To arrange a personal plot, you must first decide what will be located on it and what elements will decorate and decorate individual zones. It is also necessary to understand the principles and rules of how to create the right landscape design. Without knowledge, it will be difficult to get a truly harmonious and beautiful garden plot. And without this, the meaning of this undertaking is lost, because the site is put in order primarily in order to create a beautiful and harmonious natural oasis.

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Basic rules for site design

There are criteria in the formation of landscape design, observing which it will be possible to achieve the set goal. They imply high-quality elaboration of details and a balanced approach to design.

Definition and preliminary sketches stage

To understand what you want to see on your site, you first need to look at photos of landscape design of completed projects. Such a solution will allow you to find out how a site can be transformed in general, what separate zones exist in landscape design and how they are designed. Also in the photo you can see decorative techniques and accessories for decorating them. It is worth saying that it is not uncommon for this purpose to be used in decorating flower beds and alpine gardens - improvised materials, which are usually available at the dacha huge variety.

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Selecting suitable accessories, materials, etc. can significantly simplify the task - if you immediately decide on the style. After all, each style has its own specific characteristics and differences. And restrictions on style will narrow the circle of searches, and will also allow you to maintain a single design that is unique to it.

There are several styles in landscape design:

• Classic style
• Country style
• Russian style
• Japanese style
• Romantic style

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When viewing photo catalogs, it is imperative to carefully consider each style in order to choose the most suitable one.

At the next stage, it is best to record the idea on a piece of paper, this will help to distribute - zoning, where everything will be located on the site, in which part the alpine slide, gazebo or patio will be located, where the garden and pond will be located. To do this, at the beginning it is recommended to make an assessment directly on the site itself - by imagining different variants location, it’s easier to choose the most suitable option.

Preliminary study will not only allow you to choose the most suitable design and location, but will also help determine the scope of work. And this will make it possible to make preliminary budget calculations.

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Proportions of shapes, sizes and colors

When it has already been decided exactly what will be on the site, how and where it will be located, you need to familiarize yourself with the basic rules and principles of landscape design.

IN landscape design, as in the entire design industry, there is one important principle that really allows you to achieve harmony of shapes and sizes - this is the theory of the triangle. The presence of three components within one part allows you to obtain the most balanced state; more or less components disrupt the harmonious balance. Moreover, in any design, the category of three components includes such parameters as size, color and shape.

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So, for example, to decorate an alpine hill, stream, pond, etc. with stones, three sizes of stones are used - large, medium and small. Proportional shapes will allow you to achieve a neat and pleasing to the eye design. Of course, in order to strive for naturalness, you can use other sizes, but in this case it will not be possible to achieve aesthetic harmony of sizes and shapes.

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The same goes for color design, flowers for alpine hills and flower beds are also selected taking into account this rule. Three colors will allow you to achieve a moderate color scheme of the landscape, and there should be no obvious variegation. Flowers should be selected in such a way that each type complements the other, regardless of the time of year. It should be said that the proportions of colors or types flowering plants must be different. For example, to decorate a flower bed, 9 plants with white flowers, 6 with red, and three with orange can be used.

One of important principles The decoration of the territory with plants also concerns their height. Along with decorating flower beds with flowers, there should also be plants of other sizes. Accordingly, medium ones are shrubs, and tall ones are trees. At the same time, one should not forget about the proportions, otherwise the site may turn into a forest or a dense garden.

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Figures and figurines for decoration

Various kinds of figures and decorations on the site will help to add special charm and even magic to landscape design. The variety of garden figurines and figurines today is very large. They differ in materials of manufacture, sizes, and a wide range of topics will make it easy to find suitable figures. The most popular today are images of various animals and birds; they can be made in life-size. No less popular are figurines of elves, gnomes, angels and various other fairy-tale creatures.

Figures for landscape design photo

Figurines for landscape design photo

Figurines for the garden photo

Where to place garden figurines?

Most often they are placed near paths on the site, next to bodies of water - near a pond, stream, fountain or flower nursery. Placing them simply on open lawns is no less popular; in this case, even entire compositions can be depicted, depending on the style. For example, a driver on a cart with a horse harnessed or a simple carriage will perfectly suit the country style.

Examples of landscape design photos

But the figure of Buddha or another eastern deity will fit best into the eastern - Japanese style. White plaster figures among green shrubs are perfect for a Greek style or a style with a classical slant.

Beautiful landscape design of the site photo

Modern models figurines can not only be beautifully designed, but lighting can also be built into them, which will create beautiful illumination of the area in the evening. In this case, the lighting can be hidden inside the figure, or it can be figurative - for example, a gnome in his hands with a torch or a hand-held lamp with a built-in light source, where the latter will perform its direct task.

IN Lately figurines with built-in acoustics began to appear, it is worth noting that most often these are not even figurines, but an imitation of an ordinary stone, stump, etc.

Projects that require serious work, due to the complexity or associated with an area of ​​difficult landscape, are implemented with the use of special equipment, therefore this work It is better to entrust it to experienced specialists who have both the knowledge and the appropriate equipment.

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Gone are the days when everyone at their dacha plot was busy with the beds and fruit trees, but didn’t think about decor. Once upon a time the best decoration The courtyard had unpretentious flowers along the fence or a small flower bed. Today, the dacha is becoming a place for country holidays, and many owners hire a landscape design specialist. But if the hands are in place and there is a little worthwhile ideas, there is no need for large expenses. Original design Do-it-yourself summer cottage plots are made from scrap materials, which are abundant in every garage, on mezzanines, balconies or storage rooms.

Decorating a cottage with your own hands

Mill at the dacha made of stones

Decorating a flower bed with wood

The main advantage of homemade country decor is that it is possible to attach everything that was a pity to throw away. Every thrifty homeowner has long-term deposits of all sorts of goods stored in the garage and on the balcony, mezzanine and pantry, which will soon become an adornment of the landscape.

You can adapt many items that have served their main life to your dacha design with your own hands:

• bald car tires;
• plastic bottles, containers and containers;
• ropes, tarpaulin, burlap, camouflage net;
• cutting boards and thin cuts of wood;
• unnecessary plastic pipes;
• thick wire, chain-link mesh, metal scraps;
• old shoes and sports equipment;
• plywood boxes and wooden containers;
• empty barrels and other containers;
• leaky teapots, bowls, pans;
• unnecessary carts and bicycles;
• old plastic and wooden furniture;
• leftover building materials and polyurethane foam.

First of all, you need to evaluate the “reserves” in order to distribute them for the arrangement of the dacha as needed. Some of the materials will be used to make fully functional devices.

In any yard, a “Moidodyr” (washbasin) in the barbecue or grill area and a sofa swing in the shade of the garden under a tarpaulin canopy will be useful. From other old things, make flower stands and flowerpots, all kinds of original garden decorations with your own hands.

Boar's head from a pile of earth at the dacha

Decorating a flower bed with flowers

Will need detailed plan site for proper zoning and marking. Even in a small courtyard of a country house or in country garden it is necessary to distribute functional zones that will delimit:

• curbs;
• sides made of plastic bottles;
• hedges;
• decorative stonework;
• original fences.

A well-maintained estate does not require redevelopment; all you need is creative design ideas for your dacha. On the new site, places for a comfortable pastime are determined:

• outdoor cooking fireplace;
• children's playground with decorative sandbox;
• gazebos, benches, swings;
• parking under a canopy for cars, motorcycles or bicycles;
• a playground for a children's pool;
• decorative beds, flower beds, flower beds and alpine slides.

By working on your own country house design, you have the opportunity to realize long-standing dreams and plans of the whole family. Free areas can be covered with small stones, lawn grass, low-growing border plants and flowers can be sown, as in the photo.

Do-it-yourself gazebo in the country

Flowerbed at the dacha

DIY border at the dacha

Garden paths

Discussions about whether paths are needed in a dacha last until the first rainstorm. In some regions, the soil is so viscous that you can’t pull your feet out of the mud - it sticks to your shoes in a heavy lump. The only way out is to provide aesthetically pleasing paved passages between summer cottages.

Paths made of different materials will help you decorate your dacha with your own hands:

• bricks or foam blocks;
• cutting boards and round cuts;
• sea ​​pebbles and wild stone;
• compacted fine gravel and sand;
• homemade paving slabs;
• marble chips and others bulk materials small fractions;
• concrete paths with a mosaic of broken glass and ceramic tiles.

The country alley leading to the garden will be functional and attractive in itself when it has original borders or rows of annual flowers on the sides. But the original idea of ​​laying it will make it a real decoration of the garden with your own hands from scrap materials.

Decorating a summer cottage with plants

Flower beds at the dacha

A paved path can be below ground level or slightly elevated, and have a flat or slightly convex surface. Alleys will last for many years if done according to all the rules.

You need a shallow trench, which is marked and the boundaries are fixed using a rope between driven pegs. This is the only way to make the path the same width.

The bottom of the trench is compacted with gravel and sand, regardless of the type of paving material.

Next, you need to organize formwork for concrete with filler or sides for large blocks. Low log pegs and rows of glass or plastic bottles of the same size dug upside down are suitable as decorative borders.

Sandbox with flowers

Flowers in pots at the dacha

Flowerbed made of stones at the dacha

Between the formwork, a compacted trench is filled with a concrete base for recessed finishing materials. Between the pieces of mosaic path tiles, you need to carefully fill the seams.

Alleys made of bricks, blocks and solid tiles (without connection cement mixture) sprinkle sand along the seams.

When laying tiles or bricks on sand, use a rubber or wooden hammer– for adjustment and alignment.

The horizontal is adjusted using the building level.

If the site is located in a lowland, be sure to organize drainage, otherwise the alleles may turn into drains during a rainstorm. The situation will be saved by a shallow drainage ditch parallel to the garden path, paved with ceramic fragments or filled with cement.

Design ideas for a dacha will be realized in the best possible way if all stages of the construction of the path and its decoration are done slowly and efficiently, following the laying technology. The easiest way is to use ready-made lattice templates for homemade paths made of cement with filler, as in the photo. The template is step by step moved into the prepared trench with a bed of sand and gravel, filled with base material.

Forms for paving slabs and “Euro fences” of various sizes and shapes are available for sale. You can organize an entire production for your summer cottage or start your own business.

Gardening the border at the dacha

DIY border at the dacha

Decorative hedges, fences and borders

According to the technology described in previous section, make decorative sides to strengthen the levels of a sloping summer cottage and the walls of a cascading flower bed. The picket fence method is also suitable as a decorative fence.

The edge of the low side can also be used as paths between flower beds and sandboxes. Children love to run along the rows of buried stumps.

Hedges are a great way to save money on zoning your summer cottage with your own hands. Suitable shrubs for pruning, regular or standard roses in the form of a tree. Low-growing border roses are planted between them, creating a two-row flower wall.

The simplest side is made from plastic bottles. Containers of the same color are filled with sand, gravel or soil. Bottles are dug halfway into a small trench and covered with earth or stone chips. They may be empty, but they last longer when filled with something.

Attention! Plastic bottles cannot be filled with water - under sun rays Lenses are formed that burn nearby plants. There might even be a fire.

DIY flowerbed

Castle made of stones in the country

Do-it-yourself barbecue made of stones in the country

Flower arches and arbors made of climbing plants

Climbing roses and other climbing flowers are a great way to decorate your homemade summerhouse or arches from scrap materials. A metal rod, corner or channel, which can be assembled into a structure, is suitable as a base. welding machine or bolt it together.

Ready-made supports for arches must be securely fixed in the ground. Dug holes with columns underneath country decor with their own hands they compact it well with crushed stone and sand, after which they cement it and fill it with stone chips. Depending on the climatic conditions of the region, grapes or fragrant flowers may spread along the top of such a gallery.

In hot climates it is better to make an indoor gallery. Remains of light-transmitting roofing materials are also suitable. Canopies along decorative paths can only be on the south side, but at an angle to provide more shade. A wire trellis is stretched between the posts where the plants will climb. The most economical way is to grow cucumbers, decorative beans or pumpkins along the arch.

Flower lovers can different methods decorate the cottage with your own hands from scrap materials. They make vertical flower beds in wide holes plastic pipes, wooden or openwork metal shelves for pots, as in the photo.

Flowerbed made of stones at the dacha

Decorating a cottage with your own hands

Garden sculptures and decor from scrap materials

Do-it-yourself garden design from scrap materials is mainly associated with the following materials:

• car tires (bald tires);
• templates from plywood scraps, from which it is easy to make the missing elements for the “smiling characters” of country decor;
• plastic containers;
• ceramic flower pots;
• unnecessary shoes;
• metal and wooden barrels etc.

Some homemade garden sculptures are so good that they can compete with real masterpieces. For example, foam frogs or plaster swans.

But most role models are made from car tires - cut and turned out. Acrylic paints will transform any material to make recognizable characters for your own country house design. Depending on the skill and style of garden and patio design, you can choose any idea. This is what swans and parrots look like made of rubber, palm trees made of plastic bottles.

Decorating a flowerbed with snails with your own hands

Decorating a cottage with improvised materials

Table and chairs made of hemp in the country

Original flower beds and mini-beds

Mini-flower beds with succulents and cacti (other small plants) inside large shells look original. No less interesting to many will be the idea of ​​using shoes as flower pots or old hats on the wall.

Small containers are suitable for succulents and indoor plants, exhibited in the open air for the summer. But before you decorate the dacha with your own hands, keep in mind that you will have to bring them into the house during rain, hail and gusty winds. Original forms and it is better to make flowerpots stationary, and insert flower pots for the season or upon arrival at the dacha on weekends.

Traditionally, broken vehicles are used as original DIY garden decorations. Trolleys and bicycles, large car body parts are suitable for a small flower garden. Musical instruments fit too. Creative idea - a piano with flowers and a waterfall.

Fountain, artificial pond

A mini-pond is an excellent solution for decorating a summer house with your own hands. A small tank can be equipped using available materials:

• old rubber boat;
• large metal barrel;
• excavator bucket;
• tub;
• tank trim.

The bottom of a homemade pond is made in a small pit, with a compacted cushion of gravel and sand. The top is lined with tarpaulin and thick film in 2-3 layers, the edges are secured with stones in the form of sides. All that remains is to fill with water and decorate with the raised plants.

Advice. To maintain eco-balance, you need to monitor the condition of the water, which is periodically drained or circulated. A fountain requires a pump and a filter. To complete the “lake” design, add homemade frogs, swan or crocodile.

Flowerbeds at the dacha with flowers

DIY flower bed at the dacha

Landscape design with a children's playground

So that children don’t get bored at the dacha, and they don’t waste time while working in the garden and beds, there is a solution - a children’s playground with a sandbox and funny homemade figures.

An important condition is that the place for children’s games should be clearly visible from different angles of the summer cottage in order to observe what is happening.

The sides of the sandbox can be easily built using available materials:

• palisade made of logs;
• painted boards;
• wide wooden box;
• big tire, etc.

With any type of sandbox, children need a place to sit and lay out the molds. Dachny children's Corner You can fence it off from your neighbors with a fence in the shape of pencils or decorate it with other homemade decor - paints can help!

If you have enough space, you can build a more interesting sandbox on the site - in the form of a ship, car or mansion. Somewhere nearby you can build a tree house with rope ladders and a slide for descending into a sandbox or a tent city made from old blankets. Stretch ropes between the trees, give them clothespins and fabric, they will happily build houses for themselves.

Original garden furniture

The imagination of folk craftsmen is limitless - they make from plastic bottles, awning materials and wood waste garden furniture on the verge of masterpieces. After pruning the garden and removing dead wood, there is a lot of material left that is easy to use to make:

• armchairs;
• swing;
• rocking chairs;
• tables and stands.

For comfort, soft seats are made, and natural-shaped material is used on the sidewalls and frame of the products. It is very convenient to use ready-made pallets or pallets as the basis for a sofa or a corner under a canopy. Poufs and banquettes, tables and armchairs are made from plastic bottles. If you have time and experience, make an entire sofa for your dacha out of plastic bottles, but you will need many containers of the same shape and volume. A cover or cover for a homemade sofa is sewn from old curtains.

More original ideas will prompt you with a photo from our gallery.

Video: How to make a beautiful summer cottage with your own hands

Perhaps you think that landscape design is an activity exclusively for retired people or avid housewives. You are partly right if we are talking only about the flowerbed and plastic bottles. However, there are many striking examples of what landscape design can look like in the hands of real creators.

Today's selection includes 12 of the most best ideas landscape design that will conquer even the most indifferent people!

1: Extraordinary fairy gate

The design of the gate is the first impression of the garden plot. With an entrance like this, decorated with stones and wood, it will definitely be positive.

2: Creative gazebo-teapot

A gazebo is often the most comfortable place on a personal plot. And such a structure in the shape of a teapot is also one of the best ideas for landscape design and large-scale decor.

3: Soft grass sofa

This sofa is dotted with soft lawn grass, which is a pleasure to sit on. Arm yourself with this landscaping idea and make your luxury place for relax.

4: Big Funnel

A green funnel going deep is an unusual phenomenon. No wonder it has become a local landmark that people flock to see.

5: Giant Clothespin

It will not be possible to repeat such an art object at the dacha. But the man-made landscape becomes a real work of modern art.

6: Bouquet of flowers

Women love when they are given large bouquets of flowers. But this bouquet will outshine any other and will delight not only women.

7: Tree House

To create arbosculptures, that is complex structures Of trees, only certain plants are suitable. Not every gardener can cope with such intricacies. But the result justifies the costs.

8: Dangerous Bench

Those sitting on such a bench will take your breath away. But don’t worry, because this landscape design idea is purely decorative.

9: Walls covered with greenery

Surely the heat and sound insulation in such a house is beyond praise. But the main advantage of such a house is its unusual appearance.

10: Living Roof

House from natural stone, with green grass growing on its roof, looks as if it was drawn from the pages of a fairy tale book. This is another great landscaping idea.

11: Fairy house

The outbuilding becomes an organic part of the garden landscape. From a distance it can be mistaken for a small hill.

12: Bright and cozy pond design

A picturesque path leads to a cozy gazebo located in the center of an artificial reservoir. This vacation will surely be remembered for a long time.

To get the maximum effect from landscape design, it is better to seek the help of specialists. However, if such an opportunity is not available due to financial reasons or there is a desire and interest to do everything yourself, it is necessary to follow certain principles in this rather difficult but noble task.

One of the most important and responsible moments in preparing a project is drawing up at least a brief plan. First you need to decide on the location of the planned objects. In this case, it is necessary to take into account existing buildings and their location.

It is necessary to determine the location of the site itself, existing and future objects relative to the cardinal directions. The plan should also include growing trees, which will later form part of the new exhibition.

Zoning

After displaying current and future objects on the plan, it is necessary to divide the entire site into zones landscape plot, which are different functionally.

Entry area

It is the hallmark of the site. By its appearance, you can form a preliminary idea about the site, the house, and partly about its owner. The entrance plays an aesthetic and functional role. The entry zone consists of a gate through which cars enter the site, a car area and a garage.

Front area

It represents the face of the house and the site; as a rule, this is the entrance to the house. The main entrance demonstrates the hospitality of the owners, their attitude towards the house and life in general.

The front area - its appearance creates the first impression of visitors

Rest zone

Designed for various pastimes. There can be several of these zones: an active recreation zone, a quiet recreation zone, a collective recreation zone. Each zone differs from the others in size and purpose.

Economic zone

Planned for growing various fruit and vegetable crops. Its location and size are determined by the preferences of the owners of the site.

Playground

Is a place for children to play. It is advisable to place it in such a way that the site is clearly visible from the entire site.

Choosing the style of the future garden

The most important thing in the design process is the choice of style, which will generally govern the creation of the landscape. There are 10 main garden styles, the features of which are discussed below.

rocky gardens

Distinctive features are the obligatory presence of a variety of stones and blocks, as well as peculiar mountain vegetation.

Stones of various shapes and sizes will create the impression of a mountain landscape

Rock garden, alpine slide) is an element of landscape design designed to recreate a natural mountain landscape, its prevailing topography and peculiar vegetation. This type of garden is an imitation of the natural landscape. You can place a rocky garden either on a slope or in any open place.

French garden

Distinctive features are correct geometric shapes, straight roads, alleys, shrubs and trees located symmetrically, the presence of sculptures and fountains.

A striking example of a French garden are the gardens of Versailles.

French gardens are characterized by large areas with a system of wide and long alleys. The central alley, as a rule, stands out in size and design, creating an axis of symmetry of the composition.

English garden

Distinctive features are a reflection of pristine nature and its perfection.

IN English garden the space should be open and flow smoothly into the surrounding nature. At the border of the garden, mixing is allowed between artificially planted plants and trees grown in the natural forest. English gardens are characterized by a complete absence of straight lines. Indirect paths created from natural material, must be laid in any order.

Distinctive features are the maximum naturalness of the man-made landscape.

In a Chinese garden, everything should be according to Feng Shui

The teaching of Feng Shui has a great influence on the concept of the Chinese garden. Feng Shui through the energy of “qi” leads to the achievement of Harmony.

The smooth curved paths of a Chinese garden make it possible to balance the damage caused to Harmony by man, and natural stones located in apparent disorder - to streamline “qi” and direct its flow to the benefit of the owners. Chinese garden is not a collection of individual elements, they represent a complete composition that is in harmony with the space around the house.

Muslim garden

Distinctive features are a geometric type of layout, the mandatory presence of a canal or fountain. Oriental gardens are shady; the flower beds are dominated by roses, flowering and aromatic plants, as well as spicy herbs.

The basis of a Muslim garden is usually “chor-bagh” (in Russian “four gardens”). The basis of the plan is one or more squares. The large square is divided into four small ones. The strict geometric nature of the garden is emphasized with the help of various paths, plants and water channels. In the middle of the squares there are often small fountains or pools, which are often lined with marble, as well as multi-colored ceramic tiles, making them the main decoration of the entire garden.

Distinctive features are peculiarly curved and twisted dwarf trees. The Japanese garden is characterized by a monochromatic colorful design.

Japanese garden - soothing for the soul

The Japanese garden is a reflection of the nature of Japan, which is very unique and picturesque. The landscapes intricately intertwine mountains and hills, waterfalls and bays. Japanese gardens are characterized by the presence of ponds. Pond usually irregular shape, small islands are formed in it, densely planted with herbs and trees. The banks of the pond are usually reinforced with large natural stones. Bridges are an additional decoration of the garden. An essential part of a Japanese garden is bamboo lashes and hedges.

Garden of scents

Distinctive features are the use of aromatic plants in garden compositions.

When planning the design of such a garden, you should not rely on one aromatic plant. One should strive to create a large palette of scents that provides a rich feast for the sense of smell. The pungent smell of thyme or the pungent aroma of wormwood helps to highlight the spicy fragrance of flowers. The aroma of boxwood can be used as the basis for a multifaceted picture of smells. In addition, when selecting plants, you should strive to ensure that the garden is fragrant throughout the year.

White Garden

Distinctive features are the use of plants with white flowers in landscape compositions.

The White Garden is also called the lunar garden, since it is in the evening and early in the morning White color In the garden, the dark background of greenery stands out especially elegantly.

White accents in the garden will visually expand the size of the area and make it brighter. Color plays a decisive role in landscape design. Properly selected plants, a white gazebo and furniture, paths lined with white tiles, a small fountain with a garden figure make white garden continuously blooming.

Blue Garden

Distinctive features are the use of plants with blue flowers and shades close to it.

Dreamy garden in shades of blue

The Blue Garden is one example of monochrome gardens. By using shades of blue of varying saturation, you can achieve increased dreaminess (light blue tones) or mystery (darker blue-blue tones). Blue color is a symbol of fidelity, trust, infinity. The Blue Garden is like a fairyland.

Rose Garden

Distinctive features - the predominance of plants with flowers in the garden Pink colour.

The serenity of pink is typical for children and lovers. Warm pink tones are cozy and calm. It is this kind of garden that creates an idyllic setting for relaxing with your family, helping you forget about the bustle of the city. Different shades of pink are perceived differently. For example, light pink shades are gentle and touching. They create a sophisticated backdrop for blue and purple. In conjunction with blue soft pink creates a unique pastel palette. Combined with a silver tint, it gives a pleasant feeling of freshness and coolness. Adding dark pink accents to this combination allows you to avoid monotony.

Landscape design software

Today, to quickly and clearly create a design, specialists use a number of specially created computer programs.

Programs for creating landscape design exist both complex and simplified. Different programs provide different options for working with projects. Thus, the predominant number of programs make it possible to obtain, in addition to the view of the developed site in two-dimensional form, also its volumetric section.

Some programs allow you to preview the garden being created, as well as what it will look like after some time. There are programs in which you can view the design of your site in different times year, which helps to plan the appearance of the garden not only in summer, but also in autumn, and even in winter.

X-Designer

3D garden plot planner - helps to build a model of the plot, and also makes it possible to see the plot at different times of the year and even days.

Helps create a site design project using digital photographs that are available.

Creating a design using the program “Our Garden. Rubin 9.0"

Garden Planner 3

One of the simplest programs that allows you to create a layout for your garden plot.

3D Home Architect Design Suite Deluxe

Makes it possible to create a landscape design project for a site from scratch.

AutoCAD

Professional program for planners and designers.

3D Max

A fairly complex program that opens up great possibilities for designing and creating objects in 3D format.

Thus, if you have an interest and desire to create a “miracle of nature” on your site with your own hands, this can be done. The main steps to achieve this goal are planning and choosing the style of the future garden. Existing computer programs will greatly facilitate the implementation of these stages.

Oct 30, 2013 Victor Sergeev

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Landscape design at the dacha: where to start

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Introductory article about landscape design for summer residents and beginners

Victor Sergeev

In the landscape design of a country house, green spaces, relief, lawns, ponds, architectural groups and lighting are equally important. Construction of a single compositional line consonant with the main structure ( individual house) involves a whole complex landscape works. There are two ways to create a garden with character on the property of a private house: with your own hands and with the help of a professional design agency. The first option is within the power of everyone, the second requires a certain budget.

Landscape design of a country house - where to start?

The development of any territory begins with a drawing or plan on paper. First, divide the area into zones: functional and problematic.

Both big and small suburban areas, in 6, 12 and 20 acres, the first problem may be uneven terrain, with significant differences. What to do with an uneven area? Turn disadvantages into advantages. Think how many rises and slopes, lowlands, inclines, depressions, and series of flat terraces are fraught with interesting possibilities!

If there are small hills on the site of a country cottage or country house, they begin to “dance” from them. To begin with, the slopes need to be secured with gabions, and then rockeries with saxifrage, bryozoans, hare cabbage, periwinkle and sedum should be arranged on them.

A ravine or hole in the landscape design of a village house, in which melt and rainwater accumulates, can be turned into small pond with rushing water. Plant perennials (lilies, broadleaf forget-me-nots) and weeping willow around the pond.

On a site with a large slope, it is a good idea to create steps by “cutting” them directly into the earthen slope. The staircase can go down to a rock garden, a pond, or to a house that will be located in the depths of the garden.

Slopes of varying steepness, small hills or low places (lowlands) will give the limited space the missing depth. So small garden, divided on two terraces, looks more voluminous and spacious due to successful zoning with hedges of shrubs or terraced flower beds.

Drainage arrangement in the landscape design of a private house

The main reason for subsidence or destruction of the landscape is regular exposure to groundwater. To avoid subsidence, shrinkage and stagnant soil moisture, drainage is created in the area. primary goal drainage system- collection and disposal of melt and rainwater from the site. Drainage can be made in the form of a trench (surface storm drainage) or underground drainage.

To prevent contaminated wastewater from entering groundwater and soil, in a landscape design project for a private home, they must think through sewer system, laying pipes for connecting gas and water. This is one of the key points when landscaping both 6 and 20 acres.

Fence(s) in the landscape design of a country house

After laying engineering communications and the installation of a drainage system, it is necessary to consider options for fencing the site. In landscape design country cottages, in addition to the usual picket fences, there are others interesting options fences

For example, an unattractive tree from an aesthetic point of view, but reliable in operation, is masked from the inside (from the yard) with a hedge of mature conifers. Large trees for landscaping the fence of a personal plot are planted along (in front of) the fence.

It is better to buy seedlings in special nurseries. There you can also pick up meter-long seedlings of thujas, pines or spruces to decorate a green fence. But in this case you will have to worry about whether the trees will take root. Planning self-cultivation conifers in the country, keep in mind that plants grow in height from 10 to 30 cm per year.

Lawn grass in landscape design near the house

The type of green lawn is determined before earthworks. It is selected taking into account the further use of the lawn, since the arrangement of a lawn in the landscape design of a country house for the patio area and children's outdoor games is radically different in the variety and quality of cereals.

When you need an unpretentious lawn that does not need to be looked after all the time, plant grasses that do not require regular mowing and special feeding. To create such a lawn, choose a grass mixture of three components: fescue, meadow grass and bentgrass. These seeds are excellent for sowing both small-scale and large-scale areas - more than 20 acres.

In places where an area for walking animals is planned on the site, a sports lawn is laid out - hard and dense. Purely decorative corners of the house’s landscape are decorated with an expensive and respectable English lawn (ground lawn). To organize a recreation area, a garden lawn is grown under the shade of trees. For those who are not willing to wait for the grass to grow, there are ready-made rolled strips of grass that are sold in nurseries directly with the turf.

Becoming a part decorative design plot, a green lawn will increase the humidity near the house, like a sponge will absorb dust and soot, giving in return freshness and cleanliness to the air.

Landscape design options for a country house

Green spaces - coniferous and deciduous trees form the basis of the floral design of any private territory. near the cottage can be group or ordinary. Lonely planted trees, especially in small areas (6, 10 acres), attract a lot of attention. There should be no flaws on them; plants growing alone must look perfect throughout all four seasons. For ordinary planting, the following have proven themselves well: thuja, maple, walnut, chestnut, oak, juniper, spruce, linden, ash.

TO garden compositions The site includes alleys and groups.

On a large plot of 20-30 acres, a group created from several plants of one or different types, are often located in the center of the site. In this case, the tallest plant is planted in the middle, small shrubs- around the edges. To add brightness to the composition, deciduous specimens with beautiful flowers or variegated foliage are placed together with evergreen conifers.

Hedges are formed from winter-hardy plants that grow freely or require pruning. Pedestrian paths (alleys) in the landscape design of a house are lined with shrubs, observing rhythm and close planting.

Do-it-yourself flower beds in the landscape design of a private house

Standard roses are used to effectively demonstrate the site. Small trees are an indispensable material for single plantings and creating flower arrangements. Particularly impressive are the weeping standard forms, the lashes of which hang from the gazebos and terrace roofs right down to the ground. Cascades from blooming roses can be grown near the house and on special supports.

Making out rural house I want the flowers to bloom all summer, not be capricious and cause a minimum of trouble. Most quick way get a beautiful flower bed - plant annuals and bulbs. After planting, the flower garden will begin to smell fragrant within a month.

Don’t have time to sow and change the composition of your flower garden every year? Opt for perennials. Once rooted, the flowers alpine roller coaster, rockeries and mixborders, will delight the eye for many years.

Scheme of a flower bed for landscape design of a country house (photo)

• A (1) Beautiful flowering shrub"Buddleya David" (variety with pinkish-lilac flowers). It tolerates topiary well and blooms from July to October.

• B (1) Wild shrub “Rosa rugosa” (the plant’s better known name is “rose hip”). It does not need shelter in winter; it blooms profusely in mid-summer.

• C (8) Lilies from Asian hybrids act as the soloists of the flower garden in the photo. Hardy flowers with large inflorescences and tall growth are good both in single plantings and in garden groups.

• D (2) In the photo of the flower garden “Aster shrubby”. In landscape design outside the city, this abundantly flowering bush is used as a border plant bordering mixborders or paths. The flowering period of the perennial occurs at the end of August - beginning of November. Without replanting, bulbous flowers grow on one for 3-5 years.

• E (12) Salvia blooms in June-July. It ends with the arrival of autumn frosts. On densely pubescent green stems, loose, bright pink inflorescences contrast effectively.

• F (3) The intricate buds of “Aquilegia” are the object of desire for hundreds of owners of suburban areas. The watershed, as it is also called blue flower, blooms spectacularly from year to year, reproducing by seeds.

• G (3) “Dwarf daylilies” are unpretentious in cultivation. A plant planted in September will bloom beautifully in May to decorate the garden until October.

Modern landscape design of a country house with a gazebo and an artificial pond

If the territory of the site and the budget allow it, and the landscape design is supposed to be designed in a landscape (natural) style, then a small pond with a gazebo would be quite appropriate.

The contours of the reservoir are made exclusively winding, without placing any art objects or objects on its banks. artificial decor. Especially carefully masking communications. Pipes and hatches are decorated near the shores of the reservoir with sedge, dwarf willows, buzulnik, and bergenia.

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It will fit well into the concept of the landscape style of a private house. wooden gazebo, pergola or patio with vertical landscaping from noble types of vines: maiden vine, ivy or climbing rose.

It is good to connect a gazebo with an artificial lake using small pebbles. imitate water flows Poskharsky's bell of a dark blue color and pebbles will help.

To avoid tripping over decorative cobblestones, carefully laid out according to Feng Shui, at night, it is wise to take care of lighting the landscape. For cottages with small garden plots, a bulky lighting system is not needed. You can create an individual atmosphere by lighting the porch of the house, garden path and flower beds.

In the landscape design of a large country house, the maximum level of brightness is aimed at lighting accent elements - the patio, garden groups, gazebos, water features, stone slides. To organize safe and functional lighting, floor lamps, spherical lamps, and brass lamps in the Loft style are suitable. Hidden backlight, built into the base of steps, fountains and other landscape elements, and mini-spotlights can be multi-colored or plain, depending on what look you want to give to the site - festive and romantic or mysterious, full of drama.

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