University park

It stands along the sidewalk where hundreds, if not thousands of people pass by every day during an academic year. Hard to say, if a dozen of them pay any attention to it.

The landscape of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute becomes more beautiful and attractive: new elements, plantations and compositions appear. A spring blossom palette gladdens.  It would seem that all good corners were visited, explored and photographed. But it is not.

It is called exotic plant among conifers. With all the features of the needle, the tree overthrows needles in the winter and in spring it is covered with young greens. Its Russian name originates from this - "lystvennytsa" and Ukrainian one - modryna. Botanists call it Larix.

Among the oldest and most respected trees of Ukraine there are many oak trees older than 300 years (only 8 of them are older than 1000 years).The legends tell about them.

In our polluted metropolitan areas there are increasingly appeared the blotches of evergreen plantings. Most of them are from a family of junipers, featuring a variety of shapes and forms, but the same property to clean the air.

The sculpture - seven-meter stack of books topped with the academic cap (bonet) - was opened in the KPI.

Every time, referring to the topic of plants in the park KPI, never cease to amaze the variety of species represented here.

It seems that all of the most interesting plants park KPI "Kyiv Polytechnic" already told. But ...

Tourists who travel paths of Ukraine, tour guides love to talk about Satan-berry (dogwood), telling the story of O.Vishnia. Allah, wanting to bring order to the land, gathered all living creatures and ordered to choose a plant from which then eat.

In recent years, many city residents were drawn to the dacha plots: try a new business - gardening, horticulture - and benefit from it, and perhaps pleasure.