Make your own landscaping suburban area is easy. Observing a few rules, you can even turn an ordinary country house into a wonderful garden with your own hands.

The content of the article

• How to get started
• Do-it-yourself landscape design from coniferous trees
• Making a design with waste materials
• We make flower beds
• How to plant a lawn with your own hands
• How to equip the entire garden area
• Design plots of various sizes
  • Landscape design for 5 acres
  • Landscape design for 10 acres
  • Landscape design for 12 acres
  • Landscape design for 20 acres

How to get started

More recently, some 15-20 years ago, the summer cottage was only a place for planting vegetables and berries. They came there to weed, water and collect a bountiful harvest, which was certainly preserved, salted or pickled. A rare piece of land was not planted with "useful" plants. There were few flowers and ornamental plants, they were planted just in front of the house or along the walkway; landscape design was out of the question.

But not all gardeners sought to harvest only a big harvest. There have always been gardeners who designed the original flower gardens, which involuntarily attracted the eyes of passersby, were admired by their neighbors. Apparently, such people began to actively “introduce” into our consciousness new design ideas on the improvement of the summer cottage. Gradually, the craving for beauty began to wake up in every summer resident.

Today, almost every site owner wants to have at least a small recreation area in his garden, decorated with original plants, flowers, a picturesque pond or an alpine slide.

Looking at the photo of some landscape design, the average person will decide what to do to himself is unrealistic. But if you follow the saying “the eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing,” then you can gradually arrange your site fairly decently.

The main stages of work:

• think about what we want and where we will put it all
• засеять lawn;
• pick up the plants.

You can arrange a gazebo, a barbecue area, a pond or an alpine slide. At some sites there is a place for all of this, and someone will have to restrict a couple of elements.

IMPORTANT! The lawn is an obligatory part of landscape design, simple weed grass looks untidy, it will break the harmony of the whole exhibition.

Do-it-yourself landscape design from coniferous trees

For the improvement of our country house without fail need to take some evergreen trees. Thuja, yew, juniper and cypress have already become favorite satellites (it is suitable only for warm climates). They do not grow too high, so they will not create a large shade, they can be given any shape with the help of scissors. Having landed them around the perimeter, we get an excellent hedge. These trees ideally fit into any flower garden, decorate the alpine hill. If the site has a wide path, along it can be located bushes of thuja or juniper.

Rules for planting and caring for conifers:

• Such trees can be planted in autumn or early spring.
• The soil should consist of peat, sand and sod.
• Seedlings need to be watered well.
• Planting several trees, leave between them at least 1.5 m.
• Young plants require feeding with mineral fertilizers.
• In winter, conifers up to 5 years old should be covered.

It happens that thuja starts to turn yellow after disembarkation. This happens when bad soil, root damage or sparse watering occurs.

Read more about coniferous landscaping.

Making a design with waste materials

The figures made of improvised means or unnecessary things look very nice in the country. Also The original furniture decorated with a flower shelf looks like an original.

What seems to be rubbish at first glance can be easily turned into a wonderful interior detail by connecting a little imagination. It is difficult for a home-grown designer to immediately come up with something or translate his ideas. Then tips from experienced masters and photos of their works can help.

What will we use?

We will need:

• plastic bottles, large and small;
• old dishes (kettles, pots);
• tires
• boxes, etc.

For crafts you need to stock up with multi-colored paint and glue. And, of course, you need patience!

We make flower beds

What is the secret of a beautiful flower bed? How to plant flowers so that from spring to autumn the look of the site is bright?

Landscape designers have come up with several ways to design flower beds:

• Rabat;
• border;
• mixborders.

Rabatka call a strip of flowers bordering a lawn. Often it is planted in parks where there are large lawns. Rabatka can be made in one, two or several flowers, use flowers of different heights, forming a “ladder”.

Border - This is the usual planting of plants along the path. To do this, take annuals or perennial flowers. But the best looking clinging, densely growing varieties. Considering how to arrange flowers effectively in the country, it is better to choose for the border and the main composition of the plant of different shades.

mixborders – это клумба, состоящая из самых разнообразных цветов, высаженных группами. Суть ее создания в том, чтобы сочетать не только яркие контрастные тона, но и растения, цветущие в разное время. mixborders должен цвести всегда!

To achieve this is not easy. To create such a miracle, you need to work more than one season.

We arrange flowers in the order of seasonal flowering. Divide the flower bed into three main parts. Each of them should consist of plants that bloom in spring, summer and closer to autumn.

What to look for in the design of flower beds
	1 part	Part 2	3 part
Spring	crocuses	japonica	spire of arguta
Summer	daffodils	hyacinths, tulips, primroses	peonies, marigolds, delphiniums
Autumn	dahlias	aster, rudbeckia	goldenrod

Video about creating flower beds with their own hands

To create such a mixborder, you need to strain yourself! But then you can enjoy continuous flowering all season.

How to plant a lawn with your own hands

As we said the lawn is a basis from which we will make a start. There are several types of lawns. For beginners, it is better to make universal, it does not require serious care and is quite suitable for any purpose. And the main goal is beauty, accuracy and convenience for rest.

If the land where the lawn is planned is clean, it will need to be digged, leveled, rammed, and then sown with seeds. From above they need to be covered with dry earth so that the birds do not peck.

Very often, the desire to equip the lawn appears and when the cottage is built for a long time, and I want to finally select and decorate a corner for recreation. Usually there is a place where the company is constantly going, grilled kebabs and there are sun loungers. The grass grows there with scraps, nobody touched it for many years, and the earth has already been heavily rammed.

This is a "hard" case for a novice landscape designer.

First of all, we get rid of weeds once and for all!

Now for this, chemicals are used, which weed weed, and then dug. Substance penetrates to the roots, and the plant dies. After this procedure, the soil should rest for at least 2 weeks.

Those who deny any gross interference in the affairs of nature, you can simply uproot the grass from the ground and wait until it starts to germinate again. After 3-4 weeks, the newly emerged shoots are again removed and carefully dug up. The soil should be loose, without lumps. Before digging, it is advisable to add mineral fertilizers. They will help new young grass grow quickly and gain strength.

Then we sow a site a lawn grass. We choose a universal lawn mix. Why does it suit us?

Advantages:

• unacceptable in the ear;
• normally withstands shade and lack of moisture;
• frost resistant.

Note! Get a good lawn is unlikely to succeed. We'll have to work a couple of seasons.

Until the cultivated grass has grown, it will be necessary to constantly remove weeds, otherwise they will “clog” the young. It may be necessary to seed the areas where the seeds have been pecked by the birds, or for some reason it has not grown.

But having gone through all the difficulties, it will be possible to walk annually barefoot on a thick lawn.

Care rules:

• We mow in dry weather (wet grass is difficult to mow evenly).
• We do not give much to grow (it will be difficult to align).
• Water during the drought (but do not fill!).

How to equip the entire garden area

We know that there are many ways to transform a boring garden or an empty plot. You can add a flower garden or an alpine slide to a free space in front of the house, or you can completely redraw the whole plan and arrange everything beautifully. Here the house and the bath stand in their places, there are beds, greenhouses, but I want something else. After all, we have seen how interesting and picturesque some craftsmen equip their weave.

To begin with, we will decide what we would like and what we can afford.

There is a place for a decorative pond - great! Is there a barbecue place? Even better! Well, let's not forget about the design of the site with plants, they will be the solo for the whole season.

In the store for the garden and the garden we purchase a tank that will serve as an artificial reservoir. Under it in the chosen place we dig a hole. Be sure to plant low-growing ground cover plants and flowers around the pond. In the water you can plant a toy frog, duck or swan. They can make their own hands or buy.

Near the pond it would be nice to arrange a gazebo and a place for barbecue. If you do not want to make a stationary gazebo, you can pull up an awning, place a table and chairs under it, and put a brazier nearby.

All corners for recreation, playgrounds sow lawn grass.

Be sure to decorate the path with a border of flowers and select a place for mixborder, albeit small. Coniferous trees of various shapes and sizes will be placed next to it, as well as throughout the site. They still give some special style of landscape design! Without them, it seems incomplete.

Well, of course, you can not plant trees and shrubs near the brazier, they will turn yellow and dry.

If there is a fence, it can be entwined with wild grapes or beans.

On a spacious plot it is easy to find a place for the famous alpine slide, the blue dream of every summer resident.

Key design points:

• lawn;
• mixborders;
• coniferous plants;
• small architectural forms (decorative ponds, arbors, various figures).

Design plots of various sizes

Landscape design for 5 acres

Yes! Although he is small, but his! And on five acres I want comfort!

Just want to point out what can not be done in small areas.

• No need to put a high fence
• Refrain from planting pine or spruce
• Do not try to squeeze everything you like.

The area enclosed by the fence seems even smaller. It will more resemble a cage.

Any fence can be planted with vines, they will smooth out the borders and serve as an additional decoration.

Pine or spruce sooner or later grow and will create a big shadow. On the whole, it will occupy a lot of valuable space.

With only 5 acres of land, it is best to make a large lawn and plant small bushes and islets of various colors.

Landscape design for 10 acres

This area allows you to place more useful objects.

In addition to the house, bath, parking space for the car, this will include a children's pool and a cozy gazebo. You can leave space for fruit trees and shrubs, as well as a greenhouse and beds here.

But in this area you still have to set priorities and focus on either the garden or the recreation area.

Landscape design for 12 acres

Having bought a new plot, one should always think over in advance not only the development plan, but also the design. Determine where you will gather with friends, in which place you will organize a playground, how many places will be occupied by landings.

12 acres is not 10, and on additional meters you can put a swing and even a trampoline. If there are no children, then a tennis table or a couple of alpine slides will not hurt.

Some people like the free space, clean lawn and beautiful shrubs around the perimeter. At any time there you can put something or plant.

Landscape design for 20 acres

On the one hand, such a site is good, because it fits almost everything your heart desires. But, on the other hand, it is very important to correctly distribute all functional zones, so that there is no sense of desolation or chaos.

By purchasing this amount of land, we hardly plan to plant it all with potatoes. Therefore, we need a clear plan of arrangement. We must understand what we will occupy each segment of free space.

The area allows you to separate the divided plot with hedge (thuja, juniper). Fruit trees and shrubs can be planted along the fence.

In the middle of the site you can equip a large stationary pool, and everything else is located around it.

Any free space should have a well-groomed appearance. Let it be a regular lawn, but without trash and weeds.

Special attention should be paid to the tracks. They can be laid out with stone blocks, stone or wood. Along it you can arrange small lamps that will effectively burn at night.

When creating your site design, count your strength. Let the care of the cottage brings only pleasure.