Tatarchuk R. The Rocky Gardens of Kyiv (Species Composition, Compositional Foundations of Formation, Prospects of Use)

The thesis generalizes theoretical, methodological and practical provisions on the current state and optimization of the use of ornamental plants in the expositions of Kyiv rocky gardens. The historical aspect and tendencies of creation of rocky gardens are analyzed, it is revealed that the question of creation of rocky compositions was already interested in Ancient China and Japan, in Ukraine – this is a relatively new trend in landscape gardening, since initially rocky gardens were created predominantly from botanical gardens study of plant growth and development in an artificially created environment. The direct objects of research are 63 research sites located in different administrative districts of Kyiv and private estates in the suburbs of the capital. In the right-bank part of the study sites were located in Holosiivskyi, Obolonskyi, Pecherskyi and Shevchenkivskyi, in the left-bank – Dniprovskyi, Desnyanskiy and Darnytsa districts. The sites are located in 7 out of 10 districts of the city and cover plantations of different functional purpose (general-purpose planting, restricted-use planting, special-purpose planting). In addition, the experimental sites are located outside the city of Kiev in the village Marhalivka and in Boyarka. This method of selection of research sites has allowed to cover as much as possible various parts of the city and to best analyze the current state of the rocky gardens.