We create a cozy and beautiful home garden with our own hands

A house without a garden and a flower bed looks not only boring, monotonous, but also tasteless. In order for the courtyard to shine with bright colors and natural picturesqueness, it is necessary to correctly think over the landscape design of the infield, and then turn it into reality. To do this, it is enough to apply personal imagination or use the ideas of professionals.

DIY pond with a waterfall on a personal plot

To create a beautiful and cozy garden, it is not necessary to be a professional landscape designer

Before starting landscaping, you need to study the features of the site - the quality of the soil, the terrain and draw its plan. It is best to follow the example of professionals - first create a combination on paper, and then, according to this plan, start planting ornamental plants. To make the composition look spectacular, it is necessary to combine several details of landscape design: shrubs, lawn, artificial structures.

The plan-scheme of gardening a personal plot

Planning will allow you to clearly calculate and determine the planting sites of plants taking into account their subsequent growth

Shrubs and lawn

From the bushes to make a spectacular and useful hedge. If you want to hide the yard or hedge from prying eyes, it will provide additional protection against dust and noise of the adjacent road, you should use small-leaved linden, common hornbeam, field maple or mulberry. For low hedges, such shrubs are suitable: evergreen boxwood, holly magonia, Japanese meadowsweet or quince.

Common hedge of privet

An ordinary privet is suitable for sunny places, in the spring these columns are covered with small white flowers

Evergreen Magonia Hedgerow

Magonia is decorative throughout the season

Variegated Barberry Leaves in Hedgerow

From barberry it is possible to form both low borders and high hedges

Decorative hedge from Tatar honeysuckle

Honeysuckle smoothes airy and elegantly, is not demanding on the soil and tolerates partial shade

The lawn can be ordinary or flowering (Moorish). Sowing it is simple: just loosen the top layer of soil (2-3 cm), carefully water it, wait until the water is absorbed into the soil and sow the seeds. An ordinary lawn needs to be cut every week, if necessary - to be sown. Moorish lawn does not require special care.

Ground grass in the garden of a country house

Perfect lawn should be even, smooth and soft.

A small lawn in front of the open terrace of a residential building

The lawn is able to visually change the boundaries of the site

Colorful Moorish lawn along the garden path

Moorish lawn mowed once or twice per season

Artificial ponds in private courtyards

Without the help of professionals, special equipment and expensive materials, only a small artificial pond can be created. To do this, dig a hole, cover it with foil, fill it with water and install a filter. You can also decorate the pond with plants - water lilies, lotuses, water chestnuts. To create a waterfall, fountain, you will need the help of specialists.

DIY artificial pond in the garden

The sight of water calms the nerves and sets you thinking

Decorative pond in the garden

To create a small decorative pond, you need a geotextile, a film and several days of free time

Interesting track design on a personal plot

Several types of paths for a personal plot are very popular today: wooden, glowing in the dark, plastic. Wooden can be created from a combination of ordinary boards or thin log houses.The paths glowing in the dark are created from synthetic stone with photoluminescent pigment, which accumulates solar energy during the day and glows at night. You can create a plastic track with your own hands using hundreds of plastic caps for drinks.

Natural stone walkway in a private garden

Step-by-step path - the easiest option for self-manufacturing

DIY stone and pebble track

Flat stone garden path with pebble backfill

Woodcut Garden Path

A path made of wood saw cuts is very attractive, but requires proper preparation

Organization of a place to relax in the courtyard of a private household

It’s not enough just to admire the landscape beauties and flowering compositions; on the plot, the owners and guests should feel comfortable. To do this, you can place an altanka, a gazebo or a swing in the form of a bed (sofa, bench) in the courtyard. To diversify life, you can organize a place for cooking in an open area: a stationary barbecue system, barbecue, stove with a roof.

Wooden bench deep in the garden

Garden bench in a secluded corner of the garden, where it is nice to retire and relax

Wooden arbor and artificial pond in garden design

Arbor on the shore of an artificial reservoir

We consider the important! Gardening Rules

When forming a flower bed, it is necessary not only to use the flowers that you like most, but also to adhere to the rules of a comfortable neighborhood. The table shows the best and undesirable neighbors for some plants for the flower garden.

Household compatibility table

Plant name The best neighbors on the site What can not be combined
Marigold Rose, tulip, gladiolus Hydrangea
Tulip Calendula Pion
Phlox Nasturtium Marigolds, rose
Geranium Decorative bow, garden lupine Lilies
Iris Lily Marigolds, calendula, echinacea, morning glory
Lily of the valley Crocus, tulip, daffodil Peony, violet
Petunia Astra, phlox, hibiscus Jasmine Dahlia
Flowerbed with flowers from old brick and other construction waste.

Tall perennials are suitable for the center of the flower bed, and lower annual flowers are planted closer to the curb

DIY flower bed from annual plants

Flowers are planted tightly so that the land is not visible and weeds do not grow

Flowerbed with hosts in the shadow of a wooden fence

Hosts are great for flower beds in the shade

Custom landscaping. Create a vertical landscape

The more original the design of the flowerbed looks, the more pleasant it is to look at it. By personal efforts, it’s realistic to create a vertical composition of landscape design near the house, or in other words, a phytowall.

Red climbing rose on a brick house wall

Wattled rose on a wire support

To do this, you will need:

  • climbing plants (creepers) - ivy, girl's grapes or lemongrass;
  • metal frame with insulating plastic coating;
  • automatic watering system;
  • nutrient solution of the soil and various mineral additives (sand, peat).
Simple trellis for growing climbing plants

Heavy wire reinforcement trellis tapestry

Metal forged trellis for vertical gardening

Forged trellis

Wooden trellis along the wall of the house

Trellis trellis

To create a unique composition, you need to fix the metal frame on the wall of the building or the side surface of the hedge, arbor. Then it is necessary to lay tubes and filters between the metal parts for the automatic irrigation system, cover the structure with polymer felt (agrofibre). In the canvas, you must first form pockets or form them during the attachment of the material to the structure. In these pockets, it is worth filling the soil and planting the plants, having previously thought over the flower arrangement or improvising.

Do-it-yourself vertical bed of fabric pockets

In such pockets you can grow flowers or herbs

Drip irrigation system for the garden

Drip system - the best way to water

Vertical garden bed design

Vertical bed with petunia

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