From the editors. In Issue 2 (12) of our magazine we published a story about the succulent collection of Denis and Gennady Gil (Krasnodar region, Russia). Today we would like to introduce their miniature succulent gardens made for indoors as well as for open ground: there are plenty of species that can overwinter outside in the climate of the Black Sea coast of Krasnodar region.

Photo 1. Can winter without protection with Aeonium lindleyi and Crassula ernestii removed.	Photo 1d. The same mini-garden two months later.	Photo 2.Composition "White Mountains".
Photo 3. Composition "Kulumkol".	Photo 4. Spring blooming succulents overwintered in open ground.	Photo 5. Composition "Summer begins".
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Photo 12. Composition "Eden".	Photo 13. This mini-garden is a gift to a museum garden in Sochu, Russia.	Photo 14. The mini-garden belongs to chief decorator of Sochi E.B. Baranskaya.
Photo 15a. Composition "Mexican mountain" on the exhibition in 2003.	Photo 16a. Composition "Messengers of Sunny Valley" on the exhibition in Winter Theater.	Photo 17. Fragment of Composition "Mexican motives" (temporary installation).
Photo 18. Resort "Oktyabrsky": one of the mini-gardens, June 13, 2004.	Photo 19. The same mini-garden 7 months later, November 7, 2004.	Photo 20. Another mini-garden of the resort "Oktyabrsky".
Photo 21. Another mini-garden of the resort "Oktyabrsky". Installed June 13, 2004.	Photo 21b. Fragment of the same mini-garden.	Photo 22. In the office of model agency "Ivanova" of Sochi.
Photo 23. Succulent bed in Sochi Arboretum, June 2004.	Photo 24. Succulent bed in Sochi Arboretum made with local natural materials