Passion for landscape design has noticeably transformed country houses, cottages, summer cottages. The territories, until recently allotted for vegetable gardens, are now replaced by flower beds, lawns, and lawns. Landscape composition gives a unique charm to homeownership and creates comfort. Coniferous trees have begun to occupy a special place in the modern exterior, most of which have recently appeared in our country.
Basic Design Rules
Creating an original and unique exterior is not only a decoration of the site. Landscape composition is a whole art. To make your site look harmonious, you need to consider two main aspects:
- biological;
- engineering.
In other words, all beds, plantings, flower beds should be skillfully combined with other buildings. Stick to a consistent style.
Creating compositions in landscape design is easy if you followsome recommendations:
- Prepare the area. Think over and draw up a plan, placing all the elements on it: a house, trees, a bathhouse, shrubs, flower beds.
- Grouped plants look more profitable than planted in a single version. But combine only those that do not interfere with each other's growth.
- Try to avoid straight lines in landscape design. Orderliness is wonderful. But strict adherence to symmetry will deprive the site of naturalness.
- Initially consider the additional components of your landscape design. These can be decorative elements (fountain, pond), original artistic details (paths, garden figurines, lamps).
Determine the balance you have chosen as the basis for building a landscape composition. If you decide to stick to symmetry, then you need to repeat the main elements in a mirror image. It can be flowerpots with flowers on both sides of the path.
When choosing an asymmetric balance, the unity of the composition is assumed in relation to one subject.
Creating beautiful designs
Great help to create beautiful landscape composition schemes. You can use the ready-made proposals of designers. But some owners prefer to develop such schemes on their own.
To make your country design look great and pleasing to the eye, follow these tips:
- The suburban area should be the unity of space. This effect is easily achievedrepetition in various parts of the garden of the main elements. The desired result can be achieved with a single color palette.
- A simple landscape composition looks harmonious and natural. Beautiful design will create smooth transitions from one element to another.
- Plant trees according to their height. Start low and work your way up to high. This will create a depth effect in your area. In addition, visually your household will appear much larger.
- Keep proportional. Too bulky objects should not be placed in a small space. And over a large area, small details will look somewhat out of harmony.
Decidated plants
Beautiful landscape compositions must include various elements.
Deciduous plants in the summer will give a lot of green colors. In addition, they will emphasize the movement of time in your garden. In winter, when the leaves fall from the trees, the dark trunk will contrast perfectly with the snow-white snow. In autumn, your garden will be enriched with scarlet and gold colors.
Conifers
They keep their green all year round. This should definitely be used. It is the landscape compositions of coniferous trees that create a wide scope for creativity. These plants look great in winter. In addition, they are very unpretentious.
Evergreens
This is an original way to create an exclusive design. enjoys great polaritydeciduous evergreens - holly, boxwood. They allow you to build a wide variety of fences. Topiaries can be formed from them - certain sculptures that are formed due to a curly haircut.
Combination of coniferous and deciduous plants in one composition
Such ready-made landscape compositions always look the most advantageous. But, unfortunately, not all plants get along well with each other. Therefore, combining various representatives of the plant world, their biological characteristics should be taken into account.
Some varieties of juniper are able to get sick with "rust". Such an attack can spread to other plants. Frequently sick shrubs should not be placed near deciduous trees either. Since the risk of infection is high.
Shrub placement
Landscape composition implies not only the presence of flowering plants. Shrubs and trees are very important in garden design. But you need to position them correctly. This will give the composition a semantic completeness.
Shrubs are often placed along the perimeter, marking the boundaries of rockeries, rock gardens. Sometimes they create landscape compositions from shrubs. In this case, they are the accents of the site. Plants and flowers are planted around them.
Types of landscape compositions
So, if you want to create a beautiful, well-groomed garden, pay attention to coniferous plants. They possesscharming look, exquisite shapes and allow you to embody the most daring design solutions in almost any area.
Ready landscape compositions that harmoniously combine deciduous and coniferous plants always look perfect.
Now let's look at how to make such a design:
- Pine, cypress, spruce, juniper, arborvitae, fir - these are evergreens that look good in the very center of your backyard. In this case, they form coniferous sculptures. They can be placed on the border of the site.
- Coniferous plants are picturesquely combined with roses, heather, rhododendrons, deciduous plants. Such details will bring some contrast and brightness to the design. They perfectly modify the design of the garden seasonally. Try to avoid birches and bird cherry trees. These trees have a rather negative effect on the needles.
- The finished landscape compositions of coniferous pyramidal trees look great. If you have at least a little creativity, you can create excellent geometric shapes, tiers, columns, spirals, intricate alleys from them. Curly trimmed trees can divide the space into certain areas. Such details perfectly decorate small ponds, stone slides. They look great on relief differences, colorfully complement rock gardens.
- Do not forget that your landscaping of coniferous vegetation should please with volumetric structures and its coloristic pictures inany time. Therefore, when creating a composition, combine different shapes, textures and colors of coniferous trees.
- In landscape design, accent trees and shrubs must be present. Experts advise choosing winter-hardy varieties. They will delight with their stability all year round. For the background, vegetation with a spreading crown is more suitable. Weaving undersized plants should complete the composition.
- When placing shrubs and trees, try to emphasize the lines of the site. Plant them in those areas where the appearance, the original shape will only add sophistication to the relief. They should perfectly emphasize the contours of structures and structures on the landscape, match the configuration of paths and other objects. Trees and shrubs look great when placed near the entrance to the house.
- Harmoniously combined tall vegetation, located near the garden stairs and retaining walls. In this case, shrubs and trees become a great addition to landscape design.
- Bends and forks in paths are excellent places to plant vegetation. Often trees are placed near recreation areas and gazebos. In this case, not only an aesthetic goal is pursued, but also the necessary shade is created in the hot season.
- A wonderful option, according to the designers, is the placement of shrubs and trees in flower beds. You can plant them next to the flower beds.
Conclusion
No beautiful garden plot cando without decorations created by the caring hands of the owners in the form of landscape compositions. Decorative design can be made up of coniferous and deciduous plants, shrubs. But the most attractive and harmonious option is their correct combination.
