Contents
- Garden layout: 15 mistakes
- Mistake # 1: Designing a Garden After Building a Home
- Mistake # 2: Planning miscalculations
- Mistake # 3: An eclectic approach
- Mistake # 4: Using low-quality planting material
- Mistake # 6: “Dark alleys”
- Mistake # 7: Lack of an idea
- Mistake # 8: Lack of forward planning
- Mistake number 9: Violation of the insolation regime
- Mistake # 10: Refusal to water
- Mistake # 11: Failure to drain
- Mistake # 12: Placing a reservoir or cascade near the fence
- Mistake # 13: Too “fractional” flower beds
- Mistake number 14: “Non-scale” of the project
- Mistake number 15: “Bald” boundaries of the site
Garden layout: 15 mistakes
“Let’s cultivate our garden!” Said Voltaire. “And don’t make any annoying mistakes!” – we add. The list of the most common miscalculations when planning a summer cottage, compiled by our experts, is in front of you. Draw your own conclusions!
Mistake # 1: Designing a Garden After Building a Home
Garden layout
Alas, the owners of suburban real estate often seriously think about now, when the house is already standing and communications are connected to it. But for landscape designer the ideal situation is to work “from scratch” in parallel with the design of the house. Only then landscape and architecture will become part of a single whole.
Mistake # 2: Planning miscalculations
A common mistake is the lack of balance between open and closed areas. It is important to correctly place accents in the garden, set the logic of visual connections, correctly build the architectonics garden space.
Mistake # 3: An eclectic approach
Getting Started garden design, you should choose any style and stick to it until the end. Sometimes you can play in contrast, using elements of different styles… This mainly applies to small forms such as garden furniture or sculpture. But such combinations are rather an exception to the rule. It is very important that garden and the house was in harmony with each other – do not break around a modernist villa a la Corbusier.
Mistake # 4: Using low-quality planting material
A beautiful idea needs to be clothed in the appropriate shape – for example, an alley will only look spectacular if it is planted from plants that look identical in appearance. Remember: the miser pays twice!
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In winter and autumn, your area may look no worse than in summer, but for this you need design a garden taking into account seasonal decorativeness. The Russian climate, by the way, gives us some advantages over Europe – we can enjoy a stunning panorama all winter long landscapecovered with snow or covered with frost.
Mistake # 6: “Dark alleys”
Garden lighting often undeservedly relegated to the background – but in vain! With the help of a professionally planned lighting you can achieve the most incredible visual effects.
Mistake # 7: Lack of an idea
The haphazard copying of techniques from neighbors or from magazines is a path to nowhere. Everyone garden must be individual. Making the customer’s dream come true, I always try to make it garden unique, not like the others.
Mistake # 8: Lack of forward planning
Planting material you need to choose taking into account its growth in the future – you need to clearly imagine the maximum dimensions and shape of the crown of each plant in ten to twenty years. For example, when planting a linden tree, one must understand that in 15 years the diameter of its crown will reach eight meters. Accordingly, it follows even at the stage garden planning clearly imagine what kind of shadow will fall from her and what zone site will fall into it.
Mistake number 9: Violation of the insolation regime
It is very important to determine which garden plot better lit, which is worse, and depending on this, plant shade-loving and light-loving plant.
Mistake # 10: Refusal to water
In our climate, maintain in good condition it is impossible without water. Are comfortable automatic irrigation systems – with them you can safely leave garden unattended even for a week, even for a month. The nozzles controlled by the computer unit appear above the surface lawn twice a day, and then they themselves hide underground. The system is equipped with a rain sensor – if it has passed, irrigation will not turn on that day.
Mistake # 11: Failure to drain
Even if in the summer area dry as the sands of the Sahara, in the off-season it can turn into a swamp. Wait until spring or fall to see if you need drainage.
Mistake # 12: Placing a reservoir or cascade near the fence
The water surface looks harmonious when it is surrounded by green space, as in nature. By moving it to the fence, you focus attention on the border section… Decorative ponds or fountains are always eye-catching. You don’t want him to run into fence?
Mistake # 13: Too “fractional” flower beds
Flower beds, in which a heap of this, this, the fifth and the tenth is planted, look bad. Following the well-known principle, it is better to plant less, but better. Create large-scale “spots” colors, looking at which you feel the freedom and power of nature. Oddly enough, this rule is also true for small садов.
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Mistake number 14: “Non-scale” of the project
Sometimes big area they are designed as small (and then too extensive paving areas appear there), and small as large, and then it is replete with unnecessary details that overload landscape.
Mistake number 15: “Bald” boundaries of the site
To plant greenery The “border” zone is vital. If your gaze rests against the fence all the time, area it seems much smaller than it really is.
The material was prepared by Ekaterina Wagner