The collection-show garden «Shadow Garden» and its purpose in N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden of Russian Academy of Sciences

The collection-show garden «Shadow Garden» of the N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the oldest collections of representatives of the herbaceous tier of such type of vegetation as broad-leaved forests of the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. The following methods of introduction have been the basis of selection since 1973 and up to the present time: ecological-geographical, phytocenotic, as well as differential botanical-geographical. According to the inventory of 2024, the collection-show garden «Shadow Garden» has 351 species and 47 cultivars of shade-tolerant and shade perennial herbaceous plants. Most of the taxa presented at the exposition can be classified as promising (55 %), 38 % are very promising species and cultivars for cultivation in the middle zone, we recommend them for mass urban landscaping.