Lottah Nursery Tasmania, Australia
Russian Lilacs, 2009
We are delighted to receive another batch of Russian lilac images from our friend Tatiana Polyakova in Moscow (seen here with the outstanding S. v. 'Rochester'); some of the lilacs are from collections held at Kiev and Minsk of which little have been heard of outside Russia. She was honoured recently by having a new lilac named after her (pix on right, click on thumbnail for larger image).
We are excited to learn that she and her publisher Penta have won a national competition to produce a book on Leonid Kolesnikov whose Krasavitsa Moskvy has immortalised him in the lilac world. This nursery is flattered to have been invited to contribute some notes on our experience of the Kolesnikov lilacs in the southern hemisphere.
From Kiev (move to Ukrainian section)
- S. vulgaris Bogdan Khmel'nitskii
- Kiev Botanic Gardens
- City of Kiev | 2 | 3
- Bogdan Khmel'nitskii Memorial
From Minsk (new Belarus page)
- S. vulgaris
- Minsk Botanic Gardens
- Curator of Minsk Botanical Gardens lilac collection Natalia Makedonskaya against background of S. vulgaris 'Ostankino'
From Moscow
Some of the following images include lilacs in the background.
- S. vulgaris
- Meimei - newly bred by T. Polyakova, 2009 from S. vulgaris 'Flora'
- Mechta
- Mulatka
- Nikolay Mikhailov
- Zarya Kommunizma
- Natalia Balmisheva - director of publishing house Penta which is about to publish a book on the life of Leonid Kolesnikov - posing with S. vulgaris 'Radhz Kapur'
- Lilac Exhibition, 2009
- Nina & Nikolay Mikhailov
- Alexandovskiy Park, Moscow | 2 | 3
- Cathedral of Christ the Savior
- Novospassky Monastery | 2 | 3 | 4
- Moscow street scenes | 2
We have been provided with a youtube link to a video about lilacs filmed this spring (2009) in the Moscow Botanic Gardens and in the Nikolai Mikhailov garden.