The layout of my site: a description of the...

The layout of my site: a description of the functional zones and garden objectsI'll start with the fact that 4 years ago, my husband and I bought a part of 30 acres for the sake of permanent residence. We built the building, moved. And then I was overwhelmed by the unrestrained will to make a park of my own dreams. How do I imagine it for myself? This park is low-maintenance, not requiring slavery for the land. In accordance with the style - landscape, close to natural forms. There is no exotic, just the plants, which perfectly grow in our criteria, without requiring specific care. This park I started to do, secret, according to the steps, moving towards my own goal. Because of these years, almost everything was made, I did not avoid mistakes and alterations like in planning, for no reason and in planting.
Almost all"tried for a tooth,"and later it turned out to be unsuitable and fiercely liquidated with a substitute for something more fascinating. The park was modified, new multifunctional zones appeared in it, adjusting for me and my family. About the book, like the park was created above, about the stages of the transformation and, ultimately, my efforts, I will try to tell immediately.
Preliminary division for a zone
At the end of the construction of the house, we approximately divided the part for the zone. Part of the second floor elevation - virtually multi-functional zones are visible, not counting the playground
The 1st zone is a lawn, which is located at the entrance to the building. The lawn is framed by plantings - 2 flower beds and a large mixborder. For the lawn we marked and made the garden paths, the beginning - made of stone, then rebuilt them for wood decking. Glade near the entrance to the building is the"front"area of ​​the site
The second principal share of the garden is a children's playground. It is made for the base of the former fire pond, which has been dried for a long time, but remained for our site. A children's playground is built in the lowlands, where a fire pond was located in advance
The third zone is small, made for rest. Appeared unintentionally, because there was a piece of space near the site. Here we have established a short swimming pool with a fountain and countryside furnishings. The view of the earth was covered with rubble, and for the sake of delineating the zone they made a path near the tree. A small resting place with a fountain - room for morning relaxation with a cup of coffee
The 4th zone is"kitchen". There is a spring with a semicircular benches, a cart with a mini-garden, flower beds with conifers, hosts and fruit trees. Glade with a fireplace and a mini-kitchen for a cart plays the"summer kitchen"occupation for the site
The 5th zone is a patio for the sake of SPA-relaxation with a swimming pool. This zone was formed inadvertently and was originally planned, like a rosary. However, unfortunately, roses refused to grow there. The whole fault was the discharge of clay, which passed in the earth for a depth of about a meter, so the water stagnated at the roots of the plants, they were stunted and did not bloom. Consequently, the rosary was demolished and for its place was laid a wood flooring, common with the paths. In accordance with the center of the site, the wooden patio, which is used in the summer for rest around the pool, is to be agreed
In its center left a free place, where we planted a spruce spiked"Hupsey"with a beautiful blue needles. In the adult state, it should achieve 10 m in height, which is enough to decorate for an Unprecedented Year.
For the sake of planting the fir had to get a pit of 1,5x1,5 m, in order to overcome the discharge of clay, and change it for normal soil. Around the spruce we put an inflatable pond, a huge umbrella, garden swings, sun loungers. In the central part of the decking planted a spruce Hupsi
Beginning in the mixborder were planted coniferous, they make the form, the"skeleton"of the composition
And later they were already annoyed for the sake of mass character of fairly perennials. The beginning - spiroe Nippon, hydrangea paniculate, snow white turf, relief relief, cuff. A bit later - a cluster of vesicles"Diabolo"and"Aureya", Barbaris Ottawa, maple"Flamingo". A fascinating plant for my sake was blueberry, which in summer gives all the decorative and savory berries, and in autumn - stains the leaves in carmine paint. Mixborder in summer, during the flowering of perennials
Again, one plant society - a fence - is planted on the left at the entrance to the building. First I planted a black pine in the center, then I formed a composition of roses (floribundy and ground cover), lavender, clematis, delphiniums near it. In accordance with the tapestry she started to take care of the girlish virgin. A simple view of the front garden with a dark pine at the center
For the following year, after wanting more color, I planted phloxes, dahlias, and again abundantly. However, I did not like this in flowering. The flowering of the front garden was extremely lurid, therefore I decided to change the number of plants
And in the autumn, I took it because of the alteration. Removed delphiniums, dahlias. Replaced the black pine for a small-sized pine tree and planted fairly spruce. Added elimus. A fence in a curdled foam of roses - the composition without any cause looks immediately
In order to facilitate their existence and release through the control of weeds, the fence and all the way around, the next planting was carried out using geotextiles. We started shooting the humus of the lawn for the bayonet of the shovel, poured the corn land. Then they covered the earth with geotextile, in the planting place they made a cruciform incision and planted the selected plant there. Geotextiles were mulched with pine chips on top. Here and without a break. The firewood looks very organic, and weeds practically do not exist.
So that the plants of the front garden and the flower beds did not crawl for the lawn, the edges of the plantings were limited to a plastic curb tape. A very handy thing - it does not rot, does not deform.
Other flower gardens
I have a lot of flower beds for the site. Stop for a few of them.
Glade near the house framed by two flower beds. One - near the well, for her was planted a fairly large host, weeping larch, sowing bushes, clearings, stems for the stem, buzulnik. The emergence of the creation of a semicircular flowerbed located on both sides of a tree well
The semicircular flower bed limits the"front"glade and makes a harmonic composition with a well
A similar semicircular flowerbed was pitched for the back side of the glade, adding there bearded irises and large boulder stones. 2-nd flower bed with hosts, bounding a glade from the back side
Again, two flower beds are placed for a glade with a fireplace (in the"kitchen"zone). 1st - semicircular flowerbed in the form of a horseshoe bends around the bench. Here I have a plentiful host - greenish and variegated. They are planted with irises, yellow-white dern, thuja, sot, spiraea. On the right side of the flowerbed grows a young apple-tree, and on the left - a viburnum for a stem. The source, surrounded by a stone retaining wall, is framed by a flower bed in the form of a horseshoe
Against her, one flowerbed, framed by a clearing, is again broken, with wavy lines of the edges. Then planted cherry felt, flowers, milkweed, spruce, junipers. A flower garden with an undulating contour in the back through the focus of a part of the glade
The beginning of the flowerbed was fenced across the lawn with a ribbon, then I changed it for a system of boulder stones, and later for a curb of torn sandstone stone.
Rockary -"stone motives"
This is the magic of landscape art I also have to eat. It is placed in accordance with the edge of the"kitchen"zone and is adjacent to one side of a tree-lined road. Rockary - a bed of stone with a stone bed and a"mountain"landscape
Certainly, a separate owner of a country plot, keen on design, do not give up making a piece of a stone garden. The question of such objects is that they are difficult to logically attract to the terrain. For many even areas, the mountain rocks that have been taken up in the hill are quite amazing. Consequently, I decided not to act on the visible elevations, in other words specifically slides, but to kill pebbles of various sizes in a natural mess. And between this laboriously deliberate chaos plant plants.
I thought a lot about how to insert the rocker into the picture of the garden. And I was going to make it part of the composition, along the track-flooring. On the one hand, he is compelled to"fall"into a raised flower bed with hydrangeas and conifers, and on the other hand - to an ordinary bed in the form of a horseshoe surrounding the"kitchen"zone with the hearth. In order to somehow connect the rockery with the raised flowerbed, it is planned to place a wooden bridge between them.
The rockery was created in the following way. For the lawn we marked out the shape of rockaria, removed the humus for two bayonets of the shovel. Then they poured good soil into the newly formed furrow, covered it with geotextile. Planned plantings and made cross-cuts in the places where plants are located. Planted birch Karelian, spurge, barberry Tunberga, spiraea Japanese, cuff, juniper, thuja. From above, geotextiles were filled with granite gravel, pebbles were spread over it and huge stones were laid out.
The bridge connecting the rockery with the raised flowerbed, added to the garden a note of some Japanese fleur. However, so that it does not look like a separate element, it was necessary to inscribe it in a kind, somehow to beat with stones, greens. I coined the following. On the right through the bridge for the raised flowerbed there was already sow, below it for the lawn I planted a dwarf herringbone"Lucky Strike". Very quickly, she liked my clumsy, sticking out in different directions twigs, giving her Japanese luxury. Elka"Lucky Strike"is located for the lawn on the right side through the bridge
On the left through the bridge, closer to the rockery, I dropped a bush of elmus (gnat) with blue longish leaves. On the left, through the bridge, a fossil that resembles a reed
Garden paths
I think that the structure of the paths in my garden can be fascinating. I will write about them too. We began to operate them out of stone. We laid out for half the site, but somehow we did not like the external appearance. The stone paths began to seem like a good solution, but in the overall composition looked gruesome
Decided to change. They removed the rock, removed the humus board for the spade bayonet. Lay sand about 10 cm, on top - granite gravel. Such tracks looked even very much nothing! And some time was lain in this form.
The unparalleled minus of the rubble tracks for my family turned out to be in a difficult passage according to the children's vehicles - cars, bicycles, carriages. Consequently, we decided to reprocess them for the track-flooring made of wood. They fixed the lags in the rubble, covered them with dark tar for the prevention of decay.
The logs were lined with pine boards, the lower side of which was treated with impregnation through rottenness. The boards were polished, sanded, aligned with their appearance and cleaned the sharp corners. After that, the flooring was painted with the composition for the sake of wood for the wax base"Belinka"of dark color in 2 layers. Every year or two tracks should be painted again, there are not enough problems with them
It turned out that the wood paths have a lot of pluses. They are not slippery and even if you fall, you will not get hurt. The tree is always warm and dry - we have made gaps between the boards, through which the water, which has fallen for the flooring, immediately leaves in a crushed stone. In this form, our tracks are already 3 years old - no rottenness!
For this step I will finish the joke. Above the park, like a living creature, again enough to grow and change. However, the main objects are already there and for the time being they suit me. The very essence, which turns out amuses the eye. In addition, daily education because of such a garden is not extremely complicated, I manage it myself, sometimes I connect my wife. Which is required? Drip, cut where necessary, fertilize, sometimes - transplant. It is all-in-one, which is necessary, so that the park remained healthy, liked and was a comfortable resting place for my family.
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