Arrangement of the garden: design the site yourself (60 photos)

More and more often, the owners of garden plots are shifting emphasis from the possibilities of growing vegetables and fruits to decorating their land, design of the garden plot. They earn money in the city, and people come to the country to have a rest. Of course, fruit trees and shrubs, vegetable beds - all this can be present, but they also obey the rules of landscape design. Entrusting a project to a professional is, it seems, great ... but too orderly, cold landscapes often come out of the hands of professionals. Self-designed gardens, while imperfect, are much more comfortable and you feel much better in them.

You sketch out such a plan, but do not forget that it must be to scale

Where to start: layout

Everything starts from the stove: you need to correlate your desires with realities. To do this, first sit down and write what you need on the site. Just a list of what you and your loved ones want to have. Then you take a site plan with dimensions and start placing what you simply cannot refuse. Usually it is a playground or carport, some kind of vegetable garden - at least a few beds, if there are children - a playground.

Put a carport closer to the gate - less space will go to driveways, a playground in direct line of sight from the windows, and most likely from the kitchen windows: it's not all the time to sit with them, and so, the children are under supervision, and you are do. With the placement of the playground, you will have to be smart: it is necessary that there is no draft, and part of it is in the shade, part is in the sun. To have the best conditions.

Roughly draw a plan

The garden can be made decorative, therefore, it is not necessary to hide it. It will still be a decoration of your site and you will be proud of it. Here you need a sunny piece of your site for him.

Now we need to find a place for technical and auxiliary rooms. You will definitely need barn, and also a compost pit. They can be carried to the backyard, but it is better - closer to the garden. If heating is planned in the house, you need a place to store firewood. To do this, do woodcutters, and they can be attached to the shed, or they can stand separately, and some specimens can also be a decorative element. Somewhere in a secluded corner you will need to put restroom and shower. The toilet is also a hassle: you need to take into account the distance to neighboring areas (at least 2 m), and also the prevailing wind direction so that smells do not bother you.

Next comes the turn of what you really want. Usually this is a gazebo pond or a fountain. A pond and a fountain can be combined; there is a gazebo nearby. Up to the point that with one edge it can hang over the water. On the other bank, you can put a bench by placing an arch near it or erecting a pergola (the same arch, but more solid). You can make a small canopy near the gazebo and put brazier. Metal or brick - optionally. It is best to take the lowest section under the reservoir or where the groundwater is closest. Everything else will fit into the free space.

A pond and a gazebo next to it - a good combination

It seems that these are all the main objects. If you managed to fit them all into the site plan - great: you can plan garden paths... You need to contrive and make the minimum number of paths, but they must connect all the main buildings. Paths can lead to auxiliary structures. It's even more romantic this way. And along the way, look for places for flower beds, flower beds, rock gardens, ornamental slides.You can even deliberately bend the paths to make room for the flower garden. This, by the way, is one of the favorite techniques of professionals. They almost never use straight lines. Only in elongated areas to visually bring the far edge closer.

Do not forget about trees and bushes. By the way, they can serve as a screen for an unsightly fence. And you will have it around the entire perimeter. Partly it can be decorated with hanging flower beds, partly covered with shrub trees. While the trees are growing, you can put a lattice in front of the fence, on which to start climbing roses, clematis, any other similar plant.

Unusual gazebo: a roof with a hole illuminates a small pond. If desired, you can move the chairs in the shade or in the sun

Garden design: choosing a style

In most cases, the style of garden design is very difficult to determine. Most often it can be described as “modern”. Interesting solutions of different "nationalities" and different styles are used, and sometimes these combinations are very, very successful and interesting. So independent design is good, because you can intuitively create beautiful landscapes. But decorating a plot in a certain style is in a sense easier: you know for sure whether this idea is suitable or not. Let's look at some of the design options for a garden plot in a particular style. The easiest way is to work with ethnic areas.

Oriental

Chinese and Japanese cultures have significant differences, but with regard to the design of a garden plot, it is difficult for a layman, it is almost impossible to distinguish between these two directions. For ease of perception, let's combine them into one style: oriental.

Decoration in Japanese style - an abundance of stones, interesting combinations of deciduous and coniferous species

The achievement of maximum harmony is inherent in these cultures. What's great about a Japanese or Chinese style garden plot is that they use a lot of rubble and pebbles. If it is difficult or expensive to get pebbles in the right amount, then there are much fewer problems with gravel. Maybe you are lucky and you can even agree on the color - the meticulous Japanese in the filling use pebbles of the same size and color, or form different shapes from them.

A great idea for decorating the yard near the garden house: rubble and pebbles, slabs as a path - dirt will not rush into the house

Large stones, near which boxwood bushes are planted, a small fountain of traditional form. A very interesting idea with a painted crushed stone border. Only if you do something like this, make sure that the water that flows from formwork, there was where to go: under the pebbles and rubble there should be dense soil with a slope towards the plantings or access to the drainage system - this is how the water drainage is organized.

A small fence is extremely easy to do. Bamboo is also good because it does not rot

For a truly traditional Japanese garden design, bamboo can be used. A small fence and a wicket are extremely easy to make. A couple of stakes are driven into the ground, bamboo crossbars are tied to them, and thin bamboo is tied to the crossbars. It turns out to be such a bamboo picket fence.

Paths are very characteristic - rounded stones at a distance of a step from each other, slabs of stone, or even concrete slabs, but they are not square, as we are used to, but long. Please note that the gaps between stones / slabs are overgrown with grass, moss, or covered with pebbles.

Japanese style garden paths

There are often fountains in Japanese gardens. But these are not pompous structures with sculptures and jets gushing upwards, but combinations of bamboo and stone, through which a small amount of water flows. It's easy to make them even on your own, but how, read here.

Beautiful fountains

Several photos of Japanese-style garden design are collected in the photo gallery. There are interesting ideas that are easy to implement with your own hands. Moreover, the costs are minimal))

Rustic style (country or country)

The more urbanized our cities become, the more we want something simple, natural, without clear lines and edges, which are already boring in the city. Therefore, many began to build houses from logs: they breathe coziness. If your country house is built from a log house, a natural continuation of the idea would be to decorate the site in a rural or rustic style. In this case, the characteristic features are the use of various kinds of old utensils and their elements in the decor of flower beds and flower beds, wattle fence, simple benches, often deliberately rough, of logs.

Rustic garden design is easily recognizable by the presence of wheels from carts, baskets, pottery, old barrels, decks and flowering stumps

On the village site, by no means everything can be too smooth and orderly. The paths are overgrown with grass, with stones laid for convenience, thrown boardwalks. And to make the "boards" always look like new, you can use decking - this is a wood-composite material that looks and feels very similar to wood, but does not rot, does not darken, and retains its original appearance over the years.

Fences inside the site can be made from dead wood cut in the forest. Fences made of birch or debris with its light green bark look very decorative.

Fence made of birch branches

Wicker fences are traditional for this style. They can be made for flower beds, flower beds, fence off zones within the site, and even as the main fence that separates the garden from neighbors and from the street.

Wattle as a fence for a flower bed

In the same vein, you can arrange a pond - a small mill or a bridge along a long pond will not interfere. And if there is a height difference on the site, you can make a cascade of watering buckets - a very original idea.

Waterfall on the steps, only in an unusual design: a fountain of watering cans and buckets

Even a toilet can be made in the same style. Of course, it is unlikely that someone will bring it to the fore, even in a stylish design, but you will not have to worry too much about the building not being seen.

Such is the toilet - a hut, which you can not really hide

A rustic garden design is not picky about geometry or plant selection. It is important that you feel comfortable and cozy, the plants feel good. Then even the simplest compositions will delight the eye and heart. For several design ideas for different zones, see the photo gallery.

Garden plot in modern style or art nouveau

The design of the Art Nouveau garden plot is international. It has elements of different cultures. The basic rule is a harmonious combination of shapes and shades. Most often, straight lines and rounded shapes are combined.

Relaxation corner in the Art Nouveau garden

Is it difficult to create such a corner in your own garden.The tiles can be replaced with concrete or stone slabs or wood flooring, as long as the geometry is preserved. The flower beds are of an unusual shape - smooth edges both at ground level and high. Seats are installed between two high flower beds, and to make it really convenient and comfortable, you can make the curb higher and nail the board - the back. All this cubism is shattered by a round ceramic plant pot. Instead of a pot, you can make a small fountain in the form of a stone ball, through which water flows.

Such a fountain is not difficult to make. The main thing is to find a suitable stone and drill a hole in it.

As you can see, the fountain is similar in style to the Japanese style. Slightly modified, it fits perfectly into the modern garden design. And this is not the only stylized element. For example, wicker furniture is often used. But it has a different shape - either cubic or with curved surfaces, but only in one plane. Looking at the photo below, you will understand what it is about.

This is wicker furniture, but its shape is completely different.

Wicker garden furniture for Art Nouveau decoration

And again, pay attention, hard straight lines break into rounded ones: in the lower photo they are pyramidal thujas, on the upper one there is a round table-flower bed (an extraordinary solution, by the way) and curved lines of chairs.

This is where the expanse of lovers of high beds is, because it is when decorating in this way: it is more convenient to set straight lines using high boxes. They are made from wood, stone, concrete. The material should be combined with the main finish or be an addition.

Garden-flower garden with modern style

In approximately the same traditions, the adjoining territory and areas near the reservoir are formed. To make a flooring from planks, plank or decking, to put in characteristic furniture - part of the garden is decorated.

A terrace near the house will solve the problem of wet land

By the way, you can also make a gazebo in an unconventional manner.

The original gazebo. With her, the design of the garden will not be boring

There are a lot of ideas, and they are all interesting in their own way. Check out some photos in the gallery below. Maybe something will come in handy for your garden.

Ideas for decorating a fence and walls

Whatever one may say, but there is always a fence. And he is not always the decoration of the garden. More often than not, everything is quite the opposite: this is the owner's headache: how to disguise it or give it a more acceptable look. In fact, there are quite a few solutions, and for different tastes.

If you can draw, and the fence is at least relatively even, paint it with some scenes. It is clear that choosing a suitable plot is not easy, but you can rely on the general style of site design.

The boring fence and the design style of the site are easy to guess))

You can use the fence as a time for a vertical flower bed or vegetable garden. It's nice and useful. This idea will especially please the owners of small plots. That's just fence made of profiled sheet this should only be used if the summer is cool in your area. In all other cases, the plants burn on it.

The fence can be turned into a vertical bed

About the same idea will come in handy for decorating a wall at home. Only here flowers are planted more often, and mostly ampelous, but nothing can prevent you from planting in such baskets or boxes, say, aromatic herbs or just beautiful flowers in the lower tier, and let there be hanging ampel lashes at the top.

Wall design option - metal baskets lined with jute fiber, inside - soil

Very often, uncomplicated decorations or some unusual elements distract attention from the not very attractive surface, which is the fence. It can be homemade flowers made of colored plastic or a whole cascade of different boxes in which you can either plant flowers, or put them in pots.

Uncomplicated decorations, but they fulfill their task - they distract attention from the unsightly surface

Ideas in photo format