Landscape design: the subtleties of designing a rectangular area

When designing the landscape design of your summer cottage, you want to use every meter of land as profitably as possible. For someone in the first place will be beds or flower beds, and for someone - a gazebo with an equipped area for cooking.

To make a landscape design project of your site quickly and efficiently can professionals in this field. After looking at the examples of embodied works proposed by the designers, you can choose what you like, making individual adjustments. But if you want to do the design yourself, the first step in this business will be planning. It involves thinking through such questions:

• where and what objects will be located;
• are there any buildings already on the plot, how can you beat them;
• are there trees in the territory, can they be harmoniously used in the upcoming project;
• what plant varieties will grow on the territory;
• what features of care for them;
• how is the garden relative to the sides of the world.

If you become the owner of a flat rectangular area, without elongated and beveled corners, you are lucky.

For the immediate start of work on the improvement of the garden plot will require tools:

• car (for transportation of heavy materials);
• vibrating plate (for working with rubble and sand);
• level (for leveling tracks and lawns);
• Bulgarian (for cutting stones);
• concrete mixer;
• a thread from kapron (for differentiation of garden zones);
• shovels and lawn skating rink (for planting).

On a flat section of a rectangular shape, the division into zones made in the form of geometric shapes will look good. The stretched area is better divided into two equal parts due to a hedge or flowering beds. In the corners of the garden, where there is always a shadow, you can build recreation areas with benches.

If you want to give the garden a smooth form and the charm of curved lines, think over which zones you can use in the shape of a circle: a barbecue place, a lawn, flower beds.

To visually enlarge the garden area, use diagonal lines.. In accordance with the virtual “diagonal grid”, shrubs, trees, flower beds, lawns, and vegetable crops are planted on the site.

According to this design method, the lines should have an angle of 45º relative to the fence enclosing the garden, or to the wall of the house.

When choosing plants for the garden you need to know exactly the height to which the planting can stretch. Otherwise, in a couple of years, high species of vegetation will shade low stumps, which will lead to a deterioration in the development of the latter, the absence of flowering and even death. Landscaping is carried out taking into account future changes of plants up and width.

Fruit and berry crops should be planted in different areas of the garden, preferably on the north side of the plot. To the beds with vegetables and planting strawberries gave a good harvest, they must be planted away from the trees, which in this case will not create a shadow. The most suitable place - the southern part of the garden.

The distance between the large trees and to the junction with the neighboring site should be at least 3 meters. Shrubs with raspberries and currants should be planted no closer than 1 meter to the borders of the fence, as these berry crops tend to grow strongly.

Designers identify 5 main styles that are suitable for a rectangular section:

1. Classic or palace style basically, it has strict geometric forms that apply to the methods of garden zoning, the form of paths, and even the appearance of shrubs and trees.
2. Landscape style allows for free planning of the site. The main principle is maximum naturalness, the primordial beauty of nature emphasized by designers.
3. Country style involves the stylization of the site under the village. This type of design does not require large financial costs and a lot of time to care for the garden. The choice and placement of decorative elements - at the request of the owner.
4. Architectural style is the complete opposite of landscape.In the first place is the beauty of decorative structures in the garden: arches, bridges, paved paths, terraces, steps, relief tiles.
5. Japanese style design of the garden area is permeated with symbolism. The main elements of the decor in such a garden will be large boulders, a pond, a veranda or terrace, which offers a beautiful view of the beauty of the local landscape.

Professionals in the field of landscape design today in the design of the garden plot tend to be natural. The alpine slide remains a popular decorative element, the garden is designed in the “Russian style” with the addition of technical notes: the inclusion of metal, glass, strict lines and geometric shapes in the compositions.

Tips for planning a site from a specialist, see the following video.