The neighbors say: "We decorate the summer cottage with our own hands!". And I want to be happy for them, because, having stepped behind the gates of someone else's territory, you find yourself in a fairy tale. How does an elderly couple manage to revive a small house and six hundred square meters with the help of several dozen flowers?
The hostess shares a secret: she tries not to throw out old things, but use them as ornaments and flowerpots for phloxes, primroses, chrysanthemums and bells. She also does not refuse steppe grasses: the beds are separated not only by high boards, but also the steppe feather grass.
"If we decorate the summer cottage with our own hands, then we choose plants that do not get sick after transplanting and give abundant color for several seasons in a row, preferring to sow nearby nearby," says the welcoming summer resident. Snapdragon and petunia coexist perfectly with each other, and digitalis favors the bell. Pansies are generally universal, if they are planted in the foreground and Turkish cloves or zinnias are placed behind them.
Zelenkhoz experts say: gladiolus can’t tolerate any neighborhood. These proud flowers are not suitable for mixed plantings, so select for them a separate plot and a separate fence.
Lovely women in overalls share a secret: “We decorate the cottage area with our own hands after we dug up the garden. Now you can bring land to the old car if the engine compartment is freed from the engine. We plant flowers in it that grow in height no more than 10 cm and have a root system located on the surface of the earth. And you should consult with sellers and buy several types of plants, preferably seedlings, to bloom faster. "
Psychologists advise inviting children to participate in the development of a plan for decorating the yard. Let them proudly refuse to play, telling their friends: “Today we decorate our summer cottage with our own hands!” Teach them to combine colors so that the flowerbed does not look like a spot where ridiculous colors float, but is striking in its eyes with variegation. Do not plant raspberry and pink asters, blue bells and lilac carnations in rows, as the shades of these colors evoke a dream.
Imagine that you have acquired an undeveloped summer cottage. You can’t do it yourself for the first year yourself, but as soon as the house is ready, be sure to give it an “appetizing” look from the outside so that the neighbors passing by say: “What a caring hostess lives here!” To do this, it is not necessary to decorate the walls with climbing plants, it is enough to arrange, for example, a flower bed with a birdhouse in the center.
“We decorate the summer cottage area with our own hands, and do not use the services of designers!”, Say the participants of the Usadba television channel, starting to talk about how long they thought over the configuration of the fence. One cannot but praise those who built this miracle.
For exotic lovers, experts advise decorating arbors with grapes. If you prune it in time, then you can get not only natural shelter from the rain, but also the fruits that you eat. Hop feels great on the porch of the house and on the veranda, if you pull up more threads vertically. For lemongrass, 2 metal rods per plant are enough for it to encircle the walls of the gazebo, and Actinidia adores the plastered walls of country houses.