Plants and Flowers

Winter gardens have found their rebirth in 80s years of the XX century. They have quickly won popularity in the West, and now in many countries of Europe, America and Canada winter gardens are widely used in construction at designing of buildings with various functional destination: inhabited, public, individual, industrial, etc.

The direct connection of a winter garden with premises serves nowadays one of determining functional signs when we speak about winter gardens. The winter garden is an intermediate zone between surroundings, whether it is a garden, a flower bed or a city building, and the inhabited space limited by four walls. It also may be said that the winter garden is one of rooms of a house or an apartment, but at the same time it is a special room: semi-house – semi-garden. And it sets apart winter garden from a greenhouse, which is not a part of living quarters and serves only for cultivation of heat-loving plants.

Human life becomes fuller, when he feels the close connection with an environment. And a winter garden is just one of such stages, which allows the person to feel himself a part of the nature, especially if he is deprived of opportunities to be outside his house.

Due to new constructions and materials, and also modern engineering and technical opportunities in the field of ventilation, heating and shading each of us can realize the dearest wish about a winter garden, having turned into it the terrace of a country house or a glazed balcony of an apartment.