Garden and vegetable garden design at their summer cottage

At the summer cottage, you can successfully arrange a beautiful garden and neat beds with herbs, berries and vegetables. At the same time, both sites can look like works of landscape art.

Thoughtful landscape design allows even vegetable beds to be made a beautiful addition to a summer cottage. In fact, there is nothing difficult about this, because neat small vegetable gardens have always been part of village houses in France.

On the territory of our country, practicality has always been more appreciated than the decorativeness of the beds, so they did not think about the location of the plants. And if they made any plans, they tried to choose the place in which the plants grow most actively. But now you can fix this situation by making the garden bed part of a neat garden next to a private house.

But your garden will become so convenient and beautiful only if you arrange everything according to the rules. First of all, you need to plan the project of your future garden on paper or on a computer. Explore everything that can affect how your garden will look like - topography, soil type, area lighting, and so on.

For example, orchards and most ornamental flowers grow best in bright, warm sunshine. Therefore, it is advisable to plant them in the southwest or southeast of the site. In the same way, you need to find the right place for your beds.

Another integral part of an ideal plot with a vegetable garden and orchard is neat paths along which you can move around without harming the plants. Tracks can be laid out with different materials. The most common options are concrete slabs, small pebbles, or pebbles. You can also use special paving slabs or bricks. And if you want to create the atmosphere of an abandoned forest on your site, then the trails can be laid out with sawdust.

Many people think that lanes are exactly what to save on. But you should not do this, because the paths will not only make the appearance of your site more neat, but also allow you to zone the territory into separate mini-clubs with different flowers and vegetables, and also simplify the process of caring for your garden and garden.

The correct zoning of the site should also be given special attention. To fit everything at once, you need to divide the entire territory into zones such as the entrance, garden, vegetable garden and recreation area.

• Entrance area - this is the part of the garden that makes the first impression on everyone who comes to visit you. The front area is usually decorated with a neat lawn with green grass and flower beds.

• Further there is an orchard. Most often, orchards are located in the depths of the site. Trying to find some kind of elevation for its location. Fruit trees grow best in unshaded areas.

• Next to the orchard, you can place and recreation area... Trees will give shade in hot weather, and the landscape will delight the eye. A place for rest, depending on the size of the site, can be located in the center of the yard or even adjacent to the building. You can build a beautiful gazebo, a terrace, or simply arrange a table and a few chairs under a canopy.

• Separate should be highlighted place for beds... You can create a classic 2 acres vegetable garden, or experiment with the layout and divide the entire area into several separate segments.On one of them, you can grow aromatic herbs, on the other - young potatoes, and on the third - strawberries, for example. It all depends on your imagination and wishes.
• In a shaded corner of the garden, it is necessary to highlight the so-called economic zonewhere shovels, solutions and other things needed to care for the garden will be stored.

When decorating modern lots like this, you can use low hedges, palisades, stones or bricks for zoning. Green hedges and climbing plant partitions always look much better and prettier.

Landscaping of the site allows you to make it truly lively and beautiful. If you do not have enough contact with nature, and you do not have time to travel either to the forest or to the parks, then you can create a green oasis right at home.

You can organize a beautiful garden or vegetable garden even on the smallest area. If there is no place at all, then you can even arrange greenery on the roof or turn your veranda into a mini-greenhouse.

But in the yard, beautiful greenery and colorful flowers look more natural and organic. On the territory of one site, you can combine a variety of types of plants. The backdrop for your garden can be neat grass or plants weaving on the ground. Flowers of different shades will serve as a bright decoration of the site. On one site, you can combine small violets, and spray roses, and other flowers.

It is necessary to select plants for planting in the country, taking into account not only the characteristics of your site, but also your willingness to engage in gardening. If you have neither the time nor the desire to grow a huge garden, then it is better to pick up green grass for lawns and conifers instead of expensive roses, which will grow by themselves.

To divide the site into separate zones and create cozy corners in your garden, you can use a hedge. A green wall can consist of conifers, climbing plants, or even an original vertical flower bed. True, it will not be at all easy to take care of such a flower garden, although it is definitely worth it.

And if you are not ready to design a complex vertical flower bed, but still want to create something beautiful, then you can plant the plants in a wooden cart or barrel. Such a bed of improvised means looks very original and becomes a real decoration of the site. At the same time, you will spend very little time to make it yourself.

First, don't ignore garden paths. They should be located in a small area, and even more so, in a large area. It is the paths that will facilitate the process of caring for the garden and make walks on their grounds much more enjoyable. After all, you do not have to get to your favorite plants through mud and weeds. If the site is very small, make fewer individual zones and narrow the paths.

It is also important to decide on the types of plants that you will place on your site. If you are new to gardening, then opt for local plants that are easiest to care for. Over time, you will be able to plant a variety of exotic varieties, but it is easier to start with the fact that does not require additional maintenance.

Also, make sure that all the plants you plant are healthy. Always check the expiration date on the seed bags, and check the bulbs and seedlings for cuts or other signs that the plant is damaged. If you grow plants in a greenhouse, then try to provide it with the proper conditions - the right amount of light, polycarbonate walls, an abundance of water and fertilizers. It is the seedlings of the Vedas that are most demanding in care, and so far they cannot resist negative conditions and sudden changes in temperature.

And, of course, do not forget that your site should not be empty at any time of the year. Therefore, choose different varieties of plants that either remain green all year round or bloom in turn, starting in early spring and ending in late autumn.

Regardless of whether you want to divide the site into separate zones, clearly separated from each other, or grow everything together, you can still organize a beautiful garden.

A simple rustic garden will look great next to a Provence, country or rustic house. The main thing is that it looks not like an abandoned garden bed, but like a neat and well-groomed area. The simplest rule that will help maintain a pleasant appearance of the garden is not to plant all the plants mixed.

It is not necessary to divide the beds into segments and fence each of them with hedges, paths or rows of stones. You just need to plant vegetables and herbs in even rows. It will already look neat and attractive. Also try to place plants next to each other that look good together.

The lawn is an integral part of the ideal English garden. The beautiful grass cover hides unsightly bare ground and prevents weeds from growing. The lawn can be a separate part of your garden or a backdrop for other plants.

A mixture of herbs can be used as a background for flowers and bushes. - bluegrass, boulders and fescue. In the summer, your area will be covered with luxurious emerald rugs made from a mixture of all these herbs. It can not but rejoice the fact that you will not spend a lot of money on the design of such a lawn.

The perfect addition to any garden is a colorful flower garden. Here you can show your imagination and combine a variety of plant species. The shape or height of the flower bed may be different. You can decorate the entrance to the garden, the dining area, and any other place on the site with a flower garden. To decorate a flower garden, you can pick up such versatile plants as poppies, delphiniums, irises, basilis and so on. It is best if the plants you choose are neat and perennial, so that you do not have to re-arrange the flower garden every year.

Climbing plants are another perfect garden find. They can be used to decorate the facade of a house or to create partitions. Having made a simple support and planting ivy or bindweed under it, you will get a partition completely entwined with a green plant in a year or two. Even arches or living canopies can be created using wisterias, ornamental beans or other climbing plants. Almost all of these plants are perennial, which means that you do not have to constantly plant new seeds and wait until the former beauty is restored.

This landscape design option may seem somewhat unusual. In addition, you might think that it will take too much time to create such a miracle of nature. But in reality, everything is not so difficult.

A beautiful maze garden is created from simple and not very demanding plants: thuja, juniper or low Christmas trees. It is the conifers that are the easiest to give the desired shape. They can be planted in rows, creating a real maze. True, in order not to get confused yourself, first sketch the diagram on paper and try not to deviate from it.

You can decorate such a garden with figures cut from all the same conifers. Even if you don't have much experience, you can shape the plant into a ball or triangle. And the rows of your labyrinth from the inside can be filled with sawdust or colored sand, so that the paths turn out to be beautiful and comfortable for walking.

All these ideas can be successfully combined with each other, placing on the same site a green hedge, vegetable beds and beautiful flower beds.So you will get from your summer cottage not only aesthetic pleasure, but also practical benefits.

For an overview of the design of a small garden, see the next video.