The Siberian rooftop garden in central Moscow in its second year with perennial steppe planting and all other plants native to Siberia.
Cold winter temperatures are a major challenge for roof top planting in Moscow as local species are not adapted to the soils that freeze completely. This semi-intensive garden features several “designed” plant communities: a meadow steppe community referencing East Siberian petrophyte steppes with an addition of some European steppe species, trees, shrubs and groundcover plants of East Siberian sub-alpine communities such as Larix sibirica, Betula nana and Bergenia crassifolia, and resilient cold and drought tolerant shrub of the Russian Far East.
Alphabet City Team: Anna Andreyeva, Boris Kondakov, Alexandra Kormushina, Maria Ashkova.
Special thanks: Mel Architects
Built: 2018