The landscaping project should be developed simultaneously with and. Thanks to this, it is possible to take into account all the existing features of the land plot in advance, as well as minimize financial costs. If landscape design is carried out in winter, then in spring it is already possible to start its implementation.

Landscaping project of the land plot

The most important stage in the improvement of the site is its design, which includes 2 stages: and the actual landscape design. When designing, it is advisable to consult with a specialist architect.

When the construction of the house is completed, as a rule, the owner has a question of its improvement.

It is very important to correctly draw up a landscape project for the site, in order to then bring the project to life.

You can rely on your own strength in the design of the site, or you can entrust it to a professional. There are certain stages of work, following which will lead to the desired result - the creation of a beautiful site.

Once all this information is collected, you can proceed to the stage of the design itself.

The customer must provide the designer with all the initial data: a topographic plan with a scale of 1:500 s and the existing vegetation, as well as data from hydrogeological studies.

The designer conducts, which include laboratory analysis of soils, identification of favorable and unfavorable viewpoints, and inflation analysis of the territory.

The composition of the landscape project

How is the landscape design

Landscaping begins, first of all, with thinking over a sketch. A sketch is created in order to determine where and which zone will be located in the future. For example: a recreation area, an orchard, or a playground. Further, you can lay convenient paths, taking into account these zones.

The designer can offer you more than one sketch, in which case you need to carefully study the options and choose the most suitable for you.

If you decide to entrust the work on the development of a landscape project to professional designers, then you can be sure that everything will be done really high quality. Professionals will listen to all your wishes, carefully study the existing site and develop just such a project, which will fully satisfy you.

Of course, this will take a lot of time, because specialists will have to perform a whole range of work:

Alas, the services of specialists have one drawback. But for many people, it completely covers the dignity. Of course, we are talking about cost.

In most cases, the price of the finished project is estimated at tens of thousands of rubles.

Are you ready to pay such a significant amount for the work of designers?

Therefore, many people decide to develop a landscape design project on their own. Many owners of country houses manage to achieve excellent results. All that is needed is a rich imagination, a sober calculation and a good knowledge of modern materials and design techniques.

In this video you can see an example of a landscape project designed for a private garden plot.

How to develop a project yourself

Surprisingly, it is much easier to develop a project for a small plot of a classic area of ​​6 acres than for a large plot of 12 acres or more. It would seem that the larger the plot, the more interesting design solutions can be applied. However, in practice this is not the case.

The fact is that experts recommend designing the entire site in the same style, adhering to approximately the same color palette, so that the site is perceived as something unified. Therefore, it has to be zoned, which adds complexity.

Beginning of work

Measure the area - its length and width, and also remember exactly where the elements that you are not going to remove are located (a well, an old tree, a rosehip bush, a bathhouse or a garage). It is best to use special programs for designing - they can be downloaded on the Internet for free.

They allow you to recreate your site to the smallest detail and they have quite a lot of different elements and techniques that can be used when drawing up a project. Well, if you are not too friendly with a computer, you can use a regular sheet of graph paper.

Decide in what format you will be drawing up the project - it can be 1:10, 1:20, 1:50 or 1:100, depending on the size of the site and your desire to take into account every little thing. Draw the dimensions of the area on the paper, keeping its shape. The next stage is the application of already existing landscape details.

Then - which includes various special drawings, according to which builders and landscapers will perform the corresponding work. The general plan can be submitted on paper or on electronic media with an image of all buildings, existing plantations, planned plants, paths, sites.

A layout drawing will be required for builders. It indicates all sites, paths, reservoirs, various structures on the site. There is a binding to already existing buildings, and the necessary sections of the proposed structures are placed on the fields.

If it is not possible to place all the necessary buildings in one small area, then it would be wiser to combine some buildings with each other. For example, the arrangement of a garage along with a residential building. You can use layouts of buildings that are cut out of paper according to the appropriate size. It is even better to make a landscape project in 3d format.

In this video, you can look at an example of a 3D visualization of a garden plot landscape project.

Correctly zoning the territory

The key to beauty, convenience and even safety is the correct location of individual landscape objects relative to each other. Therefore, at this stage, you need to show maximum care and foresight.

Divide the entire site into two or three zones. One of them should contain all the outbuildings that you deem necessary: ​​a bathhouse, a toilet, a chicken coop, a garage, a barn, and so on. At the same time, keep in mind that the toilet (if it is located on the street) should be located as far as possible from the well or other water intake.

The second zone includes decorative elements of the landscape. It can be a gazebo, flower beds, flowering bushes and much more.

Finally, the third zone is fruit and vegetable gardening. Decide where you will place the beds you plan to harvest. It can be anything, like an orchard, or beds - from six acres of potatoes to several strawberry bushes. Do not forget that such beds need watering. Therefore, it is best to place them as close as possible to a well, column, well or other source of water.

When planning the second and third zones, it is worth considering the illumination of individual sections. If shady places (from a fence, a house, old trees) need to be planted with something, it is better to choose shade-loving plants - these exist, and there are quite a few of them. Light-loving plants planted in the shade grow slowly, often get sick, and are unlikely to please you with beauty and a rich harvest.

We provide ease of movement around the site

When you have decided where certain main landscape objects will be located, you should think about how you can ensure the convenience of access to them from anywhere in the site. And here lies another difficulty that haunts the owners of large plots - 20 acres or more.

Of course, we are talking about garden paths. Keep in mind that the ground will not always be dense. In the spring, after the snow melts, and also after heavy rain, a puddle forms in each small depression. And on level ground, the ground will turn into mud. And it will be quite difficult to get to the garage, garden beds or toilets. Feet slip through the mud, and deep footprints appear in the ground, which will have to be leveled later so that they do not spoil the appearance of the site.

The choice of materials that allow you to equip garden tropics is quite large today. It can be wood, paving slabs, brick, natural stone and much more.

Which of these materials do you prefer? Decide for yourself. On the Internet, you can easily find enough information on this topic. After all, materials differ in attractiveness, convenience, durability and cost. Therefore, only you can make the final choice.

Think carefully about the layout of the tracks. They can branch, intersect, bifurcate and merge, but they must provide maximum comfort for approaching each of the important objects on your site. Thanks to the paths, you will be able to walk on a slightly damp surface without getting your feet wet and without causing damage to the site.

Landing drawing is important for landscapers. In such a drawing, only the house and other structures are shown, for which the binding will then be carried out. Plantings that already exist are not shown, or are highlighted in a different color, and sections of planting pits are indicated on the fields.

The assortment sheet includes a list of plants that are designed on the master plan. The number of the plant, its name in Russian and Latin, standard height, as well as the total number of plants presented are indicated. Such a statement is taken out on the margins, or attached to the explanatory note.

The task for the design and analysis of the existing state of the site is indicated in detail. In addition, the designer can personally control the entire course of work and oversee the implementation of the project throughout the year.

Gone are the days when a landscape design project for a summer cottage was limited only to home improvement, a flower garden, a garden bed for vegetables, several fruit or ornamental trees for the garden. Now the design of the site is a real art that allows you to create comfort and coziness in any territory - from 6 acres and more.

Landscape design project for a summer cottage 6 acres

When planning any territory, you need to consider:

• terrain (flat, terraced, proximity to mountains, ravines);
• the shape of the plot - rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular, with rounded corners;
• soil type - sandy, chernozem, clay.

The form of ownership is very important for the development of the plan. It depends on the design style.

The plan of the estate of 6 acres is one of the most difficult tasks. After all, a small area should accommodate a house, a garden, a recreation area. Many people also want to equip a decorative reservoir, to have a place for auxiliary buildings.

A good option is the geometric style. This saves space and makes efficient use of every piece of land. When planning a place for building a house, you need to arrange it so that it does not obscure the garden and garden.

First of all, you need to divide the territory:

1. House with outbuildings.
2. Garden area.
3. Rest zone.

The optimal size of the house is 5x6 meters with a small terrace. A compact shower, hozblok, other small buildings can be placed together by dividing it with a partition.

You will need a place to build a toilet. So that it does not stand out, shrubs or trees can be planted around.

When choosing a place for a garden, you need to take into account that the trees will grow over time and can interfere not only with the owners of the estate, but also with neighbors. It will not be possible to plant many trees, a maximum of 4-5 fruit trees.

Vegetable beds should preferably be located where there is a lot of sunlight. After all, vegetables love the sun and water. It's not worth planting too much. It is better to calculate how much you really need, then everything you need will fit on the beds, there will even be room for a small flower garden.

A seating area, and this, as a rule, is a table with several chairs made of wood, can be placed under the shade of trees. A small gazebo, entwined with ivy or grapes, can also be afforded, but giving up an extra bed or flower garden.

Design of plots of 10 acres

Landscaping on 10 acres is guaranteed to create a unique one that will not look like any other suburban area. You can plan the location of the beds and recreation areas on your own, but a more creative, perhaps ready-made landscape design project, which will be made by landscaping specialists, taking into account the wishes of the customer.

Fantasy, creativity, individuality - this is what will allow you to create a picturesque green area even on a small plot of land, where you can not only grow vegetables and fruits, but also have a nice weekend or summer vacation.

Before proceeding with the arrangement of a summer cottage, you need to decide which style you choose. Not only the architecture of the house depends on this, but also the selection of plants, their planting geometry, and characteristic elements of decor.

For example, on the possession of 10 acres, it is unlikely that the French style will be realized. After all, it involves a large garden, the care of which will require the presence of a gardener.

But English will be harmonious. It provides for the natural placement of elements on a certain landscape. Trees, shrubs, flowers, grass are planted in tiers. This style is characterized by a complete lack of symmetry, an abundance of greenery. Winding paths, slopes, natural reservoirs look organically. You don't have to worry about plants either. Anything that grows in the area will do.

Japanese style is fine too. It assumes the presence of a small artificial pond, decorative, natural original stones, lanterns in the yard. From plants, preference is given to juniper, dwarf pines. Accuracy, restraint are typical for the Japanese garden.

A patio, forged or wicker furniture, a hammock, flowers in pots are inherent in the Mediterranean style, which will organically fit even in our latitudes. Paths paved with stone, a green lawn, a gazebo entwined with plants, a small fountain will create a comfortable atmosphere for relaxation.

Plot design 15 acres

Country ownership of 15 acres also does not have a large scale. But this is already a medium-sized cottage. There is room for fantasy here. Most often it is a rectangle of 30x50 meters.

Experts say that on such an area you can freely place:

• House;
• summer kitchen;
• economic block;
• garage or carport;
• recreation area - gazebo, playground;
• small garden;
• green lawn, flower beds;
• garden.

And if you abandon the garden, then the place will even be freed up for a sports ground.

If desired, the owners can choose ready-made projects for landscape design of sites by contacting landscape specialists. Then all the canons of the chosen style will be observed or, introduced at the request of the owner, will not go beyond the style.

If the territory has a rectangular shape, then a regular style is best. It is distinguished by precise lines, symmetry. It can be implemented independently.

If the area has an irregular shape and the surface is uneven, it is best to stick to the landscape style. This is a complete lack of symmetry. True, it seems so only at first glance. In fact, every design detail needs to be thought through. Only then can the desired impression be achieved. Landscaping involves the presence of:

• irregularly shaped flower beds;
• small artificial reservoirs;
• decorating with natural materials, such as stone;
• forged elements in the yard.

If there are already buildings, and the owner wants to update the territory, the best option is a mixed style. In this case, regular and landscape styles are well combined.

Placement of zones in the summer cottage

Regardless of the size of the land plot, when planning its development, it is necessary to take into account in which part of the world you intend to place this or that zone.

All buildings are best placed on the north side. So they will not cover other areas from sunlight. But the windows of the house, it is desirable that they do not go to the north. Then the house will always be sunny, bright. The terrace and veranda are located on the south side.

The traditional fence can also be abandoned. Instead, it is better to plant a green hedge of shrubs. Blackberries, wild grapes will do.

Planting trees around the house is undesirable. They will obscure the light. It is better to plant jasmine or lilac.

The garden area can be located near the house. But in front of him, currants, gooseberries, raspberries are first planted, and already further trees - apple trees, plums and others.

The recreation area assumes the presence of:

• gazebos;
• shops;
• barbecue;
• pool.

For the pool, you need to choose a well-lit place, where you can also equip a playground for children - a sandbox, a swing, a horizontal bar.

The Chinese say that a garden is a single organism, which does not imply the dominance of any zone over another. The main thing is naturalness. Ideally, if the garden has a rectangular or square shape. Everything should look like it has been for many years. The center is not recommended to be planted with tall trees.

Paths in the garden should be smooth without sharp corners. Then, according to feng shui, the owner is not afraid of any negative energies. And yet, in the left corner of the garden, it is recommended to plant trees that bloom in red and blue. This guarantees prosperity to the family. The right corner would be nice to plant with white and pink flowers. Then the family will be doomed to love and harmony.

To attract success, it would be good to give the central part of the garden under an arch of living plants.

Sculptures in the garden

Sculptures can become an original decoration of the garden. The main thing is that they are carefully made. Their number may vary. But if there is doubt about a particular decoration, it is better to refuse it. In the photo you can see what a family of owls is a good decor for a hemp that has not been uprooted.

The figurines that are on sale are usually ceramic or made of polymer resin. They are resistant to climatic changes, but by winter it is still better to hide them. Cheap plastic stamping for the most part will not become an interior decoration, although there are exceptions. Sculptures can be made independently. Then, for sure, you will not see anything like it anywhere.

Such a decorative decoration is used in two cases:

1. As an actual decoration, it is not tied to any topic.
2. As an addition to the thematic corner.

Remember! Figurines, small sculptures should be placed so that they are often seen. But, in addition to the aesthetic function, sometimes garden decorations also carry a purely practical load - it can be a fountain, a container, a flowerpot.

And from an ordinary rubber children's ball you can make a big bright berry. "Planting" mushrooms in the garden is also real. For the legs, you will need pipe segments, and the caps are cast from cement. Brightly colored hats will please the eye, improve mood.

Tracks

The connecting link of any style embodied in the summer cottage are the paths. They occupy up to 20 percent of the total area. In different areas, their coverage may be different. Front and economic are best done from natural materials. For this fit stone, gravel. Such tracks will look beautiful, and most importantly, they are reliable and durable. In the recreation area, the paths may be covered with screenings or pebbles.

The width of the main entrance, as a rule, is up to two meters, secondary paths are made at will from 40 to 80 centimeters. The main thing is that two people can freely disperse.

1. Instead of a platform paved with tiles or other hard materials, you can cover the free space with a lawn. For this, it is not necessary to sow lawn grass. There is such a plant as bent grass. It is considered a weed, but it can be perfect for a country lawn. After all, it does not grow up, but crawls along the ground. It is pleasant to walk barefoot on such an emerald lawn.
2. If you have a large garden, many buildings, and little space left for a flower bed, you can group vegetable plants with flowers in one bed. For example, plant cucumbers in the center, and do not let them crawl on the ground, but put a grate on which they will crawl. Plant tomatoes nearby, and flowers around. The flower bed should be small so that you can get vegetables from the garden without harming the flowers.

1. At each dacha there are areas that are unsightly to the eye - compost bins, various dacha uselessness. They can be camouflaged with climbing plants. In the same way, you can decorate a veranda or gazebo.
2. Even an old tree that needs to be uprooted for a long time can become a decoration for a yard or garden. When cutting it, leave a stump up to one and a half meters, plant climbing ivy, vine and other creeping plants nearby. Over time, a wonderful composition is formed.
3. Don't go to extremes when experimenting with styles. In pursuit of compliance with them, you can lose coziness or comfort.
4. Many different decorative elements - flower beds, garden bridges and sculptures can deprive the summer cottage of elementary aesthetics.

A ready-made landscape project for a site allows customers to save their money and time on developing a new concept and agreeing on working documentation. Ready-made projects will allow you to see how the landscape will look like on a personal plot after planting horticultural crops and plants.

If you need a ready-made solution for landscaping your personal plot, the landscape workshop "Fantasy Garden" will offer you a large selection of interesting and original solutions:

• for each project, plants for landscaping were selected, taking into account their decorative combination;
• plants from the same group have excellent opportunities for co-growing;
• many ready-made solutions will allow you to choose the best project for the improvement of your garden or suburban area;
• options differ in decorativeness and scale;
• such solutions make it possible to equip different areas of the adjacent territory: its borders, a place near a reservoir, a lawn.

It is not necessary to start landscape design from scratch. In many cases, it is much more appropriate to be able to use a ready-made plan that was previously developed for a site of a certain size, topography and soil.

Examples of finished landscape design projects

Examples of ready-made projects for landscape design of plots presented on our website will help you decide which of the proposed solutions will most harmoniously complement your garden plot or backyard area. Examples of hedges, groups of perennial and coniferous plants, lawn groups, decoration around a pond - our designers are ready to implement these and many other solutions on your backyard land.

Land owners are faced with the choice of inviting a fashionable and very expensive landscape designer to draw up a site improvement project or transform their homestead territory into a stylish suburban space on their own. Perhaps, having learned the basics of landscape design, you will do just as well as an invited decorator, since only the owners can know exactly what they really need to have on the site.

Peculiarities

Landscaping is the creation of a beautiful, harmonious and comfortable environment on the land. The main elements for this process are the house and other capital buildings: a garage, a bathhouse, a barn, a poultry house, a greenhouse. An aesthetic environment is artificially created around the structures.

In other words, so that from each viewpoint at the entrance to the courtyard: from the windows of the house, from the porch or terrace, on the way to the bathhouse or greenhouse, beautiful views open up. Finishing and construction of the house determine the style of decoration of the backyard territory.

Paths are a link for outbuildings and a means of convenient movement around the site. The layout of the paths can give the site a walking character or an active, energetic mood. A winding path visually expands the site.

Landscaping is an essential part of landscape design. Places for planting plants, their size, varieties and types are determined based on the requests of the landowner, compositional arrangement. The style of the site sets the tone for lawns and flower beds.

Artificial or natural reservoirs, streams, gazebos, fountains are included in the set of large decorative elements. Sculptures, flowerpots, compositions from peasant household items make up small architectural forms that are used to decorate the territory.

Lighting is a way to give decorativeness to the local area in the evening and at night, to create safe conditions for moving around the estate. The type of lamps, their height, brightness, location along paths or in flowerbeds form one or another unique landscape pattern in the dark.

Fences made of metal, stone, wood or hedges create a completely different perception of space. If you want to have a chamber adjoining territory, use dense high hedges. Sociable people will like the lightweight mesh or forged metal construction. High or low, dense or transparent, light or powerful fence - all this will affect the overall design of the site.

Thus, the house, outbuildings, landscaping, hydraulic structures, fences, lighting are tools for the exciting process of creating a living landscape picture.

In landscape design, there are mandatory rules, the observance of which will create a beautiful and harmonious view of the backyard territory. The first rule is the unity of design. The site design, made in the same style, looks better than the same site, divided into small stylistic pictures. This does not exclude the presence of small separate landscape zones - for example, a Japanese garden or a coniferous corner.

The second rule is the principle of uniform distribution of masses - balance. The mass of buildings is compensated by the mass of the garden. The size of the lawn should correspond to the size of the yard. The height of the fence - the size of the site. The size of the flower bed corresponds to the territory of the lawn. The distribution of building volumes, large trees and decorative architectural forms over the site can be symmetrical along the central axis of the site and asymmetric.

Helps in design - the principle of the golden section, or the rule of the triangle. The ratio of high accent volumes to low ones is selected, as 3x5x8. This rule applies both in building and in the organization of flower beds. Three or five high elements are evenly distributed on the site, for example, a house, a pear and an apple tree, and five low ones - three beds and two flower beds. Five large plants and eight small ones of the same species are planted in flower beds.

Plants in the flower garden are placed in tiers according to the following scheme - high in the background, in the middle a third lower, the border is another third lower. Color plays a big role in the organization of space. Blue shades remove the background, red ones bring it closer. Yellow gives a joyful, cheerful mood, and white - the color of romance. The light color of the foliage expands the boundaries of the site, the dark color narrows it.

Landscaping works are more convenient to carry out according to the drawings and diagrams that are included in the landscape project. A ready-made project for standard plots can be purchased at the appropriate workshop, viewed on the Internet or invited by a designer. For simple landscape ideas, you can create a project yourself.

Drafting a project

The first step is to explore the area, it is better to do this with the whole family. The location of buildings and green spaces depends on the size and shape of the site, orientation to the cardinal points.

Tall buildings are located in the northern part so that they do not obscure the site. Study the terrain for the use of elevation changes or ground leveling.

Examine visible visual accents in neighboring areas. They determine whether it will be necessary to decorate a blank wall of a neighboring house or barn, whether it is possible to use a tree with a beautiful crown that grows near the border of one's estate.

At the second stage, a building plan is created and everything necessary for the comfort of all households is placed. A plan of the land plot is drawn on a scale, schemes of buildings are applied. If this is your family estate, then you have to decide what to leave - a house with a family history or an orchard. A solid barn will last for many years or adult spruce trees are suitable for decorating a shady corner.

Then they determine what needs to be built, what functional tasks each weave will perform. Here, all family members must jointly decide which elements of the landscape are really needed. Preferences are chosen for organizing recreation and growing certain plants.

At the next stage, the layout of the tracks is drawn up and the material for finishing his canvas is selected. Width is calculated from standard sizes of at least 80 centimeters, this is the minimum comfortable value for the passage with a garden wheelbarrow.

The straightness or curvature of the paths is determined, the length and the required amount of building finishing materials are calculated. In wetlands, a drawing of the drainage system is additionally performed. Make an estimate for earthworks and drainage material: pipes, plums, expanded clay.

Separately or on the same plan, a diagram of the location of fixtures and the necessary electrical wiring is applied. The laying of electrical networks is carried out before the installation of tracks so as not to disturb the integrity of the roadway. The depth of the cable is taken in the middle lane 70 centimeters, for laying paths, the soil is taken out to a depth of 30 centimeters.

At this site of work, the placement of lamps is also determined. It is worth placing them along the path or just next to residential and commercial facilities. Will a decorative pond or flower bed be illuminated, what types of lighting will be required. If electrification of the site is not planned, then this scheme can be abandoned.

The next set of drawings is a detail of each zone. Marking beds, flower beds with a set of plants, a scheme for planting fruit or ornamental trees and shrubs. Such a plan is made by drawing the circumference of the crown of an adult plant. Crown sizes are in plant growing guides. This is done in order to avoid excessive planting density, the interweaving of crowns reduces the decorative effect and impairs fruiting.

For the competent location of buildings and green spaces and friendship with neighbors, building codes must be observed. Large structures, up to two floors high and tall trees are placed no closer than three meters from the border of the site, shrubs and low garden buildings - no closer than 1 meter. The house and outbuildings must be no closer than 5 meters to the red line of the street or 3 meters to the passage.

All these schemes are applied to a single master plan or make separate schemes, in the case of attracting individual specialists. Now there is a large selection of computer programs, even a person ignorant of the drawings will be able to complete a completely competent project.

Main zones

So, let's start planning the backyard territory. The main areas are the entrance area, yard area, garden, garden, recreation area, utility area. Additional may be a playground for active games, a pond, a swimming pool, a park with alleys, a forest corner with walking paths.

The entrance area includes a gate with a path to the porch of the house. It is advisable to fence off the entrance and parking with a garage with a hedge or place it on the other side of the building so that the entrance area smoothly passes into the courtyard.

The front entrance part is decorated in the style of finishing the building, the paving is made of hard wear-resistant material - stone, paving slabs or clinker bricks. The entrance area is decorated with flower beds and small architectural forms.

The garden or ornamental park area is set aside as a separate area on the north side of the property if there is sufficient space. In a small area, trees and shrubs are planted around the perimeter. This arrangement provides protection from the wind, creates a natural screen from prying eyes and leaves a sunny central part.

Rest zone- an indispensable attribute of country life, arranged at some distance from the house, decorated with an artificial reservoir, flowering shrubs. Here a shed with a platform for sunbathing, a gazebo with a barbecue grill or a summer kitchen with a wood-burning stove are being erected.

Designers offer to decorate a stylish place for a fire where large companies can gather. Such a recreation area is decorated with pebbles or stone, along the perimeter there are comfortable seats made of saw cuts of wood or circular benches made of gabions.

The garden area is located in the sunniest place. A vegetable garden and a greenhouse are often located in the far part of the land. This is not always justified, as there are difficulties with watering or care is difficult due to the distance of the location.

The new format of the vegetable garden is decorative, giving vegetable beds a beautiful modern look of fruit beds. Such beds can become a decoration of the front part of the site and be located in the courtyard area.

The household part - a poultry house, a workshop or a barn, is better to clean for trees and shrubs. Odors from the life of animals should not penetrate into the recreation area and onto the open terrace of the house. Keeping poultry and domestic animals will require allocation of space for them, fencing landings from damage. The chicken coop is given a decorative, neat look; guests will be happy to visit this living zoo corner.

Paths create a walking route and connect the zones with each other. In the economic part of the path, it is better to make it straight and wide for ease of movement with agricultural implements. Walking - may have turns. A curved effect with a semi-open perspective visually enlarges the area.

To do this, a beautiful shrub or a bright flower bed, or a small architectural composition is placed a little around the corner in the visibility zone. And you can put a bench at the next bend. The pedestrian is attracted to see the whole picture, it seems to him that the path goes further and further, revealing various secrets.

Having decided on the necessary zones, circles of different diameters are cut out of cardboard according to the shape of the building plan, imitating the crowns of trees, flower beds and beds on a scale. They are moved according to plan until a final decision is made. This process can be done with landscape design software.

It is better to make two or three options for sketches of future improvement. On the ground, you need to walk along imaginary paths, mentally imagine all the objects, how they relate to the terrain. After that, adjustments are made and the appropriate option is selected.

A landscape project made by professionals will contain the entire set of necessary drawings, each will be accompanied by an explanatory note with a specific type of building, finishing material, laying scheme and installation method. Each flower garden will be supplied with an explication of plants.

Taking a ready-made landscape project as a basis, you can begin an exciting creative process - the embodiment of suburban landscaping with your own hands.

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The selection of plants depends on the size of the site, soil composition, illumination, groundwater height and climatic factor. In the first place is the requirement for frost resistance of this type of plant. For landscaping, sustainable zoned varieties of fruit trees are selected. Then they will not have to be wrapped in insulation for the winter to a height of three or four meters, which clearly adds work to the gardener.

In small plots, fruit trees of medium height are picked up on dwarf rootstocks., columnar varieties of apple trees, shrub varieties of cherries and sweet cherries, chokeberry, plum, and blackthorn have proven themselves well. For decorative purposes, flowering shrubs are appropriate - mock orange, lilac, wild rose, viburnum, barberry. All of them are perfectly cut, they can be given a compact shape and used as a hedge.

The rules of landscape organization dictate the presence of a vertical accent. A single beautiful tree or shrub is called a tapeworm. It can be a tall, slender coniferous tree, and the conifers retain their functions as a compositional landmark even in winter. Western varieties of thuja winter well, unpretentious. They come in a wide variety of sizes, foliage colors and crown shapes, making them indispensable for creating hedges and setting the back of flower beds.

Beautiful and spectacular cereals, hostas, peonies, phloxes, irises are suitable for creating a low-maintenance flower bed. When planning the arrangement of a flower bed, you need to remember the rule of the triangle and balance. The background of 1-3 tall specimens, the middle of 5-8 lower plants, and the bottom is lined with a border of 8-13 miniature specimens.

Each species must be represented by at least three plants of the same color, otherwise it may turn out to be a vinaigrette.

Flower beds are classified as follows:

• round or square flower beds for placement in the front area;
• discounts- narrow flower beds along the paths;
• rock gardens or rockeries- rocky flower beds with ground cover plants;
• the most interesting - mixborders- a mixture of ornamental and flowering plants.

The scheme of the flower garden is developed on the basis of the same requirements for growing conditions. Otherwise, some of the plants will suffer from a lack of light or an excess of moisture, the decorative qualities will become worse.

It is better to focus on unpretentious varieties and species, but in the front areas they often arrange an unusual flower garden of exotic plants with a special reclamation system. You can find a suitable scheme on the Internet with the explication of the desired plant species.

Experienced flower growers select plants for the flower bed, taking into account the timing of flowering, so that it is decorative from May to October.

A spectacular technique was the creation of monochrome flower beds. Plants are selected in the same color scheme, they are supported by ornamental plants with a suitable leaf color. Creepers are used to create vertical gardening. They are planted next to supports in the form of arches or a cascade of arches.

Design styles

Plants for flower beds are selected in accordance with the design style of the entire site. Distinguish regular and natural style in landscape design.

regular style characterized by axial symmetry, symmetrical arrangement of flower beds, straight wide paths - alleys. All forms of flower beds have the correct geometric shape. Trees and shrubs are cut to give a clear shape to the crowns. Decorated with fountains, sculptures, flowerpots. Roses, peonies, jasmine, lilies, begonias, spruces, arborvitae look organically against the backdrop of classic brick cottages.

Natural style or English- This is a landscape garden or flower garden, where the colors create the natural diversity of the meadow. Vertical gardening is used from vines: clematis, morning glory, girlish grapes, Chinese magnolia vine, climbing roses. The paths have a winding shape, relief differences are used to create a dry stream or an original bridge with steps.

The shops are located in romantic places with a good view. Reservoirs have an irregular shape, the banks are decorated with hosts, ferns, irises, reeds or cereals.

I want to talk about the composition of the landscape project and the sequence of work. When we agree with the customer on the first meeting, I warn him that he must have a large margin of time, which I need in order to measure the site and take a photo. We also set ourselves tasks for the future design: whether a vertical layout is needed, what functional areas will be, what plants are preferable, etc. Based on the results of the meeting, a measurement plan is drawn and sent for approval.

Next, I offer two sketches. This is a master plan diagram - a top view of the entire site, with existing and future buildings, the main paths, and the plants are indicated by the total mass.

We are discussing these two options with the customer. We decide what to exclude and what to leave. Usually the final master plan consists of two proposed sketches. Minor changes may be made during the design process. When the master plan is approved, the necessary drawings are drawn for the project to be carried out in nature. If the site is on a difficult terrain, then I draw a vertical layout. With this drawing, earthworks can begin. In parallel with this, a layout drawing is made. All paths, retaining walls, platforms and buildings are marked and measured on it.

If necessary, fragments of improvement are worked out in detail. In this case, this is a section of a raised flower bed in the entrance area.

A very important part of the project is the balance of the territory. Different areas of the site are marked with color. This scheme is accompanied by a statement, which indicates the area of ​​​​the lawn and paving, how much the parking area occupies, the length of the retaining walls, the building area and recommended finishing materials. This information is needed when calculating the estimate and purchasing building materials, especially if the customer decides to do the construction himself.

So that the site does not flood, and the plants feel good, it is necessary to drain the water. In this image, the drainage scheme, trench section and retaining wall drainage.

Dendroplan. This is a drawing on which all plants planted on a given land plot are marked. For convenience, a grid is superimposed on the plan, and each plant is indicated in its adult state. For example, on this dendroplane, the grid is 5x5 meters, under the number 1 is Serbian spruce. It can be seen that the crown span of an adult tree will be approximately 3 meters. An assortment sheet is attached to the dendroplan, which indicates the serial number of the plant, its quantity, image and necessary recommendations. All plants are selected taking into account the overall design concept, biological and visual compatibility.

Usually, on the dendrological plan, I indicate large shrubs and trees, and I work out flower beds and decorative groups separately. In the diagram, a flower garden located in the entrance area. At the request of the customer, it consists of perennials that require a minimum of care, bloom throughout the summer, replacing each other.

The composition of the flower garden:
1. Tree hydrangea
2. Potentilla shrub
3.Japanese spirea
4. Soft cuff
5. Juniper Sky rocket
6.Aster bushy Blaubux
7. Alpine aster
8. Armenian Veronica
9. Carnation grass
10. Delphinium
11. Giant bow
A group of evergreen shrubs:

1. Thuja western Brabant
2. Thuja western Wareana Lutescens
3. Japanese spirea
4. Boxwood Evergreen
5. Carnation ground cover grass

As an additional decorative element, it is proposed to arrange a part of the fence with vertical gardening.

When the dendroplan is worked out, I know how to arrange landscape lamps. They not only illuminate the paths, you can also highlight a group of ornamental shrubs, or one especially beautiful tree. The layout of the lamps looks like this:

Irrigation scheme:

When all the drawings are ready, a master plan with an explication is formed.


The composition of the landscape project includes the development of LAF - small architectural forms. In this case, it is a barbecue gazebo and a children's area.

As a rule, only the visual part, that is, sketches, is developed for the project. Additionally, you can make a top view and a cut. Usually I do not draw nodes and structural elements, but the materials that I provide can serve as a detailed specification for the contractor who will undertake to build my structure. Also, the customer can send them to different contracting companies to calculate the cost of construction and choose the one that offers the most favorable conditions.

The playground is designed in a modern style. I believe that non-standard spaces form creative thinking in children, and minimalism inspires.