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When planting weaving ornamental plants on their site, many owners do not suspect that this is the same vertical gardening in the country house used by designers to decorate the landscape. Everything is planted with greenery: the walls of buildings, fences, fences, gazebos, in general, all vertical structures. In addition to weaving vines, ordinary plants, and even moss, are used for these purposes.
The role of vertical gardening in landscape decoration
At a professional level in our country, landscape gardening began to be engaged relatively recently. Although the simplest attempts at this art have been observed for a very long time. Many housewives like to plant weaving vegetation near fences and near the veranda. Vertical gardening began to play an important role in landscape design with the advent of large cottages, where it is required to decorate a large area of vacant land near the building.
So, let’s try to figure out what is the use of vertical gardening, and where it is better to apply it.
What role does landscaping play?
If you look at the photo of vertical gardening, you can see that it is suitable for any type of building. Let it be a large city building of any purpose or a small country house. In design, landscaping is used to hide the visible defects of the building: uneven walls, cracks, old ugly cladding, etc. Sometimes green vegetation is planted simply to give the building an exclusivity. Flowering plants will create a bright image for the building.
In addition to beauty, with the help of vertical gardening, they achieve the establishment of a special microclimate in the room. Adjusting the density of vegetation allows you to adjust the penetration of sunlight and daylight into the building through the windows. On hot summer days, it is easy to achieve the optimal indoor temperature by shading the windows. In addition, dense foliage will hide the walls of the building from the scorching rays of the sun, preventing them from getting very warm.
Benefits of landscaping
Do-it-yourself vertical gardening in the country will save the owners from dust, excess noise, and normalize the level of humidity. Everyone knows how nice and calm it is in the countryside in summer, but few people think about why. It’s not about fewer honking cars. Just village yards are buried in greenery. If the urban private courtyard is covered with weaving vines, even if it is grapes, the noise level will be much reduced. Not to mention the beauty, there will be clean air in the yard. All city dust will settle on the dense foliage of plants, and a person will breathe less of it. Plus, vegetation normalizes humidity, creating a special microclimate even in the yard.
You can decorate everything in the yard with greenery. Most often, vines are planted near the gazebos. Behind their long stems, you can even hide a balcony. Hedges divide the territory into sections, fenced off from neighbors. Blooming creepers allow you to decorate a fence or a veranda. Sometimes vertical structures are simply placed on flowerbeds so that vines stretch along them for beauty. If the yard is located on a site with difficult terrain, stone retaining walls are built near the slopes. They can also be made green with moss. In general, there are many options, and each vertical gardening gives the site a personality.
The video talks about the vertical flower garden:
What plants and flowers are suitable for landscaping
It should be noted right away that plants for vertical gardening are suitable for almost all. They can be annuals as well as perennials. It is desirable to determine exactly where, when and what to plant.
Giving preference to annual plants, one must remember about their fear of frost. Here it is better to resort to growing seedlings and planting them with the onset of the first warm days. Of the commonly used annual plants for vertical gardening, one can distinguish: sweet peas, beans, morning glory, nasturtium.
Perennial plants will grow in one place for a long time, so they need to prepare fertile land before planting. The best perennials for landscaping are: actinidia, ornamental grapes, round-leaved wood pliers, aristolochia, climbing honeysuckle, girlish grapes.
To get a good result, plants are planted in accordance with the scheme, and adhere to the rules of agricultural technology. It is important for each plant to determine the optimal landing site. Its growth, density and saturation with green foliage, an abundance of flowers depend on this.
Performing vertical gardening with your own hands on the site on the north side, you need to pick up plants that are resistant to cold. Not bad proved: capuchin, Japanese quince, parthenocissus, cotoneaster.
The south side is the warmest. Here honeysuckle, clematis, Chinese lemongrass will feel comfortable. Magnolia grows well.
On the west side, again, magnolia will help out. Wisteria and rope grow well.
The eastern side of the site is optimally decorated with capuchin or hydrangea.
Landscaping with moss
Many summer residents, probably, observed the formation of moss from the north side of the house in damp shaded places. Usually they try to get rid of it, but many designers use moss for vertical gardening. It is even specially grown for this purpose.
The popularity of vertical gardening with moss is due to its hypoallergenic properties. Moss lives for about 5 years, resistant to diseases, environmentally safe. Moss does not require any maintenance associated with watering, cutting, feeding and lighting.
In addition to retaining stone walls, moss can safely decorate the walls and roof of the building with moss. There are 2 options for vertical gardening: pure moss and together with other herbs. Often designers decorate walls with moss with various decorative elements.
Types of structures for arranging vertical gardening
The simplest devices for vertical gardening are made from wire, rope, wooden planks and other similar materials. However, this approach is relevant for the usual planting of primitive vines around the gazebo. True landscape design requires the construction of serious structures for vertical gardening or the use of ready-made ones.
Arrangement of a hedge
Chain link fencing is the best support structure for hedges. Climbing plants will braid each cell of the grid, creating an opaque blank wall. Any metal rod fences are a good option, but wooden picket fences will begin to disappear under vegetation over time. This can be avoided by taking additional measures to protect wood.
Green wall pergolas
Pergola is a lattice with diamond-shaped or square cells. Usually it is made of thin wooden planks and attached to vertical supports. As in the case of a chain-link mesh, the plants curl along the cells of the pergola.
Arched structures and facades of buildings
Arched structures mean the installation of metal frames, often used by winegrowers. With the help of arches and flowering vines, you can decorate the passage from the gate to the house or simply equip a resting place.
The facade of the building is a vertical support that requires some preparation for landscaping. First, protective measures are taken to protect the facade material from destruction. To do this, the wall is covered with PET film, and then with jute cloth. Secondly, a pergola is made and attached to the wall. After all, plants need something to cling to.
container design
You can arrange vertical gardening even among the square with paving slabs. This is where containers come in handy. You can take any flowerpots, boxes, etc. A vertical stand with attachment cells is welded under them. It is enough to install containers in the cells and plant flowers in them.
Obelisks for growing vines
You can decorate a flower bed with creepers or weaving roses. Obelisks are made under them – special racks in the form of a cylinder or pyramid. The sizes are very different at your discretion, but preferably not higher than 3 m. As an obelisk, you can use a tree that has dried on the site.
Vertical gardening indoors with the help of phytomodules
You can decorate the walls with green vegetation even inside the house. For this purpose, phytomodules for vertical gardening are used, resembling boxes with flower pots. In principle, a phytomodule is a finished structure fixed to the wall. Plants grow in individual cells. Usually the phytomodule is equipped with a drip irrigation system. The tightness of the fastening of the structure allows you to protect the wall from moisture.
The video shows a phytomodule with drip irrigation at home:
By professionally approaching the design of your suburban area, with the help of vertical gardening, you can create a real paradise.