Our life is very multifaceted. Even adherents of comfortable apartments are changing their views and acquiring a summer cottage. The decision is made for various reasons, but no one can refuse fresh air, the colors of lush grass and flowers, the murmur of water and the singing of birds.
After the first hassle, it’s time to think about the improvement of your summer cottage. The most important condition that every summer resident should know is not to complex! If you have never planted flowers, built a pond or a bench, then this is not a reason to stop. Landscaping a summer cottage is a creative matter, not so difficult (though a little troublesome), but grateful.
To make a professional landscape design of the site, you may have to turn to specialists. And if you are familiar with designing, then your own knowledge for landscaping will be quite enough. Consider two options for landscaping the site, which are most often encountered.
Starting from scratch
This option is suitable for those who acquire a new site on which there are no buildings yet. Before decorating and landscaping, you will have to carry out construction work. During this period, you need to follow some recommendations:
- Be sure to take a plan of the wind rose (cardinal points) and natural relief. This will come in handy when planning planting, marking elements for landscaping.
- Document any construction work. This includes laying water supply and sewerage, electricity.
- It is necessary to clearly define the plan of your site in order to create a harmonious plan of improvement and its relationship with the surrounding landscape.
Why pay attention to such nuances? Do-it-yourself landscaping of a summer cottage will require this knowledge in order to correctly plan everything – the width of paths and paths, a pond, a bathhouse, a gazebo.
You must be sure that at the time of construction you will not touch the life support channels. After all, there should be enough space for the car and then watering will not have to be pulled from one end of the site to the other. Some plants do not tolerate proximity to power lines, groundwater. In any case, this knowledge will be useful when landscaping the site.
Try to put your plan on paper, taking into account all the nuances. All objects need to be approached, so the paths, in addition to being decorative, should have a functional purpose. Each zone is created taking into account the lighting, materials and already existing natural elements.
Be sure to make a list of the plants you want to plant.
They also need to be placed taking into account the illumination and the need for water. Read the characteristics of each plant. You may want to change something. Use all the ideas for landscaping the site. Even in swampy and waterlogged areas, “their” plants grow.
Break the area into zones. You can make a project for the improvement of a summer cottage in different styles. It is good to arrange a Japanese garden in one place, and modern in another. It is best to tie beautification styles to a residential building. Then the whole site will take on a finished look.
Remodeling in your own way
This information is useful to those owners who purchase a residential plot or inherited it.
- Pay attention to the trees growing in the country, especially the very old and large ones. Choose those that can be treated or trimmed. If it doesn’t work at all, then leave one for a wide large stump. First, before the trees you planted grow, it will take some time. And the old-timers will be able to give shade and serve as a decoration for the zone. And in a large stump, flower or juniper beds look great. Most importantly, do not leave diseased and rotten plants.
- Try to adapt to the terrain of the site when planning the improvement of the site. It is not necessary to rake and level everything. Often, in secluded corners, a natural landscape has already been created in which plants feel comfortable, grow well and bloom. Stones grown into the ground will serve in the design of a slide, a waterfall, an original border for a flower bed.
Do not rush to change everything at once. It is better to tie your dacha improvement ideas to existing objects.
Before the start of the grand update, arrange a family council. Write down the desires of adults and children to measure them with financial capabilities, the structure of the site and the purposes for which it was purchased.
Where to begin:
We start to implement ideas
Professionals advise starting with the design of tracks. This element is very important for any site. Paths help to reach any object or deliver building material.
For children, this is an opportunity to run, rollerblade or bike. The mysteriousness of the garden paths leading to the gazebo or pond adds romance to walks. It is not necessary to invite a construction team to work. It is important to consider that:
- the soil needs to be leveled and compacted;
- choose the material depending on the purpose and degree of load on the track;
- labeling must be followed carefully.
Tracks on the site can be of any material. For areas with heavy loads, stone, brick, concrete are suitable.
In other cases, wood, ceramics are used. When landscaping the site, you can make garden tiles with your own hands. Shards of glass or mosaic are placed in a suitable container, poured with concrete. After hardening, they take out the workpiece and lay it on the ground (you can dig it a little for stability). “Tiles” are made in different or the same size. The same “tile” can be made from wooden bars.
This element of improvement is on the shoulder of any summer resident. The path can be beaten with a beautifully braided arch.
Creepers, weaving roses, clematis, and other weaving plants will do.
Landscaping is no less important. This is one of the most popular landscaping techniques with plants. If not everyone can make a path, then everyone can plant a plant. This includes various flower beds, rabatka, mixborders. And here is another idea that combines utility and decorativeness – a hedge.
The advantages of such a landscaping element in the improvement of the site can not be overestimated:
- A hedge of plants will reliably protect the site and hide unnecessary elements outside the site. Looks much more natural than any fence.
- Green plants serve as a good source of oxygen.
- The hedge will play another important role. Protection from dirt and dust in residential areas has always been carried out with the help of green spaces. Implement this idea when landscaping your site.
- The choice of plants for the hedge is quite large. Suitable coniferous, flowering shrubs, weaving plants.
The next option for landscaping the site will be gardeners. Practical and harmonious beds for vegetables will help decorate the garden no worse than a recreation area. Are used:
- brick;
- slate;
- tree;
- live plants.
A wonderful technique is to grow a flower bed from ornamental cabbage.
She can claim a place of honor in landscape design when landscaping a plot in the garden area.
There are a lot of ideas that summer residents share. Do not neglect the experience of experienced designers and the recommendations of professionals. But embody your ideas without hesitation. If you don’t like it, do something else. For the arrangement of each element has its own rules. Therefore, before starting the construction of a parking lot, a pond, a bathhouse, a garden gazebo, read the recommendations of specialists. Add your ideas and get started.
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