Once gardeners in the aspiration to surprise the guests have thought up to decorate the green creations with the aggregated parts of already obsolete trees. In spite of the fact that "rutariya" comes from the English root that the root means, it is created and from unusually curved trunks, and from branches of strange form, and from stubs or underground part of trees. Often various plants, natural stone in different types and garden sculptures are added to this wood magnificence. It is not difficult to create rutariya at the dacha by the hands, the main thing is to connect imagination by all means "to recover" dead snags.
Rutary at the dacha by the hands: interesting ideas
As a rule, "gardens of roots" for the first time arise absolutely spontaneously. Usually this "disease" without any preliminary symptoms begins.
1) Suddenly, walking on the wood, you make out in old snag of the fantastic wood goblin or toothy crocodile. Also you will not calm down, you will not get this miracle home yet, you will not preen on it feathers that all have seen unprecedented animal around and have admired.
2) Then on the river bank you will meet washed before silver blinking, spreading as octopus, and decide butt of tree that your garden composition without it will not be finished.
3) On the neighboring street the workers will cut the old knotty oak disturbing electrical wires, and you will not be able to pass by its fine bent and overwound branches.
4) And here in garden absolutely ancient apple-tree which does not fructify any more and will fail from old age soon. It is necessary to cut urgently it, but what to do with stub? Can hollow the mouldering middle and make of it bed? And from trunk to saw circles and to lay out footpath?
All! You have got! It is already impossible to stop further. Practically from each walk or departure out of the city you will bring everything new and new "neighbors" for your favourite snags. And what began as creative rush will turn into mania.
To realize the ideas and to unite them in whole, it is important to know the basic principles of the device of garden of roots.
How to create rutariya (garden of roots)
1) The most important for any garden – its ability to create any given mood. At the beginning it is important to be defined that you want to receive as a result: corner for thoughts and contemplation, the place for disposal of negative energy or the fantastic clearing transferring to the warm and joyful world of the childhood.
2) Rutary is only part of your garden therefore its composition, surely being complete component, should not conflict to the general plan. For example, the combination of garden of roots to strict classic styles like Italian or French in general is impossible.
3) Surely the rutariya special structures is required to protect elements of yours from adverse effect of external conditions: dampness, fungus and mold.