Building paths on the garden area
How to build paths from artificial materials on your garden area.
Sometimes unimportant small details completely change the way something looks as a whole. So trivial paths in your garden area can totally change its appearance and highlight host’s individuality. A typical path can visually divide the territory into the vegetable plot and the leisure area at the same time combining them into a whole. The peculiarity of patterns formed by the paths is obtained by combining linear, geometrically-balanced style with free-form style, but in any case paths network should be thought out in every detail – from their placement to dimensions, especially if the garden area is small. Designers advise avoid right angles when building the paths – it is more elegant and comfortable if the path has a smooth turn.
Do-it-yourself garden paths
If people regularly move between point A and point B, it definitely must be a path between these points. As a rule, there are more than two or three such points, so a whole “net of paths and trails” is needed here.
Paths in a garden, apart from their main function, almost always perform decorative function, therefore their type and appearance should be directly tied to the style of a garden, which you choose.
The width of paths depends on their purpose: main “highways” – 1-1.5 m, less important – 0.5-1 m, and trails between plantings (if you are not a follower of Mittleider) – not more than 0.5 m.
Creation of flower bed design
Advices on how to design a flower bed!!
A flower bed is a bed of a particular form: round, oval, square, diamond, rectangular or asymmetrical.
Flower beds can be flat or raised, flowers can be planted randomly or in a definite pattern. Depending on a form flower beds divide into simple and composite beds and depending on filling on regular and irregular.
Regular flower beds can be used for creating patterns on them. It is important that flowers on such a bed bloom simultaneously and distinct borders was kept between beddings.
Hand-maid bench. How to build a bench.
A very important attribute of a garden, a cottage or a yard near country home is a bench or backless bench. Without such, at first glance, simple object even the most beautiful spot of your garden or yard can become uncomfortable. How it is pleasant to sit enjoying beauty of nature. To spend time outdoors sitting and talking or reading a book. Many people remember how they sat on a bench in early spring or late autumn and basked in the sun. And how it is uncomfortable and cheerless when you want to stay outdoors longer, but there is nowhere to sit. Your eyes all the time look for something suitable for sitting, and after all you sadly return home.
So what kind of bench to choose for your garden and how to place it properly.
World wonder of six Ares
If desired, even six Ares may be transformed into a lovely place to enjoy the eye.
Let’s get started with a fence. Just think what you like: a delicate hedge or a fence separating you from the outer world. In these two cases the best choice will be an availability of plants of various species. An evergreen cypress, yew, juniper, thuja will be the most suitable for a high hedge. For a small hedge a barberry will be ideal. Due to these wonderful plants on these six Ares one may set a beautiful place or to enclose a meadow. In the case your plot appears to be on a hill, one may lay out a rock-garden.