On December 21, 2013 to March 30, 2014 in Moscow, at Prospekt Mira, 26, will host the festival "Exotic Winter" in "apothecary gardens."
Opening hours from 11.00 to 19.00 daily
This winter will be no need to flee from the gray and dank Moscow in warm, exotic countries, because in the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary Garden" will, as always, in winter greenand sunny, and certainly nowhere in Moscow is impossible to see so many exotic plants in one place.
In the greenhouse complex will be held parallel to the garden just three grandiose exhibition event dedicated to the wonderful members of the vegetable kingdom: orchids, desert plants and aquatic plants.
Firstly, will become a traditional V Winter Festival of orchids in the Palm House.However, this year it will be unusual: the first time the staff of the garden decided to show their treasures - orchid species, including the most rare and strange, normally hidden from prying eyes in long greenhouses, where ordinary visitors are not allowed.
Second, opens a permanent exhibition of succulents - plants of deserts and arid areas of the Earth, one of the best in our country.Third, in the foyer of the greenhouse complex of an exhibition of landscape aquariums, which are created by craftsmen entire underwater landscapes.
So, from December 21 to March 30 in the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary Garden" will host the V Winter Festival of orchids in the historic Palm House, which this time will be dedicated to showcasing the most unique and extraordinary wild species of orchids from around the world, including the recentlypublic in nature.
first time, visitors will be able to fully see almost the entire collection of orchids of the Botanical Garden, which is significantly enriched in recent years, amazing rarities and novelties.As flowering, these plants will be entered in the Palm House.
Visitors "Apothecary Garden" will see not only the bright colors and the latest hybrids Phalaenopsis pafiopedilumov, Cumbria and Dendrobiums, but also be able to admire the extraordinary appearance of the natural species of orchids.The family of orchids - the largest number of species in the vegetable kingdom.It adjoin unusual, fantastic miniature plants without leaves of the genus Hiloshista (Chiloschista), originating in South-East Asia, interesting even without flowers, and Dendrobium (Dendrobium ametistoglossum) c many flowers on leafless pseudobulbs.
mysterious tropical shoes (Paphiopedilum malipoense) fascinate leaves resembling velvet plaid precious and unusual greenish flowers and exotic bulbofillumy with umbellate inflorescences strange charm peculiar flavors.Visitors will appreciate the exquisite beauty of tiny lepantesov Ecuador, majestic species lelii and Cattleya, has long been considered the queen in the kingdom of orchids, rare species compared Phalaenopsis (Phalaenopsis mannii) with numerous and widespread hybrids of the most popular orchids in the world.
The nature of the family Bromeliads are the companions of orchids, because traditionally grown in similar conditions.They will also be presented, along with orchids in a greenhouse garden.Among them - an amazing silver tillyandsiya (Tillandsia usneoides), floating in the air graceful waterfall.
Festival will take place in a large Palm House, where, besides orchids, of course, there will be many other flowering plants, including Strelitzia with flowers resembling colorful tropical birds with blue and orange feathers.The background to all this are unique century-old palm trees, bananas, huge and powerful tropical vines.
second event - the opening to the public of a new, specially equipped with the exposition greenhouse succulents, ie plants with succulent parts is stored moisture.Botanical Garden of Moscow State University will give visitors the opportunity to see the entire collection of desert plants of the Earth has increased many times over.
Of course, the most famous desert plants - a cactus.At the exhibition visitors will be able to see not only their diversity, but also to go along with them their evolutionary path - from tropical rainforests to savannas, steppes and deserts and back into the woods;see how gradually parted with cactus leaves and learned to store moisture in the stems, and some of them came back from the desert in the forest, again made himself "leaves" of the stems;consider many types of rough - from tiny, finely serrated glochidia from prickly pear to mnogosantimetrovyh, strong as nails, thorns Ferocactus, thorns, turned into hair or fluff, and finally, cacti, decided to do without thorns.
In the world of cacti are many curiosities - a comb, spiral, monstrose, "colored" (non-green) variation gustokrapchatye form "star cactus" - Astrophytum.Some of them are found in nature, but have been specifically selected for the man, while others would be unable to survive on their own, and pleasing to the eye, if not the art of cactus.
Equally surprising euphorbias - African counterparts cacti.The similarity of these two unrelated groups of plants can be truly amazing: like cacti, mastering the desert, euphorbias gradually lost, and provided themselves with leaves like thorns, although these thorns they invented regardless of cacti and solved the problem of "manufacturing" quite differently.Exactly how they do it, it tells the exhibition.
conquering the desert, a long evolutionary path and did asclepiad - from vines up to thick-trees kaktusovidnyh forms and up to the "living stones".Also known florist slipway in the collection can be seen stunning tseropegii and fokii.Milky juice asclepiad, like euphorbias are often toxic, and to pollinate their flowers these originals desert became friends with flies - so there are also the most unusual colors and the strangest, not floral scents.
all the usual indoor aloe - just one of the hundreds of species of aloe, inhabiting deserts, savannas and steppes of Africa and Asia.In a greenhouse you can see the aloe is not similar to the popular homemade herb - this big tree of aloe to the trunk, and very small rosette plants, and rare "fan" of aloe, whose leaves are arranged in a row, and disappearing aloe multisheeted withleaves arranged in a spiral, the home is high in the mountains of Swaziland, the winter snows.
Many desert plants pretend stones, but perhaps the best is obtained from Lithops and their relatives - family plants aizoaceae.Only the bright colors in the rainy season give these plants, hiding in placer stones.Can you distinguish the "living stones" of the ordinary in our compositions?
lack of water and the scorching sun of the desert - not a cause for discouragement, consider the plant family Crassulaceae.Juicy leaves Crassula Echeveria and give a true kaleidoscope of various colors and shapes.
Additionally, you can learn how to deal with the problem of survival in the wilderness family pumpkin, pineapple and grapes;see plant-turtle Dioskoros with annual rings on the dashboard "shell", and green beads Krestovnikov, the legendary "Dragon Tree" of the Canary Islands and Mexican agave;make sure that the "agave" - contrary to legend aloe bloom every year and do not die, and see the roof rests on the ten-spike furkrei really blossoming once in a lifetime!- And much, much more ...
And the third event in the winter garden - the exhibition "Gallery planted aquarium."The exhibition is held in the lobby of the greenhouse complex garden.Botanical Garden of Moscow State University for the first time provides the opportunity to get acquainted with that part of the earth's flora, which until then had not shown in its exposition - with underwater plants.In these aquariums and animals are, but the main thing in them - representatives of the plant kingdom.From the plant to the exhibition of art made whole underwater scenery - "aquascape".
These aquarium landscapes - known creative artists akvaskeyperov, multiple winners of international and Russian competitions aquarium tracks: Dmitry Parshin, Gregory Polishchuk Olga Uzhegova.Thus, each of the aquarium - not just the composition of aquatic plants, and a work of art, created by craftsmen-artists.
The exhibition "Gallery planted aquarium" Visitors will be able to see and appreciate the beauty of the underwater landscape and the diversity of the world of underwater plants.Here, botany enthusiasts will have a unique opportunity to see high-quality underwater higher plants and specially selected tropical mosses.With this exhibition, the festival begins on a route hothouse expositions of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University.
