Seven trendy garden ideas

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

The world now and then embraces a fascination with different types of garden - in fashion that clear, as if drawn graphically paths, violent African "pampas" or exquisite garden masterpieces of the pseudo-Victorian era. Let us turn to the "hits" of the coming summer for the summer cottage garden.

1. "Wild" garden

For the third year in a row, specimens of the "wild" garden have become a hit at garden design exhibitions. This direction is "sick" now all over the world. Moreover, the size of the garden does not play a special role here, the main thing is to achieve harmony in what at first glance seems to be chaos. The bottom line is to create the most attractive environment for wild plants, birds and other living creatures. This is possible either with minimal interference with the existing "given" - nature, or, conversely, with the active efforts of man, which is clearly more interesting. Bottom line: extract all possible advantages from the existing landscape - use bumps, bumps, pits. Is there a bush out of place? Dont touch him. Look for something to add to him. The path "makes its way" in the wrong direction? So it must be so! Think about how to arrange this "loop" - to plant flowers "a la meadow" here, to put a stone … Or maybe - a figurine of a dwarf? The main components of the garden are rough thickets of plants, branches of bushes intertwined overhead, covering a romantic bench or hammock; a rocky hill, an overgrown pond … In this case, meadow flowers can coexist with large garden flowers. The main feeling from such a country garden is calmness, mystery.

2. Beautiful body of water

Today, not a single worthy landscape project can do without a romantic pond. In extreme cases, a dug-in plastic reservoir will replace a "natural" reservoir; the undisputed hits of this nomination are streams flowing over the stones and systems of flowing ponds.

By the way, the device of the pond allows the most rational use of the most shady corners of the garden: why not break the reservoir there and plant it with shade-loving and moisture-loving plants?

Your right is to decide what this area of low water will be like - whether water lilies will float on the surface of the pond, whether it will drown in thickets of Japanese iris or ferns. Magnificent plants directly for reservoirs - susak, vodokras, hauttuyniya. The main thing is not to overdo it with "embellishment". The key to success is lightness and naturalness. The mood is romance and light love.

3. Drowning with flowers

The crazy, unrestrained flower ball is the undisputed hit of the new season. There cannot be many flowers - there are always not enough flowers! Luxurious shrubs of perennials, framed by wildly flowering annuals, "crazy" rose gardens and breathtaking "lily gardens", natural flower jungle. Plus - the indispensable use of hanging pots to emphasize vertical lines in landscaping, gazebos entwined with flowers … Flowers are everywhere, on the ground and above the ground, in flowerpots and flower beds, fragrant and odorless, large and tiny … In a word, a flower storm is great. You'll like it! The mood is romance, hope … Or even "Mexican passions", depending on how you pick up the flowers.

4. Minus two hundred years

The "Noble Estate" style is a classic interpretation of the idea of a garden, where it is good to spend a romantic weekend together. Perhaps this is the most costly, most effective and … the most Russian version of the garden. Its signs are muted tones, dull flowers, nobility of color combinations. Openwork gazebos, rotundas, pseudo-antique statues and marbled vases. Very stylish.

If there is still not enough for sculptures, pay attention to the plants: in the "estate" simply must grow irga and jasmine-chubushnik, to decorate the future gazebo, plant honeysuckle-honeysuckle; rose hips and phloxes - and where without them?

Your choice - time-tested flowers: roses and lilies, cannes and gladioli. Wild grapes, hops are good too. And you definitely need fragrant tobacco! Mood - dignity, pride, chic.

5. Anyone other than green

The "madness" of recent years - plants with unusually colored foliage and trunks. It is now fashionable to put a "color accent" not with the help of an object of the garden interior (like a statue), but with the help of a bush or tree of an "unconventional" color. Take the idea into service if you go to the country in winter. Then you will be greeted not only by white snowdrifts, but also by golden willow trunks, red willow branches, lilac branches of a spreading plum … In summer, shrubs with non-green foliage will give the garden a special chic, one hazelnut with cherry leaves is worth something. Be sure to try to arrange even a slight "color splash" - scumpia, barberry, palm-leaved maple, spirea, euonymus - beauty and brightness! In terms of mood, this is the most "perky" idea, because it allows you to fantasize, invent, move away from stereotypes.

6. "I was born a barber"

Topiary art has ceased to be the prerogative of the elite: garden shears, pruning shears, a bit of endurance - so you become the owner of a green hedge.

Beautifully trimmed bushes are fashionable. Advice - start your samples small, a good option is hawthorn haircut.

Well, the best thing is to hone your skills on Sakhalin buckwheat (all that remains is to find its thickets) or some forest bushes. A vesicle often grows along the roads - you can practice on it. Or you can cut a cube or a pyramid out of spirea, honeysuckle, even currant - well, there will be a little less berries.

7. Classics are out of fashion

A classic country garden - with well-groomed paths, a mowed lawn, neat flower beds - is always in fashion. And if you are a champion of just such gardening, make only one adjustment - arrange not mixed flower beds for the season, but “one flower” beds. And a fashionable touch will appear in the garden - a corner of the same type of flowers or even the same flower in different varietal variations.

Let's take gating as an example. If you are not yet familiar with this flower, it's time to get acquainted. In Europe, he is wildly popular. It grows splendidly with us, is planted with purchased seedlings, relieving the "headache" about its cultivation. One condition is to plant gatsania bushes at a distance from each other and in no case flood them, this is the only thing that she does not tolerate. The flower is fabulous, blooms all summer, very bright, a lot of varieties. Other options are a rabatka with convolvuls, a godetia clearing, a flower bed made of decorative flax or variegated zinnias.

The season is coming, the cities will soon be empty. Wherever your garden is located and whatever its size, let it please the eye all summer long and be the pride of its owners.