LANDSCAPING OF THE PARK TERRITORY IN THE RESORT AREA "IMERETINSKY" (SOCHI)

The park territory of the Resort area "Imeretinsky" is located in Sochi Black Sea region and includes four quarters – Park, Nature Reserve, Marine and Coastal, with a total area of local landscape gardening 76.17 thousand m2 . The species range of tree and shrub vegetation is unevenly represented and amounts to 123 species (including varieties and garden forms). Of the main types of landscape gardening, commonly found are the following: solitaires, ordinary one-sided plantings, formed hedges and mono-breed flower beds, as well as elements of wall gardening. Most widely represented in quantitative ratio are coniferous trees – Cedrus deodara, Cupressus × leylandii, Pinus nigra; evergreen deciduous trees – Cinnamomum camphora, Laurus nobilis, Magnolia grandiflora, Photinia × fraseri; deciduous trees – Catalpa bignonioides, Liquidambar styraciflua, Liriodendron tulipifera and Platanus acerifolia. Evergreen shrubs Abelia × grandiflora, Viburnum tinus, Pittosporum tobira and Photinia × fraseri and deciduous shrubs Ligustrum ovalifolium, Hypericum patulum and Hibiscus syriacus are used to create hedges and mono-flower beds. Among the lianas, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, cultivars Rosa banksiae and Trachelospermum jasminoides occupy a leading place. Of the palm trees, Butia capitata, Phoenix canariensis and Chamaerops humilis are represented in greater numbers. All the listed species develop well and are resistant to the conditions of the coastal natural and climatic zone of the Black Sea. Regular monitoring of the growth and development of woody and tree-like plants in park areas with a complex of unfavorable abiotic factors (the effect of marine aerosols, high wind load, intense insolation and temperature conditions in summer) makes it possible to form an adaptive assortment for creating new landscaping facilities in areas with similar environmental conditions.