Today, creative farmers strive to make a beautiful and spectacular picture out of their garden with clear geometry, verified flowers of greens and fruits, functional devices harmoniously integrated into the general landscape of beds and flower beds.
It is worth noting that the tradition of turning your garden into an object of decorative art appeared in the Middle Ages. Then the decorative beds were equipped on their gardens mainly by monks. They divided the territory behind the monastery into proportional sections and, in most cases, formed the beds in the form of an impressive cross. Most often in such "cross" vegetable gardens grew pharmacist herbs and vegetables and root crops, which are most necessary for a modest daily diet.
A decoratively arranged garden is a dream of many summer residents!
Nowadays, to equip a beautiful plot with intricate rows of various plant crops is a matter of honor for a self-respecting landowner. Fortunately, hundreds of publications and thousands of publications on the Internet are devoted to this topic.
In this material, we tried to collect general recommendations regarding the decorative and cozy beautification of your personal plot. Having familiarized yourself with them, you will have an idea of what to start from and with what steps to begin your journey to a beautiful and sweet garden.
Recommendation 1. Convenience above all!
The key to a beautiful, fertile garden is a well-lit place with the ability to thoroughly and thoroughly water the bushes. And most importantly - look after the garden, water it and process it should be comfortable and convenient. Therefore, take care of the proper arrangement of bed formations, a well or other source of water, a shed with inventory, garden paths, gates, etc.
You can fill the space between the beds with pebbles, gravel, expanded clay, sand or ground cover plants.
Recommendation 2. Soil issue.
Before arranging the beds, remove the top layer of earth in the garden, mix it with the universal purchased soil mixture and fill this recess with the mix of the place in the future beds.
If construction work was carried out on your site before the garden, the upper fertile soil layer must be completely removed!
Recommendation 3. Groundwater
If groundwater flows close to your beds, take care to drain excess moisture. In this case, your best friend is drainage!
If groundwater flows close to your beds, take care to drain excess moisture.
Recommendation 4. Fill tracks
In the modern garden market, such a material as decorative filling of row-spacing with polymer is in great demand. This polymer reliably fixes the bedding among the beds, creating an aesthetically harmonious landscape of your site, but at the same time the material passes moisture, which makes it easier to care for such a surface of garden paths.
Another option for filling garden paths on your site is undersized plants that are groundcover (stonecrop, potentilla, rekhukha, etc.).
Video: Decorative filling - a new trend in landscape design
Recommendation 5. Decorative borders
Focusing on the general style of your personal plot, decorate the beds and flower beds with raised boards or stone, creating visual barriers in the garden. "Fences" will help to zone your site, give it accuracy and style!
By the way, you can create raised beds with fences both independently and with the help of ready-made purchased containers and borders.
Bring children to the arrangement and decoration of your site - young creators will surely find a ton of original and cute ideas for a garden and a summer residence!
Recommendation 6. Gardener-artist
Try to pick up vegetable and fruit plants and bushes, as well as spice crops, medicinal plants and flowers in the flower beds so that they harmoniously combine with each other in color and structure of the bush. To create geometric patterns from various plants in your country house is a perfectly feasible task for a creative summer cottage enthusiast!
Recommendation 7. Place for games
Do not lose sight of the fact that the plot is a wide field for children's activities! Send the boiling energy of the smallest summer residents to a good channel, inviting young agronomists and decorators to decorate the beds with interesting signs with the names of the crops growing here or to plant "their own" bushes of cherry tomatoes, eggplant or pepper in the open ground.
A garden is your mini-kingdom with its decorative laws and original rules.
Recommendation 8. Annuals to help!
If you don’t like the look of the voids formed on the beds when changing crops, plant them with seeds of beautiful annual plants.
