Small plot design: blooming garden
Eya Nilsson loves to embroider. Her small garden is as if embroidered with a cross on the canvas. The colors on this canvas do not fade from spring to autumn – something is always blooming here. We learn from experience!
Small plot design
A green corridor leads to the outbuildings. In our conditions, ivy can be replaced with maiden grapes.
Ten years ago, the Swede Eya Nilsson bought a cottage with a tiny plot near Gothenburg. 500 square meters is a ridiculous size for a garden. It seemed that everything was hopeless – there was a swampy lawn near the house and there were several cherry trees, mountain pines and one larch. The new owner drew a sketch first. The work started from scratch.
Do you have a plan?
Eya is a very neat girl, so a rigid structure became the main thing for her. The site is located on a small slope, which the hostess terraced, gaining a few extra meters from nature. But visually, the garden now seems much larger – it , there are corners hidden from the eyes, where there are sun loungers, benches or beautiful flower beds are simply broken, new views open up around every turn of the path. Direct Eyya has practically none – mostly winding, this also visually adds space to the area. In addition, they are very diverse: paved with paving slabs, covered with pebbles, covered with wooden flooring. A green corridor entwined with ivy leads to the outbuildings behind the house. And no monotony!
There are no straight paths in the garden. And they are all made of different materials.
It is difficult to grow a rhododendron here, but ivy is impossible.
Cobblestone – the gardener’s tool
But Aya’s favorite material is … As a child, she spent every summer in Bohuslän, a rocky seaside resort in southern Sweden. Perhaps this is the reason for the addiction. Eya has a lot , flower beds are limited by a stone, many paths are laid out on the sides. For example, the path from the gate to the main entrance is lined with white cobblestones. The most beautiful are in plain sight. Bare land on the site simply cannot be found. This is not only beautiful, but also practical: the stone makes the composition clearer, and the garden looks neat at any time of the year.
The pots are convenient – a faded plant can be easily replaced with another.
Eyya sees special beauty in ordinary stones.
The hostess specially selected the plants so that everything would bloom in the garden from early spring to late autumn.
“When planning the garden, I wanted something to always bloom in it,” says Eia. – Therefore, I chose plants so that some flowers were replaced by others. Magnolia blooms first, then honeysuckle replaces it. A little later, the time for the cherry laurel, periwinkle and then planted under magnolia. My favorite colors are lilac, pink, blue and white. Yellow, on the contrary, I perceive badly. But sometimes it is also needed for composition. I look at the form as a whole. Individual plants should fit into the overall picture. Due to the fact that I have embroidered a lot, I have a good sense of color and shape. ”
The function and pelargonium of the hostess’s favorite colors.
Near the house there are low plants, further – higher ones. The garden is arranged
several cozy places to stay.
and alpine slides are located near the house, the further, the higher the bushes. The perspective is organically completed by the rose hips behind the fence and the wall of the neighbor’s house, wrapped in whips of hydrangea.
But no matter how good the initial plan was, you have to constantly take care of the form, so Eya always has a pruner on hand. She rarely sits idle at all. There are especially many worries at the beginning of summer: weeding, haircut, new plantings. “Plants cannot be launched,” the owner reveals her secrets. “Magnolia bloomed incredibly abundantly last year. When the petals flew around, the site looked sloppy. I hate withered flowers lying on the ground for weeks – I removed them with a vacuum cleaner. ”
The terrace is covered with flowering dogwood.
Terracing makes the garden appear more spacious.
Clematis blooms in the second half of summer.
Pink clematis is a decoration of the August garden.
“I hate withered flowers that have been lying on the ground for weeks. I am cleaning them with a vacuum cleaner! “
The second half of the summer is quieter. “When almost all the weeds have been weeded out, I’m free, and my husband and I often sit in the air and just enjoy, chat, drink coffee, I read the newspapers aloud,” says Eyya. When her husband Torgny lost his sight a few years ago, the garden became a source of new strength for both. Surprisingly, Torgny is now interested in nature much more than before, and eagerly listens to his wife’s stories about blossoming clematis and roe deer, which they ate at night … Aya is happy that the pictures she has grown are helping Torgny to see again.
Thyme (thyme) is a medicinal plant and a delicious condiment.
Blood-red geranium on an alpine hill.
The lighting wires were laid at the first stage of the work.
A glass partition protects the terrace from the wind.