All dacha owners one day think about decorating it, adding something special to the atmosphere. Of course, you can go to specialized stores and buy whatever your heart desires. But if summer residents want their vacation spot to be unique and inimitable, then it will be much more interesting to make the decorations with your own hands. Jewelry made independently will give the owners both a creative mood and aesthetic pleasure.
Choosing original ideas for a summer residence
Each dacha owner, if desired, can find a lot of the most different ideas to decorate your site. To make most decorations, only available materials and minimal costs will be enough. And old, unnecessary furniture and interior items will inspire creativity even more. Often seemingly completely useless and forgotten things can come in handy. Country designers use in their work everything that comes to hand: broken old furniture, unnecessary toys, various bottles and dishes, car tires, remaining building materials and much more.
No dacha decoration is complete without intricate, interesting flower beds. Uniqueness flower arrangements you can add them by planting them in old containers. These can be barrels, pots, and even carts. Many summer residents build various picket fences for flower beds.
Original paths on a summer cottage will always add coziness. They are made from timber or stone. And leftover materials can always be used to build another composition.
Bottles and plastic jars are especially popular among country designers. From them it is easy and simple to build many interesting sculptures, decorations for flower beds, and borders. There are no limits for imagination here.
You should definitely place a bird feeder in your dacha. Children usually love to watch birds. And with a feeder, birds will be a frequent visitor to your summer cottage. It can be made from a plastic bottle, from an unnecessary block of wood, or from twigs.
Without much difficulty, you can make a variety of figures that will bring comfort and individuality to the countryside atmosphere. For their manufacture, you can use a variety of design solutions and materials. For example, polymer clay, leftovers polyurethane foam, gypsum and other building materials. You just have to start creative work and it will immediately become clear that nothing is impossible.
Crafts from improvised materials
The most popular among available materials for crafts are bottles, various plastic jars and boxes. Before starting work, you should definitely think through the details so that the result is truly beautiful and does not resemble a pile of plastic waste.
Plastic bottles are easy to cut and can be easily shaped into the desired shape. And if you cover the result of the work suitable paints, then you get bright, unique decorations for your dacha. For example, you can make animal figures (pigs, cows, bees) or fairy-tale heroes. By making such decorations, you can unleash your creative potential, and each time the crafts will become more and more perfect. At large quantities unnecessary plastic, it is used to make not only crafts, but also pieces of furniture.
If you have a glass cutter among your tools, you can make original pots from glass bottles. Such crafts look very stylish and easily fit into any design. Candle stands can be made in the same way.
Bottle caps can also be useful for decorating furniture, decorative fences, creating compositions and even curtains. You can also use containers from chocolate egg toys.
Leftovers natural stone Perfect for decorating a pond in your country house. A small pond will add unique comfort to the atmosphere of the dacha. Flower beds, crafts or a recreation area will look good around. If the pond turns out to be large enough, then it can be decorated with an interesting bridge.
Every motorist always has old tires. You can simply paint them and make bright bases for a flower bed, or you can show your imagination and cut out various shapes.
Arrangement of a play area at the dacha
When landscaping and decorating your summer cottage, don’t forget about the children. They need their own territory for games and entertainment. Children of any age love swings. They can be made from regular boards and rope, or you can use metal chains and old tires painted in bright colors. It’s easy to build slides and swings from scrap materials. The main thing is that everything is strong and reliable.
For kids, you will definitely need a sandbox. Its borders will look interesting from colorful bottles or wooden log houses. A sandbox in the form of a ship or car will look original. It is recommended to make an awning over the sand to protect from the bright sun.
Children will certainly love having their own playhouse in their summer cottage. Benches, a table or other furniture can be placed inside. It all depends on your imagination. The house can be decorated with a bright flower bed or homemade decorations. Usually the children themselves are happy to take part in decorating their territory.
Ideas for decorating a fence at the dacha
The uniqueness of the dacha plot is best emphasized by its fencing. A fence is not only the protection of the territory, but also the so-called calling card of the owners.
Simple wooden or iron fence– it’s banal. It definitely needs to be decorated. You can decorate the fence in the most different materials: flower pots, crafts in the form of animals, painted landscapes and everything your imagination allows for. For example, unnecessary bright-colored rubber boots will look original as pots.
You can decorate the fence with old discs. They reflect sunlight and look interesting in any lighting. You can also apply different patterns to the discs.
A fence made of round timber, painted to look like colored pencils, looks impressive. This fence can also be used to fence off a children’s area in a dacha.
Any fence will look cozier if some climbing plants grow along it. Eat various types, which grow very quickly. For example, decorative beans or morning glory. You can plant vines. They grow much slower, but also look more expensive. There is no comparison in this case with wild grapes. Grape leaves gradually change their color and retain their beauty until frost. It looks original when the “grape fence” turns into a canopy. This design gives the fence an antique look.
Beautiful decorations for a low fence will be flowering shrubs, planted along it. You can combine plants with different colors and flowering times.
In the evening, different lanterns on the fence look beautiful. It’s also possible to make them yourself from scrap materials. Or you can just paint them glass jars attached to the fence, place candles. The main thing is that the flame does not reach the fence.
Lovers of drawing will have a lot of room for imagination. You can draw anything on the surface of the fence: nature, scenes, cartoon characters, ornaments, small patterns in the form of flowers, butterflies, ladybugs. It’s easy to draw on any fence, but it’s easier on a fence made of corrugated board.
Compositions made from lids, shells, stones, and dishes look original. It’s easy to make plastic flowers from the bottoms of bottles and paint them in rich colors - they will look beautiful on a wooden fence.
We design flower beds and flower beds
Flower beds will help transform your dacha plot and add color to its atmosphere. When choosing plants, you should definitely take into account their individual characteristics. First of all, you should decide on the “soloist” flowers, that is, the main plants in the flowerbed. The choice can be made of three or four types.
Decorating flowers with ornamental grasses and interestingly shaped leaves looks beautiful. With them, the flowerbed will be original, even when the flowers are not blooming. But you shouldn’t try to place a lot of different plants. The territory of the site should look holistic and harmonious.
Of course, it’s not enough just to plant flowers beautifully. Flowerbeds also look more original if they are decorated around them. The composition must be complete.
Flower beds can be decorated using any unnecessary items. The article already mentioned that it is not difficult to make small flower beds from old tires painted in bright colors. You can use a wheelbarrow, cart, an unwanted beehive, or even an old car. The main thing is that everything is done carefully and aesthetically. If desired, you can add decorations to the flower garden in the form of homemade bees, butterflies, and interesting stuffed animals.
You can make a small fence around the flowerbed. For its manufacture it is possible to use plastic bottles or cups, fences made of tine, stones. The flower bed looks beautiful and smoothly turns into a lawn.
Setting up a relaxation area
The dacha must have a comfortable place to relax. fresh air. This issue must be approached very responsibly. It all depends on the preferences and desires of the owners. This could be simply a laid out area with a table and comfortable chairs or hammocks placed in the shade.
At any summer cottage, a gazebo will look impressive, which can be made from the remaining building materials. Gazebos whose walls are decorated look beautiful climbing plants. Bright soft pillows or blankets look cozy as decorations.
Swings can be not only for children, but also for adults. It will not be difficult to build wide wooden swing for relaxation or make canopies somewhere in the shade of trees. For convenience, they can be decorated with soft pillows.
You will definitely need a barbecue in the recreation area. It can be made, for example, from old barrel. For evening and night time, flashlights can be provided.
When designing and decorating a dacha plot, it is worth remembering that a dacha is a place of rest from the everyday life and bustle of the city. It should be comfortable and calm here, and the environment should be pleasing to the eye. It is important not to overload the area with crafts or some design solutions; everything should be in moderation. Imagine, create, surprise!
On the banks of the river, our friends purchased an abandoned plot of land, which was a vacant lot covered with bumps and uneven areas, overgrown with bushes and weeds.
Territory arrangement
Four years of hard work made it possible to build a country house with all the amenities of a city and turn the surrounding area into a paradise.
House project internal structure and the landscape design was carried out by the owner of the summer cottage independently. Since the dacha plot was created for recreation in the summer, most of land plot was allocated for a green lawn and flower beds.
Only a small part of the land in the far corner behind the house was used to install a greenhouse and beds for growing herbs. Currant bushes and apple and plum trees were also planted.
In order to rainy weather the paths were dry and clean; they were paved with paving slabs raised above ground level. As a result, it became possible to walk around the territory of the summer cottage even in slippers.
A wide path is made along the entire length of the dacha from the gate, which ends in a canopy without walls intended for parking a car. A canopy allows you not only to protect your car from precipitation and solar radiation, but also to do household chores under it in rainy weather.
A garage canopy of this design is successful design solution, as it does not obstruct the view and fits well into the overall design of the summer cottage.
The owners of the summer cottage are very hospitable people. Relatives and friends often come to visit them. Thanks to the wide path from the gate, the yard can accommodate up to six cars at once.
Between the fence and the wide path there is a strip of land on which flowers and spruce trees are planted.
There is also a flower bed along the opposite side of the path and green lawn.
All paths are made of gray and red paving slabs. There is a narrow path leading to the house from the car.
Before front door The country house has a spacious open veranda overlooking the river. There is a table and chairs on it. After visiting the steam room on the veranda on summer evenings, in any weather, it is very pleasant to have dinner with soft drinks and barbecue in the company of friends.
On the summer cottage, before the construction of the house began, an outbuilding was built, consisting of three separate rooms with doors. The two entrances are equipped with a small common porch with a canopy. One of the rooms has a window overlooking the river. It has a bed with a bedside table for overnight guests. The second room has no windows and serves as a workshop, and the third room stores inventory and tools.
Next to the utility house, opposite the veranda, there is a platform covered with paving slabs for grilling kebabs. There is still room nearby for a mobile garden rocking sofa.
Flower beds and flower beds
Looking at the photographs published above, you probably noticed that on almost all of them, even on the smallest plots of land between the paths, flower beds and flower beds were made. The owner of the summer cottage has a fantastic love for flowers, and is ready to deal with them tirelessly from morning to evening, which, by the way, she does in all her free time.
The pride of the owner of a summer cottage is a spacious green lawn. Although it has to be trimmed often, there is still room for the children to run barefoot, play ball games and badminton.
A low fence with a gate in the center separates the dacha plot from the public area. There is a flowerbed in front of the fence, separated from the path by wooden logs. In addition to flowers, the flowerbed contains Christmas trees, each of which is planted in honor of one of the granddaughters and named after them. Children will grow up and watch how spruces grow with them. It will be very interesting for children.
Along low fence Marigold flowers are planted on the river side. On the left side of it, next to the canopy, there is a box with a tight lid for disposal of food waste and garbage of plant origin.
Almost the entire area not occupied by a green lawn, greenhouse and small vegetable garden is planted with spruce trees and flowers.
The corners between the paths are also beautifully decorated with paving slabs. Unobtrusive, but tasteful.
Flower garden in the form alpine slide decorates the edge of the grass lawn. Original composition and harmonious combination different colors in combination with boulders and pebbles is admirable. The photo shows the view from the second floor country house.
The flowerbed of the alpine hill type is not symmetrical, and when you look at it from different sides, a completely different composition of flowers opens up.
And in this photo, on the site of last year’s alpine slide, a new one has been created, which has larger size and with a different design. For a detailed acquaintance, I decided to present close-up photographs of plants and flowers.
In the photo, the perennial, unpretentious to the soil, sun-loving golden cinquefoil, with beautiful yellow flowers, growing on an alpine hill. The plant is not afraid of frost, and Cinquefoil tea has medicinal properties. Golden cinquefoil usually begins to bloom in the second half of summer.
And this is thyme (creeping thyme), popularly called “Bogorodskaya herb.” Thyme is a very beautiful perennial plant with a noble aroma, which has about 400 species. Comes in different colors. Thyme is also medicinal plant. Blooms from early June to late July. Thyme is great for creating alpine slides.
This flower is called stone rose, a relative of cacti that has nothing in common with ordinary roses, except that the rosettes are similar in shape, and the leaves at the edges are pink color. The Latin name is Sempervivum, which means “always alive.” An unpretentious beautiful perennial plant with fleshy leaves and no odor. Ideal for alpine slides.
Heather is an evergreen, low-growing perennial (grows up to 30 years), shrubby plant and blooms in our latitudes from July-August until late autumn. Heather is a light-loving plant, and with enough sun, the flowers are rich in color and do not fall off for a long time. Excellent honey plant and bees never fly past. The flowers are small, lilac or lilac-pink. The bushes grow to a height of 60 cm. Heather is the national flower of Norway, since heather fields occupy more than half of the country's area.
Dwarf mountain pine Jacobsen has a beautiful decorative form and surprises with its fluffiness. The needles are not prickly and are pleasant to touch with your hands. This coniferous plant is unpretentious to the soil and grows in any conditions, loves the sun, and is not afraid of frost. The height of an adult plant does not exceed 40 cm, which makes mountain pine an ideal conifer for alpine hills.
Due to the unusual red color of the leaves, it is very popular among gardeners. perennial flower Heuchera. Garden heuchera is the fruit of the work of American breeders. Heuchera does not like direct sunlight and grows better in the shade of other plants.
Heuchera flowering times depend on temperature environment and illumination. Thanks to the bright red color of the leaves and beautiful flowers Heuchera is great in combination with other plants to create alpine slides. It is better to plant Heucheras in the shade from conifers or other flowers, so that the rays of the sun fall on it only at sunrise or sunset.
This is another variety coniferous plants. Unfortunately, I don’t know the scientific name of this Christmas tree.
Gray Canadian spruce Conica is native to Canada. The dwarf variety grows to a height of only one meter in ten years. This is a very beautiful conifer, excellent, just like common spruce, grows in our latitudes.
There is probably no need to imagine a lily flower. Lily is the oldest known flower, the flower of purity and purity. There are thousands of legends about Lily. The lily is considered the flower of kings. Everyone knows and loves this one beautiful flower. The photo shows the Canadian Lily.
In this photo there is also a lily, only bright red.
Roses are perhaps the most popular flowers for expressing the feelings of the giver. Thanks to the variety of shades of rosebuds, they were “taught” to convey attitude without words. A scarlet rose or bouquet is given to express romantic love and passion, a gifted bud of a red rose expresses confusion, a tender attitude is emphasized by a pale pink bouquet of roses. A dark pink bouquet is usually given as a sign of gratitude.
Astilbe is an unpretentious frost-resistant perennial plant with bright red flowers. There are varieties that bloom in other colors. The flowers can reach a height of 60 cm and rise beautifully above low-growing grass and other flowers.
Pansies are popularly called tricolor violet. These pretty flowers seem to be looking at us. Pansies are one of the most unpretentious flowers to environmental conditions; they bloom from early spring to late autumn.
Petal color combination Pansies tends to infinity. This is one of the most favorite flowers of gardeners.
Cannes are exotic flowers for our latitudes. The flowers are very beautiful, and the petals of one flower can be of different colors. Cannas are excellent flowers for decorating a summer cottage.
And the bee liked this Gatsania flower, and she collects nectar. Gatsania, or gazania, is a South African flower, similar in appearance to the Russian chamomile. Flowers appear from July and delight the eye until the end of the season. The flower loves abundance sunlight and has an attractive appearance.
Gatsania flower has color scheme sunlight, and therefore it is difficult to look away from it.
Arranging and planning your summer cottage is not as difficult as it seems. In this article we will analyze popular layouts, and also consider ways to decorate a summer cottage in simple and original ways.
Doing gardening is great, but turning into just a “farm slave” for the whole weekend is probably not the best idea. best option. And this means that country house First of all, it should become a place of rest, that is, it should have all the necessary conditions for this.
In a word, this publication is for those who put the meaning of turning suburban area V cozy corner rest and relaxation. If you manage to correctly draw up and practically implement own project, then this will become the pride of the whole family, since, most likely, each of its members will be able to come up with the design of their own corner. Thus, the dacha will be not only and not so much a place where you can grow an environmentally friendly crop, but that “magnet” that will attract all the thoughts and aspirations of the owners in eager anticipation of the next weekend.
Video: interesting ideas for decorating a summer cottage
Zoning and designing a summer cottage is quite an exciting activity, accessible to anyone with an imagination. It is more difficult to bring all the ideas to life. However, if the necessary construction work, and then decorating the entire territory, the result will not only please the master, but also surprise guests and neighbors for many years. Especially if you periodically replace some boring elements with new, even more original ones.
Arranging a summer cottage with your own hands is a process that can confidently be called continuous. Every year, when we come out of town, we find many objects that deserve our close attention: here we need to fix a rickety fence, here we need to lay a path, and here it would be nice to arrange a flower bed.
And although an entire encyclopedia may not be enough to describe every detail of this process, below we will try to collect a number of the most useful recommendations. By following them, you can streamline your work and significantly increase its efficiency. So there will still be time for relaxation!
Dividing the cottage into zones
Before arranging a summer cottage, you need to conditionally divide its area into functional zones. Of course, it is advisable to do this at the design stage, but to restore order in a dacha that is actively in use, this will also not be amiss.
Experts identify three main zones:
- Residential, including a house and surrounding area. Here the priorities are communications (water, electricity, sewerage), paths and access roads, as well as the features of the building itself. The main factors to pay attention to will be comfort and safety.
- Recreational – everything related to relaxation (active and not so active). Perhaps the examples of arranging a summer cottage here will be the most diverse, ranging from terraces and lawns to exercise equipment open air, basketball courts, tennis courts, etc.
- Gardening. This can include both a front garden with flowers and an alpine slide in front of the house, and a greenhouse with outbuildings for equipment. However, the main part of this zone is, naturally, the garden and beds, which can be considered an integral part of almost every dacha.
When we arrange a summer cottage with our own hands, we should visually separate these zones from each other, arranging them so that they do not intersect. In this case, our stay outside the city will be much more comfortable, since we can easily switch from one type of activity to another, and at the same time we will not interfere with each other.
Local area
We will try to limit ourselves to only the most important ones, and will start with those that relate directly to the area near the house:
- One of the key points worth paying attention to will be the arrangement of the entrance to the dacha plot. For this purpose, either a gravel platform is usually built (layer thickness from 50 cm, fraction 25-35 mm), or monolithic slab made of concrete/asphalt concrete. The price of the second option is much higher, but the concrete surface is much easier to keep clean.
Pay attention!
An important element of the entrance area is drainage ditch which ensures the drainage of rainwater.
- The area in front of the house is usually connected to all other objects on the site through paths. Arranging the paths of a summer cottage with your own hands can take place according to a variety of schemes. The cheapest option is to fill it with gravel, but if your financial capabilities allow it, then you can lay all the paths with paving slabs on a sand cushion or a monolithic concrete base.
- Also on local area stands from the rain. It can only close small area in front of the porch, or can cover the entire area, including the parking space. Typically, such canopies are mounted on steel supports, and translucent polycarbonate is used as a covering.
- An important factor ensuring comfort will be the lighting of the local area.. Naturally, this requires a stable energy supply, and renting a diesel generator for your dacha will help here: even if the electricity goes out, you will not be left without light.
Recreation area
If you don’t know where to start planning a recreational site, then we recommend that you think about creating:
- For this purpose we select small area, which will not be shaded by either the house or tall trees. If necessary, we bring fertile soil to the site, carefully level it and sow it with lawn grasses.
Pay attention!
Lawn grasses are resistant to trampling, but they must be mowed regularly.
- You can also build an alpine slide on such a site. We lay out its basis from natural stone: limestone is best, granite or quartzite is somewhat worse. We fill the gaps between the stones with fertile soil in which we plant the plants.
- Finally, if you have a large area empty, you can make a pond on it. Of course, digging and concreting the bowl itself will require a lot of work, which is why today special plastic containers, which are installed flush with the ground level.
Garden and vegetable garden
When deciding how to arrange a small summer cottage, many of us pay special attention to the part where we can grow vegetables and fruits.
This approach can be considered quite rational, however, here too it is worth adhering to a number of recommendations:
- Firstly, the beds need to be placed in such a way that there is enough light for them. That is why trees are usually planted in the immediate vicinity of a country house, and a vegetable garden is planted at a distance - this way it will not be shaded throughout the day.
Pay attention!
This doesn't concern shade-loving plants: for them, a site is usually allocated either next to the garden, or even under the canopy of trees.
- Particular care must be taken in choosing the location for installing greenhouses. In addition to sufficient sunlight, this area should be protected from the wind, especially in spring.
- The beds themselves should be separated from the paths with sides made of boards or plastic sheets: this way the black soil will not be lost, and we will apply much less dirt to the recreation area and to the house.
- To provide enough abundant watering During the dry period, it is worth considering such an option as installing a well on a summer cottage. Despite all the labor costs associated with this event, it can be considered justified: this way we will not only provide ourselves quality water for drinking and watering, but we will also insure against water supply outages, which usually occur at the most inopportune moment.
- Well, if growing vegetables is a fairly serious hobby for you, then you should set up your own garden pumping station. Such an installation will make it possible to water the beds with a hose and install an economical, but effective system drip irrigation.
Conclusion
Options for arranging a summer cottage, as well as recommendations for performing certain works, can be listed endlessly. The main thing here is to understand what exactly we want from our dacha, plan the work and begin the systematic implementation of our project. This may take more than one year, but if we are guided by tips similar to those presented in the video in this article, then we will definitely succeed.
Cozy beautiful dacha with a well-kept garden and vegetable garden is the dream of every city dweller. Fresh vegetables from the garden, blooming flower beds, grill and garden chairs– simple, but such important components country holiday. And anyone who has at least a small plot of land can get it. Arrangement own dacha– a fascinating creative process. But it requires preparation and following a plan. Then the dacha will turn into a real piece of paradise, where you can relax alone, with your family, or invite a noisy group of guests.
Where to start with the arrangement: preparatory work
Before you start setting up garden plot, you definitely need to make a plan. Chaotic tree planting cannot be turned into beautiful garden. And if you don’t foresee in advance where there will be a recreation area and where there will be beds, you will end up with a useless use of space.
Preparations for the development of a summer cottage begin with a plan, and before that a preliminary inspection is carried out. It is necessary to explore the site, study the parameters and take into account its features. The main criteria: location of the house and terrain. If there is no house on the site yet, the task is simplified. For future construction, you can choose the optimal location.
If you have a house, you will have to adjust the location of the garden, vegetable garden and recreation area. The gentle terrain will also simplify the task. With strong differences in relief, you will have to choose one of the possible solutions: leveling or using it as the main feature and “highlight” of the site.
Drawing up a plan diagram for a dacha project
It should be remembered that the plan diagram is not drawn up in advance without visiting the site. When developing the primary plan, the main factors influencing the location of individual zones are taken into account:
- Buildings that are already present on the site. The house is the central structure; its location is taken into account when planning the placement of a recreation area.
- Boundaries of the site, location of the entrance and entry. It is important to consider the type of gate: swing or sliding. This determines how much additional space will have to be allocated so that the gate can open freely.
- Communications. The plan shows: water supply, electrical cables, gas pipelines, sewerage. Trees cannot be planted near utility lines, so it is important to accurately display them on the plan.
- Plants. It is necessary to divide trees and shrubs into groups: those that cannot be transplanted and will remain in place, those that can be transplanted and those that can be cut down.
- Soil type. Loose clay soil requires additional strengthening of the foundation of buildings and allocation of space for vegetable gardens and flower beds.
When placing the plan diagram on paper, the south-north direction should be strictly observed. On the sheet, the south is at the bottom, the north is at the top.
Dividing the site into zones
There are mandatory zones: house, garage (if you have a car). The rest are selected depending on personal needs and preferences. Most often in summer cottages they place:
In addition to standard zoning, additional decorative zones can be placed in the dacha, for example, winter garden. But this is only possible in large areas with relatively flat terrain.
Ideas and ready-made solutions: essential components of a summer cottage
A traditional Russian summer cottage where you can relax comfortably must have a house, a bathhouse and a garage. The bathhouse should be located so that it is not visible from the street and as close to the house as possible. It is convenient to place a barbecue and a gazebo next to the bathhouse. If the area is large, a flower bed or flower garden is usually laid out next to the gazebo. For a vegetable garden, a place is allocated in the lower zone of the site, behind the gazebo.
Fruit trees planted behind the house, grouping them in the left or right corner. It is better not to stretch the garden and plant them in a square. The main decorative elements should be located on the façade side. It would be ideal if you can create flower beds under the windows or at a distance, but so that they can be seen from the windows.
Budget minimalism: how to cut costs
The budget may be limited, but there is no need to restrain your imagination. You can save on registration costs by:
It is impossible to reduce the budget on materials for buildings. This is an imaginary saving: cheap materials are short-lived and you will have to regularly make repairs so that the finish does not lose its original appearance.
Entrance part: door trim
The door and the space around it are responsible for the first impression of the dacha, and therefore require special design. Most often, doors and fences are decorated with climbing perennial plants.
But if the fence does not allow this, you can get by with hanging flower pots. Other popular design options include decorating with topiary trees (planted on both sides of the doors) or lanterns.
Backyard: arrangement of free territory
Arranging the backyard provides the greatest scope for experimentation. Here you can create a “wild garden” by planting decorative varieties plants. You can also equip a pond or an embankment. A backyard with flat terrain is ideal for setting up a court for active games: football, basketball, table tennis.
How to arrange a vacation spot
Verandas and gazebos are considered the main types of recreation areas. The veranda can be open (without walls) or closed (with dense walls, covering the site from wind and precipitation). The type of veranda depends on what type of recreation the dacha owners are used to. Those who like to spend evenings on the veranda will be more suitable for a closed type with windows - this will allow them not to give up their favorite pastime even in winter.
The open veranda allows you to have tea parties only in summer.
The gazebo is actually a separate open veranda. This is a small structure with a dense roof and carved walls. The gazebo does not provide shelter from the cold, but it copes with rainy weather. This type of seating area is suitable for those who like to spend time outdoors, surrounded by greenery.
Garden and vegetable garden at the dacha
It is not practical to plant a large garden at the dacha. Fruit trees take up a lot of space, and a sufficient amount of harvest can be collected from several trees, provided regular care is taken. For a classic garden it is enough:
- 1-2 apple trees;
- 1 cherry;
- 1 pear;
- 1 cherry;
- 1 peach;
- 2-3 currant bushes;
A good addition would be a bed of strawberries and a small plot of raspberries. It is better to choose varieties that bear fruit twice a season. Decorative bushes or trees are an optional element; it is more practical to replace them with climbing perennials.
A country garden is a space for imagination. But it is important to consider 2 points: the shape and location of the beds and the proximity of individual plant varieties. Square beds are not convenient: they take up a lot of space, and they are difficult to process - you won’t be able to reach from the edge to the center. It is better to choose oval or oblong beds. Light-loving plants should be placed closer to the center, and those loving shade and coolness should be placed closer to the fence.
Paths: principle of arrangement and shape
The location of the paths must be provided for immediately, at the stage of drawing up the plan diagram. The main paths lead from the entrance to the house, from the house to other buildings and along the central garden alley.
Paths cannot be drawn based only on your own aesthetic views. All curves should be motivated and look natural. Having drawn a path on the plan, you need to rotate it and see if it overlaps with others. There should not be any intersections sharp corners, it is desirable that intersections be proportional. The maximum permissible slope angle is 12 cm per 1 m. If the difference in relief is greater, you need to make steps.
The material for the path is selected depending on its purpose: main, walking, decorative. The more often you plan to walk on it, the stronger and more durable the material should be.
MAFs and other decorative elements: how to decorate a site
To MAFAs (small architectural forms) refer to decorative elements that have no practical function, performing only the role of decoration. MAFs include:
- fences;
- conversations;
- flower beds;
- bridges;
- rotundas;
- benches;
- monuments;
- awnings;
- hedge.
Wood and sculptural material are used to make MAFs. You can create them yourself or buy them ready-made at gardening supply stores.
Decoration of a country fence
Various decorative elements are used for decoration: lamps, decorative stone, garden sculptures. Plant decorations for the garden include ornamental trees, flower beds and hanging plants. Experienced gardeners It is recommended to choose the latter.
Flowers with long stems that are planted in hanging pots are called hanging flowers. Unlike hedges, they are mobile: the pots can be moved or removed at any time. To popular hanging plants include surfinia, lobelia, petunia.
Design of flower beds and flower beds
A simple and profitable design method is the “chintz garden” technique. To create it, perennial flowers of contrasting colors are used. They bloom almost simultaneously and are pleasing to the eye all season long. The shape of the flower bed can be any, but an oval one looks neater. The frame of the flower bed must be outlined: with brick, stone or slate.
Original alpine slide with conifers
An alpine slide is a type of flower bed that has several levels. Decorate it with conifers - original idea, allowing you to create an almost eternal flowerbed in one season. Suitable for alpine slides decorative thujas and ate, junipers. You should not choose tall plants: they will spoil the structure of the slide.
How to arrange a small area
To visually make small plot more, you need to use space curvature techniques:
- light colors;
- smooth lines;
- more number of lamps;
- minimum plantings.
It is better if the fence is not solid, but lattice. This will add lightness and light to the area.
How to make a long plot harmonious
If there is no house on the elongated plot yet, it is planned to be placed at the far end of the plot. Trees and flower beds are planted in front of the house. Outbuildings are brought to the fence, placing them on one side. The path from the gate to the house should be winding. The central part of the plot can be left as a lawn or beds with low-growing plants can be created. It is better to move all tall plantings towards fences.
Closed type has 2 subtypes: with horizontal closure and vertical closure. With the horizontal option, inspection of the space is partially difficult and is blocked only from above (for example, loose tree crowns). The vertical option covers the space with “walls” - tree crowns, bushes, lattice. All structures on the site belong to a closed type of spatial structure.
Open type- this is a plane not occupied by volumetric elements. These include: ponds, lawns, flower beds with low-growing plants, paved areas. An open space can be enclosed (surrounded on all sides) or facing (closed on one side).
What are viewpoints and what are they for?
A vantage point is the area where a person stands, looking at a landscape picture.
View point– this is the center from which the view opens. When a person moves from one zone to another, the viewpoint changes. But the landscape canvas itself remains intact. It is necessary to select a central view point (from which the entire site is visible) and points in each zone. Additional points most often include:
- garden gate;
- porch of the house;
- recreation area.
Having identified the center of the landscape painting and the main viewpoints, you need to check how they combine. From each point there should be a view of the accent: a building, a tree, decorative element. If they are not there, you need to add these elements to the plan.