Michurinsky Garden - a unique nursery of fruit plants

Everyone who seriously is engaged in the organization of his summer patch of land, thought about his own garden. The enthusiastic natures immediately raise the question of purchasing quality seedlings at affordable prices, which are well established in this climatic zone. A search begins, and a dilemma arises: do you buy young trees in the nursery or at the second-hand dealers in the markets?

Ideally, it is better to purchase seedlings directly from the producers and in the same climatic zone, where they will later be grown. For Muscovites and residents of the suburbs, there is no special difficulty in finding places to choose and purchase young fruit and berry plants. The old and well-established enterprise is the Michurinsky Garden on the Upper Alley, possession of 5A.

History of creation

The idea of organizing a spacious research site for ornamental, fruit and berry crops arose from a well-deserved scientific figure, Professor Petr Genrikhovich Shitt.

He and his enthusiastic ally, candidate of agricultural sciences Boris Nikiforovich Anzin, managed to plant a garden on nine hectares of land in the autumn of 1939 on the basis of the Timiryazev Academy. Their aspirations were aimed at:

• Collection of plantations.
• Organization of a functional student teaching aid.
• Provision of population with rare and new varieties.

The garden was given the name in honor of the scientist-breeder and gardener-geneticist Michurin Ivan Vladimirovich (1855-1935).

After seventeen years (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 the richest 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 for the entire Moscow region the center of agrarian science and a huge fruit growing laboratory. All the forces of employees and employees are aimed at:

• Organization of training practice.
• The development of the Academy's research staff, its research staff, students and post-graduate students of the research base.
• Provision of a material and technical basis with the help of production 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 trunk with the first tier of skeletal branches) and crown former. The result of the developments is to increase the winter hardiness and yield of more promising varieties and high-value breeds.
• Testing and studying of varieties and hybrid forms of apple, quince, pear, ashberry, plum, cherry and cherry trees, cherry plums, apricots, peaches, forest and walnut, terry almonds, edible chestnuts, mulberries, hips.
• Development of new ways and methods for obtaining varieties and hybrids (selection selection) of pears, apricots, cherry plums, cherries. The aim of the work is to deduce the most hardy, yielding breeds that have fruits of excellent quality.
• Comparative study of rootstocks of dwarf and vigorous pears and apple trees under different conditions (in the nursery and in the garden).
• Investigation of the influence of the summer formation of young plants in the nursery on the acceleration of fruiting saplings.

What services are provided by the nursery?

In addition to scientific developments and breeding works, the Michurinsky Garden offers a number of services that are not limited to:

• Realization of seedlings of many varieties of berry, fruit and ornamental cultivated plants with open (without capacity) and closed (in containers) root system.
• Consultations of gardeners-lovers on different horticultural topics (grafting, pruning and formation of a strong crown).
• Pruning fruit trees.
• Development of methods for protecting plants from all kinds of pests and ailments, landscaping and landscaping.
• Care of the garden and plants living in it.

Implement the Michurinsky garden seedlings begins in the spring, from the beginning (April 5-10) of April. For sale are young fruit trees (one- and two-year-olds) and fruiting berry bushes, as well as more mature plants - three and seven years old.

In winter (from January to March), cuttings of fruit crops (cherry, apple, pear, apricot, plum, cherry, plum) can be purchased in the garden for vaccination. Procurement can be carried out throughout the warm (spring, summer, autumn) season until the very frost (end of November), but the largest range of Michurinsky nursery Has in the beginning of the spring landing season.

Michurinsky Garden at All-Russian Exhibition Center

The garden is located on the outskirts of the huge All-Russian Exhibition Center and has been around since 1954. Here among the crowns of fruit trees stands a monument to a talented man, breeder and biologist Michurin IV, the great creator of a variety of varieties of berry and fruit crops.

Every year in summer, an exhibition of landscape design takes place in the eastern part of the garden. Here the masters show collections of various annuals, perennials, garden and park varieties of roses and other representatives of the flower kingdom.