Currently growing popularity of suburban housing. This is due not only to rising standards of living in our country, but also to the fact that only in a country house, you can feel like a real master of your home and feel the joy of contact with nature.
Every homeowner is always an urgent need to care for the house territory. Even if a small portion without attention, it will still create a sensation of cold and discomfort near your home.
What to do? Hiring a gardener is very expensive, and good people are not so much.
Try to do a garden for yourself, along with her husband and children. Even if you will never engaged in the cultivation of plants, everything can happen if your desire and patience.
Start with the fact that to correctly assess their capabilities and match them with needs. Indeed, in the garden you can use expensive, require complex care, and plant design, and can be done on the site for tourists "little blood", while receiving the maximum result.
How to make a lawn in the garden
Center for any garden should be a lawn. This needs to be done and because each has, or come to visit the children. A lawn near the house of their favorite place to play and fun.
You can arrange the lawn right in front of the house and then you will use it more often and for a variety of reasons. You can set it on a table with an umbrella and arrange family dinners.
You can set a couple of sun loungers and sunbathing. In short, the lawn near your home will never be empty, there will always use it.
Level the surface of the lawn, otsypte its fertile soil, and then tamp the job and let the children to plant the seeds of grass, they will do it with pleasure. The shops selling many varieties of grass for all kinds of lawns. After planting, water the lawn during dry days.
What kind of flowers to plant in flower beds mixborders
Around the lawn can be arranged flowerbeds, mixborders. For planting, use plants that do not require a lot of grooming. These include almost all kinds of host, perennial asters, milkweed, stonecrops, Liatris, Heuchera.
From annuals you can always buy a sing-seedlings, marigold, salvia, snapdragon, and many other hardy plants.
You can make the composition of the plants that will bloom profusely all summer, for example, to plant petunias and sage, and can pick up the plants so that the plants will bloom one after the other, replacing one another.
How to equip the background Garden
In the background the garden and along the tracks better to plant conifers, such as arborvitae, yew, pine mountain, various types of junipers, microbiota. They grow slowly, no flowering. But it does not require much care, and year-round delight pomp green needles.
Suitable for those purposes and a variety of shrubs. The most unpretentious is spirea (note the grade of "Little Princess"), cotoneaster, physocarpus, snowberry, forsythia, lilac, viburnum, barberry and others. Plant shrubs in groups, so they will show their beauty in the best light.
To cover the nondescript walls and fences use parthenocissus. He is unpretentious, grows quickly and is able to completely change the landscape of your yard. Available even a novice gardener Perfoliate Honeysuckle. With it you can create a cozy wall and entrance arch.
Besides the use of ornamental plants can remember and some cultural. The apple tree in the back garden will give you a lush flowering in spring, juicy fruits in autumn. Do not forget about some neukryvnyh grapes, Schisandra.
As no worries equip your garden at the cottage
Currently growing popularity of suburban housing. This is due not only to rising standards of living in our country, but also to the fact that only in a country house, you can feel like a real master of your home and feel the joy of contact with nature.
Every homeowner is always an urgent need to care for the house territory. Even if a small portion without attention, it will still create a sensation of cold and discomfort near your home.
What to do? Hiring a gardener is very expensive, and good people are not so much.
Try to do a garden for yourself, along with her husband and children. Even if you will never engaged in the cultivation of plants, everything can happen if your desire and patience.
Start with the fact that to correctly assess their capabilities and match them with needs. Indeed, in the garden you can use expensive, require complex care, and plant design, and can be done on the site for tourists "little blood", while receiving the maximum result.
How to make a lawn in the garden
Center for any garden should be a lawn. This needs to be done and because each has, or come to visit the children. A lawn near the house of their favorite place to play and fun.
You can arrange the lawn right in front of the house and then you will use it more often and for a variety of reasons. You can set it on a table with an umbrella and arrange family dinners.
You can set a couple of sun loungers and sunbathing. In short, the lawn near your home will never be empty, there will always use it.
Level the surface of the lawn, otsypte its fertile soil, and then tamp the job and let the children to plant the seeds of grass, they will do it with pleasure. The shops selling many varieties of grass for all kinds of lawns. After planting, water the lawn during dry days.
What kind of flowers to plant in flower beds mixborders
Around the lawn can be arranged flowerbeds, mixborders. For planting, use plants that do not require a lot of grooming. These include almost all kinds of host, perennial asters, milkweed, stonecrops, Liatris, Heuchera.
From annuals you can always buy a sing-seedlings, marigold, salvia, snapdragon, and many other hardy plants.
You can make the composition of the plants that will bloom profusely all summer, for example, to plant petunias and sage, and can pick up the plants so that the plants will bloom one after the other, replacing one another.
How to equip the background Garden
In the background the garden and along the tracks better to plant conifers, such as arborvitae, yew, pine mountain, various types of junipers, microbiota. They grow slowly, no flowering. But it does not require much care, and year-round delight pomp green needles.
Suitable for those purposes and a variety of shrubs. The most unpretentious is spirea (note the grade of "Little Princess"), cotoneaster, physocarpus, snowberry, forsythia, lilac, viburnum, barberry and others. Plant shrubs in groups, so they will show their beauty in the best light.
To cover the nondescript walls and fences use parthenocissus. He is unpretentious, grows quickly and is able to completely change the landscape of your yard. Available even a novice gardener Perfoliate Honeysuckle. With it you can create a cozy wall and entrance arch.
Besides the use of ornamental plants can remember and some cultural. The apple tree in the back garden will give you a lush flowering in spring, juicy fruits in autumn. Do not forget about some neukryvnyh grapes, Schisandra.
Nasturtium - an ornamental plant to decorate the cottages
There nasturtium from South and Central America. There are about 50 species of this plant.
At home, it's Annual or perennial. In Russia, it is grown only as annual crops.
One of the cultivated species - Nasturtium "lobby" - is a plant with creeping, up to 3 m shoots with large, green leaves on long stalks and yellow or orange single, large, diameter of 5 cm, flowers on long stalks. This kind of nasturtiums can be widely used for decorative purposes: for landscaping slopes, rocky and decorative walls, arbors, balconies, loggias. It can be grown on beds or as single plants. Propagated nasturtium seeds that are sown directly into the ground after the threat of frost has passed, but it is preferable to grow seedling method. On seedlings sown the seeds of this plant in the middle or end of April, right in pots, because Nasturtium not tolerate transplanting. Planted in open ground with a lump of land, of course, when the frost is not afraid.
Nasturtium
- Heat-loving plant and photophilous and die even with a slight negative temperature. It prefers drained, well-fertilized, moderately moist soil. It makes no fresh manure, lime, excess moisture and nitrogen. No watering in the dry summer grows poorly and almost no blooms. With a little shade leaves grow larger and fleshy, but in such circumstances the plant may not bloom. Flowering begins in 40-50 days after emergence and lasts all summer until the first frost. Seeds ripen in 40-50 days after the beginning of flowering. Seeds are large, black. For use in the food they were harvested green.
At home, nasturtium is an important food plant. For members of the family of spicy characteristic common to all parts of the plant, the smell and taste due to the presence in the cell tropeolin. In the food consumed flowers, leaves, fruits, seeds, and even the perennial species rhizomes and tubers.
Nasturtium leaves are good in salads and sandwiches, prepared from the flowers of vinegar with a very peculiar flavor. Fresh leaves, unripe fruits and seeds have a pleasant pungent odor and taste and is often used as a salad dressing, salad, vegetable, meat and fish dishes, add them to soups. The buds and unripe fruits marinated and used instead of capers, as well as a seasoning when pickling cucumbers and tomatoes. Try these dishes - you will not regret!
Grass, leaves, flower buds and seeds of nasturtiums are used not only as a vitamin supplement to the main food, teas and tinctures to help with chronic bronchitis, cholelithiasis, hypertension, chronic coronary insufficiency, coronary artery disease, asthma, emphysema, anemia, kidney stones , skin rashes. Broth nasturtium stimulates heart rate, increases blood flow through the coronary arteries, improves the health of patients with angina pectoris. The fresh juice of the leaves is used to strengthen the hair.
Herbs, seeds, flower buds and leaves of nasturtiums are harvested throughout the summer.
