Nine ideas of a small garden

Curious ideas can be learned from the experience of famous designers, representing their creations at the international exhibition of flowers in Chelsea.

Inserts of stone masonry (its imitation is possible with natural stone facing) are visually softened by the confused borders of the cavulus of Czczuchy purple, Veronika Prix, Bodyak and Gravity

Priority "circles" in this case have the shape of squares laid down on the contour of the stone. It protects the roots of trees from pulling and at the same time supports the rhythm given by rectangular openings in the walls.

At the site near the reservoir, unusual chairs made of concrete was placed. And the finish is echoing with the texture of small gravel, and the juicy purple color of the polished seats - from the gentle-pink color of the walls. Elegant detail- Sun clock on the wall

"Lazy", the relaxing atmosphere of the garden is created by a warm beige tone of the plates of the site, steps of the staircase and the tree of sun beds. The greens of fragrant herbs and a low-trimmed hedge of the samshet, the surrounding platform, soothes feelings

Over the other side of the pond is growing European Oliva (in our climatic conditions, it can replace silver sucker). For the same to arrange the non-stitched sphere, it is quite suitable for the mellite chamber. Successful emphasis adds a concise composition from rounded stones

Original details - coasters for cocktails, fixed on high metal supports next to sun beds

The ramp track rises from a hemispherical lawn at the lower level and passes over the rocky part of the garden. It ends with a round platform, which overlooks the whole garden. Such a location of various zones on several levels allows you to fit into the minimum area

Plants planted in special elongated containers and vases can be rearranged, similar to modules in the constructor. Metal railing is very unusual and decorative. Their radius extension allows you to visually increase a very small platform.

The rectangular green canopy over the recreation area is formed from the crown of the grab using a simple support structure attached to the branches of the tree. The trunk is surrounded by a living hedge

In the country villages, private possessions are often closely adjacent to each other. And after the construction of houses and household buildings on them, such a small piece of land remains that the hosts over its arrangement have to break their heads pretty. The shortage of a free square around the house makes its owners with particular attention to simple functional solutions for the design of the front part of the garden, flower beds and recreation areas. Curious ideas can be learned from the experience of famous designers, representing their creations at the international exhibition of flowers in Chelsea.

"Sensual" garden

Freshly cast glass panels form a transparent frame. The picturesque view of the flower garden and the reservoir opens through it. The dark laying of stone creates a feeling of the depth of perspective when planning the garden should not forget about small spaces, sandwiched between unsightly economic buildings of their and neighboring sites. It makes sense to look closely to the inner courtyard formed due to the complex configuration of the house. On these "lost" square meters, you can arrange a small kindergarten with a cozy platform for recreation. The leading role in its design is able to play either already existing walls and fences (concrete or brick), or decorative walls that are blinking not particularly attractive landscapes. A bright plaster or special paint vertical surfaces will become an excellent background for plants and small architectural forms, determine the colorful range of flower beds, tracks and sites, the overall mood of the garden.

When creating his garden, Fiona Laurenson's designers and Chris Moss took the pink color, supported by a light brown filling from gravel and a light tiled in a water branch finish. Composition from multi-level areas and a small rectangular lake miraculously fit flower beds regularly, with landscape planting style of plants slightly softens clear garden lines. Saturated green color shall be drawn up with bright raspberry and purple inflorescences of roses, Mac East, Peony, Gravity, Salvia, Georgin. The graphics of the dark branches of Quarters of the ordinary adds to the elegant appearance of the garden the necessary emphasis (in our climate, instead you can use a dwarf apple tree). A row of thin rowan rowan (Fastigiata) repeats the rhythm given by narrow vertical openings in the wall.

It introduces its intrigue alternation of plastered surfaces and inserts from natural stone - it creates the illusion of a larger space. Even a small rectangular reservoir is included in this game, as if led into the opening of the open door. Considerable importance is attached to a combination of various textures. So, the smooth monotonous surface of the walls covered with plaster creates a calm, relaxing atmosphere. Stone inserts are brought into the garden appearance natural expressiveness. The aside of massive chairs, rough outside, suddenly turn out to be polished.

Garden in pots

In the Great Vazon, the composition of the onion of decorative, molding, cochanit and stamps will be worse. And the gaps between the plants and stones can be reeded with small multi-colored gravel areas on which the front zone is combined with the access road and the entrance to the garage, the phenomenon is typical. At the same time, a solid facing designed to withstand the weight of one or several machines, covers almost the entire area in front of the house, and there are no places for flower beds. Something similar happens in the country towns like "Town House": due to the features of the planning and principle of buildings, only a few meters are provided for the design of the front entrance, and those in advance are paved. But even in this case, it is not necessary to give up an individual appearance to its site. A variety of terracotta or glazed vases with chrysanthemums, zonal pelargonium, hydrangea of ​​garden and eucalyptus by spherical, any facade will be revived. Some indoor plants are suitable, such as Fuchsia. In winter, all this beauty will need to be transferred to the house.

In one of the large vases you can place a miniature rocky garden. It is better to take advantage of the plants that successfully coexist in open soil, for example, on Alpine slides.

Lazy Salad Days

Every good hostess in the midst of summer I want to have fresh greens on the table, especially if it is grown on their own beds. And even if there is a little free space, you can create a stylish decorative garden, aligning it, say, with a seating area.

In this garden, fragrant beds are planted with spicy herbs and vegetables. Good combined with each other oregano, thyme, basil purple, coriander (Sort "Amber"), Parsley Curly, dill (grade "Mushroom", "Salute"), lavender narrow-hearted. Larger "inhabitants" Ogorod-Ogran Large and Belvillesky, Green and Purpural Salad Grade ("Kuchecher Odessa", "Lollo Rosso"). A rich selection of varieties leaves the owners the widest field for exciting experiments. Anad picturesque beds-flowerbeds are arranged wooden sun beds, ideal for sunbathing. So on several square meters there are two "floors", each of which performs its function. The resulting composition is completed by a low intermittent border of the strollers with the approaches to the sun beds. You can use a dwarf shrub Barbaris Tunberg (Kobold) instead of the Samsite.

But there is here, it turns out, and one more level is a small tube, laid in a neat "crack" between sandstone plates. He originates from a fountain having a rock mask, - water gently falls on the pebbles and travels past sun beds and green hedges.

The additional feeling of comfort gives this secluded corner a small retaining wall supporting a higher terrace. There come there, overcoming several steps located on the right. And although such functional structures often fall out of the design of the site, they can also be very effectively used. For example, as the garden designer Paul Martin did. It has decorated the side wall and several steps of elegant leaves of the Miscantum Chinese, sheep's oatmeal, decorated them with light rounded barefoot and an elegant ceramic vase.

"Striped" garden

The display is connected to the VCR and transmits the recorded image. And the "flowing" flow of water hides in a special gap, after which it is again served in the fountain. The technological reservoir is softened by delicate stems of the sources, inclined over the rectangular stream of the stream another way of designing a recreation area presented in the project of college students Spersholt (Hampshire, United Kingdom). Here, the idea of ​​the game of contrasts, giving the garden with a unique expressive appearance. The bright "striped" solution allowed the designers to make a very small area of ​​the area very saturated. The walls decorated with silicone panels of black and white color are echoed by their floor-coated pattern made of black slate plates with light inserts from the ash.

In the depths of the garden on a small elevation there is a platform for recreation, to which steps are conducted on both sides. Varhitectural appearance compositions easily fit strict formal flower beds, decorated with the same black shale. They are located around the perimeter of the walls, and in the center are closely suitable for the site. White Inflorescences Echinacea, Natrestyanki, Iris Enexat and Dark Violet Superstition Irises continue a black and white theme, and the juicy green leaves make a known variety into a strict color gamut. Such a designer approach is the use of the main color theme repeated in various elements, plus unusual, memorable parts allowed to make the design of the recreation area extraordinary.

Spectacular decoration of a garden-unusual fountain in the form of a glass rectangular tower, through which a slightly blurred pattern of walls is visible. Water descends on the glands of the tower and is sent to a small futuristic water-plasma display, fixed in a horizontal position. The panel itself imitates a smooth surface of the water, in which, as in the usual pond, the sky and greens of plants are reflected. Aesl look closely, floating decorative koi carps are noticeable inside. This incredible symbiosis of modern technology and wildlife was reality thanks to the fantasy and designer skill.

Track by air

However, many of the possessors of small sites are familiar and such a situation when the desire to equip near the house has a recreation area, a water and a flower garden, it would seem, an irresistible restriction: free of all 3-5m2 lands are free. Well, and you can create a spectacular "two-storey" kindergarten. For example, similar to the one that designed English designer John Dog. His composition consists of four as if concerned about each other: lawn, a reservoir, a small platform for recreation and a metal ramp, which performs the functions of the track. And although in fact the circumference is usually not "drawn" in the garden to the end, the imagination of the looking mentally blows every element.

Glass flower garden

You have an unusual color garden design, which can be placed near the front area of ​​the site. The garden structure is set by sixteen columns made of blue glass with a height of about 1 m each, placed at an equal distance from each other around the perimeter and inside a large square. Between them are laid tracks decorated with a metal grid. Slender architectural garden appearance is complemented by geometric landing lines. Glass columns are immelled in a light bronze air cushion from cereals (for example, from a multi-year barley of the grivoish). Juicy dark green, host moves closer to the garden borders in the emerald shade of the leaf of the count and hydrangea. An interesting optical effect arises from a combination of translucent blue glass and plants - high gentle-lilac irises and bright white Call flowers. Their reflection in smooth edges of the columns create something like a "third dimension" of a flower garden.

Orangery on the platform

The idea of ​​a garden device on several tiers allows you to create an infinite number of variations. For example, as here, when the garden literally begins to grow up. On a platform hanging over the natural reservoir, a greenhouse is arranged, resembling a gigantic lantern. Twin can be coated with thermal-loving exotic plants - ficuses, lemon or dates palm. The platform seemed to be made of wood, but in fact the recycled polystyrene served as a building material (one from which disposable dishes are made). In appearance, it is almost impossible to distinguish from the real tree. The same material is not destroyed under the influence of water, does not fade into the sun.

Garden-berth

The imaginary triangle, formed by purpural plants, connects the front, middle and back plan of the garden into a single composition in its own way interpreting the idea of ​​multifunctional tiers, the designer Michael Brown managed to make an impossible in the minimum free space, collecting together and reservoir, overgrown with lilies, and an unusual round fountain Waterfall, and a bizarre-shaped platform for recreation. Just a few meters away, an interesting route is deployed with a spiral track. It leads us to the center of the site, some of which stands in water on metal supports, which add the compositions of their flavor and really resemble the piles of some pier. For no danger, the recreation area is surrounded by high railing.

On the perimeter of the site, flowers and cereals are planted in very unusual combinations. Gentle white-pink-lilac "clouds" of flowering plants, complemented by thin stems of herbs and marsh irises, create an atmosphere of lightness and airiness. The location of plants in containers allows to arrange compositions on sites, where either completely lacks a layer of fertile soil, or under the ground there are some technical devices that require episodic maintenance.

Techno-Sad.

Such a solution is particularly suitable for the design of the roof of an underground garage or a waste reservoir. It is convenient to use the design here, which it would be easy to disassemble or transfer if necessary. On a wall made up of ceramic pipes with narrow slots, through which water flows, many years of ampel plants are settled. Their falling branches resemble green waterfalls. To create such an effect, the outfit, the alisum rock and gypsophila creeping is most suitable. Warehouse "pockets" are placed vases with plants. A horizontal block of unpainted metal pipes with a terrain, similar to the shape of a bamboo stems, imitates the reservoir.

Cubic garden

The platforms decorate the lawn that does not require serious departure of the beyondoral rock (say, the luggage of Czczuchka, Barwinka Small, the coolest European) In the warm season, almost the whole life of the country house takes place in the garden. That is why the site is created and a recreation area is created, where you can get together with the whole family or to meet guests. One of the options for its design is designers Eric de Majer and Jane Hudson. As the basis of the composition, they chose the shape of a square and cube, which are repeated in the drawing of sites, flower beds, in crowns of trees and even in furniture wooden tabretes. Two entrances to the site with a small podium in the center make the route routing in the garden more diverse.

The seating area itself is a low podium, paved by gray-blue tiles, is framed by square flower beds surrounded by borders from the Samshat (in our climate it can be replaced by Barbaris Samshattoliste). The center of each of the eight flower beds is planted with an ordinary grabbed in the form of Cuba. The resulting green "walls" and "roof" protect the platform from direct sunlight and help to achieve the effect of the "Garden Room" effect, without resorting to heavy dense materials. And there is still enough light for plants in trillium flower beds, coolest European.