Landscape design is a subtle art that can transform an ordinary piece of land into a paradise, filled with individuality, tranquility, harmony. In such a place it is very pleasant to relax after a hard working week.
And it's not necessary to be a guru in this direction to make your country site beautiful and comfortable. This is entirely within the power of everyone, just enough to stock up some information about the styles of landscape architecture, the ways of gardening, the arrangement of flower beds and fountains and other factors of territory improvement.
Landscaping in the country
Becoming the owner of a cottage with a plot, you can not immediately think about building a landscape design at your dacha. But over time the look of a dull gray earth with tiny patches of greenery will surely bore you. And the time will come to think about the beautiful.
The first thing you need to do for a beautiful landscape design at the dacha is to draw a plan in which you try to fit all your ideas for improvement. Fortunately, today you can not draw a plan manually, but use special programs that will immediately show you the appearance of the converted site on the monitor screen, so that you personally see how your site will look afterwards.
In the process of creating a plan, do not forget about such an important point as zoning space. Estimate, where you will have a bathhouse, gazebo and other households. building, where the lawn will be located and the resting place will be arranged, and where beds and flower beds will be broken.
It is equally important to immediately outline the tracks, that is, the routes along the site. And let them be not straight, but ornate, slightly curved, then the design will look more attractive and interesting.
When zoning the site, do not forget to take into account all the features of the terrain. Also determine the direction of the wiring of the electrical cable to illuminate the site and buildings, drainage channels, if necessary.
Simple ideas of landscape design in the country
As for the landscape design of the site in the country, the most common elements are the alpine hills, rock gardens, flowerbeds, mixborders. For a forest of beauty, you can think over a small pond on the site. But first things first.
So, the alpine slide. It can be done even on a gray mound of earth and pebbles left after the excavation under the foundation of the house. You can create a full exclusive, creating a multistage slide, combining it with a pond, augmented with a fountain or a waterfall. Decorate the embankment with stones, flowers, evergreen shrubs.
Other green plantings around the alpine hill can be a smooth green lawn or a riot of colors in the form of flower beds and mixborders. Here your flight of fantasy is unlimited - you are free to create real masterpieces. If you doubt and do not have much experience in floriculture, you will be helped by ready-made photographs and advice on arrangement of flower gardens.
Very useful at this stage will be unnecessary items like an old trolley, a broken pot, rubber stingrays. They can be very beautifully "weave" into the flower garden, mixborder, rock garden.
Returning to the question of garden paths, it must be said that there are several options for their arrangement. For example, you can make them using stones, tiles, pebbles, gravel. They will imitate wild forest trails.
But if the road is supposed to have a big load (from the car), it is better to build a race with a firm jellied base and lay the road tiles.
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