Design of a summer cottage with an area of ​​10 acres

How annoying the metropolis is in summer, and how you want to spend a few hours in a cozy dacha. Outside the city, the air is different, and if on ten acres you have not only beds, but also a gazebo, a mini-garden, a children's corner, a small pond, rest in such an environment can be considered a real salvation from the "asphalt" bustle. If you approach the matter practically and prudently, it is quite possible to provide for so many zones in one area.

Let's draw on paper what we want to form in reality. It is necessary to take into account the features of the relief, soil structure, illumination. It is very important to first decide on the main purpose of the dacha.

Having set such a task, it is necessary to allocate space for a house, a bathhouse, a garage on the site, and give everything else for the pleasures associated with being in the fresh air. Depending on your imagination, place a pool near the house, a little farther than a gazebo for feasts, add an original fountain, alpine slides, pergolas for climbing plants. If you like artificial ponds, then by all means plan a pond. And between all this - flower beds, lawns, lawns, playgrounds.

If you are going to use the dacha as a source of vegetable raw materials for winter harvesting, then two-thirds of the area will have to be occupied by beds, a garden, and greenhouses. Moreover, the garden will need a southeast side for good lighting. A small corner will be left for the rest, in which only a bench with a canopy and a flower bed will fit.

This is the most popular solution when there is a place to work and relax on the site. Provide beds for strawberries, dill, parsley. They can be decorated with ornamental shrubs and fruit trees. The rest of the place is given to beauty - they put a gazebo, a chaise longue, dig an artificial lake, complement the picture with vertical compositions of flowers.

When choosing an artistic direction in which you are going to withstand your 10 acres, think if the pomp and coldness of the huge summer cottages that the design minds have been working on does not bother you. Probably, it is better to focus on coziness, comfort, soulfulness.

• The regular style is worth learning. It is simple, tends to neat lines and geometric shapes, assumes an even cut of shrubs, lawns, symmetry in flower beds. A distinctive feature is the well-groomed and inadmissibility of spontaneously grown branches or grass.

• The landscape style is more relaxed. The picture of a natural place dominates. Spreading shrubs, perennial tall flowers, coniferous elements are good for landscaping. A stream or waterfall will highlight the triumph of the natural landscape.
• Many summer residents like the rustic style. The general outline is Provence, retro, nationality motif. Wattle, carts, clay jugs, sunflowers, modest flowers - everything is cute, reminiscent of an old courtyard, where it is so good to get lost and retire.

10 acres is not a small plot, it is quite possible to place both an orchard and a coniferous alley on it.You cannot place trees at random, you need a clear calculation for them, including a forecast for a growing crown, wind rose, soil structure, shade and other aspects. It is customary to plant fruit trees on the north side so that they do not interfere with the sun's rays from illuminating the beds. The height is also "equal" to the north - the smallest specimens are planted on the south side.

Conifers are well suited to achieve a decorative effect. They are unpretentious, can play the role of a green fence, clean the air well and give a lot of imagination to the site decorators. More often than others, landscape designers prefer pine, juniper, thuja.

Thuja is ideal for a variety of compositions. It is only necessary to take into account the characteristics of the varieties: undersized (Danica, Dorrit Little), for hedges (Brabant, Smaragd); for single disembarkation (Kornik, Reingold). These conifers always look solemn, ceremonial. At the same time, they perform the functions of decoration and protection from prying eyes.

In the southern latitudes, summer residents actively use such fragrant flowering shrubs as jasmine, barberry, bulldonezh and others for decorative purposes.

No summer cottage is complete without flowers. Flowerbeds or free "spots" create the feeling of a holiday, an elegant interior. With the correct selection of planting material, you can admire the new open buds from early spring to frost.

If you do not have the opportunity to constantly care for floristic compositions, stop at perennials and bulbous plants. Match them with a range of colors in order to form a multi-colored carpet. However, someone likes single bushes of lilies, irises, crocuses, crocus, it all depends on the own preferences of the owners of the site.

If you think over the arrangement of perennial flowers well and dilute them with annuals in an original way, you have a chance to give yourself a real riot of colors and an "explosion" of inspiration.

Designers offer the following options for planting flowers. A strip located like a lawn border. Stonecrop, pelargonium, purse, decorative silvery wormwood look unusually for such a "finish"

The curb is a kind of "fence" along the lawn. You can use ageratum, marigolds, dwarf low-growing asters. Mixborders are becoming more and more fashionable - these are multi-level flower beds, on which flowers are selected so that they bloom all the time.

Interesting options for decorating a summer residence are provided by vertical gardening. It has a second important function, a practical one. With the help of correctly positioned climbing plants, you can "drape" a gazebo or hide an ugly facade.

An unrivaled option for living garlands on gazebos, verandas, pergolas is clematis. This amazing plant has an endless variety of shapes and colors. The branches of clematis are intertwined so tightly that they ideally protect from the scorching rays, and even from the rain.

A pleasant, soothing range of petals uniquely sets off other flowers planted against the backdrop of vertically decorated arches or a rock garden. True, in central Russia, clematis can create excessive moisture in the soil by itself and get wet, so you should not place this amazing variety on the northern, cool walls.

Clematis needs an eye and an eye. It grows and unravels very intensively, and if you do not follow its pruning, you can "lose" under the branches of the window or even the door of the veranda or porch. But in a well-groomed form, clematis is beautiful, no other plant can compete with it in terms of the showiness and brightness of the appearance of vertical gardening.

Although many summer residents also like more modest landscape design options.They believe that hops, ornamental grapes, as well as bright sweet peas, ornamental beans also confirm the delicate artistic taste of the owners of 10 acres.

Perhaps an alpine slide, as well as a stone structure imitating a rock, rockery, are the most exotic and attractive elements of your site. They emphasize the pristine nature, and if you wish, you can make them yourself.

It is best to place these structures next to a seating area, then your eye will always rest on beauty while drinking a cup of tea.

It is necessary to take into account the specifics of several important steps:

• You need to start by creating drainage, otherwise groundwater can ruin all your plans. A deepening of 40 cm is made in the soil, into which expanded clay or sand of coarse-grained fractions is poured.
• Lay natural stone. It is better that the stones have an uneven surface, then they look more like wild ones. It makes no sense to adhere to any symmetry here. Everything should resemble a mountainous landscape, and for an alpine slide, granite mixes with cobblestones chaotically. The openings between them are filled with soil, which must be allowed to rest for several days.

• Rockery is easier to "fold". Here the stones can be monotonous. A pond or waterfall will look good nearby.
• On a hill or in a rockery, it is more practical to plant plants that do not require special care. Hygrophilous flowers are also suitable for decoration.
• If you decide on a pond, then an extraordinary solution will be to supplement it with water lilies. It will not be easy to grow water lilies, but imagine how such a zest of the dacha will shock your guests.

Any body of water will be an excellent component of landscape design. As a rule, a pond, a lake, a waterfall are the semantic center of the site. Therefore, they are placed in the most picturesque point of the garden. Although some people like streams or fountains on the green lawn.

Those who do not have time to devote themselves to creating a complex structure from scratch can buy a ready-made artificial reservoir. It is a large water container made of plastic and metal elements.

The most enthusiastic summer residents lay out the cascade on their own. Here you need to dig a pit, border it with natural stones. Then set about creating elevation differences so that the water flow gently flows downward.

Fans of the noise of water and the effect of splashes that crashed on stones should calculate everything so that the streams are directed between the boulders. Here it is still better to entrust the business to professional builders and designers.

In addition to the pond and the cascade, the garden makes a paradise with an artificial stream. Its bed is laid out by landscape artists in such a way that dams and rapids appear - that is, the stream was murmuring. When he goes around the alpine slide, rockery, gazebo, you will feel an amazing state of bliss from the contemplation of living water and the perception of the music of its jets.

Adherents of special innovations on 10 acres have already successfully tested the springs. Due to different nozzles on the water conduit, it is easy to change the modes of the spring. A graceful geyser or a calm bell will embody the strength and energy of this reservoir. In general, a spring is an artificial container with water hidden underground. The principle of operation is a closed cycle. Water is thrown out by the spring using a pump, and then drains into the accumulator.

The optimal place for building a gazebo on the site is a shady hill. Near it is logical to break a rose garden, flower beds, you can put plants in pots and pots. If there is a desire to cover the gazebo with greenery, special gratings should be provided. Everything should work for solitude and pacification.

Gazebos are built from different materials. Many ready-made designs are available for sale. The most environmentally friendly material is wood. The roof is often made of shingles. It is better to lay the floors from stone - the most durable option.

An important functional and decorative role is played on the track section. Their directions, on the one hand, zoning the territory, on the other, laying a route through attractive summer cottages.

A very practical place in modern suburban areas is the barbecue area. This is an outdoor cooking area. It is better to cover the barbecue and barbecue area with a canopy.

For fire safety reasons, it is not necessary to locate the area near the house. A distant free space will suit her.

Gone are the days when people came to their 10 acres only to weed the beds. Now, many in the season permanently live in country houses and turn them into a family vacation spot. You can achieve coziness, design a summer cottage as a territory of comfort on your own.

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