As a result of the vote, many people are interested in plants and the botanical life of gardens, so we add a little botany to this section.

Before us are two photographs of the Garden Facade of the Mikhailovsky Palace, taken from the Mikhailovsky Garden with a difference of 65 years.

In both photographs, in the left part of the image stands a leafy oak. The age of this tree is 284 years. In 2014, an instrumental examination of the tree was carried out, which established its age. Based on this study, the oak tree received the status of “Monument of Wildlife”. In a time that equals human life, the tree has not changed much.

Now let’s pay attention to the lawn in front of the palace, which is usually called the Shrovetide. In the 50s of the 20th century, it was an almost Moorish lawn with mowed cereals and fluffy balls of dandelions. In those years, the Mikhailovsky Garden belonged to the Dzerzhinsky District, and there was a shortage of lawn mowers in the city gardening park. Currently, the meadow regularly mows and looks well-groomed.

In the first picture, dense thickets of shrubs planted in the 1930s grow around the Shrovetide Meadow. During the restoration of the Mikhailovsky Garden in 2003, these shrubs were removed because they did not correspond to the original project drawn up by Karl Rossi.

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