UNIQUE LANDSCAPES AND COMPOSITIONS IN THE M.M. GRYSHKO NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE NАS OF UKRAINE

Abstract

Botanical gardens are objects of Nature Reserve Fund. Therefore, the best areas, compositions and unique hand-made landscapes can be marked for conservation as well. The unique landscapes and expositions of valuable tree plants were created under famous scientist, park creator, professor, doctor of biology L.I. Rubtsov in the M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of the NAS of Ukraine. Arboretum expositions, created in 1950s–1970s, that included great landscapes, unfortunately underwent some unwelcomed changes in our times. The M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden is one of the few where most of the open areas were preserved, such as glades, terraces and landscape pictures. Most of the expositions are located on a complex relief. "The Garden of Lilacs", "The Golden Valley of Forsythias", "The Wet Valley", "The Birch Grove", "Gymnosperms", "The Mountain Garden", "The Alpine Garden", "Carpathians", "Steps of Ukraine", "Central Asia" (from where great perspectives open up to religious buildings of Vydubychi Monastery, Dnipro River and its Left Bank) have particular value when forming the landscapes and landscape pictures. Unique hand-made compositions and landscapes of the M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of the NAS of Ukraine also have important value to the landscape architecture of Kyiv and Ukraine as a whole. If viewing pictures or panoramas, which are overgrown with coppice can be renewed the prospects blocked by constructions are lost forever. For that reason, it is necessary to create a registry of the unique hand-made landscapes which require protection from failed buildings and coppice.