It happens that the garden was created according to all the rules, but something is missing for the general harmony. Try to change the situation with the help of accents – bright and memorable details that can make your possessions unique. Correctly placed accents will emphasize the uniqueness and uniqueness of your site to update the garden, it is not necessary to make radical changes at all, you can do with low blood – correctly arrange accents that emphasize the uniqueness and uniqueness of your site. Such an important mission can be entrusted to garden structures, original lamps, unusual garden furniture, thought out group landings, or even at all – separate corners like a mountaineering or a kindergarten of mosses. And of course – spectacular plants: flowering perennials, trees with an unusual shape or color of the crown and extraordinary shrubs. Why? The role of accents is not only to draw attention to the garden. Bright details can solve other important problems of the design of the site: zone space, add color nuances, emphasize the uniqueness of the relief and interesting architectural solutions. And – successfully disguise the shortcomings! To arrange garden accents is an incredibly exciting game, during which you can show individuality and realize creative fantasies. On the “brutal” section of the garden, decorated with stones, bright flowers are an effective emphasis, the main thing is the good idea, of course, it is more difficult to “invent” it than to follow the canons, but in this case you create canons! It’s simple to feel “our theme”: we all subconsciously gravitate to certain “landscapes”, we only need to catch our own mood and “arrange” it with plants and objects. How much? On the site, whatever it is – large or small – should not be more than 4–5, and better – 1-3 accents. Moreover, the size of these elements should not be proportional to the size of the site: on a very small area it is more appropriate to create a large emphasis, otherwise the garden will look “flat”. And in the vast majority, the emphasis is a fairly noticeable, not a miniature detail. The emphasis is a fairly noticeable, and not a miniature detail where? Place the emphasis where it will be noticeable. For example – against the background of a gazebo or flower garden, on the border of the garden zone or – on the front lawn, which is visible from all points of the garden. By placing emphasis in the garden, follow the rule: they will be more appropriate where it is best to choose how to choose? There are three basic principles for this: similarities, contrast and expressiveness. For example, using the likeness, you can make a beautiful bend of the path more expressive, duplicating it with a chain of garden lamps. Or emphasize the round shape of the flower garden, including a spherical thuja in it in addition to flowers. As for the contrast, the shade of the textured, “monumental” plant with the plantings of elegant cereals. Well, an expressive, original large container with flowers will emphasize any part of the garden. The main advantage of the accents is diversity: you can change them and have a newly single plant-forming of the garden favorably emphasize a beautiful coniferous plant, a figure-trimmed shrub, an interestingly formed tree-a weeping birch or goat of willow. This role is suitable even an ordinary Kleshchevina, which is often called Baobab near Moscow. Publications will help you to realize these ideas:
- Plastic of prickly beauties: how to cut your Christmas tree unusual
- Topiars with their own hands. Methods of formation. Necessary tools
- Blackets of deciduous wood for giving
- Black coniferous for the summer cottage
- How to grow a “palm tree” on the site in one season
Important: any plant is suitable for the role of an accent, if it is distinguished by originality – has a non -standard shape of the crown, a spectacular shape or color of leaves. Sometimes there are unexpected, even curious options – for example, an ordinary plantain that resembles a host in size, is able to act as an accent if you choose the right place for it. Group planting of a pans of annie eye from almost black with a “companion” – a mirror ball; A bush of groundcover rose with bright red flowers against the background of a stone obelisk … All these compositions are able to make the garden at least unusual. The accents not only decorate the site, but also zoning the garden space – create a cake – a basket of green -flowered gladioli or a “flower garden”, where salads or decorative cabbage live. What are they, stylistic dominants of the garden? Various! There will be no focus in the form of a garden of mosses or stones, a small mountain climbing. The garden collection of entertained flower growers who do not recognize any sculptures or figures on the site should create a “fashionable collection”. Choose what you like: alpine plants, miniature conifers, dairy giant dahlias or rare varieties of tulips, and form spectacular flower beds from them. This will be your author’s topic, a “highlight” in the garden. The “business card” of your garden can be a wonderful collection of various conifers there is another option – to devote your garden to a particular plant. For example, make a rose garden: cover a gazebo and a garden width-net with climbing roses, plant miniature and ground cover varieties on an alpine slide, and decorate the front part of the site with bush. You can choose rose seedlings to solve this interesting problem on our market by comparing the offers of different online stores. An appropriate accent for the Garden of Stones will be a magnificent standard rose, the tenderness of which will shade the clearing of white gravel. Add perennials and year olds to the ensemble, which will make a worthy retinue of the queen of flowers: plants with colorful and silver foliage, gypsophilus, dolphiniums, phloxes, lilies, decorative bows, hostinidia, decorative cereals. Another way to “beat” the collection is to arrange a garden, and the inhabitants of the flower beds will be precious exhibits in it. Here there will be a place for galleries, sites, and catwalks – they will symbolize the “halls” of the museum. “Pictures” will be all kinds of compositions from the plants of your collection. Some of them, like real picturesque work, can be enclosed in frames. On the left: any plant that has spectacular crown, color or shape of leaves and flowers can become a real highlight of your garden. On the right: enter into beautiful frames in the beautiful frames, and they will resemble the work of great painters and individual trees and shrubs will play the role of sculptures, especially those that have an unusual shape of the crown, a bizarre form of the barrel, and topiary. Another opportunity to demonstrate a garden collection is to arrange a monosad. These are not only compositions consisting of one plant, they can rather be called the compositions of “one idea”. Examples? Please! For example, a flower garden, consisting of different plants with flowers of all shades of yellow: calendula, marigolds, nasturtiums, yellow zinnia, decorative sunflower. Examples of such “monochrome” gardens and plants for their creation are in publications:
- Set the sun in the garden: plants with flowers and yellow leaves
- Violet fantasies: plants for a flower garden in a fashionable color scheme
- Lilac fog: Choosing companions for the heroine of the season
- Green “Ten”: the most beautiful plants with green flowers
- Magic of color and flowers. All the colors of the garden for good mood and well -being
In the same way, a monosad of miniature conifers is compiled. And a monosad of ordinary summer people (qiniraria, marigolds, valley) can even be voluminous if you make a figure out of plants – for example, a hedgehog. We give ideas
- Beautiful large stones, best boulders are a stylish accent, especially if they have an interesting shape and unusual color. Such “cobblestones” can be varnished to create a “wet” effect, or they can be painted and painted.
Stones – stylish accent
- An accent can be an original dried tree or an unusual man-made structure-for example, a dressing table.
- A decorative gate can be made from a lattice from an old sewing machine.
- Flowering sunshine is a fashionable novelty that will be out of competition.
- A giant container in the form of an ordinary terracotta pot gives an impression due to a combination of the usual shape, but unusual size.
- Well, a beautiful bird feeder is an example of a small accent.
- Small volumetric sculptures can be built from sea pebbles: an apple, fungus and even a “toy” castle – you will get a real work of art!
Text: O. Voronova. Photo: fotodom.ru. Read also:
- Essay on a given topic: the concept of garden design
- How to arrange a garden according to the rules of composition
- Garden Decor: The choice dictates temperament
- 15 ideas for updating the garden
- Zoning of the site using partitions and conditional boundaries
- Small, but remote! Small architectural forms in garden design
- Furniture fantasies: unusual objects of garden setting with your own hands
- According to the laws of beauty, or the secrets of a successful landscape composition
- Plants for the heather: the subtleties of selection of the assortment for an unusual composition
