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Country style garden

When choosing a garden design style, it is useful to take into account your inclinations and character traits. After all, a garden is a continuation of the owner, a kind of his embodiment - in herbs, trees, flowers…. For example, if, instead of digging in the ground, you prefer to spend time next to a barbecue, on which an appetizing barbecue is prepared, or to lie in a hammock with a book in your hands, you are unlikely to find such a popular cottage style with short-cut lawns and carefully cultivated shrubs. A garden with an abundance of all kinds of exotic plants that winter badly in our climate and therefore need special attention is also not for you. Your style is a rustic garden that doesn't require as much maintenance as other gardens. There are no labor-intensive lawns requiring weekly mowing. Instead of them - a charming clover lawn, and in the shady corners - thickets of dream. In the village garden, trees and shrubs are allowed to grow as they please. The very selection of plants is determined by the degree of their unpretentiousness. Plants for a country style garden should grow on their own with minimal human maintenance.

House in the village

Let's start at home. Everyone understands that the house and the garden must match each other. If you are an adherent of country style, then when decorating your home, use natural building materials, not vinyl siding. Wooden houses made of rounded logs or beams are good. If the house is stone, then it can be plastered: the white color of the walls resembles hut-huts. The fence and benches in the rustic garden should be wooden. A wattle fence looks very stylish, with which you can visually separate one part of the garden from another. By the way, the same wattle fence will be a good support for low climbing plants - morning glory, sweet pea, undersized clematis. Chairs and tables made of rattan look good in a rustic garden. They are very comfortable, but they are best protected from rain.

Straight paths made of concrete or sidewalk tiles are completely unsuitable for a country-style garden. Picturesque winding paths made of gravel, natural stone, wooden cuts look better here. Paths made of flat stone slabs of a natural shape look very natural, the gaps between which are sown with clover, lawn grass or ground cover plants resistant to trampling. And, of course, a village garden cannot be imagined without a well, even a decorative one.

Plants for a rustic garden

A village garden without fruit trees and berry bushes is simply unthinkable. They not only yield a harvest, but are also beautiful, especially at the time of flowering. True, they require care. Without it, large harvests of berries and fruits will have to wait a long time. Maybe all my life. However, you should not suffer much if your garden, in the absence of proper care, stubbornly does not want to give record harvests. While the trees are small, they can be "compacted" by planting flowers and even shrubs. If you are not going to dig the earth under the trees every year and apply top dressing, plant shade-tolerant plants in the tree-trunk circles that can withstand aggressive weeds - zelenchuk, tenacious, lungwort, lilies of the valley. If the old apple tree has stopped bearing fruit, do not rush to get rid of it: the tree can be twisted with a climbing plant that needs a powerful support - actinidia, maiden grapes, and if lighting conditions permit - then a climbing rose.

A vegetable garden in a country garden does not have to be sent to the backyard of the garden. It can be arranged close to home. And then you don't have to go far for every bunch of greenery. The idea of ​​a "garden-flower bed" is very productive, where not only vegetables, but also flowers are planted.A real decoration of such a flower bed will be several asparagus bushes, which are placed in the background or in the center of the entire composition, but they are necessarily tied up to give the plant the shape of a "green fountain". Various types of lettuce are very decorative, carrots, beets - chard, parsley, dill, not to mention pumpkin and cucumbers. From onions look attractive slime with flat edible leaves and chives with narrow "tube" leaves and beautiful purple inflorescences. In fact, it is difficult to find a vegetable that does not have a place in a vegetable bed, unless radishes and radishes are unlikely to become its decoration. In addition, the radish ripens very soon, and its leaves suffer greatly from the leaf flea, which eats small holes in them.

Edible flowers will become a natural addition to the "garden flower bed". Daylilies use buds and flowers for food, leaves of badan and monarda are brewed in tea, marigold flowers and thyme leaves are used as a spice, calendula petals are used as a natural dye, buds and young fruit of nasturtium are pickled. Many types of bells, mallow, chrysanthemums are quite edible.

The village garden is generally distinguished by a large number of flowers and a bright color scheme. The style of such a garden is well matched by large bright flower beds with unpretentious perennials - peony, phlox, astilba, chamomile, bells, poppy seeds, rudbeckia. They are planted in groups: the taller ones are in the background, the lower ones are in front. Annuals have a special "village" charm - snapdragons, marigolds, calendula, nasturtium, ageratum, as well as pansies so beloved by everyone. It is more convenient to place these flowers in a separate flower bed or plant them along the paths and near the house. "One-year-olds" look good in clay pots, wooden boxes, tubs, carts, which give the garden a special rustic flavor. And, of course, in what country garden do not grow "golden balls" - dissected rudbeckia, delphiniums, mallow and perennial asters - "Octybrinks"! These plants, due to their impressive size, are best planted near the fence, necessarily providing for the possibility of a garter of lodging stems.

From shrubs and small trees in the village garden, mountain ash, hawthorn, elderberry, bird cherry, lilac, dog rose, viburnum look great. By the way, earlier the elderberry was necessarily planted near the barn and next to the house. It was believed that its smell drives away flies, and mountain ash brought happiness to the house. This tree grew in almost every Russian front garden. The famous rowan liqueur was made from rowan berries, pies were baked with bird cherry berries, jelly and jam were cooked from them, they were treated with viburnum and wild rose berries. In general, our ancestors sought not only to admire the plants, but also to derive the maximum benefit from them. It is this principle that underlies the village garden, which harmoniously combines beauty and utility.

Andrey Gorodnyansky,

landscape designer, journalist

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