than peonies. The color scheme can be varied.
What to plant next to peonies in the flowerbed:
- a decorative bow looks like a burgundy background;
- Thuja and barberry go well with pink peonies;
- carnation, heuchera, iris, sage, daylily and honeysuckle are combined with white and coral shades;
- Hellebores can be planted next to peonies;
- crocuses, galanthus, daffodils and tulips will decorate the flowerbed in early spring;
- in summer, lilies, astilbes, petunias and pelargoniums are combined with peonies;
- In the fall, asters, dahlias and chrysanthemums will decorate the flowerbed.
It is desirable that after the peonies finish flowering, other flowers bloom. The flowerbed should not remain empty. Neighboring plants should have lush greenery.
How to arrange a flower bed with peonies
To create a flower garden, tree-like and garden varieties. During flowering, peonies stand out against the background of other flowers, and after this period they will become a green background for other plants. They can be planted in rock gardens or in the center of the lawn.
Peonies can be placed in the middle of the flowerbed, and low-growing plants such as primroses, daisies or mantles can be planted along the edge. A delphinium will look in the background.
Ways to arrange a flower bed:
- Flower garden round shape. Place tall varieties of peonies in the center, and low-growing flowers along the edges.
- Rabatka, or long flower bed. Plant tall plants in the background and short plants in the foreground. The flowerbed can be placed near buildings or along the fence.
- Tiered flower garden. This method is suitable if the soil surface is embossed.
It is better not to plant several varieties of peonies in one flowerbed. No other plants should be planted between the bushes. Flowers should frame a group of peonies.
Peonies – perennials, they do not like transplantation, so it takes a long time to recover after this procedure. They prefer open and spacious areas. Keep this in mind when choosing a location for arranging a flower garden.
If 20 years ago someone had predicted that my collection of peonies would approach 100 varieties, and there was no plan in my mind to stop at this magic number, I would never have believed it! Then, in the 90s, my garden, like many gardens in the neighborhood, was one continuous vegetable garden, more than half of the harvest from which was distributed to relatives, friends and neighbors. If you remember well, then relatively small area A dozen more currant bushes and 8-9 already old apple trees, inherited from the previous owners, grew. Now only three tall apple trees with the most delicious fruits remain in the garden, but only brave representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations can fully harvest them.
Of course, there was also a front garden with flowers. Mostly these were plants given by kind neighbors: phlox, aconite and nameless pink, white and crimson peonies. My idea of flowers would have been limited to this assortment for a long time, if not for chance.
About five years after the start of my gardening activities, around the beginning of June, while walking around VDNKh, I accidentally wandered into the “Floriculture” pavilion. There, in the central part, on the floor and on the marble parapet surrounding a small fountain, flowers of unearthly beauty were displayed in tall white vases. I looked at them enthusiastically and for a long time could not believe my eyes. It turned out that all this splendor is peonies. My love for them struck me instantly! A quote from the famous work of M. Bulgakov is very suitable to describe my feelings: “This is how lightning strikes, this is how a Finnish knife strikes.”
That same fall, “Red Grace”, “Neon” and “Pearl Placer” appeared in my garden. It was they who laid the foundation for my collection of peonies and my serious passion for ornamental gardening. These varieties are alive and loved to this day, just like those nameless beauties left in memory of the kind hands that gave them to me.
In reality, it turned out that the largest collection in my garden is herbaceous peonies. They required proper placement - so that everything could be created for them. necessary conditions For successful growth, demonstrating the individual beauty and characteristics of the variety, and after the end of the flowering period, do not remain with the field until the end of summer green leaves, even if they are very beautiful.
To begin with, I divided peonies by type and flowering time. All super-early (May 20-25) species peonies and Ito hybrids were planted in separate compositions (more on this below), since they are distinguished from milky-flowered and interspecific hybrids not only by the shape of the flowers and habit, but also by their completely different foliage .
Interspecific hybrids of early flowering period (June 5-10) were combined into a separate group, most of them having flowers of very bright, unusual shades, often changing their color as they bloom.
The rest of the sunny space of the garden was divided between collections of milky-flowered peonies of medium flowering period with a simple or Japanese flower shape and densely double, very lush late varieties of peonies. It is worth admitting that this “division of property” did not occur immediately, but over several years, as the collection grew.
I do not accept the creation of continuously blooming compositions. I like it when spots of color in the garden, like fireflies, flash in different corners of it, giving rise to new impressions. Imagine the beginning of June in my garden, when most varieties of peonies, evergreen rhododendrons and deciduous azaleas begin to bloom at the same time. This, without false modesty, dazzling fireworks of colors lasts about three weeks. Therefore, my desire to plunge into “green silence” for at least a week seems quite natural. It's like removing the aftertaste before tasting new brand guilt.
Taking into account our interests with peonies, I chose phloxes as their main partners, paniculate hydrangeas and conifers with a compact growth type, since they not only support the decorative nature of plantings with peonies in the second half of summer, but are themselves the subject of my tireless collecting. Let me use the example of the longest composition in my garden to tell you how I arrange my treasures.
All the plants in this mixborder are arranged in the form of a kind of amphitheater, the last row of which is a hedge along a two-meter wooden fence at the border of the site. Moreover, the gaps between the picket fence during the construction of the fence are left for a specific purpose: air circulates better throughout the area - this makes it possible to plant plants close to the fence, which is very important for a small garden.
As a hedge, I planted varietal lilacs, a couple of “Buldonezh” viburnum bushes, and at the end of the mixborder were “historical” 6-meter trees: rowan and chestnut, a gift from a family friend (it was inconvenient to refuse, although in a small garden the best place for chestnuts is behind the fence) . This entire deciduous group is diluted with thujas “Spiralis”, “Smaragd”, “Yellow Ribbon” and trellises attached to the fence with fast-growing, or rather, “fast-climbing” clematis from the viticella group. The border with the lawn was designed in the form of “waning” waves. The widest wave, about 4 m from the fence, occurred in an area with chestnut and mountain ash. It’s easy to guess that the middle row was occupied by a collection of paniculate hydrangeas and phlox, and the elite first, sunniest row was occupied by peonies.
Every driver, even a notorious racer, knows that the main rule on the road is maintaining a distance. For successful growth, each plant needs a certain area of nutrition and enough light to withstand competition with its neighbors. In such a dense planting as this mixborder, I chose the checkerboard placement method.
Lilacs, viburnums, chestnuts and rowan have shallow, very dense and aggressive root systems. Therefore, I tried to remove the paniculate hydrangeas planted next to the maximum distance of 2 m from chestnut and mountain ash and 0.8-1 m from viburnums and lilacs. In fact, this is not enough, so on the edge landing pit hydrangeas, limiters were driven to a depth of about 0.4 m on the side of the “aggressors”. As a barrier, I used pieces of slate, old shovel blades, halves of tin paint buckets, and scraps of metal tiles. Phloxes are planted in groups with a distance of 0.6-0.8 m from hydrangeas, and the same distance separates peonies from phloxes and peonies from each other. To remain always beautiful and healthy with such tough competition, our trio will need more watering and nutrition, so during the summer I constantly add mulch (compost, grass clippings, weeded weeds) and increase the rate of complex seasonal fertilizers applied by ¼. I add dolomite flour and ash only for peonies!
Peonies in the 1st year after planting have a slightly frail habit and only at the age of 4-5 years they reach the bush size characteristic of each variety. At first, a border of babies looks rather modest, so I delicately plant low summer and perennial crops with a compact root system, which can later be easily thinned out or removed altogether. It is very important to remember that the soil within a radius of about 0.4 m from the peony should always be clean or, even better, mulched. Earthworms and peonies just love the mulch! I use various small-bulbous plants (crocuses, muscari, checkerboard grouse) and daffodils as filler for free “chessboard cells” - they do not require frequent digging and in the spring they complement the cheerful shoots of peonies very well.
Along the edge of the flower bed I plant remontant strawberries, sow colorful salads and arugula. In addition, the lemon balm, oregano and navel growing in my garden love to sow spontaneously, thereby temporarily filling the empty spaces in the garden. In the widest part of the “wave” of the mixborder, to soften the transition and emphasize the border of the flower bed, I planted low-growing junipers and a family of dwarf irises at a distance of about 0.8 m from the peonies.
Of course, there were experiments of planting peonies with tall roses, but the latter turned out to be very unstable in the conditions of my garden, as they showed the ability to winter well only when covered in a large group. A separate rose garden was created for them.
Ito hybrids have a completely unique, characteristic appearance, which, due to their origin, is in many ways reminiscent of tree peonies. The bushes of Ito hybrids are wide, with beautiful foliage that lasts until late autumn. In my garden, they grow best in raised sunny beds in combination with coniferous plants or in separate groups on the lawn, where they have space and freedom. When planting with conifers, I maintain a distance of 0.8-1 m, and if the density of the plants does not allow maintaining such a distance, I be sure to dig in a limiter, otherwise the roots of even the most compact thujas, junipers and pines will easily penetrate into the “tasty” hole of peonies and entwine them roots - I was convinced of this from my own sad experience.
Also, in a group with conifers and hydrangeas, everyone looks very natural and elegant natural views peonies. They are the very first to bloom, but for a very short time, although this fact is fully compensated by the interesting texture and shape of the leaves: from deeply dissected bright green (P. tenuifolia, P. anomala) to round leathery ones with a bluish bloom (P. mollis, P. kavachensis ).
An experienced gardener, and even more so a collector, having read this part of the article and squinting slyly, will ask with a grin: “And how, my dear, did you manage to squeeze more than a hundred varieties into flower beds in a small area?” The question is fair and requires an honest answer. It’s simple - having reduced the garden and strawberry plantation by half and removed all the greenhouses (now relatives, friends and neighbors buy vegetables at the market), I allocated a large square plot and several wide ridges for a significant part of the peony collection, limiting them to currant bushes and single-line rows with strawberries Peonies are planted in even rows with an interval of 0.7-0.8 m between each other and 1 m between rows. When preparing a peony bed, I do not dig separate holes, but immediately dig trenches, which I fill to the full length with the required amount of organic matter and mineral fertilizers.
It must be said that many peony collectors recognize only this method of placing the collection. The advantages are obvious: it is convenient to observe, keep records and records, use the same fertilizing and preventive treatment against diseases for one type of plant. The entire territory of the peony and vegetable garden part of the garden is strictly divided; there is not a single neglected or idle corner. Due to the proximity of groundwater, all ridges with peonies are raised 15-20 cm from the level of the paths. The question is, where can I get so much soil and compost? For the last three years I have been conducting the following experiment: on the site of the future peony garden I am making a classic “warm bed”. At the beginning of the summer of the first year, a large, wide trench is dug using two spade bayonets (not all at once, but along half of the ridge). The removed fertile soil and turf are folded to the side. Until autumn, the trench is filled with any plant debris, the layers are laid with turf and cow or chicken manure (I buy it once every three years and use it very sparingly). As soon as the pile reaches a height of 20-25 cm, I fill the top with a layer of 10-15 cm of excavated earth, the edges warm bed I strengthen it with formwork made of boards. In the second year, it becomes an excellent place for sowing cucumbers or zucchini. In the autumn, when the harvest is harvested and the bed is cleared of withered tops, I scatter dolomite flour (0.5 cups per 1 sq.m.), ash and sand on its surface and dig it up with a ½ bayonet shovel, since there is no point in digging deeper - inside the ridge and without that it was loose and “tasty”. Then I pour a layer of sand (2-3 cm) onto the marked rows for planting peonies and place the rhizomes on it, placing them horizontally. I usually use small divisions for planting, which lie evenly on the surface of the ridge. If you come across larger sections, with sticking out in different sides roots, then I partially bury them in the sand cushion. I install beacons and pour 4-5 cm of good quality water on top of the roots. garden land, taken from a bed that will also be prepared for planting cucumbers next year. This kind of rotation in the garden allows me to avoid building large, space-consuming compost bins. Of course, this is a lot of work, but the result, believe me, is worth it.
In the spring, after young peonies have sprung up (hurray!), I plant, for example, onions in wide row spacings, which not only does not interfere with them, but also slightly helps strengthen the peonies’ immunity, as it releases phytoncides. If I sow salad mustard or arugula, I simply cut off the finished greens, leaving the roots to rot in the ground. It is clear that to protect against diseases I only use biological preparations Alirin or Fitosporin.
In conclusion, I sincerely congratulate all gardeners and peonies connoisseurs on the upcoming New Year. I wish you and your gardens health and prosperity, patience and perseverance. Let your loved ones, looking at the Garden of Eden that you create for them with your own hands, appreciate your work and treat your wonderful hobby with understanding!
