Vertical landscaping, constructions for creating shadows
A trip to a dacha, as well as a whole life outside the city limits, does not mean endless rural work, there is always time for rest. At the same time, you will agree, to relax in the summer season under the scorching rays of the sun does not work, except for half an hour for sunbathing after bathing. Therefore, considerable importance in the dacha is given to the creation of a shadow, and the best way is to turn to plants for help, creating necessary conditions for them. So, you can build a small pavilion and put on it shoots of ivy, or you can just give freedom to curly lianas and get a huge shaded area as a result. How? With the help of pergolas, of course.
First of all, what is it. An arch of bent metal rods or wooden elements, embroidered with roses or hops - it is not difficult to imagine such a design in the garden. Well, pergola - it's not more than a few such arches, connected by a kind of overlapping from the lattices, resulting in a long gallery
Supports for vertical gardening is better to collect from wood
The pergola is constructed quite simply, but before tackling the tools, it is necessary to decide whether it will adjoin the wall of the house or stand separately on the lawn among the garden trees. However, suppose that separately, because near the house you can also build a canopy. And at the same time let me decide for you and choose a tree as a material( traditionally the pergolas in the Mediterranean were built from lumber), although metal and plastic constructions are now available. So, we need support posts in the amount of 4 pieces, a height of 3 meters and a thickness of 12 centimeters( beams or logs).Then you need the supporting beams of the same thickness and length 2.5 meters in the number of two pieces, as well as transverse beams - 6 pieces of 2.5 meters long and section 5x10 centimeters. And for the creation of the lattice there will be superfluous 26 racks or thin bars with a section of 5x5 centimeters, the length of which should be 3 meters. As fixing materials we will use: cement - 4 bags, screws - without counting, fasteners for beams - 16 pieces, 4 of which under the beam 12 centimeters, and 10 - under the bar section of 5 centimeters. Tools - what you want.
Align the platform under the supports for vertical landscaping and digging 4 pits with a depth of 60 centimeters so that a rectangle with sides of 2.5 and 3 meters is obtained. We install the supports and fill them with cement, prepared in advance. We support the racks with logs or install stretches, as you like, the main thing is that they stand perfectly even. While the cement is frozen, gently, without swinging the supporting beams, we install the bearing bars at their tops with the help of special fasteners. We get two gates with a crossbar of 3 meters, set apart from each other at a distance of 2.5 meters. Every half a meter on the load-bearing beams we fasten the fasteners, and we put on them the transverse beams, all our 6 pieces, and fix them with screws. Then on the crossbeams we put strictly perpendicular bars of section 5 centimeters and also screw them with screws.
Along the sides of our pergola you can fix trellises from racks or mats made of reeds, this is already according to your desire, you can hang metal grates. On the columns you can hang pots for vertical landscaping. Planted in them plants, for example, climbing roses, organically join the composition of pergolas. Very often pots are used when it is necessary to make a vertical gardening of the walls.
Elements of vertical landscaping with the general component of
If you want to do something more serious than creating tight lines or fishing nets, creating only vertical landscaping of the site, you will only have one thing left - to add different structures from the same element - the grids. Yes, exactly, whatever elements for vertical gardening you plan to build, they will all consist of grids: wooden, metal or plastic. The only exception can be forged structures, but there it is also possible to consider the lattice weave interlacing of metal strips and bars. Very successfully combine trellises and the containers hung on them for vertical gardening, in which various plant species are planted. The wall of such trellises will be quite original.
So, let's say you want to block your plot with green walls from climbing plants, for this you will need trellises( a kind of lattice screens), whose height and length are limited only by the strength of the material.
The larger the trellis area, the more green the load on them.
The trellis in combination with the arch will become a wonderful gate( an arch, of course, is more practical to build above the path).Pergolas, the walls of which can also consist of trellises, basically also have a lattice laid horizontally on high supports. However, this has already been mentioned above, we even know now how the pergolas are going.
Another way to use tapestries is to form different figures from trees. This equipment for vertical gardening, installed near the young seedling, will give its branches any shape. Chandeliers from trees are very fashionable now. Get them on your site is very simple, you only need that the trellis was made of strong beams. As already mentioned, we dig in the lattice behind our young tree, so that it is in the center of the trellis, and cut off the trunk at the level of the lower crossbars. Now, when the tree will throw out young shoots, they will need to be fixed on the grid in such a way that they grow horizontally until a certain point, and then unfold them gradually upward. The outlines of the chandelier are obtained, all unnecessary branches and knots should be trimmed, and then, once the tree has fully developed, it will only be necessary to maintain its shape.
Vases for vertical landscaping in different uses
Flowers in the apartment, put on a table in an elegant vase, sooner or later wither, as their root system has stayed somewhere far away, perhaps even outside the city or in another country. But the street pot( a giant vase for flowers), is designed specifically for the plants in it to feel comfortable even in winter. In fact, the pot is nothing more than a beautiful decorative flower pot stylized as a vase. So, it is possible to use vases for vertical planting of a site along with other methods of planting plants. Vases are mainly placed where it is impossible to plant plants directly into the ground, for example, on curbs, on concrete sites and asphalt avenues. Thus, these peculiar pots for vertical landscaping are very adorned with a suburban area, allowing greenery to grow where it can not in principle exist.
Often, containers and pots can be added to the composition, and this is a separate kind of landscape design - special modules for vertical landscaping include many different color containers for flowers, taking a given shape. Of the interconnected containers, pyramids are usually built. But there are also more complex forms, up to fairy-tale locks from curly and ordinary bushy plants. Modules can be made of plastic, metal, wood. The simplest version is four latticed triangles of rods connected to the pyramid and hung with containers to the ground.
However, whatever types of vertical gardening you choose, remember that on a small area of different types of greenery may seem closely , it is in moderation and selectivity is the basic art of the designer of landscapes.
