Gone are the days when the garden was planted solely in order to feed the whole family and make supplies for the winter. Modern gardeners and truck farmers are referred to work on the ground as a rest. Some people are awakened with sports interest to grow some rare strawberry variety or get a harvest of cucumbers until the frosts, while others just rest in the fresh air, slowly performing the necessary work on the land. This garden truck is dedicated to our article, in which we will consider how to make an ornamental garden to get not only a high yield, but also an aesthetic pleasure from neat beds and groomed flower gardens.
Decorative garden scheme photo
Decorative garden scheme
Decorative garden with flowers
Create beautiful beds in the garden
Let's see how you can make a decorative garden with your own hands? To do this, you will need the makings of a dreamer and a few cash injections. And you can do without them, and the proof is the following example. An elementary way to decorate the garden is a mixed planting of different crops with alternating beds, for example, cabbage beds, followed by a beet garden, and further a carrot bed. Such a decorative planting will "revive" the garden thanks to a combination of different shades and forms of leaves, and it will not seem boring. The main thing is not to plant a number of cultures that do not get along or interbreed with each other, for example, a bad neighborhood for carrots will be dill, for cabbage - parsley, for cucumbers fragrant herbs.
Also take into account the height and bushiness of plants. It is good, when in one section there are no sharp differences in the height of the stems, let them increase gradually from low to high. And yet, on one segment there should be cultures with the same need for irrigation, so that some do not fill with water, and others do not overdry.
Beautiful beds in the photo
Beautiful beds in the country house photo
If you feel the strength to do more serious preparatory work, then plant the plants figuratively according to a pre-designed scheme. How to draw up a scheme of a decorative garden? To do this, you need to draw a plan of your site and plan the garden first on paper, and then on the ground. As a rule, the scheme is made taking into account the symmetry, where the right side clearly repeats the left side, although there are also asymmetric areas, which also look very good.
Having decided on such a responsible step, you should understand that the beautiful beds in the garden are not monotonous rectangular areas with planted crops, but triangular or arched rows of well-chosen companion plants. And with such a non-standard planting, the most basic labor will be at the stage of planning and planting crops, and further care for them awaits you the same as usual, there will be no difficulties.
Beautiful beds in the country house
Planting scheme for the decorative garden
We decorate the garden
The first thing that comes to mind when we talk about the beautiful design of the garden are decorative paths. It is not necessary to think that the paths look good only in the garden, they will also be useful in the garden, not only will they divide the site into separate segments, but will also become a beautiful ornament. What can you make a path from? All the same, the concrete paths and curbs because of their massive nature are better not to use, they are good for the garden, but not for the garden. But processed wood or beams and wicker grates will do better for this purpose. After all, we need these paths not for walking, but for moving around the garden in the process of caring for it.
By the way, a woven "fence" for individual segments of the plot can be made by hand. To do this, you need flexible willows or aspen, which you need to twist between the pegs, and on the inside, the resulting fence should be closed with a film to avoid damage and decay.
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How else to decorate the garden with decorative paths? Pave them with cobblestone, small tiles, sprinkle with gravel or gravel of fine fraction. And if you need to emphasize the contours of the garden segments, then you can plant along the edge of the path, for example, parsley, chives, chives, or use plastic curbs.
Decorative garden photo
How to make a beautiful garden on the plot
Curly crops such as cucumbers, beans, peas, melons can also be grown beautifully. All that is needed for this is decorative trellises. Remove the monotonous designs from the cucumber sticks, install beautiful metal or wooden stairs and arches, along which the stems will curl with no less pleasure, but the aesthetics will be on the level!
Beautiful beds in the garden
If the garden is too small
But the idea for a decorative garden, the area of which is small, while you want to plant many different cultures. The first idea is to use vertical beds - they can grow vegetables, strawberries, strawberries, raspberries. Here the main thing is to cultivate vertically placed pipes, so that they look aesthetically pleasing. By the way, the same pipes can be cut across and used as horizontal suspended beds. Vegetables in them are unlikely to grow, but the flowers growing in this way will brighten the monotony of garden crops. Vertical beds can be attached even on the wall of a farm building or a wooden cottage.
Vertical growing of strawberry Photo
Vertical garden in boxes photo
Decorative vertical garden
Vertical ornamental garden
The second idea is to grow vegetables and greens in boxes and even bags with earth. Accurately arranged around the perimeter of the site, such boxes will not only solve the problem of useful area, but also decorate the garden. Modification of this method can be called another kind of growing flowers and vegetables - it's a container method. It consists in the fact that small containers are fixed on stable shelves, in which they plant greens and vegetables with low stems.
Decorative garden in boxes
Fences in wooden boxes photo
By the way, the garden can be organized even on the balcony or on the roof of the house.
Vegetable garden on the balcony photo
An ordinary wheelchair from the cart, laid on the ground, can become an original ornament of the garden: a round section, divided into sections, will be an excellent place for cultivation of dill, parsley and green onions.
Idea for a decorative garden: vegetables and flowers
Fashionable nowadays the method of joint cultivation of vegetables and flowers has its pluses. First, they protect each other from pests, and secondly, it is a perfect example of how to make a beautiful garden. At the same time, flowers only dilute the general background of vegetable crops, for example, beautiful marigolds can be planted along the perimeter of a garden bed with carrots, and surrounded by nasturtiums with cabbage. Planting flowers is better after the first shoots of vegetables appear, and after the appearance of sprouts flowers will need to be weeded out so that they do not interfere with the growth of the main culture.
This method is applicable if you want to see growing vegetables and flowers at the same time. If the garden area is given solely under the power of vegetables, but you need to decide how to decorate the garden with flowers, then they can be grown using the container method, which we mentioned earlier.
How to make a decorative garden with your own hands
How to decorate a garden with flowers
Beautiful design of a garden photo
We hope that our advice, recommendations and photos will help you combine business with pleasure and create a decorative garden in your area. And the last advice - from the point of view of beauty it is better to plant a site with longitudinal beds, and not transverse, and they do not need to have a straight form - arched or triangular plantings are also welcome!
