Germany. The garden, which is based on a regular layout with its characteristic symmetrical compositions

Passing the gallery

Text: Zarina Dzgoeva

Materials: - (c) Gary Rogers

Magazine: Na (80) 2004

Studying the differences in the garden style of different countries from the books, you will find the characteristic features of English, French, Italian, Japanese and even Dutch gardens, but the features of German are unlikely to be mentioned, even in the most detailed encyclopedic work. A beautiful garden in Germany is a rare phenomenon and, moreover, deserves close attention. The history of this garden began with an accidental combination of circumstances. In 1988, an elderly couple was forced to leave the house they had rented for several years. At this point, Hinrich and Ingrid already had a whole farm: two horses, a few beehives and many plants, with love and patience grown by Ingrid. For six months, the couple had to find a suitable home with a plot of land and move there with all their animals and plants. When they first saw this place, it made a depressing impression: a dilapidated house, a field and several fruit trees. However, winter was approaching, and with the choice of home and the move, it was necessary to hurry. Transportation of plants took a whole month, so there was simply no time left to plant them in any particular order. Plants literally stuck in the open field, carefully wrapped with straw. The first winter at the new place was surprisingly mild: the plants did not suffer at all. Starting to equip a new garden, the owners took as a basis the regular layout with its characteristic symmetrical compositions, straight avenues, plants, trimmed in the form of geometric shapes. In search of new ideas and role models, Ingrid and Hinrich traveled all over Europe. The classic English parks of the beginning of the last century made a particularly deep impression on the couple. In one of them, Hidkot Manor, Hinrich and Ingrid borrowed the idea of ​​"room" planning, in which the entire garden area is divided into separate sections of the correct form - "rooms", bounded by living "walls". In the English park, the “walls” were of yew, and the couple used shrubs and boxwood. Another English park, Sissinghurst, struck Hinrich and Ingrid with his famous White Garden, consisting of white flowers only: roses, lilies, bluebells, lupins and bluegrass. After returning home, the couple made their own White Garden, whose semantic center was a gazebo, twined with white roses. So gradually, year after year, Hinrich and Ingrid "collected" their garden, finding for him the most interesting and beautiful in landscape design. The last idea of ​​the owners is to make a nursery of rare plants on the model of the famous English nursery Westonbert. Although Ingrid recently turned 72 and her husband is 10 years older, they spend all their free time at work and are confident that it is the garden that helps them maintain their health and good spirits.