Greening the site near the house can be done in several ways. Some summer residents plant compact plants, framing a walkway or porch. However, the best option would be to create unusual front gardens in which different flowers are grown. This article will discuss the most popular plant species for such sites, as well as design features.
Why are the front gardens and what is their use?
From time immemorial, gardeners designed flower beds near the house to create an attractive facade. They planted only the best flowers, which were characterized by brightness, originality. Such flower beds were called front gardens.
- The advantages of their creation are as follows:
- originally emphasize the exterior of a residential building;
- creating a smooth transition from home to a place of rest in the garden;
- comfortable conditions for relaxing in the garden;
- facade stylization;
- Closing the flaw of the cladding of the building.
- The disadvantages of the front gardens are as follows:
- the need for quality selection of plants. Some of them can be quite expensive;
- difficulties in preserving the aesthetics of the flowerbed, if the gardener rarely comes to the country.
DIY decoration
Most gardeners are convinced that the front garden should be in the same style as the housing. If you decide to create a complete image, then you really need to carefully select plant species. It is important to choose the style of landscape design that you like. You can also complement the whole picture with unusual and aesthetic fences that will attract a lot of attention from your guests.
Video: How to equip a front garden
Style selection
There are some of the most common styles. The choice depends only on the person who is going to decorate his site.
The most common of them include:
Suitable plants
In the design of the front garden, the main place should be occupied by plants. It is with their help that you can create an unusual exterior. You can plant them in open ground, as well as supplement with flowers in containers or colorful pots. Often plants are planted in containers that are hung on hooks.
Did you know? Emperor Claudius Caesar tried to spend all his free time in the garden, creating an unusual landscape design. Most of all he loved to grow roses.
Most often, perennials are grown in the garden. These include:
- Roses (climbing or ground cover).
- Peoniesthat help maintain flowering continuity when combined with onion and lily plants.
- Hydrangeas - plants that are characterized by long flowering periods and contribute to the creation of romance.
- Rudbeckia - able to fit into any interior of the front garden, thanks to the bright yellow flowers.
- Delphinium, characterized by direct shoots and bright blue inflorescences, goes well with viols and cineraria.
- Hosta - It is able to grow in the shade and in the sun, which determines its versatility.
- Gaillardia - her miniature flowers, similar to sunflowers, will give brightness.
Coniferous crops are also considered suitable plants in the front garden. Juniper, spruce and other evergreen species are used for landscaping. If you exceed their number in the garden, then it will lose its expressiveness.
Important! Try to keep track of how many plants you plant and how they look together. Excessive planting density will not give aesthetics, but only spoil the look.
Often in the front gardens grow decorative deciduous shrubs. Thunberg's barberry is especially popular. This species has a huge number of varieties characterized by burgundy, yellow or light green leaves. Scumpia is also common. Its advantage lies in the fact that inflorescences have the form of a lush and voluminous panicle. When the plant blooms, it resembles bushes shrouded in haze.
If you want the plot to be as attractive in winter as in spring and summer, it is recommended to plant evergreens. Due to the fact that their foliage does not fade, during the snowfall a beautiful contrast will be created: white snowdrifts against the background of green shrubs. Scapular bushes are used to frame borders. You can also plant purse and periwinkle.
The correct selection of the fence
Several centuries ago, high picket fences were used as a fence. They had a protective function so that animals and people do not deform plants.
Over time, the fences became lower and were used as decoration. Instead of stake, they use pickets that complement with unusual carvings.
Blank fences for the front garden
It is advisable to use this type of fence if the distance between the housing facade and the fence is at least 4 m. Deaf worries are made of brick or concrete. Often there are structures that are made of wood or metal. If you do not want to make the fence look monotonous, you can remove the pillars from the brick, which has a different shade.
Concrete fence is made according to the same principle as brick. After that, you can create a cladding of limestone.
Important! If you are going to make a brick fence, then you need to build a foundation of a strip type in advance. Only then can brickwork be created.
A metal fence is created on a concrete foundation. The tubular supports are bricked to create a beautiful contrast. The easiest way is to make a blank fence of wood: it is enough to take sticks of the same size and connect them together. Boards can be installed in different positions: vertically, horizontally and diagonally.
Outdoor fences
Only those summer residents who have enough time to care for plants can install open fences near the front gardens. This is due to the fact that the flower bed will always be in sight. The easiest way to build a wooden fence.
The advantage of such a fence is that it is ideally combined with different types of structures. The lack of an open fence from a picket fence is the demanding care. With an interval of 2 years, you need to varnish the tree so that it does not rot.
If you are not ready to constantly paint the fence, then you can use a metal picket as an alternative. Outwardly, it is no different from wooden, but not so picky about leaving. You can paint it every 7-10 years.
Forged fence has a special aesthetics. You can make it tall or compact - anyway, it will beautifully complement the site. Often gardeners use a metal mesh. It does not have a special aesthetics, but it can be used if you grow climbing plants that will weave around the fence.
So, now you know how to decorate the front garden, without making much effort. If you choose the right plants that you will grow, as well as fences, you get a beautiful decoration of the exterior of your home.
