Spring and summer time in the suburban area – it’s the holidays, fantasy and magic. Using inexpensive tools and materials can be plain weave country to turn into a fabulous garden, wild flower garden or an elegant Park with a sparkling fountain, graceful statues and mosaic paths. Nice late evening relaxing with the family on the shore of a picturesque pond, and the neighbors are unlikely to be spared the beautiful backyard of a private home, decorated with handmade decorations.
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A floral Symphony: unusual flower beds
The easiest way to make a patio cozy to smash a few flower beds with different sides so that they were bright composition. To arrange several fillets or local groups, a lot of imagination and skill is not required to handle every aspiring vacationer. Better consider some original choices that can truly be called masterpieces of decorative art.
One of the luxurious options – flower car. The basis is an unnecessary miracle of technology – a small old car, motorcycle or Bicycle. Horizontal surface and partially covered with a vertical grid filled with nutritious soil. To the carpet was fun and resembled a blooming meadow, use a low border flowers or climbing plants.
In addition to the layer of soil Packed in a special grid, you can use a low, compact trays, pots or planters for flowers, placed on the surface
In a large floral bouquet can transform even a suburban house and decorate it with lots of pots of colourful flowers. For the wall design perfect for any unpretentious climbing plants, such as petunias, which for lush flowering just need a little soil and regular watering.
There are two options for the wall design flowers: selection of shades of one color or the placement of different plants in discord, regardless of their color
Original and economical solution – mini-beds of old shoes or household items. As a flower pot can be a pair of children’s rubber boots, a broken Shoe, a broken jug or defective wooden tub. Familiar items get a second life and continue to delight us, but in a floral frame.
As the original pots you can use things that have served their age, for example, children’s shoes, large toy cars, old bags
As you can see, to create a beautiful yard with your own hands is not difficult, it would wish.
Trimming topiary bushes
The most advanced owners of country plots are not even thinking about how beautiful and original way to decorate your yard. They just take up the pruning shears and make growing around the building the bushes into strange shapes. To understand the art of topiary, you need to learn how to use simple tools and have a little imagination.
What species of trees and shrubs to choose?
One of the most popular shrubs is the boxwood. When arranging the composition of this plant, it should be remembered that sprigs of it very quickly grows, therefore, the major cut will have to produce twice a year. Not less than ideal for topiary tis noble, to look after which nice and easy.
Prickly Holly is perfect for hedges, which can be used to produce zoning of suburban area. Also looks good green fence of Privet, which should be maintained only in the warm season. Cotoneaster is good for creating the most extraordinary shapes, but the rate of growth of shoots forces to do the hair quite often.
Densely planted boxwood shrub is a real godsend for those who like to spend much time in the garden. Mazes, hedges, rockeries, single pieces of boxwood bushes will beautify any yard
Tools for cutting
All tools are available and easy to use:
- saw – to remove the thick branches and twigs;
- lopper – helps to get rid of the branches, are in the far distance;
- the brush cutter is an indispensable tool for crown formation;
- secateurs – for neat trimming of the shoots and thin branches;
- garden knife – replaces any tool.
Brief care instructions
At the initial stage do not try to take on complex, demanding jewelry pieces. Better to stay on the simple, compact, simple forms as spheres, cubes, pyramids. The distance between adjacent plants should not be less than 80-100 cm, to make it easier to care for and prune the outgrown branches. The tool should be kept in razor-sharp condition in a dry place, then work will be easy and pleasant.
Than thicker will be pruning the more luxuriant will grow hedges and shapes. Young plants are easily dealt with by pruning shears or a garden knife. If you want to put a number of new shoots, the shrubs trimmed to a height of 15 cm from the soil surface. The more varied the species of plants used in the preparation of green composition, more natural and more interesting it will look.
The magic power of sparkling jets
The most attractive place during the summer heat, is a reservoir. Pools, ponds, man-made streams, fountains are not just beautiful but also functional. Suppose the spray from the fountain irrigate surrounding plants, and the pool is a salvation from the scorching sun.
Looks very picturesque small waterfall, created by your own hands out of a pile of stones. Stones, decorative tiles, fragments of pottery to find is easy, especially after the repair or construction of the house. If the nearby river Bank or a quarry, the stones can be delivered from there.
For a device of this lovely fountain will need large and small stones of different colors and the mechanism-pump, pushing a small stream of water.
A real work of art – the sparkling fountain that is equally harmonious and cool the bottom of the garden, and in the center of the Playground. The fountain doesn’t occupy a lot of time and money, and the beautiful and original yard in the country is provided. The process can be divided into 2 parts: construction of reservoir and connection of the spraying system water.
A small pond is easy to build according to the following schedule:
- to dig a hole;
- the bottom and walls to cover a large piece of thick waterproof film;
- pin the edges of the film around the circumference;
- fill with water;
- decorate the sides of the reservoir rocks, tiles, ceramics, statues, flowers.
Components for the device of the fountain, you can buy in the store. Some systems are equipped with various nozzles that allow you to change the configuration of the water drawing.
The eternal beauty of stone gardens
If the desire to decorate the infield is huge, and time to care is not always enough, there’s a simple solution – arrange a rock garden, unusual, beautiful and a little mysterious. It can only consist of stones and sand, to be diluted with evergreen plantings or flowers and a small pond or a waterfall.
Choosing the stones, you should pay attention to their color and texture: than raznoplanovye will of the workpiece, the more interesting and unusual work arrangement. As the filler or you can use colored pebbles or crushed granite, and river sand with different shades – yellow, white or red.
A great find for a rock garden is a traditional Alpine slide, which can be positioned in the center and somewhere on the side. For decoration better to use low flowers border type – lush rose bushes, peonies or dahlias will close the rocks and distract the attention on himself. Viola, lungwort, Adonis, oregano, almaznik, loosestrife, Saxifraga, Veronica carnation and geranium is small in size, but have dense inflorescences of bright colors that can liven up the cold stone picture.
A stone summer cottage is always a nobility, elegance, stability. It can be used to decorate ponds and basins, for construction of bridges and tracks, as well as decorative elements of the garden
Your imagination and skills to work on the ground will tell you how to quickly and beautifully decorate the yard. In addition to these methods for decorating areas you can use ordinary, seemingly, things – sidewalks, minor structures (gazebos, wells), benches, funny sculptures from scrap materials.
