Slesh is permitted! This phrase does not better reflect the cherished dream of many daches. But is it unattainable, as it seems at first glance? Believe me, reasonable laziness will not affect the beauty of the garden.
Garden for work or garden for recreation? A passionate collector of new products or rare plants, a business woman and a lover of kebabs in the fresh air is different priorities. But the one whom we decided to call the lazy gardener will never allow you to confuse, he knows exactly: the garden is for and need to relax in it! At the same time, you can collect rare orchids and contain a collection of spicy herbs, to be a rosary and strawberry plantation - and everything for getting outdoors surrounded by beautiful plants to bring pleasure from the results achieved. And this is quite achievable, but under one condition: you will comply with the seven golden rules of the lazy gardener.
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1 recreation areas
Give the priority of the territory for recreation. When planning the site, immediately select a plot for this purpose that fully meets your interests and lifestyle. Once than the cheerful company grabbed one mangal, and now even an expensive garden furnace will not be a key to a comfortable stay, if there is no benefit of civilization. Hence the new design standard - a full-fledged vacation in nature with all attributes of urban life. Comfort lovers, most likely, decide to equip a well-equipped green cuisine in the garden. Here you can quickly organize a feast, and it is easy to remove from the table, and peacefully relax on garden sofas-swing.
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Council
Organize the space so that there is enough space not only for a large company, but also for a solitary rest, and the established life did not violate unity with nature. It is not necessary to order an expensive project using exclusive materials and equipment. Simple solutions will work at no worse. The main thing, do not forget that the comfort has another component: maintenance and alignment of the territory for rest and everything that is located on it should be as easy and convenient, as well as its use.
2 platforms and tracks
Expand the area of tracks and platforms by reducing the volume of flower beds and lawn. Decorative paving provides physical comfort, emphasizes the layout, makes a feeling of order and reduces the volume of work on the care of plants. A solid coating of tiles, paving slats, road bricks or wild stone is more practical than a soft coating of gravel, brick crumbs or rocks of rocks, often overgrown with weeds and absorbing soil.
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Flower module, placed in the center of a powerful platform, will not quickly overload weeds
To colorful thickets please you as long as possible, use the varieties of all flowering time - from the earliest until later
3 Right plants
Choose plants that are equally comfortable for you, and for your garden. For example, if you are not adapted to the warehouse of character, plant large plants so that perennial weeds cannot drown them. Such a "trifle", how to sick, the slide creeping and the stiff stiff, is not afraid of Volzhanka and Rogers, Athonites and Buzulnikas, Poskonniki and Chinica (Labaznik Kamchatsky), which differ not only with spectacular inflorescences and leaves, but also impressive sizes, as well as durability. In order not to divide and do not replant the crossed the curtains of garden colors, create a composition of durable solid decorative shrubs or disembarking rhizable perennials that are slowly, but surely moved to the side of the original landing. You only need to periodically reduce expanding overgrown to the desired volume. If, on the contrary, such "free behavior" bothers you, avoid plants with creeping rhizomes and stems. And of course, the right choice of the place and the preparation of the soil is important.
Ferns, Floxes and Hydrangea - Excellent company, as if specially created for the "lazy" garden
Green hostes and ferns, bright buczital and fluffy thua - all these plants require a minimum of worries
Powerful buznotie (in the photo in the center) perfectly fits soloist
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It is more practical to select those types and varieties that will be comfortable on the site. First we decide where the landings are needed, and carefully study the features of this place (soil, illumination, moisture mode, wind protection). Then choose a group of plants likers (decorative or fruit, deciduous or coniferous, annuals or perennials). After from a variety of options, choose those that in all criteria correspond to the features of the site.
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Asian lily will be decorative even in Spartan conditions
4 No weeding!
Mulching is a sure way to defeat weeds. Do not remove fallen leaves from the garden - they will fit both under shrubs, and trees. Timely mulching of the ground surface under strawberries, raspberries and vegetable beds completely eliminates the weeding. Such weeds, like booms or mocities, die off, deprived of light under the layer of loose organic matter. Another "lazy" commandment: mow where there is no time. Weeding - heavy work, and regular mowing is shuffling weeds. Compactly position the decorative landings so that the trimmer is easily jammed flower beds and made everything excess under the bushes and trees. So you are without much difficulty lead the garden in order. And when the opportunity, some kind of corner of the garden can be processed more carefully, coming to aggressive weed roots. On places not occupied by landings, regular hiding herbs will help turn green jungle into completely tidy, well-groomed lawns and herbal paths.
Mulched track
As a mulch, you can use cedar nuts, fine gravel, decorative ottump from painted chips
Plants, decorative in the autumn period, not so much, but the brightest paints will give trees and shrubs with spectacular foliage
5 Only reliable solutions
Choose plants in which you are sure that you will definitely offer you. Hydrangea tree is spectacular and easier to care than hidden metering and garden. Asian lilies bloom perfectly even with newcomers, unlike tubular or oriental. Pumpkins and zucchini lined in the sun are guaranteed to give a harvest and will cost without watering (which you can not say about cucumbers). Several apple trees on the lawn - and you will have a luxurious fruit garden. From berry shrubs durable, reliable and decorative red currant. In the spring you will be delighted with juicy piquant-icy cutlets rhubarb - cherry-red, pink or apple-green.
The contrast duo of many years of astra and turquish will give the autumn garden to the special charm
6 carpets and thickets
Some spring ephemeeroids are easily naturalized under the canopy of trees and shrubs, forming floral carpets. Pay attention to Snowdrops, Siberian, Siberian, Spring, Spring, Anemone (oak and buttercile) and hurry. On the spring lawn, the blue emphasis creates Hionodox. It looks great against the backdrop of a wakeful green lawn Pösta scattering of yellow, white, purple and lilac crocuses.
7 All the freshest - on the country table
What kind of rest can we talk if you have to collect currants or gooseberries or rush cucumbers?! Get rid of yourself from experiences for a dying harvest is absolutely difficult. Just cut to a reasonable limit number of fruiting bushes, trees and beds. In addition, cultural plants that you did not have enough time and strength, lose its yield, and over time, they turn into a seatingman of diseases and pests, infecting neighboring bushes.
Beans.
Zucchini Orange
Plan a landing landing. If you forgot to ask the size of an adult tree, a meter sapling in ten years can turn into a large problem. A decorative shrub, differing in a faster growth, will require strong and frequent trimming - this is an extra work that could be avoided at the planning stage. Implement modern technology and innovations of selection facilitating life.
Svetlana Maricheva
Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "My beautiful garden"
