People are engaged in vertical gardening in order to decorate a plot in a garden or a room in an apartment, office, private house. Sometimes this design method is necessary to hide flaws in the interior or divide the site into zones. What plants and designs are used for this, read in the article.
Where does it apply?
Vertical gardening is used not only in landscape design. The ways to use it are different:
- Buildings are being decorated. Such landscaping is popular in England. People here transform their homes with vines. Usually they cover one wall of the building. According to experienced gardeners, the advantages of this method are the ability to update the design, as well as hiding minor building flaws, such as wall curvature.
- Creates a favorable indoor microclimate at any time of the year. They look beautiful and create a special atmosphere of gazebos in the garden and arches entwined with vines and other plants from the form of climbing flowers. Those who have already been involved in landscaping recommenddecorating your yard in this way, as it creates shade, reduces noise annoyance.
- Vertical gardening in the country is used when zoning plots. For example, you need to fence off a gazebo for relaxation from buildings for various purposes that are available on the territory.
Plants
For do-it-yourself vertical gardening, those representatives of the flora are ideal for whom the composition of the soil does not matter, they do not need regular watering. Lianas of all kinds, moss are successfully used. But it all depends on where the plants are planted on the site. If this is the north side, the use of cotoneaster, parthenocissus, Japanese quince is considered the best option. On the south side, completely different plants should be planted: magnolias, clematis, honeysuckle, Chinese lemongrass. On a site that has a western direction - wisteria, ropes, east - capuchins, hydrangeas. Plants for vertical gardening use annuals and perennials.
Plants with an annual cycle of life
These include those that die after flowering. Plant them again next year.
- Sweet peas - in a delicate plant, flowers are collected in fragrant clusters of different shades. Blooms for a long time, from early spring to frost. The seeds are self-sowing and ripen perfectly for next year.
- Ipomoea is a climbing annual plant. Thanks to the core leaves, screens can be created. These designs will be light and elegant. Flowersin the form of gramophones look impressive. The flowers are self-seeding.
- Beans - the plant has several varieties, but they all differ in curly stems up to three meters in length.
Perennial plants
They do not require annual planting, they grow in one place for a long time without losing their decorative qualities. Some representatives of this group of plants are presented below:
- Actinidia is a plant called "chameleon" for its amazing properties to change the color of the leaves. When blooming they are bronze, a little later - green, after flowering - with pink spots, then turn crimson.
- Parthenocissus is an amazingly beautiful plant. In autumn, its leaves take on a raspberry-blackberry color. Differs in "creep", can cling to any surface.
- Round-leaved tree plier is a liana, its powerful stems reach a height of 10 meters. It grows quickly, large leaves turn yellow in autumn. Ornamental fruits have an orange tint. Looks very impressive.
Moss in landscaping
The use of this representative of the flora is a new trend in landscape design. In appearance, moss does not belong to catchy plants, it is rather inconspicuous. But, according to people who value beauty, in the skillful hands of a master, it can turn into an amazingly beautiful home decoration.
Its benefits include:
- Sustainable andhypoallergenic.
- No susceptibility to disease.
- Does not need watering, cutting, lighting.
- Long life span of about five years.
Vertical landscaping with moss is used to decorate the walls of houses and their roofs. Experts recommend using it even indoors, and in two versions: with one type of ornamental plants or several.
Benefits of vines
If the work on vertical gardening of a plot in a garden or in a country house will be carried out independently, without the help of a designer, lianas will be the best plants for this. Their advantages are as follows:
- A huge variety that allows you to choose the shape of flowers, leaves, their colors and even aroma: lobia, melotria, climbing roses and others.
- Plants grow fast so they can be grown to create different shapes.
- Planting vines is easy and easy to care for.
Clianas are able to wrap around any supports, for this they cling to them with their devices: shoots, stems, elongated leaf petioles, roots, mustaches. An important advantage is landscaping using minimal space, which is especially important for city conditions. When choosing these plants for a small area, gardeners recommend using one variety of vines. If there are more of them, they will simply close each other and develop poorly.
The use of climbing plants has a number of disadvantages that should betake into account when creating a design of vertical gardening. These include:
- Walls with plants on them can become damp if they are located in a northerly direction in relation to parts of the world. There will be mold that needs to be fought.
- Plants in the flowering period cause allergies in many people. Neighbors to be reckoned with.
- Creepers calmly reach the roof of the house, resulting in clogged water gutters.
Varieties of vines
There is a wide variety of these plants that are suitable for landscaping areas in the garden or in the country. But experienced gardeners recommend growing the following climbing varieties for this:
- Ipomoea is an annual crop with several varieties. The most commonly used purple variety. Its shoots grow up to eight meters long. The leaves are very decorative, but small, appear in May. A month later, the stems are covered with exquisite funnel-shaped flowers. Another variety is the red-blue ipomoea. Its stems are even longer - 10 m. The main feature is that the flowers do not close during rain.
- Kobeya is a plant native to Mexico. Russian gardeners love to grow it for the incredible beauty of flowers with a diameter of eight centimeters. The only thing that is not very convenient is grown using seedlings. First you need to germinate the seeds, grow young plants in a pot, and plant them in a permanent place in the first month of summer.
- Mina, or lobed quamoclit - creepers are not very long, only three meters. But the inflorescences are large, 20 cm. Theyhave an amazing shape: in the form of ears in two rows. Gardeners recommend growing a plant in their garden for landscaping, as you can get tremendous pleasure from the process itself. The seedling method is used to breed the crop.
Succulents
This is the name of plants that grow in arid regions, they are used to a constant lack of water. Moisture for life is stored in leaves, stems. Protected from evaporation by a wax coating. These plants are the most popular in landscaping, as they incredibly quickly adapt to any growing environment and climatic changes.
- Sedum, or stonecrop - characterized by a variety of forms of leaves and shoots. In landscaping, it is used as an ampelous and ground cover plant.
- Tradescantia - thanks to the ideal shape of the shoots, it is hung in a flower pot, the stems, launched along the support, wrap around it. It looks very nice.
- Crosses - are small shrubs with long shoots hanging down. It is grown as an ampelous and ground cover plant. The leaves have a different shape: spherical, oblong-linear.
Designs for vertical gardening
Decorating your garden in this way is easy. After choosing plants, you should think about creating supports, without which they will not grow. The following designs are available:
- Tree lath lattice for decorating the walls of buildings. It canBuy from a store or make your own. Any man will cope with this work, even without experience in this matter. The supports are attached to the wall along with the limiters so that there is air circulation between the grate and the wall. Then small containers are made in which the plants will be planted. The side of contact with the wall of the building is insulated with a film so that moisture does not spread and does not cause mold in the building. Containers should be 20-40 cm wide. Their depth depends on the size of the plant's root system.
- A wire or cord stretched horizontally. To do this, nails are driven into the wall at a distance of 25-30 cm from one another, these will be supports. A wire is stretched between them. Such a structure can be installed on the site. To do this, two poles are knocked down at the right distance and the wire is pulled in several levels. Such an improvised wall can divide the site into separate zones.
- Plastic bottles - this idea is very practical, since you don't need to buy anything. Bottles should be mounted on a wooden grate in several rows. Then fill with soil and plant plants.
- Pergola - is a decorative lattice made of plastic, metal or wood. It looks beautiful against the background of green plants and is combined with other structures, such as arches.
- The hedge is considered a classic element of decor. This is an ordinary fence, decorated with ornamental plants, such as beans, wild grapes, morning glory. hedges can betrellises or screens, which are light and beautiful designs. They perfectly pass the sun's rays, strong enough to withstand climbing plants. The screen installed in the garden is a decorative element with which you can divide the site into zones.
- Vertical flower beds - are considered a novelty in design. They are attractive for their unusualness, as well as the fact that they occupy a little free space in the garden. To create them, containers for the garden are used, located at different levels in height. From plants, ferns, ampelias, greens, herbs, vegetables are suitable.
- Hanging containers, flowerpots, boxes - the use of such structures is called container gardening. The containers are placed vertically against the walls; they decorate buildings of any purpose located on the site. Flowerpots are used to decorate terraces, patios. According to gardeners, ampelous plants are more suitable: pelargoniums, petunias, begonias.
Vertical gardening in the apartment
Any apartment has various objects and elements. Vertical gardening can become its central part or destroy the overall composition. Therefore, you need to approach the decoration of your home responsibly. Landscaping can be created in many ways:
- The easiest option is to use wooden or chrome shelving up to the ceiling. They have containers with plants. If there is no room for walls, a floor stand is used, which often becomes the center of the composition.
- Phytomodule for verticallandscaping - this design is boxes suspended in rows. Pots with plants planted in them are placed at an angle in them.
- Planters suspended from the ceiling or walls. Climbing plants are suitable for growing in them. Instead of flowerpots, nails can be driven into wooden panels and mugs or teapots with flowers can be placed on them.
- Panel of plants related to succulents - for this, small pots are used, which are placed in boxes of small height. Between them, the free space is filled with decorative material: moss, straw, burlap. In this way, pictures are "drawn". To do this, the outline of the applied pattern is filled with succulents.
- Moss drawing - for this, in a blender, it is mixed with water and a gel that retains moisture. This mixture is applied with a brush to a concrete or wood surface. Maintenance is simple - spray the pattern every seven days.
