Elena Voropaeva: The Urban Winter Garden

May 29, 7:30 pm

On the last weekend in May, Elena Voropaeva will speak about how to create a winter garden on an insulated balcony, which plants to choose and how best to care for them. The audience will also learn about the history of winter gardens, from their first appearance until present times. The lecture includes a virtual tour of the Winter Garden of the Pushkin Leningrad State University, which Voropaeva directs.

Elena Voropaeva is a doctoral candidate of Agricultural Sciences, an associate professor and lecturer in the Department of Natural Sciences and Geography at the Pushkin Leningrad State University, where she serves as the director of the laboratory Zimnyi Sad (Winter Garden).

This lecture is organized in collaboration with the initiative Dacha in the City.

Admission is free of charge. The number of participants is limited. Please register in advance.

Lectures on Urban Gardening, together with Dacha in the City
Dacha in the City is an educational initiative, dedicated to greening up apartments and balconies, urban gardening, and landscape design. This cycle of lectures will focus on the practical aspects, most interesting to city-dwellers: how to achieve the kind of cooperation between neighbors and municipal authorities necessary to make a green roof, what do you need to create a vertical garden in your living room, where is the best place to build a community garden, and what kind of plants are best for a garden on the balcony. These and other questions will be answered by practicing landscape designers and gardeners.