9 ideas on how to make your garden luxurious

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Looking at glossy magazines with photographs of gardens, we are amazed at their beauty. It seems that our own garden will never be compared to the garden on the cover! There is good news: it is easy to turn the disadvantages of a garden into advantages! We only need ideas on how to do it. So, we create a luxurious garden.

Secret number 1. Realize the uniqueness of your site

Your site is unique. No one else has the same as yours. And from the point of view of a specialist, his disadvantages are just advantages. Features (so-called disadvantages) are, in particular, the features of the relief, shape and illumination of the site. Consider them carefully. If they are minor and really interfering, it is not that difficult to eliminate them. For example, if there is a small hole, fall asleep. What if it's not easy? If it is several "KAMAZ" soil?

If there are deep gullies, depressions, pits on the site, it is not at all necessary to level the ground. In one of these depressions, you can place a decorative reservoir. The rest of the relief irregularities must be visually "smoothed". To do this, it is in such places that a high flower bed of such a size can be built so that it "overlaps" the size of the unevenness, you can make a paved area, or maybe a boardwalk or a bridge that will be mounted on support posts. In addition, you can put a gazebo on a high foundation right here.

Secret number 2. Make a plan for what you want

Make a list of your desires. It is best to do this in a family council and take into account the wishes of everyone. It will be immediately clear what you really need and what you can refuse. After zoning the site. Simply put, determine which zones (parts of the garden) will be located where and how large they will be.

Usually there is a living area (house, summer house, summer kitchen, patio, etc.), recreation areas (gazebo, barbecue area, pond, pool), utility areas (garden, vegetable garden, barn, garage, workshop). The zones need to be marked on the drawing, which can be copied from the documents to your site.

First, draw on it everything (including the shortcomings) that is already on your site. Draw objects on the plan with simple geometric shapes - circles, rectangles of the appropriate size, preferably in color. (Ideally, cut them out of colored paper and move them according to plan). And then mark the location of the desired zones. It will be immediately clear where there are reserves and where what will look especially good.

Secret number 3. Determine the correct locations for future planting

The most common mistake is to buy seeds and seedlings and then plant wherever you have to. Many people forget that when plants grow, their size will change dramatically. Don't make this mistake!

Initially, draw your landings in the drawing with circles of the appropriate size; before that, take an interest in reference books, what size of the crown of the selected trees in adult state and what distance they need when planting.

Secret number 4. Flowers, flowers and more flowers

Nothing decorates a garden like bright colors. Plant more flowers! Of course, you want your luxurious flower beds to be easy to maintain as well! For flower beds of easy care, the ratio of plants of certain groups is very important. The "proportions of success" are as follows: the ratio between perennials and annuals as a whole should be about 60:40, between "light" and "difficult" perennials should be about 80:20, and the percentage between "light" and "difficult" annuals in the flower garden should be around 70:30.

These proportions guarantee you a light and beautiful flower garden, as this ratio gives an excellent effect on the landscape. Everything is present, and this is with a small investment of time for leaving.

Secret number 5. Give your garden another dimension

Organize on the site pronounced "drops" of vertical and horizontal lines. This can be achieved with plants of various heights, paths, steps and podiums, various designs and accessories.

It is also good to use all the possibilities of vertical gardening. Vertical gardening is the best way to disguise and decorate. It is also the most "instantaneous" one, since at least half of the plants for vertical gardening are fast-growing annuals. Vertical gardening is a magic tool for all occasions and for any site.

Secret number 6. Organize seating areas

Firstly, a plot without such corners looks uncomfortable. And secondly, it is simply inconvenient to live on such a site. Even if you have only one, but stylishly furnished rest corner, it means that there is a cozy green “room”, and the garden acquires depth and, as it were, pushes the boundaries. Any recreation area can be created from scratch, or you can re-plan or decorate what you already have.

For example, you can attach an open terrace of an interesting shape to the house, then emphasize this shape with the help of a floral "frame", or even arrange a magnificent flowerbed at the foot of the terrace. It would be nice to partially surround the terrace with trellises for curly flowers. Well, what is not a "green room" in the open air! On this terrace, you need to put beautiful plastic or wrought iron garden furniture, or maybe a rocking chair, and put up a lot of containers with flowering summer houses.

Secret number 7. Highlight accents

Garden accents are bright, memorable details that give style to the garden and make it unique. Accents can be individual objects or small groups of them, group planting of plants and "thematic corners" such as a rock garden or rock garden, as well as individual characteristic, "stylish" plants: it can be flowers, trees or shrubs. Also, accents can be: garden structures, small garden compositions, sculpture, an original accessory, an unusual stone, a lamp, in general, any object related to the garden, but at the same time spectacular, unusual.

Secret number 8. Composition - this is what distinguishes the garden from the cover from the "unsuccessful" garden

The most important thing that should be present in your garden is composition. If the individual parts of the garden are correctly "tied" with each other, then your garden will be a single, integral composition, built according to the laws of harmony. Accordingly, it will be perceived visually as a work of art.

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So, for example, one of the main principles of composition is that the house and the garden must be an ensemble. You can do this at the expense of stylistic moments, that is, keep everything in the same style, or in styles that are combined with each other, as well as by repeating colors, shapes, decoration motives, using the same construction materials in different parts of the garden.

And finally, secret number 9. Experiment, create and don't be afraid

And then you will have a real author's garden - a real luxurious garden!