The garden is one of the Russians’ favourite pastimes. It’s said that 47 per cent of residents in north west Russia and 41 per cent in Moscow have a datcha, in the far east it’s a third but only 10 per cent in the Urals. In total, that’s 40 mio “gardening families”. The specialist trade journal DIY International gives a detailed report about the Russian garden market in its 1/2015 issue available at the end of January.
Russian garden market grows
The garden is one of the Russians’ favourite pastimes. It’s said that 47 per cent of residents in north west Russia and 41 per cent in Moscow have a datcha, in the far east it’s a third but only 10 per cent in the Urals. In total, that’s 40 mio “gardening families”. The specialist trade journal DIY International gives a detailed report about the Russian garden market in its 1/2015 issue available at the end of January.









