Range of the grassy ornamental plants collection in the parterre part of BSTU Botanical Gardens

Abstract

The results of the study of species diversity and condition of herbaceous decorative plants in the collection of parterre part of BSTU Botanical Gardens are given. Studies have shown that among the herbaceous ornamental plants in modular compositions and shady gardens and rockeries the largest group consists of perennial flower culture. It is noted that within the number of crop cultivars in compositions dominates daylily, while the least amount is represented by Heuchera cultivars. According to the observations conducted of perennial flowering plants, most species and cultivars of the studied сollection are considered to belong to the decorative and flowering plants group. Less numerous in the number of species and cultivars in the compositions of the parter repart of the BSTU Botanical Gardens is a group of decorative foliage plan ts, which showed a variety of plants leaf color, shape of the leaf blade, the height of the plant. The results of the evaluation show that all perennial ornamental plants growing in the parterre part of BSTU Botanical Gardens have sufficiently high decorative quality.