DESIGN AND PLANTS FOR SMALL GARDEN

THE PURPOSE TO HAVE IN YOUR GARDEN RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FROM FURTHER COUNTRIES CHARACTERISTIC FOR ALL GARDENERS - IT IS IMPORTANT WHERE THEY LIVE, IN MOSCOW OR ST. PETERSBURG, ON THE COAST OF LUARAI BELARUS. Apparently, THEREFORE, SOMETIMES, VERY-VERY LONG TIME, THE IDEA HAS APPEARED TO GROW HEAT-LOVING AND RARE PLANTS IN POTS AND POTS ....

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The idea turned out to be so rich and so successfully fell on the soil of cold lands or those places where every patch of land is worth the price that spawned indoor floriculture, greenhouses and conservatories, as well as oriental bonsai art, vertical and hanging gardens, patio gardens, gardens on the roof and much, much more. Thanks to the possibilities of container gardening, the range of plants in areas with a temperate and cold climate has incredibly expanded, giving an additional impetus to the development of both botany and garden art.

But if over the centuries container gardening in all its diversity was a matter mainly for specialists, today it has become a mass art and surrounds us literally at every step (in city landscaping, parks and office buildings, flower exhibitions, on its own loggias, terraces and in the gardens).

It is unlikely that there is such an amateur gardener who did not grow annuals on the balcony, did not create spectacular compositions from indoor flowers in the garden or tried at least once to keep the thermophilic exotics by dragging the pot from the plant in spring from house to garden, and in autumn back.

But even knowing the basics of container gardening, you can improve in it endlessly, especially since every year our possibilities are expanding: many have well-glazed, non-inflated loggias, winter cottages and country houses with cellars and terraces, where heat-loving plants can winter: it is now easy to provide quite inexpensive LED lighting phytolamps, to make light and fertile soils, and the choice of plants and containers for them is huge.

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THIS IS THE POTTY EMPTY. IS IT A SIMPLE ITEM?

In the term "container gardening"On the first place is the word" container ".

For the successful cultivation of plants in this way, capacity is indeed of paramount importance. Not only from a technical point of view (volume, material, weight, stability, the presence of a drainage hole), but also with aesthetic. After all, a pot, a pot or a basket should bring us a bush, a tree or a flower in all its glory, to emphasize the merits of the plant and to distinguish it from the general environment or the green garden mass.

Therefore, it is believed that the container should not take a lot on itself: to be too bright, fanciful, mottled, distracting attention from the plant.

But the garden is not decorated with monotonous, boring containers. This is the detail that, together with other garden accessories, works on the stylistics of the garden, its mood, rhythm, color scale.

Ideally, it should relate to the place on the background of which is - a wooden terrace or porch, masonry or a brick wall and steps, a cobblestone path or a gravel platform.

There are, of course, almost universal containers, suitable in most cases. This containers of natural materials - clay (terracotta) pots, wicker baskets, wooden boxes and tubs, stone flowerpots. Natural origin and artificial embodiment makes them an excellent transitional link from the world of things to the natural world.

turnover), so they are so organic and unobtrusive and look in the garden, and on the terrace, and on the recreation area. Some containers of natural materials especially age to give them more naturalness, fusion with the eternal nature.

But if the house, for example, is covered with siding, and around - plastic furniture, then containers are better to choose democratic ones - plastic ones, since natural materials "will make the environment cheaper". There are other options.

In modern gardens it is fashionable to play not on harmony, but on cheerful contrasts. Here, the most unexpected containers are chosen for containers - metal barrels and tin cans, concrete blocks and waste baskets and even car tires (although, in my opinion, sorry, the aesthetic value of the latter is more than doubtful).

In vintage gardens - a complete revelry of creativity. Here anything is used - pots, basins, buckets, earthenware plumbing, children's toys, old chests of drawers and worn shoes. But ... you need to understand that in this way it is possible to grow only annual plants and perennials such as young and low sedum. This is not so much a container gardening as a cheerful or nostalgic decoration.

IMPORTANT!

Exceptions are possible from all the rules - if some very beautiful or unusual pot fell into your hands, then you can focus on it by planting a modest, discreet plant in it. Or - beating with another, the color of the flowers of which coincides or echoes the color of the pot.

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There is only one way to understand where there is a lot and where there is not enough: by connecting your own artistic taste and sense of proportion.

Fortunately, one of the benefits of a container garden is mobility. It’s just something to add, remove, swap, highlighting the most decorative at the moment or removing the fading.

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Form and content

The appearance of plants, its size, texture and color of leaves and flowers also affect the choice of container.

It is obvious that miniature evergreen trees of strict geometric shapes (balls, cones, spirals) look better in classical pots (perhaps - even stone ones, although they stand and weigh so very decently).

Compact varieties of tea roses or pomponnye dahlias also gravitate to the enduring classics.

But the ancient English roses and bushes with simple flowers of species roses and their varieties look charmingly in wicker baskets and wooden tubs: the village simplicity and simplicity to them "to the face."

For heat-loving bushes with azaleas, which should adorn the shore of a pond or a Japanese garden in summer, wide bowls - perhaps glazed pottery - will do.

For tsiperusa (room papyrus), going out to the summer cottage, closer to the pond, a nice round ceramic pot is suitable.

Pelargonium, thanks to its bright inflorescences and beautiful leaves, do not need any additional decorations. The simplest clay pots are the best capacity for them; however, plastic will also work.

What can you grow in a container garden?

Yes, almost anything. The choice of plants depends mainly on the desire, experience and ability of the gardener

The color of the container can be neutral (the color of the earth, grass, wood, stone), and can accentuate, emphasize and enhance the characteristics of the plant: coincide in color with the coloring of flowers or fringing the leaves.

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For container growing roses it is better to choose varieties not with stiff and straight shoots, but with flexible, inclined. Bushes with flowing branches strewn with flowers look much more effective.

In short, for each plant, you can (and need to) choose a container in which it will look most expressive.

As for the size of the pot, then, of course, first of all, its volume should correspond to the size of the root system of the plant planted in it, but it is much more difficult to visually achieve an ideal ratio of the height of the container with the height of the plant, since the latter do not stand still, and the growth rate y all different.

If it is planned to grow slow-growing thermophilic evergreen dwarfs in containers, and the soul strives for harmony, then it is worth remembering the proportions of the golden section.

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Quantity converted to quality

By arranging compositions from container plants on sites, balconies, terraces, it is important to remember the combination of grasses, flowers and shrubs, and the combination of containers.

If this is not a classical garden that presupposes strict symmetry and precise geometry, then it is better to use an odd number of pots and plants different in height and shape (for some reason our asymmetry and diversity are dearer to our eye and heart).

Pots do not have to be from the same material (the off-color look more natural), but something must bind them together, for example, the color scheme.

It is desirable that the dimensions of the container garden correspond to the size of the space intended for them. Small plants in small quantities are lost against the background of a high wall, will not produce the proper effect; and many large on a small terrace or in the courtyard will create the impression of thickets, will interfere with each other.

IMPORTANT!

If you intend to grow large container plants, get a stand on the wheels.

And what's in the pot?

What can you grow in a container garden? Yes, almost anything. The choice of plants depends on the desire, experience and abilities of the gardener.

The easiest way is annual flowers. Variants of use an incredible amount - from the most simple and customary (balcony boxes and pendant pots) to the original (floral pyramids, green walls, flower baskets, hanging on trees).

A huge range of annual flowers allows you to create compositions for every taste and color - elegant, monochrome or bright, colorful, lush, aromatic, mixed with vegetable plants and herbs.

Many annuals (starting with classic balcony petunias) make balconies, loggias, terraces relentlessly blooming from the earliest spring until late autumn and even before winter.

You can grow in containers and perennials. Decorative leaves are often included in compositions with annuals or planted separately in pots to separate them, elevate above the ground, emphasize the unusualness of the variety, its quaintness. So, for example, miniature hosts are grown, young, heat-loving (yellow and orange shades) varieties of geyher.

In the conditions of the middle zone, not all perennials winter in containers (mostly only rock ones) - in order to preserve the plants, the pots are either dropped into the soil in the fall or brought into a cool room.

Allows you to grow in containers a lot of thermophilic deciduous or evergreen shrubs and dwarf trees, the presence of a dark room with low positive temperatures (basement, garage) or bright, where in winter you can maintain the temperature at + 10 ... + 16 ° C (loggia, terrace, conservatory) .

The most popular of the flowering bushes today, probably, are roses. For container cultivation are very many varieties: varieties from the groups Miniature, Ground Covers, Floribunda, Tea Hybrid - the main thing is that the bush has a fairly compact shape.

With the Mediterranean effect

There are also many spectacular container woody plants that can create an atmosphere of the Mediterranean in the middle-sized garden of Russia, and then support it on a heated loggia or terrace. These are bushes of rosemary, lavender, laurel, boxwood, hibiscus, hydrangea large leaf, camellia, as well as palm trees, dwarf conifers, trees of citrus plants (lemons, kumquats, mandarins). However, fruit container plants - this is a separate and very extensive topic.

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TIPS FOR CARE FOR PLANTS IN CONTAINER

The soil for containers must meet the requirements of the plants grown in it and be sufficiently fertile.

Container plants require frequent watering and spraying, because the soil in the pots quickly dries up. This applies to plants in the open air, since rainwater can not always soak up the soil in a container covered with foliage. To reduce moisture volatility, hydrogel or other soil improvers (vermiculite, perlite, zeolite) are added to the soil.

In broad pots, you can additionally clothe the ground or plant, in addition to the main plant, low ground cover or ampel plants.

Spraying not only moistens the air around the plants, but also helps to fight harmful insects.

Frequent watering helps to wash out useful substances from the soil, so "long-playing" fertilizers are added to the soil or regularly (once in 7-10 days) fed plants with liquid fertilizers and arrange foliar top dressing.

Foliar top dressing and spraying with biostimulants are especially useful in restoring container plants after pest attacks, diseases, sudden temperature changes, moving from a closed room to open air. You can spend them early in the morning or in the evening.

LARGE OPPORTUNITIES OF THE SMALL GARDEN

FOR MULTIPLE WORD "GARDEN" ASSOCIATES WITH SPACIOUS LAWNS, GREAT FLOWERS, EXPANDED MIXBORDERS, FRUIT TREES. BUT THE SMALL AREAS AVAILABLE IN OUR DISPOSITION DOES NOT ALWAYS ALLOW THE SLOWING GARDEN IN THE CLASSIC UNDERSTANDING. AND THEN WE TURN IT TO THE ROOM UNDER THE OPEN SKY AS A SMALL SADIC ON THE BALCONY, THE LOGY, ON THE ROOF OR TERRACE

© Author: OLGA PETROVA, gardener

Attitude to the garden as a room makes the concept of its planning more affordable, as it becomes similar to the principles of building an interior. As a rule, the design of the garden begins to be determined after the interior decoration of the room, so it is better to start with a look "from the inside out."

Starting to create a garden design, we must understand that the house and the garden should be decorated in a single style and be a single whole, and for this you need to create a "bridge" between the internal and external space. To achieve the effect of uniting the garden and the interior space, you can use similar finishing materials, some shades of paints on the walls; if climate allows - glass swing doors.

We want to fill all the free space with plants, but the areas of small gardens do not allow mass planting and the use of large tapeworms. It is better to decorate the garden with carefully selected plants and have their spectacular groups. Do not chase a wide range of plants, the number of their species should be limited. Preference should be given to more stable specimens, retaining decorative for a long period, and sometimes all the year round: coniferous plants, ornamental plants, cereals.

In a small space, a lot of small details look ridiculously (a lot of different pots and pots are taken to the garden for a warm period of time - even in their eyes it's even rippling in the garden), a variety of colors, a mixture of styles all lead to a feeling of emotional discomfort. It is necessary to limit the number of parts and increase their size. Large elements are visually expanded.

You should try to avoid aggressive colors or use very delicately, otherwise such details will "stick out", distracting the look of something more interesting or unusual. Oddly enough, the white color, which seems neutral, is very active, and "pushed into a corner" it will not work.

If the possibilities of widespread use of these plants are limited, why not draw them on walls and fences?

You can imagine in the design of the garden compositions of cut flowers, dried flowers, fruits and berries. Especially - when you need to quickly transform your garden to some important event.

If there is a shortage of space, you need to use every inch, including windows inside and outside the house, walls, steps and even garden stairs; the roof of the farm building, the bird's trough and the dog's kennel.

The optical illusions are an excellent device for visual expansion of space. You can draw a slightly open door, as if leading to the depths of the garden and giving the opportunity to see an unusual landscape; or a false window through which the "neighboring" garden is seen; build a false wall of the garden house. This will allow us to imagine the boundless expanses of the garden.

The use of mirrors creates the illusion of increasing volume. The main thing is that it should be properly installed - in the shady part of the garden, so that it reflects a pleasant view that will help create the illusion of a spatial perspective. It is recommended to use mirrors with a thickness of at least 6 mm, with a protective coating on the back, on a wooden base, or you can take plywood, providing moisture resistance with a sealant.

A small pond, even very shallow, will visually increase the space, especially if you use a black lining that will bring a sense of the depth of the pond.

A special expressive effect on the increase in space will create a combination of a mirror and a water surface.

Almost every amateur horticulturist is trying to get a lawn, well, at least a little bit of a scrap! In mini-gardens it is unreasonable to do it, still it will not perform the functions assigned to it. It is better to fill a free space with colorful ground cover plants: there are a lot of them, and there is always an opportunity to pick up suitable specimens for almost any growing conditions. This and everyone loved for their decorativeness and unpretentiousness of life; and a huge amount of various cleaning; hoof, pachyzantra apex, bryozoan. Replace the lawn can gravel backfilling, very decorative and not requiring serious care.

In places where there are many sunny days, you can use textured plants and architectural details that will cast expressive shadows on surrounding objects, and with every breeze blowing the picture will constantly change.

Optimum use of existing space will allow multifunctional elements of the garden.

The retaining walls create a new garden structure - more complex, but also more interesting. At the same time they can serve as a showcase for interesting plants. Improvised wooden retaining walls can be used as the basis of a "sofa" for rest, and if this structure has a rising seat, then there will be a storage tank for textile garden accessories.

Pergolas give the volume to the garden. A stand-alone pergola is a place for secluded rest, and adjacent to the house is a transitional "bridge" from the house to the garden.

Children's wooden sandbox is covered with a wooden shield and becomes an improvised "beach" for adults.

A circular bench is installed around a large plant, and if it is planted in a container, then this "resting device" can be moved around the site to the heart's content!

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EXAMPLE: ENGLISH CITY SADIC

I WANT TO READ THE READERS WITH SUCH DIFFERENT PHENOMENA, AS THE ENGLISH CITY PALESADNIKS. IN THE RURAL FIELD, THE PALLADIUM, IN GENERAL, THE HABITABLE PHENOMENON, I WILL NOT SEE ANYONE, THERE IS IN THE CITY,

IN THE SAME LONDON, HALLWAYS AS A TYPICAL SADIK IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE ARE THE CURRENT FEATURE OF THE BRITISH CITY LIFE ...

NATALIA HNATOVSKAYA, gardener-angloman

And it will not be an exaggeration to say that an English front garden is a kind of encyclopedia of techniques for arranging a tiny garden. An endless number of options allows the casual passer-by to watch this kaleidoscope of ideas that are easy to implement in their garden.

Life in the Earth"

The fact is that the overwhelming majority of the urban population of the British Isles prefers to live "on the land", in small two-story houses. Former villagers, even moving to the city, keep a fanatical devotion to garden traditions. The British Royal Society of Gardeners counts its history from the beginning of the XIX century!

It is not for nothing that the English are universally recognized as a nation of gardeners in the world. In London, annually held the famous flower exhibition in Chelsea, celebrated its centennial and attracts a huge number of visitors. And not only the metropolitan residents - they come here from all over the country. The kind of interesting interest that the English show both to the exhibition in Chelsea, and to the annual flower show in Hampton Court, testifies to the passionate love of the inhabitants of Albion for the garden business and their land.

The indefatigable work of the inhabitants of the country turned it into a truly blooming garden. Endless parks, squares, green lawns, magnificent rosaries, flowering fields of daffodils and hyacinths, riot of rhododendrons - all this is Britain. And a significant role in creating man-made beauty of the urban environment is played by the city's front gardens.

The houses of the English, as a rule, have a so-called backyard and a tiny front yard (frontyard), or, in our opinion, a front garden. It is the front garden that is given the important role of a unique showcase of home ownership, reflecting not only the social status of the owners, but also their aesthetic representations of "beautiful", garden tastes and preferences, as well as a measure of diligence and zeal.

Private Zone

The backyard is space exclusively for internal use. There are very few people who can look into this. Enclosed by a high two-meter brick wall, protecting not only from winds, but also from immodest neighborly views, this purely private territory is not a show.

Here you are free to dry linen or knock out pillows, luxuriate in a deckchair with a cup of coffee or walk on a leash cat (English city cats are not allowed to stagger where they want).

In the backyard a patio is arranged, garden furniture is exposed; room flowers endure here.

Great importance is given to vertical gardening; prefer to plant climbing roses, which are picturesquely hanging from a high fence to the street.

The backyard is your private area; but the front patio, please, you must keep in exemplary order.

In the English front gardens, the elements of the decor often use either classical variants of sculpture, or something Eastern, for example Buddha images, preferably with a patina of time. It is not excluded that they were brought from India back in the days of the colonial past by the great-grandfather of the owners of the house.

After all, with all the deliberate detachment of the English from those around them, it does not even matter what neighbors and passers-by think about them. Therefore, every home owner tries not to hit the dirt in the dirt, at least, and at most make something special in his front garden, which will allocate it from a succession of hundreds of the same kindergartens.

The fact is that the streets of English cities are built up with "harmonies" of closely-built standard houses like our townhouses. When you walk along such streets, which in this case are called avenue, their front gardens, as if in a kaleidoscope, demonstrate the infinite variability of the design of a typical house space.

Expressive front gardens

A tiny front garden in front of the house serves as a kind of visiting card of the hosts, a kind (according to William Thackeray) "fair of vanity". Here, as a rule, minimal means create an expressive image of a mini-garden.

Under the indispensable bay window of the living room of the English house - no matter whether it is located in a respectable quarter or on the working suburbs - the hydrangea bush usually grows, so as not to obscure the light in the windows (this is given special importance!).

In general, most of the front gardens are an example of a low-income garden, where one does not need to cut, tie, and sweep the fallen leaves all the time.

Quite often the owners are limited to planting coniferous plants, which fully satisfy these requirements.

With the existing range, you can create endless design options, sometimes limited to one or two copies; using them and as a container culture, symmetrically arranged pots on the steps of the porch.

Quite often, there are to-piars, performed, most likely, by invited professionals.

A mandatory brick fence at the back of the house is not only a defense against curious neighbors - it is a must in the conditions of the windy climate of the British Isles.

On the English climate I must say specifically. There is an opinion about Foggy Albion as a country where rains endlessly and constantly cold and damp. This is not quite true. Dampness is enough, but the main feature of English weather is its variability. If the sun shines in the morning, it will rain after lunch. And vice versa: if it pours in the morning, then in the afternoon it will clear up.

In general, the climate is mild, marine - that is what is called the word “mild” in English. And there is a lot of sun, it shines almost every day, but at the same time the winds constantly blow. The symbolic winter is calendar. Those two days when it snows in London are considered a natural disaster, on such days people speak of a "harsh winter" everywhere. Salt disappears from the shops, which the residents themselves sprinkle on the sidewalks; city ​​authorities, as elsewhere, are not ready for such disasters.

Come specially trained people with appropriate equipment and equipment, skillfully establish order in your garden and leave. And the owners prefer to limit themselves to watering flowers in tubs and boxes.

By the way, about tubs

Some still do not give up and continue to grow in pots of petunia and pelargonium. Container floriculture allows you to change the exposure during the season - flowering in the spring in pots of tulips, daffodils and other onion bulbs are subsequently changed to summer, so that the nurseries offer a huge choice.

And no one is engaged in independent planting of seedlings, its picking.

Often there are classic vases on one leg, which do not go out of fashion since the time of Queen Victoria.

Vertical gardening

Not the last place in the front gardens is assigned to vertical gardening. Used more often species, not hybrid clematis, as well as climbing roses that reach the second floor (because they are never removed from the poles and do not pack for wintering!).

Favorite roses

Roses are still a favorite flower of the British, because they are well enough in the British climate and do not require any special tricks in their care. But they gradually began to disappear from the front gardens.

Preference is given, according to my observations, varieties of continuous flowering - species and English roses of David Austin.

Sometimes they are limited to a pair of stamped roses in containers that can be easily moved around the garden.

No high fences!

Especially I want to note that the English front gardens do not have high fences. Only a hint of the border, repulsed by a low brickwork or a sheared hedge of evergreen bushes, for example boxwood. The universal simple version is a low white fence.

Admission is free, the gate is not at all. When the front garden under the pressure of total motorization turns into a parking lot for cars, the symbolic fence also disappears.

entrance to the house

Entrance doors of the house are an important element of the English front garden, the color accent of the entire garden composition.

They can be neutral in color, but with rich decor, a traditional bronze ring in the mouth of a lion, so as not to knock on the door with knuckles. A tribute to tradition, as in the Forsyte Saga ... Often there are doors painted in active red or royal blue.

English humor

In the front gardens, there is room for the famous English humor, when they like to joke about themselves most of all. So, walking along the streets of London, I came across a front garden, the entire tiny area of ​​which was occupied by an old rusty tractor. Such a challenge to the public taste and traditions!

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ROOMS IN SMALL GARDEN

OUR ROOMS ARE PLACED - INDIVIDUAL HOME SHELTERS. They did not choose the place of accommodation themselves, but they are forced to exist in conditions far from natural: to take stock of the light in the premises, the dry air of the apartments, the city dust, self-confessing by creating more favorable life conditions for us

© Author: OLGA UVAROVA, gardener with experience

Most plants, of course, have adapted to the conditions of city apartments, live, grow and even bloom, but ... they are able to show themselves in all their glory only in their native element - in free air, in the garden, in the country. Here, their foliage becomes thicker and brighter, the color becomes more saturated, they begin to actively grow, bloom, and sometimes bear fruit, showing with their whole appearance where it is, a full life, and where - a miserable existence.

Summer is a time when indoor plants can be nourished by the sun, breathe in fresh air, and wash in rains; therefore, our task is to provide them with this opportunity. But ... pets will have to provide a cottage vacation selectively, since the requirements for natural conditions are different for everyone. Some plants without fresh air and night coolness simply wither away; for others, our northern summer (which is known as the “caricature of the southern winters”) may seem too extreme - cold, hot, dry, moist, windy (as it still happens in our latitudes?), and stresses do not need them. Therefore, it is not enough just to take the plants out of the house onto the street and observe ("who survived, well done") - you will have to take a little trouble.

The little girl does not take

An individual approach is the key to the success of any gardener. Not everyone can see and understand plants, but one should strive for this. First of all, it is important to know where the houseplant comes from, what is its natural habitat: then you can understand whether he will like it in your suburban (Tambov, Nizhny Novgorod, Pskov, or Crimean) cottage or better leave it at home.

As a rule, all plants - natives of hot, humid tropics (where the day equals nights and the temperature regime is stable enough), a long light day, cool nights, heavy rains and sharp unexpected cooling are completely useless. Therefore, it is better not to disturb, leaving where there were anthuriums, aglaonemes, alocacia, deciduous begonias, bromeliads, ferns, orchids, maranthas, saintpolis (Uzambara violets), deciduous cacti.

Place under the sun

Sunlight is the main thing that plants need. But a place under the sun to provide everyone is not necessary, a sliding slit and even a shadow will suit a lot. In addition, it is necessary to distinguish between light and sunshine, which even the natives of hot Africa will not like.

The most sun-loving houseplants are cacti, fatty women, milkweed, although under direct noon sun rays and they can get burns.

Many suns like plants such as brugmansia, bougainvillea, hibiscus, jasmine, calanchoe, callistemon, cataractus, kumquat, pelargonium ivy, yucca, Jacobinia.

Photophilous plants differ, as a rule, with lush and long flowering and decorative leaves. These are abutilons, avocados, begonia, always flowering, gardenia, gloriosa, calamondin, calceolaria, saxifrage, clerodendron, koleus, cordillin, coffee tree, caffeia, passionflower, pelargonium zonal, plectratus, roses, tunberga, date palm, chlorophytum, cyperus, others.

In the sliding penumbra, azaleas, large hydrangeas, Waller's balsam, tuber begonia, clerodendron, cleavis, ivy variegated, Tradescantia (with luxurious dark leaves), fuchsia will be liked.

Even indoor plants are able to tolerate even the shadow, among them - aukuba, ophiopogon, ivy (with green leaves), sansevieria, ficus, chlorophytum (with green leaves), hoya (wax ivy).

Even indoor plants are able to tolerate even the shadow, among them - aukuba, ophiopogon, ivy (with green leaves), sansevieria, ficus, chlorophytum (with green leaves), hoya (wax ivy).

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After moving to the dacha, you must gradually accustom the plants to the abundance of sunlight, trying at first to pritenyat plants, especially on hot sunny days.

Working in the open air

Indoor plants in the dacha should not only rest, but also work, that is, fulfill their main purpose - decorating the world, and in this case - our garden. Therefore, choosing a place for everyone (and taking into account preferences), you can safely include them in the garden compositions.

European classic - pelargonium zonal and ivy, decorating balconies, terraces, porch steps, - perfectly combined in compositions (boxes, baskets, vases) with many annuals and perennials.

To fit into the gravel garden and it will be appropriate to put on a rocky hill room succulents.

Mediterranean flowering plants are good almost everywhere (their huge number) - on the recreation ground, in the courtyard, at the wall of the house, on the front porch; curly and sun-loving creepers (passionflower, gloriosa, tunbergia) will help out on the sunny balcony, and shade-tolerant plants (ivy, sansewieria, ficus, chlorophytum) - on the north and shaded by the neighboring building or tall trees; plants with oriental flavor (azaleas, hydrangeas, cyperus, araucaria) will find their place in the Japanese garden.

Some houseplants can also work as substitutes, taking a place in the flower garden after the faded onion. For these purposes, the same pelargoniums, as well as balsamins, begonias, always flowering, coleus, and plectranthus are suitable.

We will be vigilant!

Outdoors, indoor plants await and danger - showers, hailstones, hurricanes or strong winds, a sharp chill or a long heat. It is difficult to avoid all this, but it is possible to prepare and reduce risks to a minimum. Recommendations are the simplest - stable containers, reliable attachments, shelters from the sun or screens from the side of prevailing winds, the ability to quickly move plants under a canopy or in a closed room.

It is more difficult to protect plants from attack by pests and diseases - but it is also possible.

1. Proper care (regular, but not excessive fertilizing and watering): a healthy, strong plant itself is able to resist pests and diseases, and weakened and under stress attracts them.

2. You can not tolerate the crowding of plants - it is necessary that in the composition they are evenly illuminated by the sun and well ventilated. When thickening, it is possible to thin the bushes, removing excess leaves and shoots.

But if the trouble happens, and the plants are attacked by harmful insects or diseases, then they cope with them in the usual ways - natural, biological or chemical insecticide or fungicidal means. To do it better quickly, without waiting for the moment when the plants will have to be returned to the house.

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Road back

When to clean plants from the street and take them to the city, it depends on the weather, and on the plant itself, and on the place in which it is located. Of course, it is not necessary to delay, but also to hurry especially - too (let's walk a little longer, if there is such an opportunity).

Some Mediterranean plants (conifers, citrus, roses, rosemary, palm trees, ivy) can painlessly tolerate even short-term and small frosts and decorate the garden, balcony, outdoor terrace until late autumn.

For the majority of houseplants, the average departure time (in the mid-Russia) is the end of August and the beginning of September. And it is not necessary to take away the plants entirely (to carry them back and forth). You can prankhandle and root pelargonium, balsamins, fuchsias, plectrantos, coleus, begonias, abutilons and many other houseplants in advance, and root the Pelargonium, balsamins, begonias, abutilons and many other houseplants - and send them back to the winter maintenance, they will transfer the wintering much more easily in a city apartment.

HOW TO VISIBLY INCREASE THE SPACE OF GARDEN OR GARDEN ILLUSIONS

Once again, you are convinced that garden design is not as easy as it seems. It's not enough just to tread a path, plant a bush or break a flower garden - it is important to correctly feel the space, be able to "play" with it. There are different tricks, cunning and not very, with which you can visually increase and reduce the size of your garden.

About the reduction will not say: for our six-hundred gardens it is not the most acute problem. We are more interested in the increase. And then the simplest mirror comes to the rescue. If you set it, for example, at the end of the track correctly, it will make that same track infinite. Another great trick is winding paths: they also increase space.

MIRROR

Correctly placed in the garden mirror can reflect the garden, while not reflecting the approaching people

GATE

If you hide the fence behind thick bushes, you can hide the true dimensions of your garden

BENCH

Without a bench in the garden can not do, but if you need to save space, it can be installed around a large tree

PINK TO A SMALL GARDEN

IF YOU ARE THE OWNER OF A SMALL GARDEN, THIS IS NOT ALLOWING TO REFUSE FROM POSITION OF ROSE. EVEN IN THE BROWN SADIC FOR THEY ARE PLACED. IN A SMALL GARDEN, WHERE NOTHING TO WAVE, WILL-BONUSES COME TO LOOSE THE LIMITED NUMBER OF COOTS. Together with this, it makes us more selective to choose the varieties

© Author: NATALIA GNATOVSKAYA, a rosewater with experience

It must be admitted that a small garden, alas, is not the place for a large rose garden. In a limited area, where each meter counts, it would be unreasonable to break a classic rosary. Yes, and his maintenance in an exemplary order to much obliges. He is relevant only in large estates, and even if there is a gardener who will take care of him.

It is not necessary to discount the fact that roses are a very labor-consuming culture that requires attention, adherence to the rules of agricultural technology and, most importantly, in the conditions of our climate, a competent winter shelter. Therefore, the number of planted shrubs should be directly proportional to your forces and time, which you are ready to spend on them.

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For a garden in the Mediterranean style will require mosaic elements of paving, fragrant varieties of roses of saturated colors (scarlet, dark purple, orange, yellow), terracotta vases of different sizes, sundials, wicker furniture. Roses in such a garden usually see gratings, enclosing cozy shady patios and terraces, where it is so nice to hide in the hot noon.

From the idea of ​​a pink flowerbed, similar to the cake, should also be discarded immediately, since it is essentially the same mini-rose garden, which is quite difficult to maintain.

It would seem that the pending decision to decorate a small garden could be the planting of an effective stamping rose, which we see in the pictures in the garden magazines. However, I want to caution that taking care of such a rose requires certain skills and knowledge; for beginners this option is not suitable. And the planting material that comes to us from Europe is often of low quality. The survival rate of such roses is extremely low, and most of them do not tolerate Russian winter.

Do not forget that the rose is a very labor-intensive culture, requiring increased attention, compliance with the rules of agricultural technology and competent winter shelter

The best decision

There is a brilliant outlet that allows you to decorate a small garden with a single rose. You, probably, will be much surprised if I say that for a small garden the best solution is to plant one strongly growing variety. The paradox is precisely that, having chosen a large rose - and it should, as you might guess, be lined - you will solve the problem of decorating the garden in one fell swoop.

With the right choice of variety, even one such magnificently flowering rose is able to decorate your modest plot. It creates a powerful color spot, which is more than enough for a small garden. It will become a perfect screen when zoning the site, it will give a shadow in a cozy corner of rest, decorate the arbor or arch.

When choosing a location for such a rose, be sure to keep it from dripping from the roof in the summer, the icicles did not "cry" and the snow did not crawl in the spring. You can put in such a way that the growing sticks would be stuck on the porch - a fairly common technique, often found, for example, in English front gardens.

What are still good climbing roses-ramblers? In the autumn, after you cut out the faded shoots, their new flexible and pliable whips that will blossom next year can be rolled into a small ring by the type of nest.

Another variant of planting involves the installation of a front arch at the entrance to the garden. The arch must necessarily be capital; better - welded, as the rose can break down the weak design. For the same reason, pergolas are also strong.

A climbing rose can be used by constructing a special column, or braided onto an obelisk. These structures are well established in the front garden in front of the house. Somewhere on the lawn they will look unnecessarily cumbersome and even inappropriate. And in the front garden - can become the center of the flower-shrub composition.

It will be beautiful to look like a climbing rose on a pergola, trelyazhe, a screen-grid, enclosing a secluded corner of rest, where you can install a bench or a forged set of garden furniture. In such places are especially good fragrant roses, exuding a wonderful aroma. How wonderful in such a corner on a bright summer evenings to enjoy a conversation with friends and gardeners for tea with fresh foams of cherry jam!

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In the garden, sustained in the country style, as well as in the allegedly English cottage garden roses should be mixed with perennials, not really caring about the combination of colors; everything should be quite uninvited and at ease. In this style, it is good to decorate the front garden, adding decorative elements from the village life.

All these decor elements will make your garden somehow special. And roses in this case will be very welcome. After all, in different in style gardens the same varieties will look different.

Place for experiments

In general, a small garden can be an excellent place for experimentation and realization of the gardener's fantasies. You do not just plant roses, but make stylish compositions with them. After all, as you know, they were present in French classical gardens, cultivated in the Victorian era, decorated with small English cottage gardens, were an indispensable attribute of gardens in the Mediterranean style. They were planted in the village gardens.

The big advantage of a small garden is that it is not difficult to subordinate it to one such idea. For this planting roses are combined with recognizable elements. After all, the style is in the details!

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ROSE ROSE FOR SMALL GARDEN PROVED BY TIME

Now - about reliable and proven varieties ...

Among the rose ramblers, Excelsa and the oldest variety Dorothy Perkins have long been well known - they bloom profusely for a month in the first half of summer on last year's shoots and are among the varieties of one-time flowering.

Breeders based on old varieties managed to create new, more advanced 'Super Excelsa' and 'Super Dorothy'. These grow not so high as their predecessors (up to 2,5 m), but at the same time they are decorative continuously all summer. They practically do not get sick unlike their ancestors.

Noteworthy is the old variety 'Veilchenblau', with powerful long shoots and cascades of inflorescences with myriads of small lilac flowers.

Another spectacular rambler with the saying “Wedding Day” (Wedding Day) during flowering stands like a bride in a white lace veil.

The famous white small-flowered rose 'Bobbie James' shoots up to 8 m (!). It has bright green foliage and is famous for its strong aroma. Brushes of creamy white simple flowers form ampel cascades.

In a long string of climbing roses, modern large-flowered varieties of Cordes stand apart - dark red velvety 'Sympathy'; creamy white Use Krohn Superior '; legendary, unsurpassed in its economic qualities, frost-resistant and very decorative 'Flammentanz', which the initiator himself considered his best “work”. These roses, which have stiff, unbending shoots, are better “crucified” on a trellis or trellis, directing the stems horizontally, which makes them let out shoots that turn the trellis into a flowering wall.

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