Even the small garden site can be important help in economy and the favourite vacation spot for all family. At the same time it is very important to make the accurate plan of your small-scale farming and construction in advance correctly to break it into zones.
Instruction
1. Collect information on your site: data on the soil, level of underground water, on how wind influences the site. Define where on the garden site open solar places and that it is constantly hidden by shadow. This information to be useful to you, when choosing plants for landing or the place for artificial reservoir.
2. Break the site into functional zones. Traditionally garden site includes recreation area, economic constructions, kitchen garden, flower bed, garden with fruit-trees. Do not forget about paths which will connect them. Consider where it is better to place the swimming pool or small artificial pond.
3. Equip recreation area. If in family there is small child, the site for childish sports should be placed in shadow at least partially. To fans to acquire tan it is better to arrange necessary garden furniture on the open place. The recreation area can also include the place with shashlychnitsa or brazier for barbecue.
4. Think over economic part. It is usually placed in far corner of the site where necessary constructions will be evident not so. Barrels for water storage, the shed, toilet, compost box and garbage cans belong to them. There is set of ways to disguise economic constructions. The most effective of them – green hedge which will become additional decoration of your garden over time.
5. Pick up plants for landing. Think over type of flower bed at various times year so that when some plants faded them gradually replaced others. So spring violets and narcissuses will gradually give way to summer phloxes and daylilies, and those in turn to asters, dahlias and hydrangeas which blossom in the fall. Do not forget that plants have to be combined effectively with each other. Experienced landscape designers advise to plan flower bed by contrast method: plant plants of different grades next to each other and use several types of crushed stone, stone and sand in arrangement of garden paths.
6. Find the place for orchard. If the flower bed can be landed both near porch and along garden fencing, then it is better to group trees and bushes in the center of the site or for its perimeter. Then number of bushes can serve as green hedge. Thermophilic pears and drainings need to be hidden from strong wind whereas the apple-tree can be planted from the northwest party that it also protected other landings.