Today, a garden is not only a place for growing various crops and plants, it is, first of all, a real outlet for a city dweller, a cozy environment where you can enjoy nature and get away from the bustle and noise of the city. Therefore, original ideas for the garden are more relevant than ever.
You can turn a garden into real fairy-tale magic with the help of beautiful flower beds, flower beds, mini-ponds and other landscape techniques. We offer you to look at some of the most popular and amazing options.
Wattle
Interesting site design options can be created using wattle. Of course, it is unlikely to replace modern fences, but it will definitely provide a fabulous atmosphere of Gogol's and Pushkin's times!
Willow wattle is considered the highest quality. However, raspberry bushes also serve as excellent material for such a fence. By combining different rods, you can create an unusual range of colors and a relief pattern if you twist rods of different thicknesses.
For decor and a special mood, the wattle fence can be decorated with pretty clay pots.
Flower beds and flower beds
Flower beds are the first thing gardeners start decorating their site with. When choosing plants, it is necessary to take into account the individual characteristics of each species. The first step is to highlight the soloist flowers, that is, the main plants in the flower bed.
It is also good to use unusually shaped leaves and ornamental grasses in the design. With them, the flower garden will look original, even at a time when the flowers have not yet bloomed.
It is important to maintain harmony - too many different flowers and plants will look intrusive and create a sense of chaos in the garden. The flower bed should be holistic and concise.
Just beautifully planted flowers are half the battle. Flower beds with decoration around look much more interesting. This is a bright accent at the end of the composition.
water beds
Flower beds are a special pride for gardeners. A selection of flowers of different shades, petal shapes, stem heights, fragrance, leaf density and flowering periods are just a small part of the design that a gardener uses when forming a flower bed.
New ideas for decoration can be embodied with your own hands from improvised materials in the form of various structures. But not every gardener has original water beds made by himself. Meanwhile, creating such a masterpiece in the garden or in the country is not at all difficult.
The procedure for designing a water bed:
- dig a hole no deeper than 50 cm;
- lay a brick around the perimeter of the flower bed;
- cover the bottom of the flower bed with plastic wrap and cover it with sand with a layer of 5 cm;
- in the center, install plants planted in pots: capsules, water lilies, nymphaeums;
- the sand layer along the edges should be 10-15 centimeters thicker, and plants such as chastukha, water iris, calla are planted in the ground;
- fill the flower bed so that the leaves of the plants float on the water surface;
- for additional decoration, you can use aquatic plants that do not require adhesion to the ground - pistia, duckweed, water paint, rogulnik, azolla, eichornia.
If you fill at least half of the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe flowerbed with plants, live decor will delight you throughout the season. Additional decorations in the form of cute fairy-tale characters can be used to decorate foam pads in a flower bed.
garden paths
Garden paths created by you will remain your pride for a long time. Improvised materials can serve as river pebbles and bricks.
The layout of the tracks should begin with the markup. At the dacha or garden plot, for sure, the favorite paths have already been trodden. They are best used for future markup. Try to lay out the track in such a way that the surface is as even as possible, and the width is the same along the entire length.
After leveling, the marked path must be covered with crushed stone, the layer thickness of which is about 10 cm. Compact with a vibrating machine. Next, pour a special solution onto the prepared area and level it again. Pre-washed pebbles are pressed into the solution with a dense, pre-designed pattern. At the end, a brick border is laid.
Rutarius
Rutarium is a rather unusual way of decorating a garden plot using original snags and tree roots. It is also often referred to as the root garden.
If desired, even in a small area, you can create a unique magic. Many of us have met the most bizarre forms of roots. At the sight of special specimens, the imagination immediately draws a vivid plot of a fairy tale. Beautiful compositions of driftwood folded with their own hands create such a rutarium, at the sight of which it is simply impossible to take your eyes off.
Old furniture for decoration
Do not rush to throw away old furniture - it can serve as a colorful piece of decor in the country for many more years. All you need to do is peel off the old paint and repaint.
Using car tires in garden decoration
One of the most common garden decor materials is car tires. From durable and flexible rubber, you can create ochcarving pots, figurines of various animals, a sandbox, children's swings, etc.
Decorations from plastic bottles
Plastic is an inexpensive and readily available material. Experienced gardeners with creative imagination know a lot of options for its use. Such qualities as flexibility, strength, durability of plastic allow you to create a variety of sculptures, flower garden decorations, borders and other interesting compositions from plastic bottles.
Figurines and feeders
A variety of figurines give a special charm and atmosphere to the garden. To create them, you can use building materials such as gypsum, polymer clay, etc. Design decisions depend on your imagination.
Cute bird feeders are a great way to attract birds to your yard. They can be made from twigs, a plastic bottle or a tree trunk.
unusual fence
The best aspect of the uniqueness of a garden plot is its fencing. In addition to the protective function, the fence is an eye-catching visiting card of the owners. A simple iron or wooden version is trite. You can decorate the fence in different ways. Several striking examples are shown in the photo.
Children's Corner
Being engaged in decorating and landscaping summer cottages and gardens, do not forget about the smallest fidgets. For them, you need to allocate their territory for entertainment and exciting games.
Arrangement of a recreation area
A place to relax in the open air is a prerequisite for a comfortable pastime in the country or in the garden. Here everything will depend on the desires and preferences of the owners. There can be a lot of options: gazebos with comfortable furniture, wide swings (a great idea is to put a hinged structure in the shade under the trees), hammocks, or just a platform with comfortable chairs and a table.
DIY garden ideas: photos of vivid examples
Whatever ideas you have in decorating a dacha and garden, always remember that a dacha is, first of all, a place for relaxation, comfort and solitude. The environment here should inspire and please the eye. Therefore, it is important not to overdo it with creative design solutions - you need to know the measure in everything.
Each dacha, each garden plot can always be decorated with improvised materials, of which there are a lot in the dacha. From such materials, unusual gizmos can be obtained that are sure to attract the attention of many. In this article, you will learn how to make the garden, vegetable garden and cottage become beautiful. Here we have collected all the brightest and most interesting. And all this can be done by hand.
Garden decoration in winter
You can decorate the garden with your own hands with something interesting not only in summer, but also in winter. In winter, you can make sculptures from cones. At the same time, cones for sculpture are prepared in advance. Do it in the fall. Cones are used in the creation of entire sculptures or individual elements.
If you take wire and rods, then you can make three-dimensional compositions from them. In this case, it is recommended to arm yourself with your imagination and create what your soul desires. In this case, the most important thing is not to limit yourself. Sculptures at the same time can be absolutely any size.
In the decoration of the cottage in winter, of course, snow is used. You can create sculptures of different sizes from snow yourself. And to make them look even more beautiful, highlight them. The effect will be impressive.
As a rule, it gets dark very early in winter. Therefore, luminous garlands and other elements will be a wonderful decoration in this case.
Various sculptures can be used to decorate the garden. You can buy them at the store or make your own.
Original idea. In winter, you can decorate the cottage with ice figures. To make them, you need a beautiful form in which beautiful decorations are laid out. It can be: rowan berries or cones. Fill these elements with water and leave in the cold. After a while, everything will freeze and the finished products are used to decorate the garden. For greater originality, such products are tinted with food coloring.
In winter, everything looks harmonious in the garden. The trees are covered with snow and everything looks beautiful. But the situation in the garden can be made even more attractive. Make volumetric compositions from wire and branches. Compositions can be in the form of animals or some geometric shapes.
In this article, we will try to list bright crafts for the garden for you. However, if you do not know how to create something beautiful, then you do not need to worry. It is enough to place the right consecration in the garden and the garden will be able to sparkle with new colors.
garden decoration
Modern garden decoration is significantly different from the old days. Today, with the help of some efforts, the garden has become more convenient and practical. Making your garden more interesting is easy. Use the following guidelines.
Do zoning. The garden should be divided into sections. In each section, it is recommended to grow those types of plants that can get along well with each other. As a result, garden maintenance will be easier and plant growth will be better.
Use barriers. Experts recommend that each section of the garden be fenced off from others and raised above the general level of the soil. As a result, you can save time on weeding, and the earth will not be oversaturated. You should come up with attractive bumpers. You can use wood or other materials. Make them above ground level. As a result, there will always be cleanliness and order between the beds. Below we have collected photographs of garden decorations for you. Each such solution will help save space in the garden. In addition, it will look very nice.
In the garden, it is worth using space rationally. Distribute the plants in the order you need. As a result of this action, the garden will look neat and care for it can be done faster and easier.
Good idea: You can lay neat paths of concrete or gravel between the beds in the garden. With the help of such paths it will be possible to get rid of dirt, and it will be more convenient to work with the beds.
It is worth noting that the most interesting crafts for giving, which you can make with your own hands, can make the cottage very beautiful. At any dacha or in an ordinary country house, you can equip an imitation of an island of wildlife. Lay out the floor with a suitable flooring. Such a coating can be a simple grass for a lawn. Arrange outdoor furniture. And be sure to arrange the plants. In such a zone it will be possible to relax and enjoy comfort.
Everyone who has a dacha or a personal plot tries to make it beautiful. But few people manage to have land and not plant cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley: they want not only to admire the flowers, but also to enjoy their own harvest. Yours is tastier. So they shyly hide the garden somewhere behind the garden, on the edge of the plot. But in vain. A properly made and planned garden can be an ornament. There is even such a thing as garden landscaping, and maybe it is French or English. Like this. What is interesting is that it is easy to make beautiful beds with your own hands. Only for self-design you only need to know a couple of secrets and rules.
Evenly planted leafy vegetables of different varieties are already beautiful
decorative vegetable garden
You have probably noticed that vegetable and aromatic crops are beautiful both during flowering and during fruiting. Even potatoes bloom with cute flowers, and some flowers can envy the rich color of its tops. Beautiful multi-colored shiny peppers on a bush, red-green tomatoes, even a cucumber bed, with plants climbing along the arch, look good. There are also colorful salads, different types of cabbage, all sorts of dill parsley and other useful and fragrant herbs. The aesthetes noticed this and began to decorate the beds beautifully. There are even two different types of ornamental vegetable gardens.
French vegetable garden
In the classic version, these are symmetrical beds, in the center of which there is a sculptural group, a fountain, another recreation area is organized. Such gardens were made near castles, and they were also a place of rest. The strict geometry of the planned site further emphasized the magnificence of the castle. He was always the priority.
Clear forms of beds, their borders are marked with border plantings
Alternating colors - the basis of the decorativeness of the French garden
Beautifully laid out paths also contribute
Fountain or sculpture in the center of the composition
In the modern version, the beds can be square, rectangular, in the form of a sector of a circle. All of them are separated by clear paths, border plants are planted along the edge of the beds. It is clear that you cannot stick a French garden in its pure form on your 6-10 acres, but it is very possible to do something similar.
In general, there are two types of beds - on the same level with the soil and raised. It is easier to organize a garden in one level, but raised beds are more convenient in processing. For their fencing, you can use boards, you can cut slate into strips, if desired, the fence can also be made of stone, weaved from a vine. This is someone who can or wants to aim at something. See the photo for a few examples of how to make a fence for beautiful beds.
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Decorative beds are fenced with a plastic fence for flower beds
The fence for the beds is made of limestone - sawn natural stone
You cut flexible branches in the forest (willows, for example) and while they are fresh, weave a fence for a raised bed
Paths and fence beds from paving slabs and borders
A fence made of boards is quick and easy, you just need to impregnate the boards with a bioprotective composition, otherwise they will turn black and be unattractive
Read more about organizing high beds here, and the general rules for planning a site are described in this article.
For beds flush with the ground, plants can be used instead of borders. For example, parsley, regular or curly, lettuce of different colors. It is clear that the plants will gradually be cut off, but you can first plant them densely, gradually thinning out the planting. If the area allows, marigolds or calendula can be planted along the edge of the beds, only a low border, other plants that give dense greenery and grow small in height.
Curly parsley - beautiful and healthy
Border shrubs will not grow in one year, but they look beautiful
Vegetable beds edged with flowers - beautiful
The main focus of the French garden is in the layout and evenly planted rows. The second is in the alternation of colors. The third is in beautifully made paths that set off the greenery.
To make everything look beautiful, it is necessary to alternate the shades of plants, and in order to imagine how everything will look, it is better to draw in color. They draw as best they can: on a computer in a program for designers or on a landscape sheet. There you can also develop the layout of the beds yourself, if you draw everything on a scale. Then the ideas will need to be transferred to the site. Several options for the layout of the beds are in the photo.
Beautiful beds can also be obtained from rectangular, triangular or diamond-shaped beds.
If the circle cannot be inscribed in the plot, the semicircle looks good, and even its quarter
Clear landings and paths are the basis of any decorative garden
For some reason, our gardeners prefer the radial scheme for the garden. Probably because it looks like a cake)))
And so that you do not think that in our conditions it is impossible to create anything like this, below are a few amateur photos from real summer cottages and household plots where French garden beds have been living for more than one year.
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Fencing for garden beds wicker
It's in autumn but very beautiful in summer
Even at the entrance there will be an arch ...
And again the boards, the layout is mixed - rectangular and radial
Another beds from the boards
This one is still in the process of formation, but the results are visible
A small French garden, and even a sculpture
Raised beds with wooden fence
Even the bow looks attractive in a geometrically perfect fit.
We hope that the examples of the design of the beds inspired you, and we will tell you how to make fences for them below.
English vegetable garden
It is not as symmetrical as the French one and is dominated not by a castle or a house, but by a lawn. Vegetables are interspersed with flowers and all plantings emphasize the attractiveness of the lawn. The house itself is also rather a vertical bed: ivy often winds along the wall, pots and flowerpots stand, hang. All well-groomed and "savagery" does not smell.
A classic example of an English garden
Actually, the English garden is difficult to separate from the garden or flower garden. Here the principle of "all together" applies. But somehow they manage to combine everything, and very harmoniously.
It's in the process of being set up.
Slightly raised beds
Wooden posts and slate - simple and attractive
Fencing for a garden bed made of flat slate
Painted slate looks even better
By the way, the fence can be grown or woven. A hedge is a great backdrop for beautiful French-style beds, and a wattle fence is a great backdrop for a country-style vegetable garden.
From the boards
There are many options for borders and fences for beds from boards. From the simplest - four boards hammered together into a square or rectangle, to complex structures.
In the simplest version, take two long boards, two short boards (according to the width of the beds). Nail a bar with a section of 50 * 50 mm to the short edges. Its length is 15-20 cm longer than the height of the boards. Then nail long boards to the free side of the bars, assembling a rectangle.
How to make a simple wooden garden fence
If desired, you can complicate the design. From the boards you can make a non-standard or even longline bed. And it's not at all as difficult as it seems. See photos for ideas.
Having collected a few pieces, you can begin to place them on the site
Unusual shape - inspired by the French garden
Such a fence made of waste boards is non-standard, economical (and there are few costs and space is saved) and convenient
Tiered flower bed from boards
| growth conditions | Types of ground cover plants |
|---|---|
| If the bed of the flower "stream" passes through the illuminated areas of the garden, it is necessary to plant light-loving ground covers. | These include: obrieta, creeping carnations, rezuha, carpet phlox, alissum. |
| If the location of the stream is in partial shade, plant plants that can tolerate shade. | Plant dwarf astilba, tiarella, yellow lamiastrum, bruner, tenacious, trifoliate waldstein, ranunculus anemone. These plants will bloom luxuriously and feel great in shading, for example, among trees. |
| A flower stream can be created even in a heavily shaded area. | To do this, use shade-tolerant ground covers: fragrant violet, small periwinkle. |
| A stream can be created even where there is constant dampness and the earth “does not dry out” even in summer. | Moisture-loving plants: goose cinquefoil, hauttuynia, coined loosestrife form a lush and colorful "water stream". |
Annuals
Along with ground covers, many annuals can be used to create a flower stream, but it is worth choosing low-growing varieties, not higher than 30-50 cm. The list of annuals for this purpose is huge. Limit yourself to those that are sown in the ground in your climate. An impressive list - there is plenty to choose from.
By the way! Bulb flowers will look effective. They can be planted close to each other, and weak and defective, if necessary, replaced.
Instead of a pot, you can use a stump
Bulb flowers and perennials
The “bulbous” version of the stream can be made from tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, muscari, glamini (miniature gladioli), anemones, freesias, cyclamen and other perennials.
Rooted perennials can also be used. Primrose, sapling, saxifrage, veronica, pansies, Carpathian bellflower, armeria, gerbil, daisies, liverwort will look great in line with it.
No slope for "brook"? Create it with a mound of earth
Brook planting
Having decided on the planting material, finding a suitable jug, indicating the length and width of the future flower stream, you can start planting.
- The earth is dug up, cleared of weeds, well leveled and moistened.
- Then the plants are placed in pre-marked places.
- Everyone is watering.
- It is important to remember that ground cover plants grow rapidly, so their landing zones must be limited, and shoots emerging from the banks of the stream should be regularly removed.
That's all, the flower stream is ready. It will require no more care than an ordinary flower bed - watering, fertilizing, removing dried flowers. The visual effect that you get will surpass all your dreams of beauty. Still think that beauty is not simple?
Creation of a dry stream on the site
growing up
Lianas occupy a special place in the hierarchy of ornamental plants. Their stems are flexible and unstable (herbaceous annuals, among perennials there are tree-like vines). But vitality and the desire to grow “to the sky” are unparalleled. They only need support. Give the vines a foothold and they will turn your yard into a fabulous blooming kingdom.
Vertical gardening, for which creepers are used, is a very important part of landscape design. If most plants can “cope” with horizontal surfaces, then fences, walls, pillars, balconies, terraces can be decorated only with the help of vines.
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What are good lianas
- For the most part, vines do not require a large feeding area. They only need a little soil (two times less than any other plant) to give you much more than any other plant, leaf mass and flowers.
- Creepers can grow near the wall of the house, where the foundation passes and a layer of soil above the concrete is only 15 cm.
- Creepers can grow in tubs and flower pots.
- Creepers are very resistant to drought, to excessive moisture, many to cold.
- They do not require highly nutritious soil. Of course, they will not refuse fertilizers, but even without top dressing they will grow and bloom, and some will also bear fruit.
- Annual creepers are beautiful in that their growth rate is up to 5 cm per day.
Advice! If you urgently need, already this summer, to decorate an unsightly wall or cover a pergola, gazebo, terrace with flowering greenery, seek help from morning glory, dolichos, sweet pea, kvamoklit, kobee, nasturtium, decorative beans. These fast-growing vines will cope with decorating the site perfectly.
Table. Annual creepers and their characteristics.
| Name | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| This climbing annual grows up to 4m tall or wherever you point it. If you don’t direct, it will “direct” itself. It will braid everything that can and cannot be braided - a fence, a neighbor's fence, a tree, a sunflower, grapes. | ||
| It is a climbing annual from the legume family. Its stems can grow up to 3-3.5 m. The stems are thin, ribbed. And the flowers are from 3 to 5 cm in diameter, of all kinds of tones and colors and with a delightful subtle but strong aroma. | ||
| Grows up to 5 meters. The flowers are not large, but very interesting shape. The colors are also very different - from white to red and variegated. Beans can bloom until frost. Its foliage, along with flowers, looks very decorative and, at the same time, elegant. | ||
| This plant is interesting not only (not so much) with flowers, but with its openwork leaves. Quamoclite also has flowers. They are funnel-shaped, intensely red in color, quite numerous. But the foliage of the plant, bright green, dissected into many “lobes”, resembling either the needles of evergreen trees, or an acacia, helps the quamoclite flowers to appear in all their scarlet beauty. | ||
| This plant is exceptionally elegant. It has large, trifoliate leaves, dark green with a purple hue. Flowers are bean-shaped. Large, purple and emitting a magical aroma. Dolichos blooms late - at the end of summer. But it blooms until frost, until the end of October. | ||
| Kobe climbing - differs from other vines in very beautiful and large flowers. The flowers, up to 9 cm in size, are simply fantastic. In the form of bells, slightly elongated, and long stamens peep out of them far beyond the flower. Kobeya blooms from mid-summer until frost. The flowers are milky and purple in color. Purples are first greenish, then creamy, and only then turn lilac (or acquire a bluish tint) and become purple. Therefore, on one vine, you can simultaneously see flowers of three different shades. | ||
| A very useful and highly ornamental flower. Leaves, flowers and fruits of nasturtium are used in cooking, cosmetics, and folk medicine. Grows up to two meters. Grows very fast. The leaves are large, wide, beautiful irregular shape. Flowers - "gramophones" of sunny colors - from maroon to lemon yellow. They bloom all summer and half of autumn. |
Growing annual vines
There is nothing complicated in growing herbaceous annual vines. You can sow them directly into the ground (since these plants develop rapidly, it is better that the soil is loose and fertilized).
- Sow at the end of May.
- Make shallow holes, 2-3 seeds are placed in each hole.
- If the seeds are small, you can sow in the grooves. Depth - about two centimeters.
- Water the crops and wait.
- You won't have to wait long. After one and a half to two weeks, sprouts will appear.
- After another two weeks, it is worth preparing supports for them (pulling ropes, installing pergolas), along which they will climb.
If you want to get flowering of annual vines earlier, it makes sense to grow seedlings first, and then plant them in open ground. Seedlings are planted for seedlings in April, in separate peat pots (most herbaceous vines have a weak root system that should not be injured during transplantation).
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