Landscape design: the subtleties of designing a plot of 15 acres

Millions of people dream of moving in the summer from stuffy apartments to a country paradise. If you are a happy owner of a 15 hectare site, then you can afford both residential complex and recreation area on such a vast territory. And you can arrange all this with your own hands. It remains to consider and calculate the details.

Features of creating comfort on such a site are to have a clear project of the area in advance. Draw on a sheet of paper all the buildings and landings as if you see them on top. On the plan, indicate the main building, pool, barbecue area, gazebo, a place for a hammock, a playground, flower beds, garden beds, garden alleys, paths. Equip your drawing with an indication of the sides of the world: this is important in order to understand the coverage of the territory.

There is a set of rules in the design. The facade of the house should look to the south: so around the house you can achieve maximum sun throughout the day. Your landscape design must comply with the logic of the buildings that will be present at the site.

It makes no sense to break gazebos, barbecue area near the neighbor's fence or garage. Full rest is impossible near the exhaust gases. To the garden on your 15 acres not soaked, and gave constant yields, do not allocate him a place on the drain of rain and melt water. Or reshape the relief, make artificial grounding.

Proportions need to withstand the following. A tenth of the total area is a house, another 15% are other buildings, almost the rest of the territory (up to 70% of the plot) falls on a garden and a vegetable garden. The remaining 5% - recreation areas, lawns. If you need more such places, you will have to sacrifice partly a garden or, say, a bath. Start filling the plot to be from home. From it should be convenient to get to any other object in the suburban area.

The layouts of a rectangular section may vary. If you imagine that 10 x 10 m. Is occupied by a house, which is located not entirely in the center, but a little to the side, it is better to make a fountain or a swimming pool an accent of the layout (the center of the rectangle of the plot). If you endure such recommendations, you can enjoy the water object from the veranda or the steps of the house. Next to the main decorative object is the place for mixborders. If you plant plants on different flowerbeds on flowerbeds, the playground in front of the house guarantees fragrance from early spring to frost.

Experts believe that fruit trees are better to plant from the gate of the site and to the beauty zone. The outbuildings must be correctly attributed to the opposite part of the “rectangle” so that they do not cast an extra shadow on the garden. Next to the buildings, plant a garden, but at some distance: it also does not need a shadow.

It remains to build a bath in the plan (you can not far from the fence and at home). Garage and playground is better to dissolve in two directions, so that children play away from the car. The most functional solution is to build a garage under the house: in the rain in the car it will be more convenient to sit without traveling along wet paths and lawns. Arbor remained. Here all wishes: you can bring them closer to the house, or to postpone. Braid gazebos with roses or clematis: this will create a romantic aura. Thin natures will like the small artificial lake near the gazebo.

But what specific design options are offered by specialists for an elongated plot of 15 hectare in size:

• House near the north side of the fence. The door of the house opens onto a spacious covered porch of 9 square meters. m. Nearby is a decorative well. In the corner bath and outbuildings.
• In the south-west of the territory there is a recreation area (jasmine bushes, arbor). Nearby is a paved barbecue area.
• For the playground, there is a sunny plot opposite the recreation area, covered by an economic building from drafts.
• About a quarter of the area is occupied by a vegetable garden in the southeast of the site. For him, the same amount is given under the garden. This proportion is easy to vary at their discretion.
• Flower beds is a place under the windows.The far fence is decorated with conifers and shade-loving plants (bathing, fern).

Owners of country areas, making the decision to do without ready-made design techniques, are forced to learn the zoning alphabet. After all, they have their own home, garden, garden to arrange so that in the future they do not have to alter. Zoning in a square or narrow area is different.

There is a certain set of standard functional zones:

• residential complex (house, buildings, garage);
• outdoor resting place;
• beds, berries and fruit plantings (arranged so that everyone has enough comfortable place in the sun).

Since you are the owner of a spacious land plot of 15 acres, you can wipe out the use of different styles in landscape design. Plant more fruit trees, cover lawns, flower beds, green walls, lanterns, waterfalls, and other decorative items. Zoning is easier for owners of classic square or rectangular areas. In the middle of the house, and all other zones - already only the imagination of the owners and the observance of the rules of growing certain crops.

If the site is narrow and long (for example, 30 x 50 m), it is necessary to take into account not only the size, but also the shape, because the ensemble, which will emphasize the good taste of the owners, is required to achieve in any case. Experts believe that here the most large-scale areas should be placed on the sides of the site. For example, on the one hand there is a garden, and on the other - a playground for recreation.

Tips for the operation of an elongated area with a “process” of the type of the letter “G” - take a sports campus or a secluded barbecue site to a separate site. To make the zones look expressive, harmonious and fulfill the intended functionality, follow these subtleties:

• Vertical fences will create a feeling of tightness on non-standard, narrow areas; decorate them with greens or plant plants in tubs along their length.
• Free the center of the narrow area so that you can see the facade of the house in one of the sides.
• It is better to decorate corners of the house on a non-standard site for expressiveness. Visually expanding space vertical corner flower beds, tall bushes, tall plants in flowerbeds.
• When compared with zoning, the arcuate forms of gardening, including for the ampel (mounted) beds, give the incomparable effect to nothing.
• No need to lay a path through the entire elongated section, it makes it even longer.

When selecting plants for your site, ask yourself at once with the thought of avoiding frequently made mistakes - the desire to plant everything and as much as possible. Landscaping 15 acres is the task of arranging a vast territory, but not to such an extent that it is dimensionless to lose the sense of proportion. It will be enough to have 18-20 fruit trees, a dozen berry bushes. Otherwise, you can seriously spend money on seedlings, but you will not achieve harvest - you will have to uproot the newcomers from shaded or overmoistened zones. Therefore, consider whether you need problem pets.

Take the selection of seedlings extremely hard:

• Sea buckthorn is useful, but is boring immediately after the first harvest. Grows rapidly, the thorns interfere with the normal collection of berries.
• Walnut is a tempting specimen, but half a yard will be covered with shadow. Walnut roots have such strength that they can destroy the foundation. The tree is afraid of frost, often does not tolerate cold winters.
• Hazelnuts need almost a quarter of a weave, they often provide shrubs, they constantly need pruning and care.
• Viburnum is quite enough for no more than one bush; no one eats these berries in large quantities.
• Chokeberry is a healing option, but it has an amateur taste.
• Apple and pear are a great pair. But for a pear, a partner is needed - a second tree for pollination.
• Plums too fond of parasites and fungus.
• Sweet cherry does not give a good harvest on the soaking soils and at high humidity.
• Apricot and peach are southerners, they freeze in the middle lane.

When inspecting your plantings, do not forget: rhubarb and horseradish should be planted away from other crops, lettuce and parsley should be intermixed with the beds. Cabbage badly adjoins to tomatoes, cucumbers - with carrots, onions - with beans. Ornamental plants on 15 acres need careful selection. The mixborders with compositions that bloom throughout the season look perfect (according to the rule of changing one plant to another), as well as conifers and unpretentious bushes (bulldonezh, hydrangea, barberry).

It is always romantic and natural to look at a 15 hectare plot in landscape style on a slope. You can interesting to embody artistic ideas for the territory on a hill. It is about mastery of successful beating up of winding lines, relief changes. Since the landscape design eliminates the symmetry and excess geometrical decoration, in the general figure will look original ravines, hillocks.

Flowerbeds and slides perform an oval shape. The tracks wind and even go serpentine. Plants are planted in arbitrary variation, different in height and saturation of the inflorescences. Small ponds, retro-style benches, wrought-iron wickets, and overgrown pavilions fit organically into these secluded corners.

At 15 acres, you can try and mixed style. Such a combination of straight and winding paths, the alternation of “wild” and “cultural” zones evokes an enthusiastic perception of the surrounding beauty by lovers of country exoticism.

When planning a plot of a triangular shape, the house can be left in the center. The outbuildings will have to be moved along one of the sides, and the flower beds, the vegetable garden and the recreation area will be “scattered” around the buildings.The garden will have to settle for a far corner, otherwise the plot will sink in the shade.

Beautifully look flower beds on the slope. They spread with natural carpet and attract the attention of visitors to a country house.

Among the options for the unexpected arrangement of spacious areas is the creation of vertical gardens. Greatly refresh large areas of semicircular lawns, edged with shrubs with clipping balls.

Today in the trend of reservoirs with low lanterns. Well-established high green hedges, which can make the lost corner of a non-standard plot a pleasant cool place for secluded relaxation.

Recently, the fashion for glazed capital arbors has appeared. Fireplaces are installed in them and they rest all year round, admiring flowerbeds in summer and in evergreen plantings in winter.

The project of landscaping site 15 acres, see the following video.