Were new flowers planted in museum?

“Give Beauty to the Museum” was the name of the action held in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve together with the National Park “Russian North” today.

This year the museum flower beds were replenished with …herbs! “Hyssop, Jacob’s-ladder or Greek valerian, Oregano, catmint and others will bloom on the flower beds of the museum soon”, said T.Y. Penyugalova, head of the Department of Environmental Education, Ecotourism and Recreation in the National Park “Russian North”.

Everything started with usual phloxes here once. The employees of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve chose places for parterres and laid out flower beds and mixborders themselves more than 10 years ago. Now you can see flowers near different architectural monuments: red tulips against the white background of the House of the Father Superior, irises at the Cook-House, geranium next to the Hospital Cells…

The museum employees begin to plant seedlings for flower beds in February. They transplant them into the greenhouse later and begin to make parterres on the first warm spring and summer days. Tiger lily, primrose, peonies, wild strawberries, marigold, Indian cress, roses and even quite unusual flowers play out in fresh colours and please visitors with interesting compositions.