A garden or a dacha in the modern sense is not just a vegetable garden, weaving the land where fruit and berry plants grow, as well as trees, for which constant care is needed. The garden is a place where you can, first of all, have a good rest, dream, spend time with your family, with friends. In order for you to feel as comfortable as possible, care should be taken to ensure that the decor for the garden is harmonious and meets all the rules of street design.
To date, there are many ways to decorate the garden and everything that is on it. As a decor, you can use everything that is on hand - from glass and plastic bottles to details of old furniture. The main thing is that this combination is organic. Professional designers know a lot about interior and exterior decoration, and always give you the right advice if you are in any doubt.
Alpine Hill
If in the garden there is a slight elevation, unevenness of the landscape, you can use these features for the device of the alpine slide. Many people mistakenly believe that to create such a decor it is enough to plant many flowers on a hill, decorate it with stones and other objects, but this is not always the case.
Competently constructed alpine slide is not just a dump of necessary and not very necessary items, but an imitation of the mountain landscape, with the presence of original shrubs, paths laid out with stones. There should be no other structures, playgrounds, etc. near the hill. The alpine slide in its size fits organically into the total area of the garden and is located in close proximity to an artificial reservoir or other source of moisture.
Original flower beds from improvised means
Beds of own production today are very popular. For making hand-made flower beds, all available materials are used:
- old vehicles (carts and carts);
- troughs;
- old dishes;
- footwear;
- natural materials.
In the course goes everything that lay in the old pantry. Rusty teapots, covered with bright enamel, pots, pots made of metal with the effect of light rubbing look very unusual and beautiful. Some designers will improve the flowerbeds, pasting old dishes with colorful stones and other materials.
If the house has old, leaky rubber boots, do not rush to throw them away. Paint them in bright, unusual colors, apply a picture, plant flowers in them and place them on a flower bed, or hang them along the fence. Flower pots can also be “seated” on old furniture without seats. In general, it is easy to turn any utensils into a flower bed - there would be a desire and imagination.
Water decor
Individual attention should be paid to artificial reservoirs, which are an integral part of a full-fledged garden. Natural and artificial materials, mainly stones, are often used for decoration. They can indicate the boundaries of the pond, as well as lining the bottom. Stones or tiles are needed in order to protect the pond from the shedding of the soil. If there is an alpine slide near the decorative pond in the immediate vicinity, the overall picture will benefit.
When making a pond, designers recommend sticking to the general style of the garden plot. The pond should not look like a separate element, but should harmoniously fit into the landscape. If you install decorative fountains and waterfalls on the banks of the pond, they are unlikely to spoil the overall impression.
Floating flower bed with their own hands
Such a decorative element of the reservoir, like a floating flower bed, looks very stylish and beautiful. Green island of flowers you can build your own hands. It is enough to make a solid wooden base with a moisture-resistant impregnation, on which the sealing net and the ground are placed, and land the plants on this raft.
As a basis, you can take other materials holding onto the water - foam, light plastic, etc. Often the foundation of the raft is made of ordinary plastic bottles, fastened together.
Floating flowerbed should consist of moisture-loving plants, otherwise the island will soon become unusable. These plants include:
- ornamental grass;
- sedge;
- lilies;
- papyrus;
- some potted flowers.
Flower garden afloat performs not only decorative, but also practical function, filtering and purifying water from organic waste. In addition, flowers in the water will be out of reach for locusts and other insects.
The use of wood in decorating the site
In the decoration of the garden is difficult to do without wooden products, since it is the tree that is considered the most natural material, a reflection of nature itself. All garden furniture can be made from wood: arbors, tables and benches, large flower vases, tubs with plants.
If you install a decorative wooden mill on the garden plot, the landscape will be transformed beyond recognition. The main thing is that everything should correspond to the general style of the garden.
Depending on the style and personal tastes of the owners, in the garden it is possible to use large and small wooden figures - heroes of ancient epics, fairy-tale characters. It is not necessary to paint them in all the colors of the rainbow, as in a kindergarten - figures from natural wood can look quite complete and organic. It can be a big owl, a bear, a hare, other birds and animals.
Stone Jewelry
Another natural material that will always be in place in the garden is stone. For use in the decoration take pebbles, gravel, rubble, granite, sandstone. An elementary cobblestone of unusual shape can be an accent in the design of an alpine slide or another part of the garden.
When making a garden with stones, it is important to maintain a balance, if, of course, you are not going to turn the land into a Japanese rock garden, where, apart from this material, it is difficult to find anything throughout. The best option for using stones in garden decoration is to install a couple of large boulders in the area of the Alpine slide and water bodies, and use the middle and small stones to draw paths and the shore of the pond.
Sometimes natural cavities form in large stones, as a result of which a lump turns into a natural stone pallet. You can plant plants in it, but take care of drainage and sufficient moisture, otherwise the flowers will not take root on such a basis.
Decor plastic bottles
Making plastic bottles is considered by many to be something out of the ordinary in terms of design. But one should not be so categorical - craftsmen create such miracles from bottle plastic that they are just amazing. Looking at the many products that make up the garden and suburban areas, the first time you do not even understand what they are made of. Fantasy, creativity, sleight of hand - and the decor is ready.
You can make anything from bottles - bright decorative palm trees, flower beds, decorations for canopies and gazebos, bases for plants, original fences. Plastic bottles are easy to use, the material bends well, is cut, plastic products are not afraid of moisture and other weather phenomena. Using such additional tools as a gas burner, glue, plastic, you can create beautiful crafts and surprise yourself with home-made decorations of friends and acquaintances.
Glass bottle decoration
No less interesting is the decor of glass - a more durable and durable material. One of the ideas for decorating a village or urban garden plot is to collect a sufficient number of glass bottles of the same size, paint them in one color (or in different, but harmoniously combined shades) and stick them down on both sides of the path laid with a decorative stone.
Glass bottles make homemade arches located on the site, decorate fences with them, use as the basis for the manufacture of original benches.
Feeders for birds made from multi-colored glass bottles and ceramic plates look very interesting. If you carefully cut the bottom of the bottle and then turn it over, you will get the original flower pot.
Application of ceramic tiles
Widespread use in garden decoration found ceramic tiles of various sizes and various shades. Tiles can be decorated with paths, used as cladding for tables, benches, flower beds.
Ceramics is convenient in that not only solid material is useful for decorating a garden, but also its fragments. If you have a marriage or waste after facing the bathroom or fireplace, do not rush to throw them away. From the fragments of ceramic tiles, you can lay out very interesting ornaments and arrange garden paths, large flower pots, overlay decorative fountains and ponds.
The tile is wonderfully combined with colors. Around the flower beds, you can simply scatter in random order pieces of bright decorative tiles - the flower garden will only benefit from this.
Bright flower bed of old tires
Application for garden decor, there is even an old tire, which will make an excellent flowerbed. For such purposes, it is better to use worn imported winter tires - they are softer and more durable.
Tires are carefully washed, after which the contours of future cuts are applied with chalk, in accordance with a previously developed design of a flower bed. Consider the fact that the tire will have to be turned inside out (which is why the softest rubber is preferable).
A knife or a jigsaw for cutting the petals of a future flower bed should be smeared with liquid soap and then carefully made figure sawing. The most time consuming process is tire reversal. If at first you turn out at least a small section of the tire, then it will be done much faster.
The final stage - painting with enamel paint or automotive aerosol, decorating with small stones and other materials. A properly made flower bed from an old tire looks quite bright and original.
Track decoration
Paths in the garden play not only a practical, but also a decorative role. They must be strong enough to withstand a constant load, but at the same time, beautiful, stylish, suitable to the entire landscape design of the site.
Garden paths are decorated with a variety of materials - both budget and more expensive. Natural stones, concrete, wooden boards, ceramic tiles are used. The most advantageous is the path laid out of individual stones, between which looks neat decorative grass. Paths made of wood look beautiful, but they should be treated with special compounds that prevent wood rotting and slipping in winter.
One of the often used budget options for the design of paths is with the help of rubble, gravel, and pebbles, which is poured in an even layer, and decorated with larger stones on the sides.
Interesting decor ideas
Creative people are rarely limited to the standard design options of the garden plot. The usual approach for them is too boring and monotonous, so designers are trying to get away from the usual shapes and sizes. For example, one large flower bed can be divided into many miniature vegetable balls, arranging them throughout the garden. Instead of one reservoir, they also make several smaller ones, with an individual decor.
As for accessories for decoration - there is also no limit to the imagination. Those objects that an ordinary person simply throws into a landfill, in the hands of the artist, find a second life. So, an old rusty wheelbarrow for transporting coal turns into a beautiful flower bed. Old rakes, choppers, shovels - everything finds its place in the design. Worn car tires are woven over with a vine and become the main decoration of the site, and the original illumination of the reservoir turns an ordinary pond into a fairy tale.
The garden is an amazing place where you can make many childhood dreams come true. If, after reading oriental tales, you have dreamed all your life about a beautiful tent, why not make it right near your house? It is enough to fix a gymnastic hoop on a tree, throw a translucent fabric over it elegantly falling onto the ground, throw a couple of decorative pillows and covers on the ground, and the oriental tent is ready. Children from such an idea will surely be delighted!
Conclusion
The more effort is spent on the design of the garden, the more comfortable you will feel in it. Talk to an experienced designer, decide on the specific style of landscape design and turn your home garden into the area of your dreams. There is nothing more pleasant than enjoying an island of nature that belongs exclusively to you!
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