Landscaping: unusual ideas for giving. Do-it-yourself landscape design

Many visitors look for inspiration on my site, look at photos of beautiful summer cottages and ideas for implementation on their backyard. Here, a summer resident who gravitates towards beauty will always find something interesting for himself. I regularly publish beautiful author's photo galleries and videos made by me on numerous trips around Russia and around the world.

Photo of a beautiful cottage

And who doesn’t want to see photos of beautiful cottages and cozy gardens in the light of the approaching holiday season? See my selection and read about some landscape design tricks that you can apply to your own summer cottage.

Beautiful cottages - photo of a house with flowers

Country design in my face is always a pleasure to please such lovers of beauty and connoisseurs of aesthetics, like you, with the brightest and most beautiful photos that I have made over the years of work and travel. If you are looking for how to improve the design of a country house, then check out my today's selection of ideas.

Landscape Tricks - Add Colors

One of the simple options to make your dacha eye-catching is to paint a house or gazebo in a bright positive color that pleases the eye. Yellow, blue, light green, pink, lilac - choose the color to your taste and paint your house, small or large, it doesn't really matter!

There is already enough grayness and facelessness in the world in abundance, the summer will fly by quickly, and in the fall your building will still be saturated with color.

Beautiful cottages - photo of a brick house

House design ideas - my favorite cottages

Beautiful cottages - photo of a small house

By the way, lots of design ideas. country houses you can see in my selection of 28 copyright photos -. The collection is presented as wooden buildings, and brick. An idea of ​​how I would like to see my beautiful garden is given.

Landscape Tricks - Climbing Plants

Beautiful cottages - photo of a two-story wooden house with an attic

Recreation areas

Beautiful cottages - photo of the recreation area

Nothing will please the heart (and tired back) of a summer resident like a conveniently equipped recreation area. Soft chairs on the terrace or patio in the garden, overlooking the beauty created by one's own hands - flower beds and a decoratively designed vegetable garden - the best reward after a hard day's work.

You can read about the technology for making such a floor, as well as about decorating garden paths with broken tiles, and at the same time admire beautiful photos.

Landscape Tricks - Using Sculptures

Another easy way to make a flower bed not just a place where flowers bloom, but an example of your exclusive design is to beautifully fence it and decorate it with small sculptures, figures of animals or men.

Front garden decoration

Beautiful cottages - photo of a stone house with a large front door

World gardeners have been very successful in decorating front gardens - which is what the article tells about with a selection of my author's photographs in the size of as many as 12 pieces.

More ideas for landscape tricks for giving

The owners of this beautiful dacha in the photo solved the issue with landscaping in this way - they sowed the plot with lawn grass, leaving space for flower beds and places to relax. Stones and tree trimmings also went into action.

You can also make decorative cement stumps by plastering an old barrel, cut in half, pre-tied with mesh.

The owners of this dacha love to craft and find a use for all old and not so old items. This does not mean at all that the summer cottage will become a collection of all kinds of crafts. It just sometimes happens that a thing that is no longer used in everyday life is perfectly arranged in the backyard.

Beautiful cottages - photo track

The beautiful winding path looks asymmetrical due to the fact that the landscape on one side is raised with a stone retaining wall. On the other hand, conifers are planted, all together this creates a successful composition.

Step decoration

The steps leading to the entrance terrace can also be elements of landscape design! It is very simple to perform, but at the same time, the finishing of utilitarian concrete structures with pebbles looks stylish.

Beautiful cottages - photo of steps in the garden

Also, steps can be decorated with tub plants, and flowering annuals can be sown under the lower step. Plant short ones so that they are not trampled.

The use of ampelous plants

Beautiful cottages - photo of ampelous plants near the porch

Also, you can decorate the porch railing with hanging plants. To do this, you just need to fix the pots vertically on the inclined plane of the railing.

Of course, if you are used to relying on them with your hand, then it is better not to do this. Or decorate only one of the two railings - the left one (if you are right-handed). You can even decorate the edge of the roof with hanging plants!

Climbing roses in garden design

Beautiful cottages - photo of a summer house

Ponds and bridges

patio design

Beautiful cottages - photo of the courtyard

A Spanish-style courtyard can be done in a fairly simple way: a few must-have touches - white painted walls, terracotta floor tiles, tub plants - and your patio acquires a charming Mediterranean outline.

Before entering the house, you can install a pergola for grapes or clematis. It will protect the entrance from the rays of the sun. It will be possible to rest in the shade even at noon.

small lot design

Beautiful cottages - photo of a small suburban area

This area is very small, but looks very decorative and well maintained. Its layout is geometric - paths from square slabs, a small paved patio and flower beds highlighted on the sides.

Terraces

Beautiful cottages - terrace photo

If your site has a difference in relief, then you yourself are just lucky - you can decorate the landscape with the help of terraces. And the steps can be made as in the photo - lay a brick in a circle on cement-sand mortar, and fill the inner part of the circle with fine gravel on a sand cushion.

You can see more material on slope terracing on the page.

dry stream

Even if you don’t have a reservoir on the site, you can arrange a dry waterfall - according to the principle of the “dry stream” landscape technique. The imitation of a stone waterfall, even if it is without water, will give your landscape a sophisticated personality.

The design of the trunk circle

An interesting way to play with the trees on the site is to make flower beds around them. They are arranged in this way - the area around the tree is fenced with natural or artificial stones, covered with soil to a height of 30-40 cm, and then flowers and plants are planted there.

Stone crevices in the retaining wall can be decorated by planting lawn grass and different beautiful perennials. The grass will need to be trimmed from time to time, otherwise the stones will not be visible.

The photo shows a courtyard with geometric shapes. Squares look very organic. Perhaps this option for organizing the landscape will suit you.

And here you can see a flower garden, the fence of which is a border of cut shrubs. When planting a flower garden according to this principle, you should know what types of shrubs can be used for a mixborder.

Evening illumination

A plank patio is also a good solution, especially where the ground is waterlogged. And it is more pleasant to walk on a tree than on concrete or stone.

In the middle of the lawn, you can create a pleasant flower island of beauty, especially true for large spaces of summer cottages.

Beautiful dachas - front garden design photo

Even in small courtyard mini pond with thrown over it decorative bridge will look fresh and harmonious.

If you are coming for the whole summer season to the country, then take your pet with you - a cat or a dog. My husband and I often see a neighbor's cat walking around our yard with an important look in the summer. Yes, and dogs are also often heard in the summer.

Beautiful cottages - photo ideas

Beautiful cottages - photo of a house with an attic

Beautiful cottages - photo of a cozy house

And here is another cozy house, painted in terracotta color, with a porch - a pergola. A great design idea for owners of small cottages.

Video - Landscape Tricks

In conclusion, I suggest you watch a selection of the Landscape Tricks program. I draw a lot of useful things from this program. This playlist has over 100 episodes of tricks. Watch and be inspired!

The relief of suburban areas can vary greatly, however modern technologies landscape gardening and landscape construction can improve their aesthetic perception. The area with plantations requires a special approach, since changing trees very often will not work in any case. The most important thing is to correctly position all the main elements.

Proper grouping of vegetation

To properly organize garden landscape with your own hands, you must first consider how to group plantings. Of course, there are no strict rules on the form and type of landing, because each person has the right to realize his own fantasies. However, certain variations still took root in the design.

Arrangement of trees and shrubs

When designing the territory, it should be taken into account that compositions based on large plantings look advantageous only on large areas. In ordinary gardens, it is recommended to plant dwarf plants growing slowly.

From such shrubs and trees, you can create various compositions.

• The alley is a paved path located between two rows of plantings. In the park building, a similar method of grouping plants has been used for a long time.
• A hedge is a fairly effective element of landscape design. It is formed by planting shrubs and trees at close range. After growth and a curly haircut, a solid wall is obtained.
• The border from the above option differs in height. In this case, the plants are located at a distance of 20-50 cm from the ground. This composition usually helps to highlight certain areas.
• The backstage involves a single-row planting of seedlings to form a kind of curtain. With the help of this technique, it is possible to limit the view of open space.

Advice!
You can improve the landscape of a garden plot if you use ampelous plants that are used for vertical gardening.
With their help, individual structures are mainly drawn up.

Creating compositions from flowers

There are many options for organizing flowering flora, and each of them has its own characteristics. The use of such plants makes it possible to properly arrange color accents in a certain territory.

The choice of colors and their grouping should be taken very responsibly.

• A flower bed is a section separated from the general area, which can have almost any geometry. In modern design solutions there are simple and complex compositions.
• The arabesque is the same flower bed, but has a more intricate shape. With the help of flowers, an abstract figure or some kind of ornament can be formed.
• Rabatka - a flower garden located along the edges of a path or path. A similar composition is formed by planting plants in narrow rows. Usually there are 3-4 lanes along the track on each side.
• The border is mainly arranged to highlight a specific area. For maximum effect different types of vegetation are used colors and heights.
• Rock garden - an artificial mound with mountain flowers. Allows you to reproduce the beauty of mountain landscapes.

Note!
Roses play a special role in the landscape of the garden, because they can be used to form magnificent compositions - rose gardens.
They grow the above-mentioned flowers of different varieties.

The device of an artificial reservoir

Almost any garden country landscape it will look advantageous if it is complemented by at least a small body of water. Directly next to it, you can organize a place to relax by placing benches, tables, sun loungers and other elements nearby, allowing you to relax on weekends.

Choosing a place for a pond

The correct location of the reservoir will allow you to use it for a long time, without fear for seasonal flowering, when under the influence sun rays algae are activated.

A significant part of the daylight hours should be in the shade. And only for 5-6 hours the reservoir can be exposed to ultraviolet radiation.

Features of the work

In terms of depth, it is desirable to divide the artificial reservoir into three main zones. Some plants will be in the coastal part, and others in the shallow part. The deepest zone will be required for the wintering of fish if they are supposed to be bred.

The lower mark should be at a distance of 150-180 cm or more, depending on the weather conditions of the region.

1. The preparation of the territory allotted for the pond is underway. All kinds of debris, shrubs, weeds, roots and various contaminants are cleaned.
2. The material to be used for the waterproof bottom is selected. Recently, PVC film has been actively used, the price of which is low.
3. The main work is being done. A pit of the required depth is dug, a film is laid or concrete is poured. After that, the container is filled with water.
4. At the last stage of an artificial reservoir, plants are planted, after which living creatures are launched.

Note!
The finished pit must be covered with a layer of river sand.
Its thickness should fluctuate between 3-5 cm.
The thinner the film being laid, the more impressive the sand layer should be.

Building a retaining wall

This option improves the perception of uneven terrain. If the garden has at least a slight elevation, then you can build a retaining structure that will divide the territory into two levels. If necessary, such a structure can also be made on a flat area, filling the space behind it with soil.

About materials for manufacturing

Retaining walls can be built from a variety of materials.

1. by the most simple option is a wooden structure, involving the use of logs or timber. Its elements are installed vertically or stacked horizontally, creating a barrier to the ground. However, the service life of such structures is not very high.
2. The construction of a concrete structure is considered to be quite laborious, but finished structures differ long period operation. In the process of basic work, a mixture of M200 is usually used, but with heavy loads on the wall, compositions of a higher brand can be used.
3. Retaining walls look more natural natural stone. They organically fit into the surrounding space. During the construction process, the laying of elements with the formation of cruciform joints should be avoided. It is best to build the classic way when the seams are completely covered.

1. You can often see brick structures, which reliably protect the soil from shedding. In addition, such fences look very elegant, especially if the entire garden has been organized in a modern style. For self-construction of the wall, you will need to familiarize yourself with the technology of laying bricks.

As a conclusion

Considered above landscape tricks for a small garden, with which you can greatly improve the aesthetic perception of the surrounding space.

If you correctly group plants, create an artificial reservoir and build a retaining wall to divide the territory into levels, the effect will be amazing. This guide will walk you through the basics, and the video in this article will provide more information.

It seems to many that creating an exclusive design of a garden plot with their own hands, as in a photo gallery, is something unrealistic. But it is not. Design ideas can be easily transferred to the local area of ​​​​your own summer cottage or country house, creating a unique landscape with an atmosphere of harmony and comfort. A small cozy garden or a luxurious park require the same approach, both in terms of architecture and design, and when choosing plants, space planning. landscape design garden plot is a whole philosophy that combines nature and life. There are many options for arranging a garden with a local area, among them you can always choose one that will fully meet individual needs. Style, harmony, convenience and simplicity are the basis for creating a unique atmosphere necessary for a relaxed holiday and a comfortable country life.

Design project

Creating landscape design on a garden plot with your own hands is not so much realistic as it is necessary, because today the dacha has ceased to be exclusively a place for growing vegetables. A country house is, first of all, a place where city dwellers come to take a break from the hustle and bustle, admire nature, in a word - relax.

There is absolutely no difference: 4, 6 or 10 acres are available. With careful planning, if you rationally manage the space, think over the design, even on a modest-sized plot, you can create a landscape of stunning beauty.

Advice! With the independent development of a design project for a garden plot, numerous photos from already ready-made solutions. Even if such a project cannot be fully implemented, you can always apply especially liked ideas of arrangement or decor on your site.

The outlines of the site should be transferred to paper, making up detailed plan. After that, you can proceed to the allocation of functional zones - economic, recreation, decorative.

Advice! The purpose of the future site should be taken into account in advance: only decorative, combined with household or exclusively for recreation.

All zones need to be filled, based on their purpose, their own needs, the desired style. This stage includes the selection of vegetation, architectural details, arrangement of reservoirs, lighting, laying paths and other communications.

Separately, it is worth considering the boundaries of each site, which will help hedges or lattice partitions entwined with ivy. Paths, an artificial reservoir, garden sculptures can become a good boundary. The main thing is that the division of zones looks as natural as possible, without sharp drops or breaks.

Advice! The sloping terrain of the site often causes a lot of problems. But if you correctly organize the drainage system in the lower part, and break the slope into several terraces, you can achieve amazing decorative effect, while dividing the entire area into functional zones in height.

garden plot style

The success of landscape design of a garden plot largely depends on a well-chosen stylistic solution. The style should not only take into account the size, topography and location of the backyard, but also emphasize the character of the owner. The photo gallery clearly demonstrates the differences in styles and their features, but before trying on this or that design on your site, it is better to study the features of each.

English style

Such a design is distinguished by maximum naturalness, lack of symmetry, an abundance of greenery. The appearance of the site seems to have descended from an idyllic landscape painting.

Vegetation is selected of all types. A well-kept lawn must be present, deciduous trees, trimmed shrubs, lush multi-tiered flower beds. The latter are predominantly made up of flowering plants and shrubs (roses, irises, cyclamens, oleanders, etc.). Trees should give a lot of shade, so it is worth planting willows along with fruit trees.

Such a solution will look best on a spacious area with noticeable uneven terrain, where a smooth lawn abruptly turns into a hilly area. The space should be divided into a garden and a park area, connecting them with winding paths with benches in the shade of trees, ponds framed with stone.

mediterranean style

The Mediterranean design is simple, with all the key elements centered around the patio. Such a patio is usually paved with stone, covered with wooden decking, partially surrounded by a brick wall painted in white or terracotta.

Vegetation is represented by even green lawn, bright areas are formed using flower beds. There must be a carved pergola (wooden or forged), partially covered with ivy, and thick curtains made of light textiles provide protection from the sun. The relaxation area with this design is sure to be supplemented with wicker furniture, a sun canopy, decorated with massive vases with bright flowers, elegant sculptures, fountains.

french style

French style fit owners of spacious homestead territories located next to a large stone house. This style is distinguished by luxury and abundance. free space. The central element of the site will be a wide alley lined with neatly trimmed shrubs and trees, antique statues and artsy flowerpots.

Main Features french design- symmetry, respect for proportions, clarity of lines that can be traced in everything. Be sure to complement the site with fountains in classical style, artificial porticos, grottoes or labyrinths, columns, stone bridges. The garden must be at a level below the main building so that it has a full view.

East style

The Japanese style is suitable for both tiny plots of 4 acres, and for a vast backyard area. Minimalism and conciseness can be traced in everything: the absence of lush decor, flowering plants, complex shapes. A pond must be arranged around which large stones can be laid out. In its center, an island will look good, which can be reached through a wooden bridge without a railing.

From vegetation, preference should be given to evergreen trees and shrubs, including dwarf ones. In spring and autumn, maple trees and fruit trees. Paths should be graveled separate sections you can lay out large stones that set the pace for movement.

Advice! Instead of a flower garden, it is appropriate to set up a rock garden. In the evening, the plot will effectively complement the built-in lighting.

The Chinese style will suit fans of the Feng Shui philosophy, which implies the harmony of all the elements and the arrangement of decorative elements that provides freedom for energy flows. A pond should be located in the garden area, around which compositions of green spaces and stones should be placed.

A gazebo-pagoda, bright wooden bridges, paths in the form of stairs, an artificial waterfall, a Buddha statue emphasize harmony with nature. Must be planted bright flowers red, yellow, purple hues, as well as take care of a smooth lawn of dense grass or moss in a rich emerald hue. Bright orange lanterns hung along the paths and next to the gazebo will add color.

Garden plot design: objects

The landscape design of a garden plot is always based on some main object, which can be a residential building, unusual relief, trees, a neat lawn, etc. Given their style and location, the site is supplemented with secondary objects, these include:

• Green spaces.
• Pergolas and architectural elements.
• Artificial reservoirs.
• garden sculptures.
• Lighting.
• Tracks.

The final design should combine beauty and convenience, style and comfort. Do not try to place everything on the backyard territory at once. It is enough to limit yourself to the necessary and withstand the chosen style.

Green spaces

Landscaping is the most important element of garden design. Plants create a background for all other objects, fill the space with a special charm, uniting it with the surrounding nature.

Landscaping of the site includes the phased planting of the following plants:

1. Trees and shrubs of various heights - create a shadow, delimit the site, highlight separate zones. In the walking area it is best to plant undersized shrubs or fruit trees that let in sunlight and form comfortable environment, serve as an excellent frame for the tracks. It is recommended to plant coniferous vegetation in recreation areas, and willows or tall shrubs will look good next to water bodies.
2. Flower beds should be broken when the main landscape has already been formed. Plants for them are selected taking into account the size of the site and the flowering period of each species. Along fences or walls will look spectacular vertical fit when the height of the plants gradually decreases. The hue of the colors in the background should be darker and more saturated than those in front, which gives visual volume and depth. Alpine slides allow you to beat the existing terrain of the site or create a new one.
3. The design of buildings and garden objects with the help of vegetation helps to achieve the unity of architecture with nature. It can be all kinds climbing plants, which adorn the walls of arbors, steps and garden sculptures, as well as flowers or shrubs planted along ponds.
4. The lawn will serve as an element that will connect all the zones on the site into a single whole. He must be neat, well-groomed. As lawn cover can be considered any herbaceous plants, including flowering ones.

Advice! Beds, if necessary, should be located in the economic zone. If the site is small, then it is best to design them not in a standard way, but in the form of a semicircle, which will help to make better use of the available area, visually expand the space.

The design of a small garden plot should be moderate, the abundance of flowers and plants can look ponderous, “eat up” the usable area.

Pergolas and architectural elements

The main building on the garden plot is a residential building, but it does not have to be the central design element at all, and even more so the only place for leisure and recreation. In the design of the local area, much attention is paid to the use of various architectural elements, which help to competently manage the space, make it more practical and comfortable. The buildings also serve as a spectacular decor, giving the site an aesthetic and lived-in look. Among them are:

• Pavilions and pergolas should be placed near water bodies, in a park area. On a plot of 4 acres, it is appropriate to install a small open gazebo with lattice walls, placing it away from the house. Such a building is best designed with the help of climbing plants or a group of trees. A spacious area can be decorated with a large pergola with textile curtains or a gazebo with columns, located on the shore of a reservoir or among a cluster of trees.
• A patio or summer kitchen simultaneously serves as an outbuilding and a place of rest. Such a building is most often located in close proximity to the house or adjacent to one of its walls. In this case, the style and material of the building should match the design of the main building.

• Bridges across ponds or ravines, as well as arches, help to effectively delimit the space on the site, while at the same time ensuring a smooth transition from one zone to another. It is recommended to plant near the bridges tall plants, and the arch will be complemented by climbing vines or lush flower beds. The elements themselves can be either wooden or stone, depending on the style of the site.
• A recreation area must be present on a garden plot, regardless of its size. Such a place is best highlighted with a wooden deck, stone slabs or a neat lawn. The resting place should be equipped with benches and barbecues, swings, a swimming pool, etc.

Advice! Do not forget about outbuildings when designing the site. They should be organically integrated into the overall style, if necessary, they should be covered with vegetation or decorative hedges.

artificial reservoirs

The presence of a reservoir in a garden plot can completely transform its appearance. Water makes the landscape dynamic, alive, refreshing in the heat, filling the garden with a serene atmosphere.

Thinking over the design of garden plots of 6 acres or more, you should pay attention to the construction of an artificial reservoir, the size and purpose of which depend on individual needs:

• The fountain - perfect solution for small areas. A reservoir of this type serves as a source of constantly moving water, it can have any frame that fits into a variety of styles. With the help of the fountain, you can designate the center of the site or emphasize any part of it.

• The waterfall will be an excellent solution for a garden plot with uneven terrain. Streams of water can flow down the stones of rockeries or alpine slides, forming a small pond below, framed by plants. A water mill, a decorative fountain can be installed at the top of the waterfall.
• Ponds and circulating channels are ideal for decorating large areas. Such reservoirs will add naturalness to the landscape, in addition, they can be used as a source of water for watering the garden. You can run fish, ducks into the finished pond, plant plants around it and install a gazebo. A reservoir of complex or elongated shape can be supplemented with a bridge that will connect different banks, continuing the paths.

Advice! The framing of the reservoir can be natural, in the form of a sand embankment or vegetation. Ponds and channels with a stone frame look spectacular, which can be complemented by flowerpots with flowers or antique statues, covered with moss over time.

garden sculptures

Spectacular accessories add zest to any site. The use of garden sculptures allows you to create an individual style, emphasize the nature and features of the landscape.

Garden sculptures can be anything from antique statues to modern ceramic animal figures. Greek or Gothic statues made of stone or metal will look good both in the thick of plants and on the shore of a reservoir. And bright ceramic figurines will complement the flower beds or enliven the recreation area, make the walk more interesting.

Another spectacular accessory is stone vases, inside which you can plant flowers. Such decor can be made in any style from antique to modern, abstract. Sizes and shapes also vary, which allows you to choose a product for almost any site.

Tracks

The arrangement of garden paths will help to make the garden plot as functional and convenient as possible. These elements set the pace for the landscape, serve as its decoration, delimit the site and help you move freely through it.

The material for the tracks should be selected resistant to the effects of the atmosphere, temperature, strong and durable. Gravel, paving slabs, wood flooring are best suited.

Advice! The smaller the plot, the more winding the paths should be - this technique visually expands the space.

An obligatory element of garden paths is a frame, which can be curbstones, large cobblestones, high vegetation, trimmed shrubs, etc.

Advice! The paths should be provided with a slight slope from the center to the edge so that water does not accumulate on them.

Benches should be placed along the paths in the garden plot, which will make any walk comfortable. They should emphasize the unity of style, complement it. Benches can be stone, forged, wooden, with or without a back.

Lighting

When designing a garden plot with your own hands, be sure to take care of the lighting. With the help of lighting, you can not only secure movement around the local area at night, but also emphasize the features of its design. As functional and decorative light sources in the garden area can be:

• Lanterns- they can be placed next to benches or along paths.

• Wall lights - most often installed on the verandas of summer kitchens, in gazebos.
• Built-in lights and lighting - can be located next to any decorative element in the garden (under the statues, along the fence, around the pond, under the bridges and arches). The illumination of the lawn, which is provided by special lamps installed in the soil.
• Hanging balls and garlands - this type of decorative lighting gives the garden a festive look. With it, you can create a comfortable atmosphere both in a small gazebo and in the open space of a recreation area. Garlands can wrap around trunks or branches of trees, buildings, creating a soft shimmer.

The design of a garden plot with your own hands will not cause problems if you take into account all the recommendations, as well as correlate them with the existing conditions. A competent choice of style and filling guarantee an amazing result even in a small area.

Dacha owners and country houses incredibly lucky. They can equip not only the interior and exterior of the premises, but also decorate the landscape in the country. Often such sites remain abandoned, look neglected. Those who want to transform their site and make the environment attractive will have to familiarize themselves with the concept of landscape design.

How to transform the yard with your own hands?

The market is crowded with the largest organizations offering comprehensive services not only in interior design, but also in the arrangement of areas adjacent to the house. If you are interested in arranging them with your own hands, here you will find answers to many questions regarding how to recreate beautiful landscapes in the country with your own hands. For example, where to start designing, how to choose plants and determine their combination, how to save on the design of a summer cottage.

Landscape design at first

For many, a summer cottage is associated with an abundance of greenery and flower plantings. The suburban area is ennobled with lawns, colorful flower beds, alpine slides. Many of the novice summer residents begin work on landscape design with the design of the lawn. Isn't it nice to grow a silky grass carpet in your yard and reap the rewards of your own activities while relaxing on such a lawn? The green meadow creates a sense of orderliness, comfort and tranquility. With the help of such an element, it is easy to shade the landscape in the country with your own hands. The photo colorfully conveys all the attractiveness of a well-thought-out landscape design.

Lawn on the site - great choice, but will not such a yard turn out to be empty without flower plantations that please the eye? With your own hands, just arrange the original flower arrangements, and you can use any seeds and materials for this.

Landscaping is more than just landscaping and landscaping. The creation of gardens is a whole art with its more than a thousand-year history. Everything changes: styles, fashion, but the gardens remain.

Unlike gardening and horticulture in their usual perception, landscape design is a general and even universal discipline.

The landscape in the country is one of essential elements for the arrangement of beautiful and cozy atmosphere in the yard. Before deciding what you want to see in the end, develop a plan, create sketches. Conditionally break your site into zones and estimate the style of landscape design. Based on your requests, determine the landscape budget, because without this, doing the work with your own hands will drag on for a long time.

Once you have an idea, start planning. Create a scheme and set aside certain areas on the site for specific design elements, where you can create compositions by combining elements different kind. In this case, fantasy is important, because to a greater extent everything depends on it, and also on the scale of the budget, the availability of materials and living plantings.

The owner of a large backyard area will have no questions about how to organize the space, combining aesthetics and functionality in design. But the owners of small personal plots often have a question: how to make a landscape in the country?

Don't despair if your garden area does not vary in scale. small plots lovely and charming. These qualities are manifested in a special comfort. Here, every flower, every bush, every element is in plain sight, so it is so important to think over the arrangement correctly and combine the components of decorative art correctly. In a small area, multi-tiered living compositions of flowers, garden and ornamental plants look advantageous.

By applying the rules of landscape design when arranging a summer cottage correctly, you will understand how easy it is to visualize the space due to the hills enclosed by small stone walls.

The landscape in the country (photo is in the article) with limited space for creativity should not be oversaturated, at the same time, the space should not be empty. The compact backyard area involves rational use every square meter of land.

Landscaping ideas for a small backyard

As an option, you can arrange a small personal plot by making a path paved with gravel or small gravel, leaving from the house deep into the garden. You can focus on a round flower bed, complemented by a mini-fountain closer to the center. All this is easy to do with your own hands.

If you can’t build a fountain or you don’t see such an element in your composition, you can replace it with a stone statue. From plants it is preferable ornamental grass(chistets), charming phlox, geranium, lavender.

By arranging a pond on the site, you will give the territory freshness. You can make an artificial pond even from an old bathroom or armed with waterproofing film. Along the edges of the pond, daffodils, mint, primrose, irises, hostas will look great.

Country landscape design involves many options for the design of the site. You just have to choose the one that will look most balanced and harmonious in the rear of your home. Only then will the landscape in the country house begin to really please the eye.

More than 50% of summer residents love alpine slides. Such a decoration element is able to create the illusion of natural stone painting in combination with picturesque plants. In this case, you should not be afraid to experiment. At the foot you can land undemanding plants. For these purposes, choose creeping thyme, alpine edelweiss, young, perennial cloves. For the middle tier of the slide, alpine asters, seaside armeria, fluffy anafalis, saxifrage, and stonecrops are selected. At the top, sun-loving plant species are planted: evergreen iberis, cinquefoil, geyhera, and other types of unpretentious evergreen shrubs. Choose any plants, use all kinds of techniques, the main thing is that the alpine slide that you build has a natural look.

Your site: how to turn it into a unique masterpiece

The main task of landscape design, according to experts, is the creation of an aesthetic space combined with amenities of a different nature. Here it is important to make the landscape in the country house not only beautiful, but also functional, for example, using attractive green spaces along with building infrastructure. These techniques may be indirect in nature or belong to a more voluminous concept, in which we are already talking about special planning using carefully designed landscape design schemes for a summer cottage.

water bodies

Mini-reservoirs and ponds in this design are of no small importance and are popular with people ordering landscape design services. And the designers themselves love to create compositions that include a water body. Before you decide to organize a reservoir on the site, ask yourself: why is there a pond on the territory?

Judging by the photo, the landscape in the country, made by hand, as a result gives the site an attractive, colorful look. Get ready for the fact that you will have to purchase plants, flowers and bushes, animals for ponds, specialized equipment, service equipment and care for the pond. In any case, the project should be organized correctly.

In addition to reservoirs, in summer cottages you can organize:

• the fountain;
• water mill;
• a circulating river
• cascade;
• waterfall.

Floral and plant compositions

Growing flower plantations always involves time, labor and material costs. In addition, efforts will have to be made to harmoniously decorate the landscape of the summer cottage.

There is no need to talk much about the number of existing species of flowers and plants - they simply cannot be listed. To equip a living corner, you can use classic, mixed and modern options. The choice depends only on the style of execution overall design landscape of a small cottage.

fairy paths

If you are going to do the design of the backyard, then remember - landscape decoration always involves the arrangement of garden paths. By resorting to the use of such a seemingly simple detail, you can easily create a truly unique landscape that will have no analogues. And if you decorate the path by placing flowering bushes along it or decorative elements and lanterns, then such a garden will immediately turn into a fairy-tale forest where children will play.

The paths in the yard are the most important component of the landscape, created with your own hands in the country. They can lead to a gazebo, rock garden, shed, parking lot, pond. This element of decor is not only aesthetic, but also practical, allowing a person to get to the right part of the yard at any time of the year and weather. Turning the idea into reality, it is extremely important to think through everything to the smallest detail in order to equip the territory as functionally as possible.

Elements of architecture

Buildings will help to equip you with a practical corner for leisure activities. In 75% of landscape plans, an architectural component is implied, which is more practical in nature. Such buildings include:

• gazebos;
• tandoors with small open kitchenettes;
• sheds for tools and gardening equipment;
• playgrounds and much more.

Combine spectacular buildings and general rules landscape - a beautiful cottage is guaranteed to you.

Living and decorative hedges

This element is purely decorative in nature, fulfilling for the most part an aesthetic role, since it is ridiculous to fence off someone on your site. In 95% of cases, a fence along the dividing line of two adjacent plots is not among the decorative elements of landscape design.

Landscape design in the country with the use of hedges is used for zoning. For example, to separate the garden, garden or playground from the rest of the territory adjacent to the house. This is how you can visualize space with decorative fences made from any material. Sometimes it is appropriate to use hedges of weaving roses or other types of plants. The main thing is that such an element harmoniously complements the concept. Its meaning is not in fencing or hiding what is behind them, but in a reasonable division of the site into zones, while not harming the aesthetic integrity of the dacha landscape. The garden, for example, can be separated from the yard with a wicker fence, and the path leading to the house can be decorated with climbing hedges.

Other decor elements when landscaping in the country

These are things that complement the space, about which there is no need to talk much. They are used to make the site unique in its kind. The use of figurines of pink flamingos and garden gnomes is a squeak of the last century. Today, decorating the garden with flowerpots is in fashion, with the help of lighting, decorative fountains, patios, sculptures and other elements you can think of. These elements will complement any stylistic decision, the main thing is to make right choice, combining a composition that is unique in its beauty.

As you can see, in decorating everything is conditional. The main thing is that you know what you want to achieve, then you can safely get down to business. Many people use the services of landscape designers who, working with the project, form a country space according to the latest fashion. But you can make a masterpiece plot yourself, just having the desire and basic skills in gardening, because you have to decorate the territory with living plantings. All the inhabitants of the house can be involved in such work.

In the design of the landscape of a country house, there will definitely be work for a child, and for a teenager, and for an adult, and for an elderly person, and creating something together is not only easier and faster, but also more entertaining.

Without competent landscape design, it is difficult to achieve harmony in a summer cottage. But, this does not mean that only an expensive design agency can handle this, you can create a well-maintained landscape on your own, adhering to the style and practical advice. To transform land acres beyond recognition and subordinate nature to art, you need to appreciate the possibilities natural resources. As dresses are sewn according to individual measurements, so the idea of ​​\u200b\u200blandscaping a summer cottage needs to be cut out individually.

How to start landscape design of the site with your own hands

It all starts with an idea, planning and good design. In country landscape design to change existing ones or create new ones natural complexes use components of animate and inanimate nature. Unlike agriculture, the landscape design of a dacha is aimed at creating harmony and beauty on the site, and not providing a person with food.

Inventing his garden, picking up flowers and plants, caring for them, the owner of the cottage creates a different world around him with his own hands. And here, at home, he is no longer a performer, but a real creator!

To create a landscape design for a summer cottage, and not a clumsy chaotic flower bed, you must initially strive for meaningful simplicity. Do not rush to extremes, just to "plug the belt" neighbors in the country. And to build an individual space where you can be with your loved ones and alone with yourself, escape from everyday worries.

Not all standard projects can be customized to suit your home. Why? Due to the peculiarities of soils, natural relief, the location of the site relative to the cardinal points ... The main mistake can be that you create a project that will be inconvenient for you.

Where to start decorating? Of course, with the choice of the style of landscape design of the dacha, which determines the choice of plants and the geometry of plantings. A lot of style country garden determines the architecture of the house.

Styles of landscape design of a summer cottage

Landscaping in the traditional (regular) style

The main leitmotif of the regular style is order and symmetry. The simplest way to achieve a traditional landscape for dachas - to plant trees and shrubs with compact crowns that lend themselves well to shearing, to make the tracing of the paths straight, and to give the parterres and flower beds a geometric shape.

In the photo, the project of a summer cottage in regular style topiary

Landscaping of a plot in a country (forest) style

Intrusion into the design of a garden plot located in the forest should be minimal. It is enough to place accents through wild flowers, streams, reservoirs to link the forest landscape with the house. Most of the site should be covered with live forest grass. As scenery, the garden is complemented by stone paths and wooden benches for relaxing.

In the photo, a project of a forest landscape in a country house, supplemented coniferous shrubs mini-sized, trailing and ground cover plants

An English country garden is mounds with a lush green mowed lawn, a natural lake shape and winding paths that are lost between topiary shrubs and flower beds of daisies, freesias, asters, nasturtiums and dahlias.

In the most secluded place of the garden, surrounded by deciduous plants: host, geyher, irezine, put benches.

Resting-place English garden in the country house is decorated with an elegant concrete flowerpot with petunias

Moorish gardens are characterized by the presence of a fountain or pond, the desire for maximum lush bloom colors and an endless variety of green shades. The center of the site is always decorated with a pond or fountain, around which moisture-loving plants grow freely. Unplanted areas and the bottom of the water body of the garden are laid out with multi-colored tiles or stone painted with an oriental pattern.

Photo of a colorful garden in the Moorish style at the time of lush flowering

To recreate nature in miniature in a dacha of 10 acres, it is necessary to use ten main elements of a Japanese garden: stone, water streams, deciduous and flowering trees, flowers, moss, pebbles, sand, typical Japanese landscape decorations and cut conifers.

The landscape design of a Japanese-style cottage is always a little “mossy” from excess moisture.

In search of beautiful and calm decorations for your dacha, pay attention to the gardens in chinese style. They are always beautiful and serene.

How to design a Chinese garden and how does it differ from a Japanese one?

In traditional Chinese landscape architecture, there is a constant change of scenery. Each new view point opens a separate picture. AT Chinese garden there is no place for “ironed” lawns and symmetrically planted flower beds. But here you can see tall dark bamboo growing along round flat stones, traditional pagodas and dragons made in carving, calligraphy or sculpture.

The photo shows a Chinese-style summer cottage with recreated corners of the wild.

Landscape architects explain the increased interest in ecological style by the increasing dominance of the technogenic environment. Customers want to see natural forms, a beautiful combination of colors and a riot of colors in their gardens.
In the eco-garden, everything works in opposition to the industrial landscape. At the same time, eco-style is more manifested in the ideological, internal principles of the design of the site.

For example, in the construction of reservoirs and streams in the country, special systems are used, biofilters, which allow you to carefully use water.

In the landscape design of the dacha, the expressive and light Provence style can be recognized by a large number of small decor. Garden sculptures, flower beds, paths made of artificial wood chips, streams laconically complement each other, forming a thematic environment. Fragrant herbs: thyme, lavender, rosemary, often become the protagonists of the Provence style garden.

On the left is a French Provence-style garden design dominated by purple and pink hues.

Right: a characteristic feature of the style - garden furniture, which bears the "print of time"

The main elements of lush and informal rustic (rural) design are dense plantings of flowers that bloom beautifully fruit trees, beds with vegetables and herbs. The charming landscape of the country house is complemented by gazebos hidden among the lush foliage, decorative elements made of wrought iron or wood, which are not always visible behind the abundance of beautiful annual flowers.

In the photo of the landscape project of the summer cottage, the traditional color scheme country style

The formal atmosphere of the colonial garden is softened with pastel colors.

If the house does not have a veranda, then a cozy patio with a pergola pergola is sure to be equipped on the site, and a hanging sofa swing is installed.

In the arrangement of a summer cottage, climbing plants are necessarily used: ivy, rose, wild grapes.

To gradually recreate the Mediterranean landscapes of Italy, France, Spain in the country, landscape architects offer through multi-level fountains, sculptural columns, cypress trees, lavender and garden furniture of warm terracotta color. The only thing you'll miss after a garden makeover is a sparkling blue ocean behind the fence.

garden in mediterranean style, decorated with Moorish tiles

Art Nouveau gardens are minimalist, characterized by large quantity asymmetrical patterns and labyrinths in the structure of the landscape.

Modern in the country is distinguished from other styles by intelligent planning and inclusion in landscape design. natural stone, concrete and metal.
At the same time, plants are allowed to use the most different colors, but in most modern projects preference is given to green.

Bright delphinums, lilies, rhododendrons, irises, peonies are planted on the site to create a contrast.

At night, the Art Nouveau dacha is illuminated by LED lights.

The African garden gives unlimited scope for stylistic maneuvers. But with one caveat. In ethnic style, it is allowed to use only natural, environmentally friendly materials. And the most valuable and desirable of them is natural wood. The color scheme of the design of the African landscape is warm, even hot. Wooden garden paths laid with a "deck" to make it pleasant to walk around the site with bare feet.

Figurines of idols, stone vases and furniture woven from rattan look organically in the design.

Aged gardens in the landscape design of the cottage

Among the trendy landscape trends, artificially aged gardens are gaining popularity: abandoned with wild herbs and flowers.

How to create a vintage garden in a small country house on your own?

Strengthen the feeling that the garden on the site is vintage and has long been middle-aged can:

• Arch-pergola of rough unpainted boards, entwined wild rose or ivy.

• Beds made of old bricks sprayed with a moss cocktail.

Tip: You can create a mixture that is not the most pleasant aroma by putting a piece of moss with a large fist and a half cup of buttermilk (natural low-fat cream) in a blender. Walls, stones, water tubs are covered with a ready-made milkshake of a greenish color - those desired areas / objects of a summer residence that should look aged in landscape design. Mosses thrive in cool, shady, and damp places.

• Flower gardens, in which, along with refined flowers such as roses and delphiniums, cereals and unpretentious wild flowers grow.

• Free-growing deciduous and coniferous trees that have never been pruned.

• with perennials.

• garden furniture self made from textured aged wood.

Where to get plant material for decorating a summer cottage?

Landscape style landscapes must retain their beauty through all the seasons. standard requirement. Therefore, evergreen juniper, pine and spruce are especially revered among architects - “three friends of Russian winter”.

In order not to start frantically buying seedlings and seeds in spontaneous markets in the spring, you need to find out in advance the contact information of good nurseries and gardening stores. natural material for landscape design of a summer residence, you need to buy a zoned one (suitable for a certain region) for planting in a specific climatic zone of the country.

For the landscape design of a summer cottage of 10 acres, which is located in a region with a temperate continental climate, the English style is well suited. The basis for an English garden is dwarf weeping willows, mountain pine, thuja, brilliant cotoneaster, ivy, petunia, roses, crocuses, etc.

The success of landscaping a small plot of 6 acres lies in simplicity. Climbing plants on the walls of the fence can change the perception of a cramped country space. To decorate a fence or a gazebo with a vine with decorative shoots, northerners should not buy seedlings southern beauties. Given the regional characteristics of the plant, they are unlikely to please with luxurious flowering. But frost-resistant honeysuckle honeysuckle, parthenocissus and actinidia will overwinter right on the supports, without shelter.

Trends and styles of landscape design change, but the main components of the dacha landscape, which successfully complement each individual project and form a unity, remain.

Flowers and plants for landscape design of a summer cottage

In landscaping small and large area they use special techniques in which the compatibility of plants, their forms, species, colors, flowering periods with each other is especially important. Arrangement of lawns, flower beds of continuous flowering and planting of trees is the starting point for self-registration cottage design.

Green lawns are important for space modeling. Lawns are good as "soft terraces" for family entertainment and as children's playgrounds. But at the dacha, lawns should be in a minimum amount, since they usually cause a lot of trouble to the owners (the lawn is trampled down and constantly requires care).

If you really don’t want to give up traditional beds with carrots, parsley and red beets, arrange them on the site in the form flower beds. Bosquet vegetable beds look beautiful, in which groups of low-growing crops are divided into sectors, and low-growing shrubs that can be easily molded act as a green fence.

In the photo, landscape design of a summer cottage with French bosquet beds