Готика в цветочном дизайне
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kaveryВ начале следующей недели в Британии откроется традиционная выставка цветов Chelsea Flower Show
Однно из актуальных направлений цветочного садоводческого дизайна в этом году - готика.
Популярны цветы черных и серых оттенков. Например как вот эти ирисы.
Я и не знала, что существуют черные ирисы. Как я поняла, они являются национальным цветком Иордании.
Впрочем, они не абсолютно черные, но бардовый оттенок только придает им шику. Кстати, судя по тому, что написано в статье, оттенки пурпура весьма актуальны в саду.
Ну если вам ирисы не нравятся, то можно и вот такое у себя посадить:
This "Swartztoff" aonium arborescens can be found in the Jurassic Coast garden, which recreates the sub-tropical feel of Abbotsbury in Dorset, which was England's first natural heritage site
Times Online May 19, 2006
The gothic invasion
The new black plants thrive in arid conditions, writes Damian Barr
AS SURELY as spring becomes summer, the Chelsea Flower Show is opening its petals again next week with about 600 exhibitors and nearly 50 gardens. Chelsea is to horticulture what Paris is to fashion: if it’s in, it’s here; if it’s out, it’s not. So this year watch out for black flowers, steel, rather than wood, structures, and irises in place of alliums.
“You only need to see a plant or material in two or three show gardens for it quickly to become a new fashion,” Bob Sweet, the head of shows development for the Royal Horticultural Society, says. “Everyone’s concerned about the hosepipe ban,” he adds. “Irises are happy in arid conditions and offer a brilliant range of colours. We’re seeing a lot of darker shades, especially rusty browns: 2006 is definitely the year of the iris at Chelsea.”
Black is even deeper this year. “It’s about shades of black, and adding purples and greys for a Gothic look,” says Sweet. “Black flowers are hard to come by, so choose dark foliage like heucheras.”
Chris Beardshaw, of the BBC programme The Flying Gardener, says: “When I was a boy, gardens stayed the same for years. Now the garden is just another room. We decorate with plants instead of paint. Gardens must keep pace with the rest of our homes.”
Big organisations such as the Flowers and Plants Association help to set trends. “They sit down a year in advance and decide what styles to push,” Beardshaw says. “They’re behind the current Gothic look, combining blacks, purples and greys. A few years ago very naturalistic, prairie-meadow planting was introduced at Chelsea. Now we’re reacting against that with a more formal, structured look.”
This year The Chris Beardshaw Wormcast Garden — Growing for Life at Boveridge House is a re-creation of a garden designed in 1920 by Gertrude Jekyll, the celebrated plantswoman, and Thomas Mawson, the grandaddy of landscape architects. The garden at Boveridge House in Dorset was their only collaboration and is being restored. “We’ve used original drawings and even some surviving plants,” Beardshaw says. “Expect a considered, formulaic style — great ribbons of colour wafting through borders. Magical.”
Other designs are less formal. “Gardeners are introducing lots of sculptural features,” Sweet says. “Not statues, but great lumps of raw, man-made materials.”
Xanthe White has incorporated plenty of those materials into her 100 per cent Pure New Zealand Garden. It also features many plants never seen in this country as well as variations on the fern. “I’ve used glass and steel, but they’re rough and untreated, not polished and new,” she says. “I am working with the landscape, rather than imposing order, and giving nature her place.” One giant stone has a Maori inscription that says: “While the forest stands, the people stand.” “Global warming affects us all,” she says. “Here you’re concerned about drought. At home we worry about flooding.”
White’s garden has two national icons: the majestic kauri tree, which can grow to 200ft and live for 2,000 years, and pohutukawa, known as the New Zealand Christmas tree for its December crimson flowers. You won’t find them in garden centres — yet.
“Annual bedding plants demand time we can’t afford and water we don’t have,” says Beardshaw. “Garden centres just can’t shift them.
“So avoid the plants that your granny once grew: carnations, fuchsias and the like.” Begonias beware.
RHS Chelsea is from May 23 to 27. To get your tickets just call 0870 9063781
What's in
Architectural look: dark colours — black, grey, beige — dominating; emphasis on foliage; low maintenance and drought resistance
Steel: rusty, not polished
Concrete: roughed up and industrial
Glass: clear, not coloured
Tree ferns: Jurassic and dramatic
English roses: scented, stunning and overdue for a revival
Irises: not particularly thirsty and available in just about every colour Alliums: if you really must have them, try the more unusual varieties
What's out
Naturalistic, blowsy borders full of thirsty flowers; polished, varnished woods
Conifers of all kinds, not just miniatures
Carnations: service station shame
Pinks: smell good, but too much like carnations
Fuchsias: gaudy
Pelargoniums: they’re so 1970s
Begonias: water hungry
Busy lizzies: these are attention-seekers. Best ignore
Однно из актуальных направлений цветочного садоводческого дизайна в этом году - готика.
Популярны цветы черных и серых оттенков. Например как вот эти ирисы.
"Black is even deeper this year. “It’s about shades of black, and adding purples and greys for a Gothic look,” says Sweet. “Black flowers are hard to come by, so choose dark foliage like heucheras.” "
газета "Times"
Я и не знала, что существуют черные ирисы. Как я поняла, они являются национальным цветком Иордании.
Впрочем, они не абсолютно черные, но бардовый оттенок только придает им шику. Кстати, судя по тому, что написано в статье, оттенки пурпура весьма актуальны в саду.
Ну если вам ирисы не нравятся, то можно и вот такое у себя посадить:
This "Swartztoff" aonium arborescens can be found in the Jurassic Coast garden, which recreates the sub-tropical feel of Abbotsbury in Dorset, which was England's first natural heritage site
Times Online May 19, 2006
The gothic invasion
The new black plants thrive in arid conditions, writes Damian Barr
AS SURELY as spring becomes summer, the Chelsea Flower Show is opening its petals again next week with about 600 exhibitors and nearly 50 gardens. Chelsea is to horticulture what Paris is to fashion: if it’s in, it’s here; if it’s out, it’s not. So this year watch out for black flowers, steel, rather than wood, structures, and irises in place of alliums.
“You only need to see a plant or material in two or three show gardens for it quickly to become a new fashion,” Bob Sweet, the head of shows development for the Royal Horticultural Society, says. “Everyone’s concerned about the hosepipe ban,” he adds. “Irises are happy in arid conditions and offer a brilliant range of colours. We’re seeing a lot of darker shades, especially rusty browns: 2006 is definitely the year of the iris at Chelsea.”
Black is even deeper this year. “It’s about shades of black, and adding purples and greys for a Gothic look,” says Sweet. “Black flowers are hard to come by, so choose dark foliage like heucheras.”
Chris Beardshaw, of the BBC programme The Flying Gardener, says: “When I was a boy, gardens stayed the same for years. Now the garden is just another room. We decorate with plants instead of paint. Gardens must keep pace with the rest of our homes.”
Big organisations such as the Flowers and Plants Association help to set trends. “They sit down a year in advance and decide what styles to push,” Beardshaw says. “They’re behind the current Gothic look, combining blacks, purples and greys. A few years ago very naturalistic, prairie-meadow planting was introduced at Chelsea. Now we’re reacting against that with a more formal, structured look.”
This year The Chris Beardshaw Wormcast Garden — Growing for Life at Boveridge House is a re-creation of a garden designed in 1920 by Gertrude Jekyll, the celebrated plantswoman, and Thomas Mawson, the grandaddy of landscape architects. The garden at Boveridge House in Dorset was their only collaboration and is being restored. “We’ve used original drawings and even some surviving plants,” Beardshaw says. “Expect a considered, formulaic style — great ribbons of colour wafting through borders. Magical.”
Other designs are less formal. “Gardeners are introducing lots of sculptural features,” Sweet says. “Not statues, but great lumps of raw, man-made materials.”
Xanthe White has incorporated plenty of those materials into her 100 per cent Pure New Zealand Garden. It also features many plants never seen in this country as well as variations on the fern. “I’ve used glass and steel, but they’re rough and untreated, not polished and new,” she says. “I am working with the landscape, rather than imposing order, and giving nature her place.” One giant stone has a Maori inscription that says: “While the forest stands, the people stand.” “Global warming affects us all,” she says. “Here you’re concerned about drought. At home we worry about flooding.”
White’s garden has two national icons: the majestic kauri tree, which can grow to 200ft and live for 2,000 years, and pohutukawa, known as the New Zealand Christmas tree for its December crimson flowers. You won’t find them in garden centres — yet.
“Annual bedding plants demand time we can’t afford and water we don’t have,” says Beardshaw. “Garden centres just can’t shift them.
“So avoid the plants that your granny once grew: carnations, fuchsias and the like.” Begonias beware.
RHS Chelsea is from May 23 to 27. To get your tickets just call 0870 9063781
What's in
Architectural look: dark colours — black, grey, beige — dominating; emphasis on foliage; low maintenance and drought resistance
Steel: rusty, not polished
Concrete: roughed up and industrial
Glass: clear, not coloured
Tree ferns: Jurassic and dramatic
English roses: scented, stunning and overdue for a revival
Irises: not particularly thirsty and available in just about every colour Alliums: if you really must have them, try the more unusual varieties
What's out
Naturalistic, blowsy borders full of thirsty flowers; polished, varnished woods
Conifers of all kinds, not just miniatures
Carnations: service station shame
Pinks: smell good, but too much like carnations
Fuchsias: gaudy
Pelargoniums: they’re so 1970s
Begonias: water hungry
Busy lizzies: these are attention-seekers. Best ignore
