ANALYSIS OF THE STREET FLORAL DESIGN OF NAHIRNA PART OF DNIPRO CITY

Abstract

Floral gardens are an important element of landscaping in urban and rural settlements. However, insufficient attention is still paid to floral street gardening, although the functional importance of plants under these growing conditions is quite high. Therefore, it is important to study flower gardening on city streets and the species diversity of plants used in this process. The purpose of this work is to study the peculiarities of street flower gardening in Nahirna part of Dnipro city.The analysis of flower gardening was carried out on nine streets of Nahirna part of Dnipro, which is the leading industrial centre of Ukraine. Nahirna part is concentrated at a distance of 7–8 km from large industrial enterprises.The flower gardens on the observed streets are mainly located in the immediate vicinity of motorways. On nine streets, the number of flower beds, their type and area were determined using appropriate mathematical methods. The condition of the flower gardens was assessed on a three-point scale.The research showed that the largest areas are occupied by flower gardens on I. Patorzhynskoho,T. Shevchenka, Sevastopolska and Pisarzhevskoho streets, although on the latter most of them are almost not planted with ornamental flowers. The total area of flower gardens on the observed streets ranges from 22,45 m2 on P. Husenko street to 380,38 m2 on T. Shevchenka street. The most popular flower gardens used in the design are mixborders and flower gardens (on seven streets), containers(on six streets), and strips (on five streets). Trunk flower gardens are practically not used. A significantnumber of flower gardens on the observed streets are in poor condition. This is due to inconsiderate compositions, dryness and compaction of the soil, the death of a number of plants, drying of the lower leaves, and the planted plants which are inappropriate in accordance with the environmental conditions.Some types of ornamental flower plants are very rare, such as Iris hybrida Hort., Paeonia lactiflora Pall, Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews, Antirrhinum majus L., Tradescantia andersoniana W.Ludw. & Rohweder, Canna indica L., Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth., Anemone caroliniana Walter, and Petunia hybrida Vilm. To maintain street flower gardens in good condition, it is recommended to pay more attention to agrotechnical measures for selecting more resistant plants to adverse conditions of the urban environment.