Residents of modern cities, whenever possible, increasingly began to spend free weekends in country houses. A person is characterized by a desire to be closer to the earth, to nature, especially after a hard working week.

The priorities of using outdoor recreation have changed. A dozen years ago, the word "dacha" was associated with the word "vegetable garden".

People went out of town to work hard for growing vegetable crops and fruit, and in the background there was a real rest with barbecue, games, fishing.

Now city dwellers are trying to combine these useful and entertaining activities, visiting the cottage should bring relaxation to the soul and body, and please the eye.

That's what people use for this. landscape design, thereby improving aesthetics and harmony with nature in the territory personal plot.

It is with the help of knowledge of landscape design that you can answer dacha questions such as "where to plan a flower garden?", "What kind of fence to make?" And all these questions relate to the improvement of the site.

Terrain styles

First you need to decide what you would like and how much material resources are you willing to spend?

The French style in garden design is based on symmetrical shapes and geometric designs.

Flower beds and lawns have a rectangular or round shape, avenues are wide, classic vases and figures, reservoirs with regular fountains, beautifully trimmed shrubs in the form of geometric objects, pyramidal trees. All this emphasizes the desire to rise above nature, the desire to streamline your site.

The English style, on the contrary, fits into the landscape of the area. There are almost no flowers in the garden, which are planted near the house, covered with lush greenery.

Country style (rustic) distinguishes bright flower beds from meadow and garden flowers, fruit trees, garden beds of different geometry, and even an elegant garden scarecrow. Here paths and fences are made only of natural materials.

The Japanese landscape style is used to create an atmosphere of philosophical reflection. Here it is imperative to use water in any form, create a garden of 13 different stones (the thirteenth stone is hidden away from the eyes), preferably the presence of conifers.

The Chinese style of landscape design is built on the rules of Feng Shui uniting religion, philosophy and the laws of Mother Nature. For such a garden, a large area is needed to create hills and lowlands here. Each plant, tree or object carries a specific meaning and fits very well with the local environment.

There is also a Moorish landscape style. It involves a fountain with a reservoir located in the center and four paths or canals lead from it. This, as it were, symbolizes the four rivers flowing from paradise (according to the Muslim religion).

Many bright, fragrant flowers are planted around. A beautiful bench or gazebo with climbing plants will harmoniously fit into this style.

Greenery on the site

Landscaping of the personal plot is carried out taking into account the shrubs and trees already growing on it. Allocate a separate area to a green lawn sown with special grass. Then children can play here, and adults can have a picnic on the grass.

Shrubs are usually planted around the perimeter of the plot, away from the flower beds, as the flowers love sunlight.

Flowerbeds are a special element of the site design; they are intended for pleasant and joyful contemplation on them. Classic flower beds are of the following types:

• monoclumba. They use only one kind of color.
• raised. Here in the center they are planted tall plants, and at the edges - low.
• carpet. Low flowers bloom to create beautiful and intricate designs.
• chameleons. The flowerbed changes color due to different flowering periods and different varieties plants.
• vertical. Such flower beds are created mainly from clematis, climbing roses and bougainvillea.
• regular. They are made with a strict geometric shape and a diameter of more than 1.5 m.
• irregular. Plants are planted in clusters according to color, shape or flowering time.

Alpine slides - very original version flower beds. Here, with the help of stones and flowers, a mini-image of the alpine mountains is created. The stones are completely different, but large ones are a priority.

Other design elements

To make your garden even more attractive, be sure to build a stream, waterfall, or just a body of water.

Don't forget about the beautiful garden paths made of stone with small flowers. For convenience and relaxation in the garden, you need to put a gazebo and benches.

And to create a pleasant pastime in the evening, arrange a spectacular illumination of the area with decorative lamps or lanterns.

Transforming suburban area do it yourself on the eve of the start of the summer season, we take care of buildings, plants, the earth itself, but we also lay the foundation for the future have a nice rest... Imagine how we cuddle in the shade of trees on a hammock with a ripe apple in hand, contemplating the luxury of a bright riot of flowers, and with redoubled efforts we will get down to development work.

DIY suburban design

When developing, not only its configuration, location on the cardinal points or the presence of other areas in the neighborhood should be taken into account. It is very important to take into account all your own wishes, your ideas about the ideal vacation for yourself. The classical scheme, in which there is a clear division into a garden, a vegetable garden, a place for rest, is characteristic of the traditional approach to DIY suburban design... V current trends everything is mixed, you can find elements of a flower garden in the garden, and organize a playground for children's games in the garden. Limitations for your imagination can only be the dimensions of the site, because it is simply impossible to accommodate everything on the traditional six hundred square meters.

At planning a summer cottage with your own hands do not forget about the obvious things that need to be considered. For example, an irrigation system for beds and trees, it must be either built-in, embedded in the ground, or irrigation will be carried out using hoses. If this is not the fate of this and the area for growing vegetables is located far from the main water supply unit, closing the space between these two points, then later you can damage the flower beds and soil the garden paths with soil from the hoses.

Also, in very many layouts, the toilet and shower are taken outside the house and are located at the extreme borders of the perimeter. It will be appropriate to beat them in the same style with the rest, but not highlight them with the brightest part, so that minimal attention is drawn to them. Zoning partitions, such as vertical landscaping on a small fence or hedges, should be designed to visually hide structures.

Improvement of the suburban area with your own hands

Often beautification of the suburban area with your own hands perceived purely as decoration, filling space decorative elements buying seedlings of exotic trees or bushes. Whereas the main thing for creating an external appearance will be the neatness of the territory. Weed-free soil, swept paths, harvested leaves will all create a much more favorable impression, even if the composition of the plants is the most mediocre.

Therefore, the first tip for any improvement is if you know that you will not have enough time to improve the suburban area with your own hands and keep it in this state constantly, it is better to choose options with minimal filling. Take a large part under the lawn, on which you can, if necessary, and place garden furniture, and just lie down in a sun lounger, make a platform near the house, which will be concreted or tiled, so you get rid of the earth and dirt. Decorate each tree with a curb ring, bring a hidden irrigation system so that you can literally supply the trees with water with one left.

In the case of a simple one, you can save a lot of energy if you lay out a landscape garden. It will require a minimum of your time for watering, caring for the crown in the winter, feeding and spraying in the spring, and, the most enjoyable part, harvesting. At the same time, for almost the entire season, elegant foliage of trees can look even better than complex alpine slides or flower beds, especially during flowering in spring.

If both space and free time allows, then you can make traditional decorations, which are very often used for decorating a summer cottage with your own hands, for example, they make a stationary pool, a small one, a waterfall powered by an electric motor, a fountain.

Arrangement of a summer cottage with your own hands

For arrangement of a summer cottage with your own hands, especially when it is small, you need to make a fateful decision, what percentage of it you allocate for growing vegetables. Plants that are useful in the economy all as one need high-quality soil, cleaning from weeds, good illumination and protection from drafts, large winds. Therefore, it will be very difficult to fit them, in our usual understanding, into a site refined according to the Western model. Fortunately, the solution has long been found and, if you do not plan to start with huge plantations, you can safely use the ideas of a decorative garden.

The layout of the garden must be taken into account at the origins, when we equip a summer cottage with our own hands... After all, this will require additional costs from you. building materials whichever option you choose. But due to the fact that the beds will look very neat, elegant, you can safely choose absolutely any piece of the perimeter, they will fit well everywhere.

In the immediate vicinity of the house, you can play with its color, texture, and make the sides for the boxes of the earth the same color as the walls of the house, or, on the contrary, create color accents. Since the contents of the containers you will have bright green plants, it is worth choosing colors that harmonize well with warm green tones. It is yellow, orange, brown, crimson.

Also bumpers on summer cottage with their own hands, photo- an example of which you see above, are made out with various decorative materials, for example, neat wooden cuts, and the most even and similar in diameter are chosen. You can use pieces of decorative tiles, lining. Some decorate flower beds and beds using painted plastic bottles, but this, of course, is not very welcome if in modern style... Better to use flagstone, natural stone, vine or even ceramic tiles in short, everything that will look organic under natural conditions.

The arrangement of the beds in the boxes allows you to make clean and comfortable transitions between them, these are just the same, but vice versa. The space between the boards is most often covered with rubble, fine screenings, or filled with lawn grass with a high content of sod and similar plants that form a dense cover on which you will be comfortable walking both in dry and in inclement weather.

And, using such an element of vertical gardening, we not only we decorate the summer cottage with our own hands, but we can also pull a small fragment of the vegetable garden closer to the house. In building supermarkets, you have probably seen bamboo stems, from which you can make such an unusual whatnot. Since the stem of this diameter itself is large enough, one will be enough for you for several full-fledged tiers, especially since it must be cut lengthwise. Use a drill to make holes in the bottom to drain excess water, add a layer of drainage material, and then a layer of fertile soil. Plants with a small root system should be planted in such containers, which do not need a large deepening, for example, lettuce, onion for greens, parsley, basil, thyme. You can put the rack near the porch or near summer kitchen and every time you need fresh herbs, you don't have to run to different ends of the garden.

Making a summer cottage with your own hands

Having casually mentioned garden paths, let us consider in more detail their role for decorating a summer cottage with your own hands... Without paths, any territory will be more like a dense forest, you will not only be uncomfortable to walk, but you will also lose a lot in decorative terms.

Stack them using kits ready-made templates you can easily. For this, there is not only instructions for the product, but also training materials for upgrading. suburban area do it yourself, video with which you can easily find on the web. These paths are made according to the formwork principle, that is, they are poured into the cells cement mix with additives to increase its strength. When one piece is seized, the formwork is removed and the whole segment is installed. This method has only one significant drawback - it is very popular, so your path will definitely not be unique.

However, you can combine the technology, interspersing the rectangular segments with fragments of sod lawn. This option fits perfectly into the eco-concept. do-it-yourself landscape of the summer cottage, which is among the most fashionable trends. And if it is difficult to observe them in relation to stationary buildings, such as a house or a gazebo, then it is easy for paths. After all, if you get bored or uncomfortable with them, you can easily dismantle them, replacing them with other fashionable elements.

Beautiful summer cottages with your own hands

Options beautiful summer cottages do it yourself very, very much. But for many elements you need either a lot of space, or, as they say, golden hands. What are there simple ways to make it look spectacular, but it wouldn't be worth the effort?

In the flower garden, you can place a bush of lush flowers, which will be decorated using any clay container, jug, pot, amphora. The blue color will imitate water, which will only intensify the effect. However, even after the end of flowering, this element will not lose its attractiveness.

When we we make out a summer cottage with our own hands, then it is worth thinking not only about beauty and external attractiveness, but also about convenience. And you can combine these two tasks. For example, a barbecue area is almost always present either in the area of ​​the gazebo, or on the terrace, but it does not always look outwardly attractive. You can buy or fold this large multifunction oven yourself. Its shape has been verified over the years, everything is convenient, but its visual appeal has not been forgotten either. It is convenient to place firewood at the bottom so that they remain dry; in the brazier, you can make barbecue, kebabs, and cook dishes on a spit. And the countertops on the sides are perfect for prepared or ready-made food.

But for this suburban interior of the site with your own hands, inside the gazebo, a built-in hearth is used, which is inside, such a semblance of a Russian stove. This allows you to cook in fresh air without being distracted from the rest.

A private house is good because it has its own yard. It is good to rest in it, you can arrange it the way you want. But everything should be done according to certain rules- landscaping of the yard, that's what it's called. The task is not as simple as it seems.

General principles

In order for your yard to be beautiful, harmonious and comfortable, it is advisable to create a plan before starting work, and then make this plan a reality. And, by the way, in most cases with independent development of landscape design, the result is very different from the project. Either they saw a new plant, which was not on the plan, or they didn’t like in reality what looked “super” in the picture. Nevertheless, it is worth doing the landscaping of the yard of your house according to the rules, otherwise you may end up with an uncomfortable yard and an unpresentable view.

Preparing a site plan

The first thing you need is a scaled site plan. You can draw it on a sheet of paper or on graph paper. Take a certain scale, for example, one meter is one or two cells. In the second option, it will be possible to draw small details in more detail, but the plan will be large. The plan should indicate:

With this basic plan in mind, you can start planning your yard. On this plan, it is immediately necessary to highlight shaded places (the sun appears only for a few hours), partial shade (half a day is illuminated by the sun) and sunny (there is practically no shadow at all) zones. To do this, it is best to take colored pencils and shade the areas with different colors.

Large parking area, slightly smaller for barbecue, pool and summer vacation Big or small plot- no matter. Anyone can be cozy Plantings only along the perimeter of the site, the main area is free - for lawns, flower beds

If there are lower and higher zones on the site, they should also be highlighted. It is also necessary to indicate sources, springs, retaining walls or the intended places of their installation, all other features of the landscape. All this information should be taken into account when developing the landscape design of the yard.

Determining the central object

Before starting work on the improvement of the yard, you need to decide what you would like to focus on. I mean a large object: a pond, a fountain, a gazebo with or without a barbecue, a pergola. This object is placed in the central place, and all the rest, smaller ones, are placed around it. Moreover, if you have chosen a pond, it does not mean that there will not be a gazebo or a fountain on the site, it is just that the pond will be the main object. He is the main "feature", and all other structures will only beat him, supplement.

In this case, the central area is a recreation area and a lawn

The same rule holds true if you want to make the recreation area the main “theme of the yard” - a gazebo or pergola, just a platform with sofas, benches, a hammock, etc. A pond, a fountain, and small architectural objects may well be located next to them. The idea is that this zone is the highlight of your yard, and all other objects will play up to it. Because, in a usually small space, two or three competing ideas are chaos and lack of harmony.

Finding a place for everything

Having decided on the set of desired objects, we take a sheet of cardboard and cut out all the objects from it. We cut out to the scale in which the map was drawn, the shape in which the construction is planned. You can paint, you can sign.

We take the images and lay them out on the plan. Place the selected "main object" in the center of the composition. This does not mean that its place is strictly in the center - it may be on the side of the site. It's just that this corner should be viewed from the windows and / or from the entrance. After all, you should get aesthetic pleasure from your yard.

When we have found a place for the central zone, we begin to figure out where to put all the other larger objects. Some may be located close to one another, others at a certain distance. If all you want, you do not fit, you will have to sacrifice something or reduce the size. Here everyone decides what is more important to him.

We lay paths and develop a lighting system

When everything that you want to see on the site is placed on the plan, it's time to lay paths and think over the lighting system. Why should these two different systems be planned at the same time? Because the paths are usually lit, otherwise it is not very convenient to walk on them in the dark. So they pull the cables along them, applying voltage to the lamps, and also - reaching the lighting to all key points of the yard - to the gazebo, fountain, stream, etc.

When planning tracks, there are two basic rules. First, if you need to visually bring the object closer, we lay a straight path. This rule applies if the area is large or long and narrow. Another possible area of ​​application is a minimalist courtyard. Here, just other forms are unacceptable - only strict geometric shapes... Broken lines are also welcome, though.

In all other cases, straight paths are avoided. There is no need to “dodge” too much, but the winding, smoothly turning paths harmoniously fit into any other style of yard decoration.

When outlined on the plan, draw in the lamps to illuminate the yard. Along the paths - every one and a half to two meters, to illuminate arbors and platforms - more often. And the illumination of water also looks beautiful if there are "water" objects.

The layout of the site from improvised means

How else, apart from the plot plan on graph paper and cardboard analogs of various landscape objects, can you visualize your design project? There is a simple way - using ordinary plasticine or other improvised means. The house and other buildings are better made of foam and cardboard, a gazebo made of sticks. Lay out the tracks from material similar to the planned "original". This will help to evaluate the invented texture and color range... Everything else - benches, a pond, fountains, trees, bushes, flowers - we sculpt all this from plasticine. For believability, trees and shrubs can be made from twigs, sticking "foliage" of about the same shade. And yes, we do everything on a scale (for example, 1 meter is equal to 1 cm or 2 cm). This is already a 3D volumetric image that will accurately convey to you both the proportions, and the convenience and all other nuances of the landscape design of the courtyard you created.

Plasticine courtyard design project - excellent 3 D visualization

Landscape design software

If you are a confident PC user, then the task of developing design will help to simplify programs for landscape design... The bad news is that they are paid, but it will be easy and interesting to create a landscape design for the courtyard of a private house. There are two dozen programs, but here are the most popular:

• Our garden... There is a large built-in library of plants, a planner for paving, fences, gates, etc. The ability to load missing materials or textures, plants is available.
• Googl scatchup... This is not a specialized program, but it has a landscape planning section, which is very good - it is full of lessons on working with the creation of a landscape.
• Punch... The disadvantage of the program is that there is no way to add your own objects. Only those in the software library can be used. Another disadvantage is that there is no way to export the results, that is, you cannot use the created project in other programs. But it is simple, and requires almost no time for training.
• Sierra LandDesigner 3D... Large base of plants and other objects. It is possible to enter your own data and use them in your work. Every possible action has a clue, so it's easy to figure out along the way. The program specifies the type of soil and style in which you want to decorate your yard. The program will automatically select suitable objects. At the end of the work, the project can be printed and received an estimate.

Examples of planning the local area

Independent landscaping of the courtyard of a private house is not an easy task. The difficulty is that often what looks good in a picture or "in the head" turns out to be "not very good" in reality. Therefore, it is easier to rely on photos of real objects. There you can at least see what happened. The idea can be taken "in its entirety", or you can partially adapt it to your own desires or conditions.

Example one - with water bodies

For example, the center is. Do you also want to have a gazebo, a fountain and a stream, flower beds, benches? In this case, this option will look good:

The variant with a "real" stream can be easily realized in the presence of even a small difference in height on the site. The fountain is then placed at the highest point, the pond at the lowest. With this arrangement, water runs by gravity, you just need to organize its supply from the pond to the fountain (using a pump of a certain power and a pipe system).

Landscaping of the courtyard of a private house with a pool in front of the door

If there is no elevation difference, there are two ways out - to do it artificially (a very large amount of work and significant material costs) or to make two autonomous water bodies - a fountain and a pond, and make the stream “fake” from stones. Another option is not to make a stream at all. The unconnected pond and fountain are also a very viable and beautiful option for decorating the local area.

Example two - in the center of the recreation area

If the pond is usually carried some distance from the entrance to the house, then the recreation area is often made nearby. But the "rest area" can be perceived in different ways. For some, these are comfortable sofas, benches on which it is convenient to read, for others - a platform with a gazebo and a table located next to the barbecue.

Rest area - everyone understands differently

Depending on your wishes, a recreation area of ​​any type can be near the entrance, or it can be at the opposite end of the site. And near the same gazebo there may be a pond or a fountain. But not a gazebo near the pond, but a pond near the gazebo. This is the difference. The path from the entrance leads to the gazebo, and from it you can get to the pond.

Near the gazebo, covered or open area for recreation, flower beds, rock gardens, rockeries can be located. Along the path - flower beds, higher plants - bushes and trees, in the shade of which it is reasonable to put benches. But no matter what you sit along the path, the main object should be visible in perspective - a gazebo or a platform with sofas.

Photo ideas of beautiful corners of private courtyards

Backyard landscaping is not an easy task, even for professionals, and even more so for amateurs. There are too many nuances to be aware of. It is much easier to find the design you like, and then reproduce the photo on your site.

Front garden

A front garden is called a small part of the site between the facade of the house and the fence. Not everyone wants to put the house close to the sidewalk, as well as push it far into the depths of the site. So it turns out in front of the house a narrow (meter or two) strip of land, which, except for flowers and shrubs, can no longer be ennobled.

No matter how narrow the strip between the fence and the house is, it is advisable to divide it into two zones - a flower garden and a path. The walkway is not necessarily a continuous tile or other covering. It can be lawn grass with tiles laid in random order (with gaps).

Desirable path - after all, you will need to take care of the plants once again without worrying about the cleanliness of your shoes

If the climate is hot, the area is dry, or there is no desire / ability to tinker with, you can replace the grass with mulch or fine gravel. An excellent composition is obtained from colored colored gravel and several beautiful plants.

Pay attention to the location of the plants - it depends on the type of fence. If the fence is solid, you need to develop a planting plan so that it looks good from the windows. In this case, the tallest plants are placed closer to the fence, the smallest ones closer to the house. If the fence is rare, more decorative, and you want beautiful view opened from the street, we change the planting plan exactly the opposite: the tallest plants are along the house, the shortest ones are closer to the street.

If the "face" of the front garden is turned towards the street Flowers or plants of approximately the same height - if you need everything to look decent from all sides An interesting option- convenient, beautiful and unusual Traditional design of the site in front of the fence

If you want a beautiful view from both sides, there are two options. First, we plant small and medium-sized varieties of flowers and greenery in a flower garden. The second - we divide the front garden into several zones, we make separate flower beds or alpine slides / rockeries that look good from any point.

Entrance / entrance group

The entrance group is the area near the porch, the entrance is near the gate. As you can imagine, the design is different, although there are common features: all "decorations" should not obstruct the view. You should clearly see who enters or enters your territory. Therefore, mainly medium and small plants are used.

The traditional way of decorating the area near the porch or gate is with flower beds or flower beds. They may be standard view- only plants different types that create a constantly blooming or greening carpet.

Dwarf trees - unusual and beautiful

You can also follow latest trends in landscape design - to occupy most of the area with decorative gravel or mulch, to plant plants at a distance from each other. except modern look This option is good in that it takes less care of fewer plants, and less money will be spent on the purchase. This will really help to get by with "little blood" if you have just started to embody the landscape design you created for the courtyard of a private house. Too many plants at one time to buy and plant - a lot of money and time is needed. And so, you can add plants in stages, at the same time adjusting the plan along the way.

Track decoration

Having planned the tracks, you still need to choose the material from which they will be made. The standard approach is paving slabs, but it requires a lot of money, although the coating is reliable and comfortable. If finances are tight, you can temporarily. Some of them require little money, but they look great, and they are good in operation.

Along the edge of the paths, you can start up a small shrub - make it undersized. If there is no time to wait until the shrub grows, plant low-growing varieties of flowers. They are different heights, flowers and flowering dates.

The second often built-in option for decorating a place along the paths is flower beds. And, again, they can be made "in a modern way" - against the background of filling with rubble or mulch. This cannot be called rockery, although the idea is taken from there.

Backyard

All the theoretical calculations about the landscape design of the yard were, in fact, about how to equip the backyard. It is this part of the courtyard that is closed from prying eyes and it is here that you want it to be beautiful, cozy and comfortable. We will not talk about planning again, but we will talk about how and what is the best way to pave this area.

If you are planning a paradise in your backyard, you have no problem. Plants, lawns, paths, everything will be planned, how and what to do is clear. But if you want to make a recreation area here, so that you can put a table for the summer, sun loungers - lie in the sun, maybe install a pool? What should be the backyard cover then? There are options:

• Lawn. it great option if the level groundwater low, the soils drain water well or the site is good. If not, there will be puddles, mud, grass problems.

  For some, comfort is tall grass A barbecue area at the far end of the yard is reasonable In the backyard of a private house you can arrange a waterfall, and also a brick barbecue The most natural landscape is possible

• Laying paving slabs or paving everything with flagstones - a good option even for clay soils with high level ground water, easy to care for. But he is too "urban", tough and unforgiving.
• Combine lawn with tiles. Highly the right approach... It is comfortable and beautiful, and there is not so much dirt, and there is where to walk barefoot.

As you can see, there are three options, but there are thousands of ways to implement them, or even more. Different styles registration, various plants, material combinations, furniture, decorations, ponds / fountains / benches / swings. You can't count everything. All this allows you to create your own yard. Individual and distinct from others.

Just a photo

Fencing off the recreation area is an ideal solution for many

Plant selection rules: the highest are near a wall or fence, farther away - lower

The courtyard of a private house with a fountain and a stream - stylish and beautiful

Beautiful paths are not always difficult and expensive

Lounge decking can be planks or planken, a polymer similar to wood.

Retaining walls - difficult and expensive, but unusual and beautiful

In this article we will talk about how the improvement of a summer cottage is carried out. It may seem to someone that the topic is irrelevant, since the suburban area for the majority is associated with a modest change house and garden beds. But actually it is not.

After all, even country houses from a block of containers will be harmoniously combined with a flower bed and other decorative elements.

Features of the accomplishment

The photo shows an excessive number of design elements concentrated in a limited area.

After reading the relevant articles on our portal, you can find out how to plan the territory of a summer cottage for maximum efficiency of its use. We will not return to the basics of planning, but simply talk about how, by applying a number of simple recommendations, you can improve the suburban area.

Important: You think that the decorative design of the territory adjacent to country house, will cost a considerable amount of money?
In fact, this is not the case, since most of the work can be done using the tools at hand and available materials.

Before ennobling the summer cottage, let's decide on the purpose of the territory and, as a result, on the list of upcoming works.

• Is your summer cottage intended not only for growing orchard plantings, but is it also used for recreation from time to time? In this case, you need to make sure that this area is conducive to relaxation and pleasant pastime.
• On average, the arrangement of the territory adjacent to a country house consists of works in the field of landscape design. In addition, the construction or renovation of existing outbuildings, fences, etc. may be required.

Important: Speaking about the full-fledged improvement of the site, we note that it may be necessary to purchase or rent a diesel generator for a summer residence.

On the picture - hedge from cypress

• Having decided to refine the summer cottage with our own hands, we avoid excesses in every possible way, both in landscape design and in the design of outbuildings... Regardless of what is the area of ​​the territory adjacent to a country house, remember that an overabundance of small architectural forms, plantings, pieces of furniture and other elements will create an atmosphere of discomfort and disorder.
• If the dacha is operated only on weekends or during holidays, it makes no sense to plant plants on the site that require constant care ... By abandoning a flowering front garden in favor of shrubs or ornamental low-growing trees, you will greatly simplify the maintenance of the site without compromising its appearance.
• Often in landscape design, one but significant detail is enough to create a vivid and memorable image.... With regard to the design of a summer cottage, it can be a small artificial reservoir or an alpine slide.
• The garden from the recreation area should be separated by a floral, preferably variegated wall.... In this case, having coped with the daily work, in the evening it will be possible to fully relax near the vegetable garden.
  In order to complement the recreation area equipped in this way, you can use wicker furniture that will fit into the overall picture.
• If the cottage is used for long-term residence, you can take care of the disembarkation lawn grass or bush... This is very good decorative solution, but you need to understand that the grass will have to be cut in a timely manner, and the bushes should be cut.
  Therefore, when purchasing grass seeds and shrub seedlings, take care of purchasing a trimmer and pruner.
• A completed and landscaped view of the site will be given by a path lined with stone in place of ordinary paths... As an alternative natural stone you can use bricks or concrete paving stones.
  At all budget decision in terms of arranging paths, the use of backfill from fine-grained crushed stone or pebbles can be.
• When choosing decorative elements for a garden, we must take into account their functionality.
  For example, it would not be entirely correct to buy a beautiful forged bench, which, despite its excellent appearance, is uncomfortable. The same can be said about those that, in addition to being attractive, should illuminate the site.
• If to garden plot adjacent forest, landscape design is advisable to carry out in a forest theme... The absence of sharp contrast and the smooth flow of the forest into the garden will not visually strain and will not cause rejection.
• There is a tendency everywhere when summer residents blindly copy design ideas from glossy magazines... This is not the correct instruction, as the copied idea may not stick to your site. As a last resort, when copying someone's ideas, do not forget to listen to your feelings.

Recreation area arrangement

In the photo - the construction of a gazebo

The recreation area can be comfortable even on a plot of 6 acres. It's all about how you arrange this zone.

For example, on small area you can allocate a place for a covered wooden gazebo. A wooden gazebo is a versatile solution that is equally suitable both for a comfortable pastime in hot weather and for use as a summer dining room.

The use of a gazebo as a dining room is optimal solution in the event that instead of a house, a cramped change house with limited interior space... If it is possible to make a brick gazebo with a profiled sheet roof, then there you can also equip a brazier or a wood stove for use as a summer kitchen.

This solution will unload the main suburban building, which can be used as a bedroom and as a storage room for inventory. However, a good gazebo will not hurt even if there is a full-fledged country house on the site.

Choosing a hedge

In the photo - a fence made of profiled sheet

Answering the question of how to equip a summer cottage with your own hands, one cannot but attach importance to the manufacture of a fence.

A properly made fence is able to perform 2 functions at once, namely, to protect the territory from unauthorized entry and to decorate the summer cottage. If it is being built only as a protective fence, corrugated board can be used.

Corrugated sheets of thin galvanized or painted steel are distinguished by an affordable price and durability. However, such a fence, despite its functionality, cannot be called an example of grace.

If you are interested in aesthetically pleasing but inexpensive fence, you can use a fence made of a chain-link wire mesh. The advantage of this solution is the absolute transparency of the structure, and therefore the plants can be planted right under the fence without fear of lack of sunlight.

Important: A wire mesh fence is an excellent growing base. climbing plants and the formation of hedges.

Wooden hedge made of grooved edged boards Is a great solution. The only problem is the insufficient strength of the wood that has not been specially treated. Therefore, deciding to build a beautiful wooden fence around the site, the boards should be treated with antiseptic solutions and painted after complete drying.

Output

In this article, we have listed several actionable recommendations, using which it will be easier to accomplish the improvement of the suburban area with your own hands.

Of course, in addition to these tips, there are many other points of view regarding the improvement of the territories adjacent to the country house. You can find even more useful and informative information by watching the video in this article.

Gardens and flower beds have long disappeared from the homesteads of dachas. People want to live beautifully, so the question of how to do the landscaping of a summer cottage with their own hands continues to be relevant. Realize your most cherished desires gardening of the site is not so difficult if you get acquainted with the recommendations professional designers, perform preliminary design and study the improvement of the territory, looking at the already finished works.

Many experienced landscape designers, taking on a new project of gardening of summer cottages, carefully ask the owners and write down all their wishes. It is necessary to start with this also for those who dream of ennobling their site with their own hands. Someone will prefer to leave the main space of land for a vegetable garden, someone will part with the beds without regret in favor of a play corner for children.

Determining the starting point can become the basis for a future summer cottage arrangement project. And then the main recommendations from professionals come into force. Let's outline the most basic of them.

• When landscaping a summer cottage, it is useful to preliminarily think over and correctly dock the existing communications, think over the lighting and draw up a plan for the location of large objects (gazebos, playgrounds, garden beds, barbecue areas).
• The next step is to link the objects on the site together with a network of tracks. Their route is best indicated on paper, having previously schematically indicated the location of large objects on it.
• When choosing plants for landscaping, it is necessary to take into account the features of the relief of the suburban area, take into account the compatibility of new plants and those that are already growing on the backyard land.
• Separate decorative elements made of the same material are best used concisely, all in one place. So, for example, stones can become the basis for a structure alpine slide, a wooden saw cut for assembling a light arbor.

Design stage for the improvement of summer cottages

In order for the summer cottage to look holistic and concise, it is important to draw up a landscaping plan before landscaping and implement it on paper, as shown in the photo, for example.

A plan like this helps to visually see how they will be divided and decorated. different zones summer cottage area: entrance area, front area, utility corner, a place for a garden and a vegetable garden, an area for recreation and sports. For greater clarity, it is better to draw each object of landscaping the cottage in detail using pencils different colors... This will allow you to immediately see where the pile of parts has formed, how best to distribute functional areas and refine them with the help of landscaping.

Note! Even at the design stage, you need to take into account the interests of all family members, see how the wind rose is distributed, how the site is oriented relative to the cardinal points.

At this stage, you need to determine with the desire to do artificial pond at your own dacha, lay down a waterfall or lay out a Japanese garden. When all desires take on clear contours, you can start laying paths.

It is not so difficult to draw up a plan for landscaping and arranging a summer cottage on your own, as it seems to the fore. The following instruction helps to simplify the task as much as possible:

• We take a blank sheet of paper and mentally imagine where, what is.
• We designate the cardinal points and use an arc to determine how the sun moves across the area during the day.
• We schematically apply not only buildings to the drawing, but also tall trees, fence, anything that gives a shadow. Don't forget to indicate the height of each object.
• Indicating the movement of the sun and the height of objects will help indicate shadows on open areas dachi (the width of the shadow is half the height of the object casting it).
• In places of full shade zones, you can safely plan the installation of gazebos, benches, garden sculptures.

Note! Where the shade lasts more than half a day, productive plants cannot be planted.

In the toga, you should get a gardening plan for the summer cottage, which will clearly show what, where will be located, where which plant will need to be planted. It is important to plan the arrangement of the site just as the renovation of a city apartment is planned. If you choose a wall on which the TV is to be fixed, there must be an outlet to turn it on.

The process of implementing the plan begins with the preparation of the summer cottage area: it is necessary to get rid of any debris, from dead wood and diseased trees. Then you need to level the site, if planned, create an artificial relief.

The next stage is the creation of the frame of the summer cottage area: the installation of paths, platforms, reservoirs, the installation of an irrigation system and lighting. Only after that you can start landscaping the summer cottage.

Examples of landscaping a suburban area

You can decorate and plant trees in different ways. Experienced designers have a ton of tools in their hands that need to be taken into account by all those who are trying to solve the indicated problem with their own hands.

So, for fencing your own territory, it is best to use concrete structures or permanent brick buildings. Since deaf people almost always look rather dull, they can be decorated with vertical gardening... Then any ordinary fence of the site, as shown next photo, easily turns into a green art object.

The most popular technique for decorating a summer cottage is its gardening. By equipping it, you can turn around and try to implement non-standard solutions... All kinds of flower beds, rabatki, mixborders always become a real decoration of the backyard economy.

For the organization original flower beds designers often use antique items, broken furniture. In some cases, it is enough to make a little effort in order to breathe a second life into some armchair, cabinet or chairs. As practice shows, they make excellent pots for a summer residence.

The area allotted for the garden in the country is also easy to decorate. You can refine the beds in different ways. Someone will prefer to take note of miniature decorative weaving and wooden fences, others will like the idea of ​​planting plants on the roof of a bulk cellar.

He by himself is able to become a decoration of any suburban area. It will be easy to store in it the crops grown right there on the roof. Live gazebos always look beautiful, the walls of which are tall shrubs or tree trunks, the so-called dry streams lined with pebbles, river sand covered with stunted bushes.

Organization of lighting for the suburban area

The organization of lighting for a summer cottage is a difficult issue. And all because it is not always possible to connect to central power supply lines. Helps to solve the problem diesel power station working offline. After its installation, the distribution of lighting devices throughout the suburban area is thought out.

It should be done in such a way that the owners of the backyard farm could move around the entire territory of the garden or vegetable garden at night. Typically, lighting fixtures are installed along walking paths, around the house, other large objects. It is best to invite specialists to install the wiring. He will be able to lay communications on the ground, which can then be safely exploited.

If it is not possible to dig trenches and lay cables on an already green area, you can choose alternative options lighting - lamps equipped with solar panels.

As you can see, it is not so difficult to equip a summer cottage plot with your own hands, it is important to take into account the proposed recommendations and try to apply them when landscaping your own backyard farm.