People are engaged in vertical gardening in order to decorate a plot in the garden or a room in an apartment, office, private house. Sometimes this way of registration is necessary to hide flaws in the interior or divide the site into zones. What plants, designs are used for this, read the article.
Where is it used?
Vertical gardening is used not only in landscape design. The methods of its application are different:
- Decorated building. Such landscaping is popular in England. People here are transforming their homes with vines. Usually they cover one wall of the building. According to experienced gardeners, the advantages of this method are the ability to update the design, as well as hiding minor imperfections in buildings, such as the curvature of the walls.
- A favorable indoor microclimate is created at any time of the year. They look beautiful and create a special atmosphere of arbors in the garden and arches, twined with a vine of grapes and other plants from the form of climbing flowers. Those who have already been gardening recommend decorating their site in this way, since this creates a shadow, reduces the level of noise irritation.
- Vertical gardening in the country is used for zoning plots. For example, you need to fence off the gazebo for relaxation from buildings for various purposes that are available on the territory.
Plants
To perform vertical gardening with their own hands, those representatives of the flora are ideally suited for whom the composition of the soil does not matter, they do not feel the need for regular watering. Successfully used vines of all kinds, moss. But it all depends on the place of planting the plants on the site. If it is the north side, the use of cotoneaster, girl's grape, Japanese quince is considered the best option. On the south side, completely different plants should be planted: magnolias, clematis, honeysuckle, Chinese magnolia vine. On a site that has a western direction - wisteria, ropes, eastern - capuchins, hydrangeas. Plants for vertical gardening use annual and perennial.
Plants with a one-year life cycle
These include those that die after flowering. The next year, they need to be planted again.
- Sweet peas - flowers of a delicate plant are collected in fragrant clusters of different shades. It blooms for a long time, from the beginning of spring to frost. Seeds are self-sown and ripen beautifully for next year.
- Ipomoea is a winding annual plant. Thanks to the core leaves, you can create screens. These designs will be light and elegant. Flowers in the form of gramophones look spectacular. Flowers are self-sown.
- Beans - The plant has several varieties, but they all differ in curly stems up to three meters in length.
Perennial plants
They do not require annual planting, in one place they grow for a long time, without losing their decorative qualities. Some representatives of this group of plants are presented below:
- Actinidia - this plant for its amazing properties to change the color of the leaves is called a "chameleon". During blooming, they are bronze, a little later - green, after flowering - with pink spots, then become raspberry.
- Girl's grape is an amazingly beautiful plant. In autumn, its leaves acquire a raspberry-blackberry color. Differs in "creep", can cling to any surface.
- Round-leaved wood-cutting pliers - this is a vine, its powerful stems reach a height of 10 meters. It grows rapidly, large leaves turn yellow in autumn. Decorative fruits have an orange tint. It looks very impressive.
Moss in the landscaping
The use of this representative of the flora is a new direction in landscape design. In appearance, moss does not belong to catchy plants, it is quite inconspicuous. But, according to reviews of people who appreciate beauty, in the skillful hands of a master, he can turn into a surprisingly beautiful home decoration.
Its benefits include:
- Environmentally friendly and hypoallergenic.
- Lack of susceptibility to disease.
- Does not need watering, haircut, lighting.
- Long life span of approximately five years.
Vertical landscaping with moss is used to decorate the walls of houses and their roofs. Experts recommend using it even indoors, and in two versions: with one type of ornamental plant or several.
Benefits of Vines
If the vertical gardening of the plot in the garden or at the cottage is carried out independently, without the help of a designer, the best plants for this are vines. Their advantages are as follows:
- A huge variety that allows you to choose the shape of flowers, leaves, their color and even flavor: lobia, melotria, climbing roses and others.
- Plants grow quickly, so they can be grown to create different shapes.
- Planting vines is simple, and leaving - unpretentious.
Lianas are able to entwine any supports, for this they cling to them with their devices: shoots, stems, elongated petioles of leaves, roots, mustaches. An important advantage is landscaping using minimal areas, which is especially true for the conditions of the city. When choosing these plants for a small area, gardeners recommend using one variety of vines. If there are more, they will simply close each other and will develop poorly.
The use of climbing plants has several disadvantages that should be considered when creating a design for vertical gardening. These include:
- Walls with plants on them can damp if they are located in the north direction with respect to parts of the world. A mold will appear that needs to be fought.
- Plants during flowering in many people cause allergies. Neighbors must be reckoned with.
- Lianas calmly reach the roof of the house, as a result of which the water trenches become clogged.
Varieties of vines
There is a wide variety of these plants that are suitable for landscaping areas in the garden or in the country. But experienced gardeners recommend growing the following curly varieties for this:
- Ipomoea is an annual culture that has several varieties. The most commonly used purple variety. Its shoots grow up to eight meters long. Leaflets are very decorative, but small, appear in May. A month later, the stems are covered with flowers of exquisite funnel-shaped. Another variety is the red-blue morning glory. Its stems are even longer - 10 m. The main feature is that during rain the flowers do not close.
- Kobeya is a plant native to Mexico. Russian gardeners love to grow it for the incredible beauty of flowers with a diameter of eight centimeters. The only thing that is not very convenient is grown using seedlings. First you need to germinate the seeds, grow young plants in a pot, and in the first month of summer to plant in a permanent place.
- Mina, or lobed quamoclite - creepers are not very long, only three meters. But the inflorescences are large, 20 cm. They have an amazing shape: in the form of ears in two rows. Gardeners recommend growing a plant in their garden for landscaping, as you can get tremendous pleasure from the process itself. For cultivation, a seedling method is used.
Succulents
So called plants, the place of growth of which are arid regions, they are used to a constant lack of water. Moisture for life is stored in leaves and stems. Protected against evaporation by wax coating. Such plants are the most popular in landscaping, as they incredibly adapt very quickly to any growing environment and climate change.
- Sedum, or stonecrop - is characterized by a diverse form of leaves and shoots. In landscaping, it is used as an ampel and groundcover.
- Tradescantia - thanks to the ideal shape of the shoots, it is suspended in a pot, stalks launched on a support encircle it. It looks very beautiful.
- Crosses are small shrubs of small size, the long shoots of which hang down. It is grown as an ampel and groundcover. The leaves have a different shape: spherical, oblong-linear.
Designs for vertical gardening
Decorating your garden in this way is easy. After choosing plants, you should think about creating supports, without which they will not grow. The following design options are available:
- A lattice of timber laths for decorating the walls of buildings. You can buy it in a store or make it yourself. Any man will cope with this work, even without experience in this matter. The supports are attached to the wall together with stops so that air circulation is between the grille and the wall. Then small containers are made into which the plants will be planted. The side of contact with the wall of the building is insulated with a film so that moisture does not spread and does not cause mildew of the structure. Containers should be 20-40 cm wide. Their depth depends on the size of the root system of plants.
- A wire or cord stretched horizontally. To do this, nails are driven into the wall at a distance of 25-30 cm from one another, these will be supports. A wire is pulled between them. This design can be installed on the site. To do this, at the right distance two columns are knocked down and a wire is pulled into several levels. Such an impromptu wall can divide the site into separate zones.
- Plastic bottles - this idea is very practical, since you do not need to buy anything. The bottles should be fixed on a wooden grate in several rows. Then fill the soil and plant the plants.
- Pergola - is a decorative lattice made of plastic, metal or wood. It looks beautiful against the background of green plants and combines with other designs, such as arches.
- Hedgerow - it is considered a classic element of decor. This is a common fence, decorated with ornamental plants, such as beans, wild grapes, morning glory. Hedges can be trellises or screens, which are light and beautiful designs. They perfectly pass sunlight, strong enough to withstand climbing plants. A screen installed in the garden is a decoration element with which you can divide the plot into zones.
- Vertical flower beds - are considered a novelty in design. They are attractive due to their unusualness, as well as the fact that they occupy a little free space of the garden. To create them, use containers for the garden, located at different levels in height. From plants suitable ferns, ampelias, greens, herbs, vegetables.
- Hanging containers, flowerpots, boxes - the use of such structures is called container gardening. Tanks are placed vertically against the walls, they decorate buildings for any purpose, located on the site. Flowerpots are used to decorate terraces, patios. According to gardeners, the plants of the ampel type are more suitable: pelargonium, petunia, begonia.
Vertical gardening in the apartment
Any apartment has various items and elements. Vertical gardening can become its central part or destroy the overall composition. Therefore, you need to approach the decoration of your home responsibly. Gardening can be created in various ways:
- The easiest option is to use wooden or chrome racks up to the ceiling. They have containers with plants. If the walls do not have space, use a floor stand, which in the composition often becomes the center.
- Phytomodule for vertical gardening - this design consists of boxes suspended in rows. Pots with plants planted in them are positioned in them at an angle.
- Planters suspended from the ceiling or walls. Climbing plants are suitable for growing in them. Instead of pots on wooden panels, you can drive in nails and place mugs or flower teapots on them.
- A panel of plants related to succulents - for this, small pots are used, which are placed in boxes of small height. Between them, the free space is filled with decor material: moss, straw, burlap. In this way "draw" the picture. For this, the outline of the applied pattern is filled with succulents.
- Moss pattern - for this, in a blender, it is mixed with water and a gel that retains moisture. This mixture is applied with a brush to a surface of concrete or wood. The care is simple - spray the picture once every seven days.