Cottage - the patrimony of an amateur gardener. Here are its beds, fruit trees and shrubs, as well as a place where you can relax your soul, forget for a while about the bustling city and its problems. To create the appropriate atmosphere, you need to decorate the garden area, the design with your own hands will give it more individuality and originality. There is no limit to imagination. You can create flower beds of an unusual shape. Any unnecessary things in the household are suitable: car tires, furniture, strollers, dishes, trolleys. Figurines of fairy-tale heroes or animals made of stone and wood can be used as decoration.
If the area of the site allows, a small artificial pond or alpine hill will perfectly fit into it. In search of inspiration, you can look through landscape design magazines, visit specialized sites and follow the advice of friends who have experience and have been able to transform their garden plot - making a summer corner with their own hands - is truly an exciting lesson.
Any business, especially such a grandiose one, should start with a plan so that the decorative elements look harmonious and do not interfere with rest and business plantings. If your site is small, then even a small flowerbed will become its highlight. A miniature flower garden is successfully located next to the veranda, porch of the garden house. You can plant a path with dahlias, crocuses, roses, tulips, lilies, placing them along it. This is the most grateful job - designing garden plots with flowers, perennial plants will delight you every year, and annuals (petunias, purslane, asters, marigolds, ageratum, zinnias) will help to give them a new look every time.
An artificial pond will radically change the landscape. To create it, there are special ready-made forms of plastic. You need to bring water to the reservoir, beautifully decorate the pipes and “banks” with stones. Of course, here you can not do without plants. They will give this wonderful corner to relax naturalness. Thinking over the landscape design of the garden, you need to consider which flowers in a certain place will look harmonious. For example, at the pond the fern of the host will organically look. And in the water itself - water hyacinth or water lilies. Benches can be installed near the pond. If you place lanterns near the water and put fish in a pond, you get a romantic place for walking and relaxation.
The alpine hill is also able to transform your garden plot, making this element of landscape design with your own hands requires some effort, but the result will amaze you. To create a rock garden you will need land and stones of various sizes. What to do next - your imagination will tell. The stones are picturesquely stacked on the laid earth, then, after it settles, it is planted with plants. Ground cover herbs, undersized shrubs, annual and perennial flowers are suitable. A great option to use pansies, phlox, daisies for this purpose.
Architectural elements complement the garden, do-it -yourself wooden arbors will give your cottage coziness and comfort. Here you can drink tea with friends on summer evenings.