Each person who is seriously engaged in the construction of his country cot of land, thought about his own garden. With enthusiastic natures, the question immediately arises of purchasing quality seedlings at affordable prices that are well established in this climate zone. The search begins, and the dilemma arises: to buy young trees in the nursery or from dealers in the markets?
Ideally, it is better to purchase seedlings directly from producers and in the same climatic zone where they will be grown later. For Muscovites and residents of the suburbs there is no particular difficulty in finding places for the selection and purchase of young fruit and berry plants. An old and well-established company is the Michurinsky Garden in the Upper Alley, ownership 5A.
History of creation
The idea of organizing a spacious research site for decorative, fruit and berry crops arose with the honored scientist, Professor Peter Genrikhovich Shitt.
He and his keen comrade-in-arms, candidate of agricultural sciences Boris Nikiforovich Anzin, managed to lay a garden on nine hectares of land in the distant autumn of 1939 on the basis of the Timiryazev Academy. Their aspirations were aimed at:
- Bookmark collection plantings.
- Organization of a functional educational student manual.
- Supply of the population with rare and latest varieties.
The garden was given a name in honor of the scientist-breeder and gardener-geneticist Michurin Ivan Vladimirovich (1855-1935).
Seventeen years later (1976), the Michurinsky Garden grew and began to possess an area of 20 hectares of fertile land. Today's garden area is about forty hectares. He is the owner of a rich collection of exquisite varieties of fruit and ornamental crops.
The main purpose of the amazing garden
The modern Michurinsky Garden of the Timiryazev Academy (Russian Agrarian Institute) is the center of agrarian science and a huge fruit-growing laboratory for the entire Moscow region. All the forces of employees and employees are aimed at:
- Organization of educational practice.
- The development of the academy teachers, its researchers, students and graduate students of the research base.
- Provision of material and technical basis with the help of industrial and economic activities.
What does the nursery do?
Michurinsky Garden specializes mainly in:
- The study of fruit crops of garden trees (cherry plum, apple, cherry, pear, cherry, plum, apricot and others) on the stem (part of the tree trunk from the ground to its first branch), skeleton (tree stem with the first tier of skeletal branches) and crown crowns. The result of the development is to increase winter hardiness and yield of more promising varieties and high-value breeds.
- Tests and studies of varieties and hybrid forms of apple, quince, pear, mountain ash, plum, cherry and cherry trees, cherry plum, apricot, peaches, hazelnut and walnut, terry almonds, edible chestnut, mulberries, rose hips.
- The development of new ways and methods for producing varieties and hybrids (selective selection) of pears, apricot, cherry plum, cherry. The aim of the work is to develop the most winter-hardy, productive breeds that have excellent quality fruits.
- Comparative study of stocks of dwarf and vigorous pears and apple trees in different conditions (in the nursery and in the garden).
- The study of the influence of summer formation of young plants in the nursery on the acceleration of fruiting of seedlings.
What services are provided by the nursery?
In addition to scientific research and breeding, the Michurinsky Garden offers a number of services that are not limited to:
- The sale of seedlings of many varieties of berry, fruit and ornamental cultivated plants with an open (without capacity) and closed (in containers) root system.
- Consultations of amateur gardeners on various horticultural topics (grafting, trimming and forming a strong crown).
- Pruning fruit crops of trees.
- The development of methods for protecting plants from all kinds of pests and ailments, landscaping and landscaping.
- Caring for the garden and plants living in it.
Saplings begin to realize the Michurinsky garden in the spring, from the beginning (April 5-10). Young fruit trees (one- and two-year-olds) and fruiting berry shrubs, as well as more mature plants of three and seven years are sold.
In the winter period (from January to March), you can buy cuttings of fruit crops in the garden (cherry, apple, pear, apricot, plum, cherry, cherry plum) for vaccination. Purchase can be carried out during the entire warm (spring, summer, autumn) season until the frosts (end of November), but the largest assortment is Michurinsky nursery has at the beginning of the spring planting season.
Michurinsky Garden at the All-Russian Exhibition Center
The garden is sheltered on the outskirts of the vast exhibition center in Russia and has existed since 1954. Here, among the crowns of fruit trees, stands a monument to the talented person, breeder and biologist Michurin I.V., the great creator of various varieties of berry and fruit plant crops.
Every summer in the eastern part of the garden an exhibition of landscape design takes place. Here, the masters demonstrate collections of various annuals, perennials, garden and park varieties of roses and other representatives of the flower kingdom.