Your country area can not be called flat even with a big stretch? We suggest how to turn the lack of dignity and it is beautifully arranged.
Steps leading deep in the garden, perfectly play the drops of complex relief
The bench embedded in the slope forms a comfortable and unusual place to relax. The use in this way the multi-tier plot will help make it more comfortable and equipped.
Sound, plots with a complex relief occur very often, and far from each of the owners rejoices such doubtful luck and strives to "defeat the nature", aligning the surface to a state close to the ideal. Maybe not worth it? After all, if the difference is really great, the reorganization will require not only solid physical efforts, but also serious financial injections, so the renewed area risks the gold in the literal sense of the word. How to be? Yes, very simple! If the disadvantage cannot be hidden, treat it as a dignity. If only because relief differences create "third dimension" in the garden and visually increase its territory. So, what can you come up with in our uneven situation?
A multi-tier terrace is able to turn into a base for original flower. The main thing is to choose the right plants to taste such "hard conditions" of life on stony steps
1 Natural zoning
It is this result that you will receive if you begin to align only individual fragments of the site. Such an approach will help to save on the design of boundaries for each of the zones: In this case, no partitions, nor the screen, nor the taperes, the existing relief drops without that visually emphasize the contours of each of the corners. If at the same time there are both smooth areas, and irregularities, zones can be distinguished according to the principle of similar relief and come up with original design for each of them. This visually increases the space of the site and will create some intrigue.
On terraces, blooming plants will not block the beauty of each other
2 Retain wall
To emphasize the natural relief in the garden, and from practical considerations. To build anything at the crossed terrain costly and besides unsafe, and therefore, they will have to do terrace. If the slope is too cool, these works can be fragmented, if gently - limit the low retaining walls that do not require capital foundation and look like long steps with a height of no more than 80 cm. They can easily be turned into an original flower garden. It is quite real and "alpine" option - a wall laid out of natural stones located with some intervals. After the end of work in these niches, unpretentious "Alpians" are planted or, for example, a variety of mosses.
The retaining floor-flower bed is composed of flat stones
3 fruit garden
The zoning of the site can be carried out by existing planes and slopes. Then this process will be less costly.
You will not believe: it is the slope - an ideal place for such landings, but provided that it is not north. The fact is that the fruit trees do not tolerate the stagnation of moisture and excessive convergence, and the bone cultures are cherries, cherries, plums - generally love to grow on the slopes. Tip: In order for watering the water to do not flow down, make up the landings of bulk sides or take the rigorous circles with low plastic curbs.
Molded with comfort, settled on the square with a minimum soil
4 flooring, podiums and bridges
On the slope you can start the stream, at the lowest point, setting up a garden pond with water plants
In any garden, the platforms for recreation are needed, and the complex relief involves their original arrangement. The basis for such corners is capable of becoming flooring from a tree or decong, set on the columns. It will cost much cheaper than to level the future "Paul", to make a screed, and then acquire and lay material for paving. Another incomprehensible plus of uneven relief is the ability to receive useful spaces literally from emptiness, without making artificial embankments. For example, on a steep slope, you can build a platform on piles, and over any depression put a wide bridge and turn it into the zone for relax. Bridges - Nakhodka for any garden, but if the territory relief does not support this idea, they will look at least ridiculous.
The high podium can be turned into an observation platform with which it is so nice to admire the panorama of the site
Functional can be used by purpose: move through streams or arrange improvised holidays. Decorative, substantially smaller in size, serve exclusively for beauty and at the same time are able to disguise non-psycho relief differences. According to design, sizes and textures, these objects can be very diverse: high and low, straight and corrosive, wooden and metal, stone, brick and even concrete. But do not forget to "look around" on the style, in which the design of the entire site is constructed, and on the materials used when creating this decor.
But whatever you prefer, there are rules, mandatory for all designs. First, any bridge requires a robust frame. Secondly, if the bridge is needed not only for beauty, bother to put it on a durable and reliable foundation so that the exploitation of a cute object is safe. Decorative products in serious preparation do not need, and the railing for them can be made it even from thick branches.
The place for the reservoir is better to choose in the lowest point of the site, then the preparatory work will be minimized
Alpinarium - entertainment is not like that, since it needs a specially prepared relief. But if nature has already tried for you, consider that the case is half done, and, that is nice, without the least costs. All that will be needed - stones, gravel dumping and actually plants themselves. Is your plot completely located on the slope? Then forget about the terracement and place the entire territory in the Alpine style: arrange the tracks in the form of stairs and equip two smooth sites - for the dining area and for rest.
Svetlana Maricheva
Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "My beautiful garden"