The local nursery officially ceased to exist

The Lviv City Council adopted a decision to liquidate the nursery, recognizing it as unsuitable for further use. The decision was supported by 48 deputies.

Reorganization in the balance sheet holder structure

The municipal enterprise “Lviv City Trust for Green Economy” was reorganized into the Lviv municipal enterprise “Green Lviv”, which became responsible for the development of the nursery.

The city flower farm in the memories of former workers

“Roses, alliums, azaleas, gladioli – the variety of crops grown on the territory is innumerable. Among them are potted, ground covering, exotic plants, as well as cut flowers. In just one season, more than 40 thousand marigolds could be grown here. They worked in open ground, in numerous hothouses and 9 greenhouses. A separate “area of ​​responsibility” of the enterprise was the treatment of green areas of the city from insect pests,” recall Ms. Nina and Ms. Maria, who worked at the enterprise in the 1980s.

From Sovkhoz to a Trust

In September 1979, the “Lviv Production Trust of Green Farming” was established, and in November, the greenhouse property was transferred from the sovkhoz “Decorative Crops” to the newly established trust and the flower farm workers were transferred to work.

Flower panels of Lviv: beauty born of labor

A common practice in urban landscaping in the 1950s was the creation of flower panels. The planting material for them was grown in three farms, one of which operated at Mushaka Street 58. The photo shows a calendar of fresh flowers placed in the Ivan Franko Park, created by workers of these farms.

Greenhouses next to the park in the memories of a resident of Sofiivka in the interwar period

“As you go down from the park, which we called Jordan Park (the unofficial name of the Zalizna Voda  park) … there was Poninsky’s garden here – very beautiful, very well-groomed. The greenhouses stretched all the way to Lukevych (modern Dibrovna Street, which borders the territory of Rozsadnyk on the northern side)” – recalled Irena Blonska, born in 1920, who lived in Sofiivka and left for Poland after the Soviet occupation of Lviv.

The first mention of growing plants on the territory

Polish actor Franciszek Wysocki, recalls how, leaving the park, he came across a small house, a winter greenhouse, a summer greenhouse, similar to an “improvised gardening workshop” at the site of a flower farm. The assistant city gardener responsible for the Zalizna Voda park, Andriy Palinski, took care of it. The author of the memoirs emphasizes that the commune does not support the official in much, but he works tirelessly: “The poor guy does what he can, he loves his plant world with all his heart and dreams of beautifully decorating the entire park with plants. For example, he showed me many rose rootstocks that he collected in the surrounding mountains.”

Historical connection with the first communications

According to the map of the water supply system along Dvirnitskoho Street (modern Mushaka Street), water communications passed by the territory of the flower farm as early as 1910. In 1911, a pumping station was put into operation 500 meters from here, and therefore there is an assumption that the facility could have been supplied with water from at least the first water supply system in Lviv, and also powered by electricity.

Founding of the Zalizna Voda park

The famous Lviv gardener, “inspector of city plantations” Arnold Roering, worked on the planning of the park, within which the Rozsadnyk space is currently being developed, since 1894. The project played a special role in his life – Roering lived nearby, in a villa at present-day Stusa Street 20, and also owned a plot of land in the park, from where the so-called “Roering springs” began. According to one hypothesis, when the park was founded, the gardener equipped greenhouses that were intended for growing ornamental plants, however, whether this is true or a myth has not yet been determined.

“Blessed by nature” Sofiivka

The place where the Rosadnyk space is located has the historical name “Sofiivka”. It was named after the wooden church of St. Sophia, built at the end of the 16th century. at the expense of the burgher Zofia Hanel`. To this day, a brick church built in 1765 has survived, which was built on the site of a wooden church burned by the Turks. In addition to sacred architecture, during the early modern period of Lviv, the houses of Sofiivka also suffered from military actions and invasions, which, as historians recall, were repeatedly burned down along with their gardens.

With the beginning of the 19th century the situation changed. Historian Ivan Krypiakevych writes that the owner of Sofiivka was the secretary of the Court of Appeal, Jan Lukevych: “At his court, he founded a large vegetable (fruit) garden and, according to the custom of that time, hosted a large company.” Other researchers report that in 1839, a public garden with a restaurant was also laid out on Sofiivka by the builder Florian Onderka.

Before the outbreak of World War I, Franciszek Jaworski wrote the following about the area: “With all this, however, it is a district of the present and the future, fashionable in the full sense of the word, visited by crowds, home to a festive craze and elegant villas, the latest expression of garden art, which from a place already blessed by nature, created one of the greatest features of Lviv.”