Landscape design can help solve any, including even the most complex problem. Problems can be very different - from the presence of groundwater, ground features, terrain and to light (excessive or inadequate).
Plus to this - the objects that are on the territory, which can not be called decorative - spilled or old dried trees, compost heaps, sheds and so on.
You can not get rid of the compost heap, because the garden site requires its availability. Plants can not exist without mineral fertilizing. Without such unattractive objects on the garden plot, economic activities are not possible.
The best option is to apply decorating techniques, they visually hide the "problematic" places in your garden area or help make such objects a work of design art.
Ideas for improving the garden plot
1. When the garden is dark
It happens that the buildings of neighbors or your buildings block access to the sun's rays. The best solution is to repaint with light paint all the structures that are on the garden plot. You can repaint and fence, all this will create greater illumination, and visually expand the space.
When planting a plot, actively use plants with variegated foliage. Material for the tracks choose light gray or beige. If there are sculptures in the garden area, they should have a metallic luster or be white.
2. If the site has pits, depressions, gullies
It is not necessary to level the soil to improve your site - you can use all the irregularities of the garden plot surface. For example, from a deep ditch or pit you can make an artificial reservoir, which in the summer heat will delight you with its freshness. In the place of the promenade you can make a bright high flowerbed. In place of the cavity, you can make a bridge with fastenings on pillars-supports or a paved platform.
3. If in the garden - sharp corners, "dead ends", narrow passages
Use in the design of rounded shapes and diagonals. Create a playground for recreation or games of oval or round shape. Your assistants will be decorations in the form of a ball or fixtures with round shades. The steps are best done rounded. In dead ends, garden mirrors are irreplaceable, they will create the appearance of a dead end. Plants can mask the boundaries of bottlenecks.
4. Deaf fences
Such fences do not bring any aesthetic pleasure. To "revive" the fence, you can use painting, hanging containers with flowers, vertical landscaping. In the fence you can lay out niches and put benches or attach a barbecue, a pergola.
5. If in some place is not an aesthetic appearance
It is possible to make a high construction from the mesh of Rabinets, it will close the required object, and on it you can start climbing plants. The cabinet for the gas cylinder can also be decorated with some curling plant.
Compost pile can be masked with a screen of tall grassy plants, logs, shrubs. It can be beautifully flowering plants (such as delphinium, decorative sunflower or foxglove), and plants with decorative leaves (for example, kohia), and vegetables (rhubarb, corn). A classic technique is to plant a compost pile of nasturtium or a pumpkin that will turn it into a real flower bed.
Barrels used for watering the garden, or, which are set under the drainpipes, can be decorated with painting. Good looking barrels under the drain, which are painted in the color of the house, and the pattern to apply that paint, which painted the roof, or vice versa. An old tub or barrel, in which water is stored for irrigation, can be painted, or laid out with a mosaic of tile or stone.
A working table in the garden is necessary, and if buckets, garden tools, building materials are stored under it, you can hide them behind a curtain made of a shower curtain or oilcloth so that the fabric does not get wet.
What can be done to transform the site now?
At the end of July to August, you can take up the following ideas:
- make interesting containers for planting plants. You can also transplant the perennials grown from seeds or plant seedlings with seeds - for example, a variety of calendula, which can still grow and blossom. These containers can be decorated, it all depends on your imagination. Materials can be different - from laser discs to shells. Save them for the winter - the next year they will be useful to you;
- to create a garden screen, it will provide you with a shady corner on hot sunny days. The screen is a wooden frame on which you can put any material. It can be from cane and reeds, collected on the nearest lake, from cloth, from a grid, decorated with colored rings. The screen can be weaved from a white, thick rope and decorate it with asterisks and seashells.
- Decorate the garden furniture, because in July and August at the cottage often served dinners in the fresh air. Furniture can be decorated with decoupage, paint, or make yourself.
- to work on lighting the garden - to find in the garden "narrow" places, where in the evenings it will be dark, and illuminate them with the help of street lamps, or decorate the lampshades with stained-glass paints.
Now we know what ideas can be implemented to improve your garden site.