PROSPECTS FOR THE USE OF NUMEROUS SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF MEADOWSWEETS IN URBAN LANDSCAPING
This article is a summing-up of almost 25 years of tests with numerous species and varieties of meadowsweets in the Main Botanical Gardens' nursery of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Based on the data of blossom times, the habitus of the bush, its decorativeness, planting meadowsweets can be organized so as to gratify the citizens from early spring to late autumn. Among ornamental trees and shrubs used in landscaping, one is less likely to find another such species group that would have so long a period of decorativeness and such resilience in urban cultivation environment. The article would be of most interest to specialists dealing in landscaping of Moscow.