Landscaping suburban area do it yourself

For many, a dacha is not only a place where tomatoes and cucumbers grow, it’s a living corner where you want to come not to work in the garden, but for outdoor recreation. Well, since we love to spend time there, we must develop the landscape design of the suburban area and do everything ourselves.

If you decide to seriously approach this issue and landscape design for you is not just a beautiful phrase, you should yourself or with the help of specialists present the design of your garden plot. No matter how many hectares a dacha takes - 20 or only 4, the first step in any case will be design.

The process is not as simple as it may seem at first glance. After all, you should plan everything carefully and create certain zones: for growing vegetables and fruit trees, a place for rest, a flower bed, a playground, maybe an artificial reservoir or a mini-fountain, a bathhouse, an arbor.

This is especially true for a small area where you need to design everything so that you can compactly fit the most necessary objects for you. Suppose you do well without a pool, but decide that you need a summer shower. It is not excluded that you do not have enough space for a private arbor, but you will definitely want to allocate a plot for a small orchard.

Whichever direction you choose, you will be cozier and more comfortable at the dacha, if you yourself took part in arranging its every corner, and before that you thought carefully about where it will be and what style to combine it.

Regular style requires one center.with respect to which all other items are placed in a clear order.A distinctive feature of this direction is strict geometry. Flower beds arranged symmetrically, lawns, trees and shrubs neatly trimmed. The main elements are fountains and sculptures. All this requires not only considerable investments, but also spaces where all this can be harmoniously arranged, so this option is far from suitable for all.

One of the natural, harmonious, pleasing to the eye styles can be called landscape. If you chose it, you have every chance to experiment, show imagination. You can place alpine slides and rockeries on your plot. A small stream will fit into the big picture and will not require too much effort to create it.

Easy to stick and rustic style. A wooden fence, wicker furniture, a haystack or a bundle of firewood are used as decor. Despite the simplicity, here, too, there is where to roam fantasy. You can build a flower bed in the form of a cart with daisies or cornflowers and even place a donkey or horse figure next to it. Near the house you can place baskets of flowers.

Want a more rigorous and discreet decor, choose Japanese and Mediterranean style, where the main material for creating compositions is stone. And in fact, and in another case, you need to take care of a small pond. It will be a natural addition to your site.

Want to add bright colors and unusual elements, choose an exotic or oriental style. But in most cases at the summer cottage there is no need to strictly adhere to a certain direction.

In your power to make a cozy plot. If you are the owner of ten acres, then this space is quite enough to organize everything wisely, build all the necessary buildings, make the beds, plant trees and equip a recreation area.

Schematically depict on a piece of paper, where you will have a garden, what place you take fruit trees and shrubs, where you place household buildings, and where will be a gazebo for tea. But do not forget about the design elements - beautiful flowerbeds and, maybe, even garden figures, which will add individuality to your site.

When planning, consider your interests - whether you are going to be more engaged in vegetable growing or will you still use the cottage more often for recreation. Consider the composition of the soil, as well as where there is more shade, and where there is sunlight.

Cottage is, first of all, a corner of nature, where you can enjoy the fresh air, relax from the city bustle. Therefore, everything should grow, bloom and turn green here. So most of the site must be allocated for landscaping.

Those who are planning a very active homework, most will allocate it for the beds, greenhouses and shrubs. You need to make sure that there is a sufficient amount of light in that place, you also need to think about how you will ensure regular and timely watering of your future crop. It will be more convenient if the water source is located near the beds. The device plastic wiring for watering will be very useful. Plot for recreation in this case will be reduced. But nevertheless, you can arrange a flower bed, a small arbor and place a shop with a table next to it.

And you can increase the recreation area by reducing the garden.You can plant a bed with strawberries, but here you can place several raspberry bushes and a small flower bed. In another place, plant greens, and near it some more berry bushes. Whatever you come up with, the main thing is that it should be convenient first of all to you.

The beauty and benefit of your summer cottage will bring vertical gardening. With its help, you can decorate a wall or fence, create a shadow in the gazebo or surround it with coolness using a green bench. For this purpose, the best fit grapes, hops, sweet peas. But clematis is considered a favorite in this area. The various shades and forms of this plant allow you to choose what is right for you. It grows so well that its foliage is able not only to protect from the sun's rays, but also to shelter from the rain. Other plants can be placed next to it, they will look great at the same time.

Flowers are the main decoration of the cottage. They delight us with their colors from early spring to late autumn. And what could be more pleasant and more interesting than making a flower bed with your own hands, choosing seeds, planting flowers. All this beauty with their own hands is not so difficult.If we stopped in the flowerbeds, we need to think about where they will be located, what shape and size they will be.

More often on a bed planted annual plants and less often perennial. At the cottage rarely use regular beds, over which you need to work carefully, plant in a strict order certain types of flowers, so as not to disturb the drawing. Irregular club does not require such rigorous training, but it pleases the eye no less. Different types of flowers can coexist here, including those that bloom at different times.

Flower gardens can be arranged in different ways, depending on the area of ​​the site and your desires. If you want to delimit space or make some accents, you can arrange riddles or mixborders.

Rabatka - a flower garden in the form of a ribbonwhich can be started up, for example, along a garden path. More often, several plant species are selected and planted in strips or in the form of geometric shapes.

In a mixborder there can be many different species at a time, in any order, blooming at different times.

Borders of flowers are also used.They can protect any area, it will give a finished look of the composition.

Rockeries are becoming more and more popular. With the help of stones, small shrubs and flowers, you can create very beautiful compositions that will look natural and stylish. If possible, it is not bad to place a small stream or even a waterfall there.

It is not necessary to create a garden or a rose garden in the country. If the place is not so much, it is possible to plant flowers in containers or place a flowerpots near the house. They will not take a lot of space, but will revive the local area. And as containers, you can use absolutely any things, this is exactly how your fantasy will tell you.

Now many gardeners use perennials such as hosts on their plots. This plant has large beautiful leaves that look very impressive. You just need to take into account that they love moisture and shade. It is necessary to choose a place for them carefully, since the plant does not require transplantation for twenty years. And if you choose the place correctly, special care is not required. For many species, it is enough to get the sun's rays two hours a day.

Another decoration of the site will be a lawn. In order to properly equip it, you need to be well prepared. First, we calculate the area to determine how much seed and fertilizer we need. And, of course, we will need rakes, shovels, seeders, lawn mowers, rammer with a wide base.

We dig up a site, we fertilize, we level well, we condense. All this is done to ensure that the lawn is perfectly level. Next, the seeds are distributed throughout the site evenly, preferably with a seeder. At the end of the work area must be covered with geofabric up to the first shoots.

It is good if there is a place at the dacha for both fruit and decorative trees.

If we want to collect ripe tasty fruits and get vitamins, we need to take into account all the nuances. What kind of fruit trees to plant, you decide, depending on your preferences, but when buying seedlings, be sure to specify what kind of care is needed apricot or peach, apple or pear.

Coniferous trees will make a decorative component in the design of the site. This is the best option. In addition to the fact that these species are beautiful, they will delight you with greenery in winter. Of these, you can create a hedge that will give you the desired Tenek in the heat.

Their range is amazing, but pine, spruce, thuja, and juniper have become the most beloved ones. If you are going to create compositions from thujas, study this tree well, since there are many species of it, one differs from one another in both the size and the shape of the crown. The choice will depend on what effect you want.

Some do not represent cottages without cucumbers and apple trees, others tend to improve the dacha with ornamental shrubs. And it is right. After all, nothing pleases us in the spring and summer, as the greens and the fragrance of their flowers.

Now the choice of shrubs is very large. The barberry surprises with its color range. Depending on the variety, it can be green, yellow, purple, magenta. Many people like the ryabyn ryabolistnyy due to the fact that the leaves change color depending on the month. First, the pinkish tint turns green, and by the autumn it becomes golden. A charming aroma gives lilac, and a variety of species allows you to choose the one that you like more.

Without exception, gardeners want flowering shrubs to please the eye, even in cold weather. To frost-resistant perennials include berry yew, deren, juniper, viburnum.

Fruit bushes can not only benefit, but also become a decoration of the garden. It will look good a hedge gooseberry, raspberry, currant. Especially beneficial with its bright berries will look sea buckthorn and wild rose.

Since perennial plants will delight you more than one year, you need to carefully approach the choice of the place where they will grow. Shade-loving cannot be placed on sunny glades, and those who need light are not in a place in the shade. Those who are contraindicated in the wind, must be protected by planting next to coniferous trees.

Now more and more you can find high metal or stone fences, even at the cottages. Maybe they serve as a reliable protection, but to say that they decorate a house is definitely not possible. Meanwhile, there are many ways to protect your site so that it will fit into the overall style and become part of the design.

To build a wooden fence for everyonewho can handle a hammer and a hacksaw. It is enough to show a little imagination, and your fence will be the highlight of your site. You can, for example, using bright colors, paint it in different colors.

If the fence is chosen from the fence, you can sharpen the tops and decorate. Such a cheerful fence of "colored pencils" will look original. Concrete blocks can be decorated using texture plaster, eventually creating a feeling of stone or brickwork.

Nothing decorates the dacha like a hedge. When designing it, trim the crown in shrubs and trees to get the desired shape. You can make a hedge from different trees and shrubs, depending on what height you need. If more than one and a half meters, fit thuja, juniper, spruce, cherry plum. For medium heights use honeysuckle or lilac. If the function of the fence is only to distinguish zones, you can plant currants, barberries, boxwood.

It also looks very nice fence, decorated with climbing plants. Make it easy, just plant some vines nearby.

Currently, more and more often make fences of corrugated board.By themselves, they look boring. But you can decorate them, for example, using airbrushing or using stencils. If you have artistic abilities, you can draw pictures yourself. If you use special high-quality paints, the fence will last you a long time.

Over the arrangement of any reservoir in the country, be it a fountain, stream or pond, will have to work hard. But if you study the theory well, then it is possible to put your knowledge into practice.

But first we need to find the place where our building will look harmonious. A good place - near the gazebo, terraces, in the depths of the garden - where you can relax and enjoy the fruits of their labor.

The design of the reservoir should be combined with the overall style. If you chose Japanese, the stones of different sizes and hvoyniki will become an ornament for your pond.

Choose a place for a pond so that the sun's rays would fall on it for five to six hours a day.

The size depends on the area of ​​your site and how much space is occupied by the rest of the buildings and plantings.If you plan to launch fish into a pond, its depth should be at least one and a half meters. You can simplify your task and buy a ready-made tank designed specifically for this purpose.

At the dacha you can build a stream, but for this you will need a pump. It is thanks to him that the artificial movement of water will be carried out. First you need to dig a ditch, it is good to ram the ground, and then cover it with film or concrete. In addition, the groove is dug, where the hose will be. You can purchase special equipment that is designed for the arrangement of reservoirs. This will simplify the task of building a pond or stream.

The final stage will be the design of the bottom and the coastal zone. At the bottom of the need to lay stones and larger small pebbles. You can also decorate the coast with stones and plant plants that love moisture. Suitable ferns, bergenia, juniper, marsh iris.

No matter how much effort, time and money you invest in the arrangement of your summer cottage, its design will not look complete without decorating garden paths. With them the plot looks well maintained. In addition, they are needed for convenience, and it does not matter if the path is made of simple squares of concrete or expensive paving slabs.

Expensive and stylish look track made of natural stone. They will last a very long time. Warm and homely breathes from wooden paths. But to keep their appearance as long as possible, you need to cover them with varnish or special impregnation.

Brick paths will also look very harmonious, especially if you have a brick house. It is necessary to use the sidewalk, and not the one that is intended for the construction of housing.

Paving allows you to experiment, from it you can create patterns. Only you will have such a path. Paths of gravel will look great in the depths of the garden, by the reservoirs, flower beds.

It is not difficult to make concrete paths by buying slabs from this material in hardware stores.

The final touch of comfort, comfort and individuality of your site - lighting. The lanterns at the gate, at the entrance to the house and on the veranda - not only decoration, but functional lighting. It is more pleasant to walk along the garden paths if they are lit. Light at the reservoir will give some mystery to your garden at night.You can also experiment with light design, as well as with other design elements, and then you will be able to achieve the uniqueness of your little paradise.

Festive lighting gives plenty of imagination. You can decorate trees, windows, figures. On these days, the garden is easy to turn into a magical forest.

You can decorate in an original and tasteful way not only a garden, but also a vegetable garden. In this case, of course, it is important to properly distribute where and what will grow.

Arrangement garden can fascinate you no lessthan garden landscape design. After all, it is not necessary to dig up the usual boring beds for growing vegetables. There are many opportunities to design them beautifully and in an original way.

Imagine the beds in the form of geometric shapes. Cabbage will be in the square, tomatoes will settle in the triangles, and cucumbers in the rhombus. Even taking care of vegetables will be easier and more pleasant.

The garden will sparkle with new colors, if you plant flowers - marigolds, nasturtiums, and marigolds next to the vegetables around the perimeter. You can arrange low hedges no more than thirty centimeters in height, the effect will be simply amazing.

Even just to paint the boards with which the beds are fenced is a simple matter. And the colors - orange, blue, green, yellow - will create your mood.

You can plant vegetables in containers. Such mini-gardens will decorate your site. You can put mint, parsley, rosemary, cumin, dill, strawberries, cherry tomatoes and small peppers in them. Guests will appreciate your creative approach in the design of the garden.

As for the garden, in addition to its main decoration - trees and flowers, compositions of various materials in combination with various plants can become a highlight. You can emphasize the pristine beauty of nature in your garden with the help of an artificial pond, alpine slide, rock arias.

Do not be afraid to get down to business if you have not done this before. Learn how to do this or that facility, stock up with the necessary materials - and go! Everything will work out.

The garden is the place where you can make your debut as a designer. Just keep in mind some of the nuances. For rock aria or alpine slide, prepare drainage. At a depth of thirty centimeters pour gravel, broken brick, then sand and cover with soil.Only then proceed to the laying of stones and planting plants. This process is very fascinating. Well, if the hill will stay the winter after laying, and in the spring you will plant plants.

Garden decoration will be a gazebo or pergola. In the heat you will hide in the shade with a glass of lemonade, and in the rain you will gladly drink a cup of coffee here. These structures can also be designed in different ways, using both vertical gardening and flowers in pots. Near the gazebo beds will look harmonious.

Avid gardeners usually throw nothing away. It would seem that old unwanted items do not understand why they are gathering dust in boxes in attics. But it is only at first glance they are useless. From them you can make original crafts, most importantly, attach a little imagination.

By the way, this decor today is considered a current trend. So carefully examine what lies in your closets and chests and get down to business.

For example, old bicycles can serve as excellent flower stands. It is necessary to strengthen the structure well and place pots, flowerpots, baskets on it. When it all starts to grow and bloom, you will appreciate the beauty of this composition.

By the same principle, you can build a small well of boards or logs and plant flowers inside. Here you have one more original decision to make a flower bed. For handicrafts, the most unexpected things can come in handy: old furniture, rusty dishes, plastic bottles, car tires, barrels, tubs.

So don’t throw anything away if you decide to design a summer house. At the most unexpected moment, any thing can go to the course. Who knows what you want to make next time: woodcutter from cans or wooden ducks in bright shoes?

The most unexpected objects can be used as flowerbeds: old dressers, buckets, chairs and even shoes. And if you have stumps left on the plot, you are lucky. This is the original solution for flowerbeds. Inside the stump you need to put a flower pot, cover the ground and plant the plants. The composition looks original and pretty.

In the trees, we can place self-made birdhouses, paint them to your taste, and even a simple squirrel feeder.

There are a lot of examples of areas where the original design is used. But if you do not want to repeat, think of something your own.After all, every novice gardener who took a great interest in design really wants his ideas to be exclusive.

Looks great here is such an interesting decision. It is only necessary to make a wooden door, or rather, to issue an old one, place a shop next to it, plant flowers, add a few stones. And it seems that a fabulous dwarf has settled in behind your fabulous door.

But a wonderful veranda, immersed in flowers. Wicker furniture, tablecloths, vases, wooden floor - from all of this breathes such comfort and warmth.

Is it so difficult to build such a small bridge and a reservoir? And what a wonderful corner turned out to be surrounded by flowers and trees!

You can make the decor of the courtyard so that your guests feel like in the village. Here you have come in handy old samovar, trough. It remains to build a bench and complement the composition with flowers and plants.

But the successful design of the beds. This garden looks much more attractive than the traditional and boring. And it is more pleasant to work on it, and it pleases the eye. It remains to make two or three strokes, and you have created a beautiful corner at your summer cottage.

So the suburban area can be issued with the use of expensive materials, and do with improvised means.In any case, it will be beautiful, it all depends on your skill and desire to make your territory unique.

How to create a fabulous landscape with their own hands, see the following video.