Even it is difficult to provide the smallest lodge without front garden. Annual or long-term flowers, dekorativnolistvenny plants, beautiful fencing – correctly built composition will create the necessary mood and will make the standard building unique and memorable.
The front garden in front of the house: what it can be
The main objective of the front garden is to create the necessary mood and it is beautiful to issue house adjoining zone. A lot of things depend on features of landscape, material of which the building, climatic zone is built. Important and whether the owner will be able constantly to look after plants or to him the unpretentious types which are not needing frequent watering, fertilizing and hairstyle will approach more.
The landscape flower beds creating effect of the formal garden – well-groomed, but not deliberate will be ideal for brick cottage. The private building revetted with siding will be added effectively by bright plants with large effective flowers: peonies, pletisty or rose bushes, irises, dahlias. The wooden owner-occupied dwelling especially effectively looks in frame of motley flower bed in rural spirit. Hollyhocks, lupines, shtokroza will be suitable for it.
A lot of things depend on coloring of walls. On white background perfectly look bright gamma: red, orange, yellow. Are not less effective also cold tone, from blue and blue to gentle lilovlgo and violet. Bright buds should be shaded greens. In the front garden, dekorativnolistvenny plants, dwarfish trees, cut bushes beautifully look.
The original course – addition of plants in figurative cachepots and flowerpots. In them plant seasonal flowers, for example, primroses or crocuses. Very effectively suspended baskets look. With their help it is possible to create the stylish framing composition. The same function is performed also by plants on pergolas and arches which often are placed at front garden faces.
Important point – decor. Small fences for the front garden the shod, stylized fencings for beds, large boulders and even the tiny garden sculptures made with own hands it is possible to enter in landscape elegantly. At the same time it is necessary to watch that all decor has been sustained in uniform style. The front garden and country house are less, the design errors are more noticeable. Before jumping of plants it is better to outline the sketch in which at any time it is possible to introduce amendments.
The choice of plants for the front garden
Professional landscape designers recommend to pay attention to the plants which are most long keeping decorative effect. Flowers which blossom for several days will hardly decorate beds, after their withering in the front garden there will be "dead zones". The best option – plants with the beautiful greens which are not needing scrap. Front gardens at the house will decorate undemanding hosts with monophonic or motley leaves, awl-shaped phloxes, desert-candles and foxgloves. Very effectively the nasturtiums forming magnificent caps of fast-growing greens look.
Many gardeners make the choice for undemanding ingates. One of the best plants for the front garden – multi-color petunias. Large and melkotsvetkovy forms, terry or cascade grades will approach. Not less decoratively viols, lion's pharynx, salviya, lavater, alissum, fragrant tobacco look. Designers advise to avoid bright contrasts, soft junctions of flowers look much more effectively.
When choosing plants it should be taken into account also change of seasons. It is desirable to issue the front garden so that it effectively looked at all seasons of the year, from early spring to late fall. The blossoming plants can be added with spicy herbs and tiny trees or bushes. Thujas, fir-trees, junipers will approach (especially average or Cossack). Evergreen bushes cut in the form of spheres or pyramids, placing them in front garden corners.