Do -it -yourself decoration with your own hands: zoning, landscaping of the site. Decorating garden jewelry

The owners of suburban sections of worries are three times more than that of city residents: they need to think not only about beauty and order in the house, but also that he looks worthy outside, so that it is pleasant to be in the yard. Let’s talk about decorating the garden and yard with your own hands in this article, because not everyone has the opportunity to use the services of a landscape design specialist for this.

Beautiful plot with flower bed, pool and recreation area

Zoning the site

First of all, you need to think about how you want to see your site, what must be on it, and what you can refuse.

• Older people probably do not represent a suburban life without a greenhouse and several country beds with vegetables and herbs. They need a garden.
• Young families with children need a place for a playground and an inflatable pool.
• If you come to the cottage to relax with friends, you need to take care of the barbecue area, country awnings or arbors in which you can put a table and chairs. About a bath or sauna.
• Active people who play sports will want to have a convenient site for classes or a small football field here.
• It is also impossible to imagine a cottage or country house without fruit trees, decorative shrubs and flowers, for which you also need to find a place.

Rest zone, pond, flower beds and lawn

If the site is large, you can place everything at once, even dig up an artificial pond and run carps into it. If these are standard 6 acres, something will have to be sacrificed-either the most functional zone or its size.

How to beautifully highlight the zones

Do -it -yourself jewelry for the garden and dachas – this is not only swans from car tires or borders from plastic bottles. Such things, of course, are admired by the fantasy and skill of the author, but they look artisanly and low -aesthetically.

Pay attention. Do not equip the playground with homemade jewelry and inventory made of rubber tires.
In the sun, they decompose, secreting substances harmful to health into the air.

To visually and actually separate different functional zones from each other, it is better to use the following ideas:

• Live hedges, rabbits, bushes or perennials planted along the border, climbing plants on trellis, pergoles, arches. You do not need to be a professional gardener in order to read about the types and properties of different plants, to purchase home seedlings (or grow them independently from the seeds) and plant them in a certain place.
• Fences. It can be a low wooden picket fence, and a wicker hedge, and a fishing network stretched between the supports. The main thing is that the fence corresponds to its purpose and the general style of the site. Thus, you can separate the yard from the garden or fenge the playground so that children can be left for a short time unattended.

Whole wicker will decorate a village -style plot

• Paths and paths. The easiest way to zone the garden, breaking it into sections with paths. Smooth concrete stripes are boring and uninteresting. Create a real jewelry for the garden and the garden with your own hands, laying out paths from saws of trees, cobblestones, large river pebbles or a home -made paving stones. For its manufacture, only forms and a solution of concrete are needed, in which you can add pigments to give tiles of color.

Natural stone

Advice. Think over the lighting of those zones that are actively used in the dark.
In addition to electric lamps, you can use solar panels.

Landscaping and decoration

It is impossible to imagine the territory of a private house or cottage without decorative plants. How to choose them and where to plant?

Blooming courtyard

Before you go to the nursery for seedlings or to the store for seeds, draw for yourself an approximate plan of the site indicating the zones, sunny and shady areas. Think about where to plant the trees, and where you break the flower beds.

Decide in advance to plant species, taking into account their height in adulthood, the degree of resistance to climate, soil requirements and lighting.

Advice. The instructions on packaging with seeds and seedlings usually contain the main requirements for cultivation of culture.
Read it carefully before buying.

• Trees. Their number and location depends on the size and geography of the site. For example, if it is small and exposed to winds, plant trees around the perimeter. The garden of impressive sizes will be decorated with point plantings that create natural shadow areas in the recreation area, near the artificial reservoir.
• Shrubs. They are very diverse. Some, thanks to rapid growth and density, are able to replace hedges and borders, others will decorate the courtyard, delighting you with decorative foliage or bright colors.

Blooming shrubs – a real miracle

• Flowers. If you want to enjoy them from early spring to late autumn, choose perennials with different flowering terms.
• Cereals. These are not only original decorative crops, but also lawn herbs. It is not as easy to grow a lawn with your own hands as it seems, but the result is worth it. You can go in a simple way and buy a roll lawn. Its price is much more expensive, but it requires less care, especially if it takes root well in a new place.
• Potter plants. They can decorate a completely wiped yard or lawn. Dwarf trees in tubs, flowers in flowerpots, climbing plants in suspended pots can be periodically rearranged by changing the decor of the site. But for the winter, such perennials must be entered into the house.

Garden jewelry

To make your site beautiful and original, it is not at all necessary to purchase in stores expensive garden sculptures, furniture, flowerpots and other decor items and functional purposes. All this can be done independently.

So, we decorate the garden with our own hands from improvised materials.

• Garden furniture. You can make it from the residues of building materials, and weave from the vine, and build old trees from the trunks and saws. There are many options, choose the one that is closer and more accessible to you.

Such interesting and convenient things can be made from the remains of plastic pipes

• Decorating flower beds. You can enclose a flower bed with concrete or plastic curbs purchased in a store. But it will look much more interesting if you decorate it with your own hands, using, for example, a lane stone or a low wicker. The choice of material depends on the general style of the garden. Flowers planted in old watering lines, samovars, cast iron or even stopped boots look very unusual.
• Barrels and containers. Each garden or garden has large watering containers. Rusty metal barrels do not look at all aesthetically pleasing, they need to somehow be decorated. For example, coloring, turning it into cheerful eye characters.

Advice. If you like a more restrained style, then just paint the container for metal paint, then lay out beautiful leaves and stems along its walls and spray with a paint with a spray can on top.
Then, carefully remove the plants.

In the photo – an example of such decoration

• Arches and pergola. In our lane, such perennial vines as hops, girlish grapes, actinidia grow very well. Using them, you can realize the original ideas of jewelry for the garden with your own hands. For example, arrange arches above the central path, make a green gazebo or a canopy over the bench for relaxation. The frame can be any of the same plastic pipes, wooden bars or metal reinforcement. When he is overgrown with vines, it will not matter.

Green gazebo from willow rods

• Figures and sculptures. It is absolutely not necessary to be a sculptor to decorate the site with interesting decorative figures. You can use special forms in which the solution is poured. But you can do much easier. For example, to make original mushrooms, simply fill with foam plastic bottles (legs) and old basins and bowls (hats). When it dries, remove the shape, cut the excess, connect the parts with a thick wire and paint with facade paints.
• Stone jewelry. If you love and know how to draw, a large boulder can turn into a cat rolled with a ball or green crocodile on the shore of an artificial reservoir. If you don’t know how, try to create less complex garden jewelry with your own hands from stone. Everyone will be able to depict a hedgehog, a turtle or God’s cow on it.

Stones as a decor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxjtwxezswa

With sculptures and figures, the main thing is not to get carried away, otherwise the entire site will turn into a playground.

Conclusion

There are so many opportunities for decorating a suburban site that they cannot be described in one article. Decorations can be wells, wooden carts, old dried trees and snags, troughs dug into the ground, home -made feeders and birdhouses. You will find a few more examples by watching a video in this article.