Lawn in front of the house - how to make it cozy?
We strive to relax in nature, but having the opportunity to settle among the greens, many want to create for themselves the usual urban conditions, covering the land free of planting with concrete and asphalt. And this is wrong, nothing so pleases the view, as a young grass lawn, it is with him that we will begin a conversation about all kinds of beautiful lawns. If you do not want to trouble yourself by sowing the grass with the area, use the roller lawns, it's easy to lay them, but almost immediately you become the owner of the wonderful lawn .It is possible to go and from simple, having refused grass and using various bulk and artificial materials. How? Very simple.
So, you have no desire to take care of the grass in front of the house and you are ready to replace it with asphalt. Do not hurry. Make a terrace from the deck board in front of the house, separated from it by a strip of gravel, stretching along the perimeter of the flooring. Between the backfill and the podium leave a very narrow space, where you lay out of the natural stone curbs square, at the corners of which make alpine hills for planting flowers or the same grass. Greenery will be very little, but enough to create a cozy place on the site. Put on the terrace wicker furniture, a few flowerpots with flowers or evergreens, and you will have a small patio and an alpine lawn in front of the house.
Bright and unobtrusive lawn decoration
A flat lawn covering the whole space between the garden and the garden will be a great place to relax and decorate the territory, but such a monotonous beauty may seem boring. Therefore, it is better to make the design of the lawn, complementing it with various decorative elements. Part of this improvement can be a path, if you make it unusual or skillfully combine with the lawn. For example, having laid out end-to-end rings from a tile, zase a space inside and outside with a grass, and the excellent lawn with inscribed in it a path will turn out. You can, and vice versa, in the center of the path crossing the lawn leave small round areas and plant lawn grass in them.
To make the view of the lawn not too disturbed by the garden path, use separately lying shale tiles of natural shape, laid in the surroundings of the grass.
In the design, you can include a variety of garden figures, which are now abundantly sold in stores of the appropriate profile, next to seedlings and fertilizers. Many of these figures are equipped with diode lamps with solar batteries, so that the lawn in the country in the evenings will be an enchanting spectacle. At the same time, you will not face any extra costs for electricity. It is desirable to arrange figurines either along the path, or against the background of shrubs, or in the middle of flower beds, and in no case group in compositions from which the landscape design will be overloaded.
Lawn with flowers on the flower beds
If you have a lawn on the floor in front of your house, you do not want to violate its integrity, but you obviously do not want flowers, you can use the options without excavation. In particular, for this purpose, modular flower beds, which consist of a carcass mounted on the ground( in our case on a lawn) and small soil containers placed on it, perfectly fit in, are planted in which flowers and other ornamental plants are planted. Beautiful flower beds are obtained in flowerpots, which can also be mounted directly on the grass of the .
Separately it is necessary to consider a pyramidal flower bed, which can become not only an ornament of a site, but also a basis for various useful plants, for example, it can be planted with strawberries. It consists of such a garden accessory from a stand with a vertical rod and three disk tanks attached to it, in which the fertile soil is filled. A very interesting lawn with flowers planted directly in the garden decorative figurines, which can be combined with pots, where containers or pots for planting are inserted. If there is also a backlight, each group of plants will be brightly allocated with the onset of twilight.