Design suburban area of ​​10 acres

How annoying the megalopolis is in the summer, and how I want to spend a few hours in a cozy cottage. There is another air outside the city, and if you have not only beds, but also a gazebo, a mini-garden, a children's corner, a small pond, you can be considered a real salvation from the “asphalt” hustle. If we approach the matter in a practical and prudent way, it is quite possible to envisage so many zones in one area.

Let's draw on paper what we want to form in reality. It is necessary to take into account the features of the relief, the structure of the soil, the illumination. It is very important to first determine the main purpose of the problem.

Having set such a task, on the plot it is necessary to take the place of the house, bath, garage, and give everything else to the pleasures associated with staying in the fresh air.Depending on your imagination, place a swimming pool near the house, gazebos a little further away for feasts, add an original fountain, alpine slides, and pergolas for climbing plants. If you like artificial reservoirs, then by all means plan a pond. And between all this - flower beds, lawns, lawns, playgrounds.

If you are going to use the cottage as a source of vegetable raw materials for winter harvesting, then two-thirds of the area will have to be occupied by beds, gardens and greenhouses. And the garden will need the south-eastern side for good lighting. The rest will remain a small corner in which only a bench with a shed and a flower bed can fit.

This is the most sought-after solution, when the site is where to work and relax. Provide beds for strawberries, dill, parsley. They can be decorated with ornamental shrubs and fruit trees. The rest of the place is given to beauty - a gazebo, a chaise lounge are made, an artificial lake is dug up, and the picture is completed with vertical flower arrangements.

When choosing an artistic direction,in which you are going to sustain your 10 acres, think about whether the pomposity and coldness of the huge dachas, on which designer minds worked, are straining you. Probably, it is better to focus on comfort, comfort, and soulfulness.

• It is worth exploring a regular style. It is simple, with neat lines and geometric shapes, it implies a smooth cutting of bushes, lawns, symmetry in flower gardens. A distinctive feature is the grooming and inadmissibility of spontaneously grown branches or grass.

• Landscape style more relaxed. The dominant picture is a natural natural corner. Sprawling shrubs, tall perennial flowers, and coniferous elements are good for landscaping. The stream or waterfall emphasizes the triumph of the natural landscape.
• Many gardeners like rustic style. The overall outline is a provenance, retro, national motif. Wattle, carts, jugs of clay, sunflowers, modest flowers - all nice, reminds of an old courtyard, where it is so good to get lost and retire.

10 acres - not a small area, it is quite possible to put an orchard, and pine alley. Trees should not be located at random; a clear calculation is needed for them, which includes the forecast for growing crown, wind rose, soil structure, shading and other aspects. It is customary to plant fruit trees on the north side so that they do not interfere with the sun’s rays to illuminate the beds. The height also "equals" in the north - the most short-growing specimens are planted on the south side.

Conifers are well suited to achieve a decorative effect. They are unpretentious, can serve as a green hedge, clean the air well and give a lot of imagination to the designers of the site. More often than other landscape designers prefer pine, juniper, thuja.

Thuja is ideal for a variety of compositions. It is only necessary to take into account the peculiarities of the varieties: stunted (Danica, Dorrit Little), for a hedge (Brabant, Smaragd); for a single landing (Kornik, Reinhold). These hvoyniki always look solemn, ceremonial. At the same time they perform the functions and decoration, and protection from prying eyes.

At the southern latitudes, summer residents actively use such fragrant flowering shrubs as jasmine, barberry, bulldonezh and others for decorative purposes.

No cottage is complete without flowers. Flowerbeds or free "spots" create a sense of celebration, elegant interior. With proper selection of planting material, you can admire the new buds opened from early spring to frost.

If you do not have the opportunity to constantly care for floristic compositions, stop at perennials and bulbous plants. Pick up their range of colors in order to form a multi-colored carpet. However, someone likes single bushes of lilies, irises, crocuses, autumn crocus, here everything depends on the site owners' own preferences.

If you think well of the layout of the perennial flowers and originally dilute them with annuals, you have a chance to give yourself a real riot of colors and an “explosion” of inspiration.

Designers offer the following options for planting flowers. The strip, located as the rim of the lawn. Unusually look for such a "finish" stonecrop, pelargonium, chistets, decorative silver wormwood

Border - a kind of "fence" along the lawn. You can use ageratum, marigold, dwarf undersized asters.More and more fashionable and mixborders are multi-level flowerbeds on which flowers are selected so that they bloom all the time.

Interesting options for decorating the garden gives vertical gardening. He has a second important function, practical. With the help of properly placed climbing plants, you can “drape” a gazebo or hide an ugly facade.

Clematis is an unsurpassed option for live garlands on gazebos, verandas, and pergolas. This amazing plant has an endless variety of shapes and colors. The branches of clematis are woven together so tightly that they ideally protect from the scorching rays, and even from the rain.

A pleasant, soothing range of petals uniquely accentuates other flowers planted against the background of vertically decorated arches or rock garden. True, in central Russia, clematis itself can create excessive moisture in the soil and get wet, so you should not place this stunning variety on the northern, cool walls.

For clematis you need an eye and an eye. It grows very intensively and unravels, and if you do not follow its pruning, you can “lose” under the branches of a window or even the doors of a veranda or porch. But clematis is beautiful in its well-groomed appearance; no other plant is able to compete with it in terms of showiness and brightness of the appearance of vertical gardening.

Although many gardeners like more modest options for landscape design. They believe that hops, decorative grapes, as well as bright sweet peas, decorative beans also confirm the subtle artistic taste of the owners of 10 acres.

Perhaps, the alpine slide, as well as the stone structure imitating rock, rockery, are the most exotic and attractive elements of your site. They emphasize the primordial nature, and if desired, they can be made with your own hands.

It is best to place these designs next to the seating area, then your eye over a cup of tea will always rest on beauty.

It is necessary to take into account the specifics of several important steps:

• You need to start with the creation of drainage, otherwise groundwater can ruin all your plans.A 40-cm hollow is made in the soil, into which the expanded clay or sand of coarse-grained fractions is poured.
• Lay natural stone. It is better that the stones have an uneven surface, then they look more like wild. There is no point in adhering to symmetry here. Everything should resemble a mountainous landscape, and for an alpine slide, granite mixes up with cobblestones randomly. Gaps between them are filled with soil, which must be allowed to rest for several days.

• Rockery "folded" easier. Here the stones can be monotonous. Nearby it will look good pond or waterfall.
• On a hill or in rockeries it is more practical to plant plants that do not require special care. It is also suitable for decorating moisture-loving flowers.
• If you decide on a pond, then the extraordinary solution will be the addition of its water lilies. It will not be easy to grow water lilies, but imagine how this zest of the villas of your guests will shake.

A great component of landscape design will be any body of water. As a rule, pond, lake, waterfall are the semantic center of the site. Therefore, they are placed in the most picturesque point of the garden.Although some like streams or fountains and on the green lawn.

Those who do not have time to devote themselves to creating a complex structure from scratch, can buy a ready-made artificial reservoir. This is a large water vessel made from plastic and metal elements.

The most enthusiastic summer residents spread cascade on their own. Here you will need to dig a pit, bordering it with natural stones. Then take up the creation of elevation changes, so that the water flow gently drains downward.

Lovers of the noise of water and the effect of splashes crashed on the stones, it is necessary to calculate everything so that the flows are directed between the boulders. It is still better to entrust the matter to professional builders and designers.

In addition to the pond and cascade, the garden makes an artificial stream a paradise. Its course is laid out by landscape artists in such a way that dams arise, rapids - that is, the stream just murmured. When he heads around the alpine slide, rockeries, gazebos, you will feel an amazing state of bliss from the contemplation of the living water and music perception of its jets.

Adherents of special innovations on 10 acres have already successfully tested springs.Due to the different nozzles on the waterway, it is easy to change the spring regimes. An elegant geyser or calm bell will personify the power and energy of this reservoir. In general, a spring is an artificial tank with water hidden under the ground. The principle of operation is a closed loop. Water is ejected by a spring using a pump, and then flows into the drive.

The best place to build a gazebo on the site is a shady hill. Near it is logical to break the rose garden, flower beds, you can put the plants in pots and in pots. If there is a desire to green a gazebo with greenery, special lattices should be provided. Everything should work for privacy and peace.

Gazebos are built from different materials. Many finished designs are offered for sale. The most environmentally friendly material is wood. The roof often made of tiles. Floors should be laid out of stone - the most durable option.

An important functional and decorative role is played on the track section. Their directions, on the one hand, zone the territory, on the other - pave the route to attractive summer cottages.

A very practical place in the modern suburban areas is the barbecue area. This is a platform for cooking in the fresh air. It is better to cover the barbecue and barbecue area with a shed.

For reasons of fire safety, you should not have an area near the house. It will suit the remote free space.

Gone are the days when people came to their 10 acres only to weed the beds. Now many in the season constantly live in country houses and turn them into a family vacation spot. To achieve comfort, to design a summer cottage as a territory of comfort, you can quite independently.

A few important tips on arranging the dacha can be seen in the following video.