Having collected all the tips together, we will consider how best to equip a place for a country holiday for the whole family, called a dacha.

General principles for planning the design of the house and the surrounding area

A dacha, as a place to relax, must necessarily include:

• A house located at a distance of no closer than 3-5 meters from the road (protection from noise and dust);
• A utility zone with premises (sheds, cellars, etc.), located as far as possible from the residential premises, so as not to disturb the beautiful landscape views;
• Parking for a car on the north side of the house;
• Garden areas, beds, flower beds, i.e. the main decorations of the territory and the source of the crop;
• Recreation areas with benches, ponds, etc. These are the most attractive areas country house. Actually, everything was started for their sake, because the dacha is the place where we should feel good at any time of the year and where comfort and beauty reign.

Planning is the most important step

Having decided on the general steps, you need to draw up detailed plan landscape design of the territory and think in what style the site will be equipped - modern, classic, rustic, etc.

It is worth focusing on design country house so that the landscape of the site and the interior of the house are in harmony, and not represent something of a contrast. This is the only way to achieve harmony in the design of the cottage.

In order to save money, you can do a lot in the design of the site with your own hands. This applies to both planning and direct implementation of work.

Making a cottage site with your own hands, photo.

What you can do in the design of the cottage yourself:

So, if you do all of the above yourself, the arrangement and design suburban area it will seem quite simple to you. Stock up on patience and diligence, and you will save a lot of nerves and money. Arrangement of a summer cottage: photo.

Choose a style

Style is very important when arranging suburban area and not just summer cottages. Country house - the best place for the rest of the townspeople, because it is usually located within the city and it is easy to get to. Therefore, many people prefer dachas to foreign resorts and come there at any time of the year.

Dachas, which are made in the same style (meaning the style of the house and the plot), look cozy and very well-groomed. But the choice certain style It's not an easy task, here you need to focus on personal preferences.

There are 2 main styles, on the basis of which a design plan for a summer cottage is built, even if it is done by hand, namely:

• Regular. It is characterized by conservatism, classics, strict lines, clear geometric proportions, conciseness of design. However, with regard to decorating the site, here the fantasy of the owner of the cottage is not limited by anything and it is allowed to break flower beds, plant trees and shrubs, plant herbaceous plants, etc.;
• Landscape. It involves the artificial construction of natural elements of the landscape - mounds, reservoirs, ponds, etc. All details of the arrangement of the site in this style, as a rule, have the wrong geometry, because. imitate natural elements. This option for arranging a summer cottage site requires a greater investment of effort and material resources than a regular design, so making it yourself is completely problematic.

My suburban area is my own territory, on the arrangement of which I can fulfill my any fantasies. This is one of those pleasant things that you want to approach immediately. How to equip a summer cottage, what a garden will be like, where there will be a reservoir, it all depends on us and our desire.

Having received a summer cottage as personal property, we get the opportunity to discover the artist in ourselves, to show our creativity, to realize our old dreams. How to equip a summer cottage will depend entirely on our desire and the skill of our hands.

But first we need to identify those circumstances that do not suit us. Maybe these are old trees, unnecessary buildings left over from the former owners, large stones. Before you uproot and throw it all away, I advise you to decide what you actually want to receive.

Make a plan of action, set a specific goal. It is quite possible that when arranging a summer cottage, stones can be used to create an alpine slide, and a very cute table will turn out from an old stump. When the stage of clearing the site is left behind, I advise you to start planning future buildings and plantings. Determine where the house will be located, and where the garden will be planted, plan the landing of the lawn, the construction of the gazebo. Or maybe you want to equip a pergola or a cozy green arch for privacy. Everything is in your hands, and all plans can be easily implemented.

Eight concrete steps for drawing up a garden plan.

Stage one. Let's all imagine together how and where each of those present sees himself in the country.

At this stage of planning, it is not necessary to specify quantities and varieties. fruit trees in the garden or the presence of corn in the future garden, is determined, so to speak, strategically.

We sketch with simple geometric shapes and sign the future elements of our site.

I would like to immediately warn and remind you of some important points regarding future friendly relations with neighbors in the country:

• you should not design a house closer than 3 meters from the neighboring territory, this is prohibited by building codes, why constantly feel under attack;
• the placement of a septic tank, compost tanks is best coordinated with a neighbor. This, of course, is possible, but it is still worth warning;
• well, the planting of free-growing trees should be limited to a three-meter distance to the neighbor's site.

There are so many options you can imagine, from a 'cultivated' earthworm breeding factory to your own mushroom picking forest.

Let's imagine that we settle on a compromise solution that suits most families.

In general terms, our cottage should have:

• a residential building at least 3 meters away from the road so that the dust from the road does not interfere with us;
• utility rooms combined in one place away from the places of your rest and the rest of your neighbor;
• parking for cars on the north side of the house;
• a productive vegetable garden and a garden (our pride) with a square, while the trees in the garden are small, these elements of the dacha can be partially combined. Although such a combination is considered a mistake by many gardeners, in my opinion, on the trunk circles of sufficiently clarified trees, original round beds are obtained for greens, onions, and even for cucumbers with beans. And we must remember that on one hundred square meters of the garden we can grow six, maximum seven free-growing fruit trees;
• gazebo for barbecue and benches for rest.

Stage two. It's time to move on to specifics.

Compose full list plants that you and your family want to see in your country house. Fruit trees, shrubs, grapes, flowers, ornamental plants please don't miss anything.

I am sure that many points of your plan will change, something will be deleted, and something will be added. The main thing to remember is that replanting trees is always much worse than not replanting.

Extra trees will reach for the light, forgetting about the harvest, and they still have to be cut down. And during their growth, they will greatly harm nearby growing trees.

Stage three. Think about the "geography" of your site.

For example, if you have wetlands and waterlogged places on your site, and there are moisture-loving plants on the list of desired plants, then this is an ideal case.

And, on the contrary, if you are a lover of cherries, and the groundwater level is high, then it is necessary to drain the planting site of cherries with the help of drainage grooves, and possibly make an embankment.

Stones, pits, tubercles, stumps, if you are not going to turn them into elements of the design flight of your thought, with their help bring beauty with your own hands, then it would be better to remove all this.

Stage four.

Harvest crops should never be planted in the shade. Being in the shade, a tree must grow to constant direct sunlight in order to survive.

Therefore, in order for a tree to bear fruit, it must be planted where necessary, and not poke anywhere.

To do this, draw the shaded areas of our site:

• we take a blank sheet of paper, imagine that we are on the site;
• we denote the cardinal directions and the approximate movement of the sun;
• we schematically draw future buildings, already growing large trees, a fence and everything that can give a shadow;
• specify the height of everything listed in the previous step;
• paint over all shadow areas. We proceed from the following rule: the width of the shadow is two times less than the height of the object that gives this shadow. Those places where, according to our calculations, there will be more than half a day's shade, are considered unsuitable for planting crops.

A full shade zone can only be planned for paths, gazebos, benches for relaxing, possibly for a flower garden with interesting design solutions.

Stage five.

Until now, our plan has been dominated by limitations that prevent us from realizing our grandiose plans.

Do not give up, we can place all the desired plants on our site if we know that:

• all trees respond well to CROWN FORMING. Therefore, we can easily give them any shape with our own hands - from 4 meters of normal height to dwarf sizes, width from "flat wall" to 6 meters;
• well, directly the very geometric shape of the tree crown can be any - creeping along the ground, in the form of "balls" of different or "walls" of very different heights;
• always arrange rows of fruit trees and shrubs from north to south (or vice versa). This arrangement will give a total less shadow, so it will be possible to use row spacing;
• gooseberry bushes, currants, as well as trees with a “ball”-shaped crown are planted in a checkerboard pattern, as if in the corners of a triangle. This will make better use of the space and improve the lighting of your plants. fruittree.ru recommends redcurrants, gooseberries to be planted in elevated, dry, well-lit places, while blackcurrant, on the contrary, feels good in damp, lower areas. Let raspberries grow in isolated areas of the plot, it gives a lot of root offspring, and it will be easier to control its growth area.

Stage six. Let's plan a garden.

Think about what crop of vegetables you want to harvest. Exactly how much do you need.

If you are not going to feed all your relatives up to the fifth generation, then perhaps round beds in near-trunk circles will be enough for you.

Later, you can create the same round beds scattered around your garden. The optimal width for them is approximately a meter.

It looks very nice. To make it also practical, you will need to set decorative borders 30 centimeters high, you can even higher, fill them with humus. Then you can cover with mulch (grass, rags, husks, straw), then you can water and lightly weed no more than once a week.

Install trellises on the beds. For curly vegetables, arrange "vegetable alleys" - connect the trellises just above your height with a roof, a kind of overlap. So you will create a cucumber or bean alley with your own hands.

Even on round beds, it’s great to arrange a pyramid - you install a support in the center, to which you tie one and a half to two dozen ropes. You can also build an "umbrella" at the top.

On such structures, vegetables, in addition to looking beautiful, also bear excellent fruit.

Arrange your beds along the southern or eastern walls of the house, utility rooms. In such places, plants grow several times faster than in a simple bed. The main thing is to arrange waterproofing of the walls, otherwise a beautiful wall decorated with your favorite vegetables will collapse over time.

Ideal would be a bed that will be visible from the window of your kitchen. Vegetables growing on such a bed seem to feel your constant presence, and grow much more fun.

Stage seven. It remains to think about how we will move around the territory of our site.

Think about what, where and where you have to carry and carry.

No need to plan rectangular patterns of movement around the country. Such paths will constantly cling to you at their right angles.

Do not be afraid of triangular, semicircular, oblique sections and, accordingly, paths in your country house.

If simplicity and ease of movement require such geometry, feel free to arrange such garden paths.

All the territory that did not fall under the beds is your lawn. If you don’t want to worry too much about creating an English lawn, remember the main rule, a permanent brace completely destroys all weeds. Only meadow grasses will remain, cutting is their favorite condition.

You will have to master the work on the trimmer and consider that you have learned the most competent ecological method of caring for the land in the country.

Stage eight (final).

A plan like "one and a half dozen trees behind the house and five bushes of berries near the garden" will not work at all.

You need to plan in the same way as you do repairs at home. You know exactly where the TV will stand - there should be an outlet and an antenna plug.

It’s the same with the dacha project, everything should be literally: “When I sit on the terrace, I will see the Pepin Saffron apple tree, behind it the Red Banner Renet apple tree, to the left of it is the Tolstobezhka pear. In the garden, I will put a trellis from north to south, from which cucumbers will stretch towards the house.

Only an accurate idea of ​​what and how we want will make it possible to avoid unnecessary alterations, uprooting of trees and a poor harvest of vegetables in the future. Believe me, it is much easier to think through everything once, and not suffer every summer to no avail.

Elements of arrangement of a summer cottage

For decorative design of the cottage, you can plan a lawn. To do this, you need to level the site, dig and remove all weeds. Then add soil and sow grass. And if your plans include the creation of an alpine slide, then you don’t need to level anything, on the contrary, it needs bumps.

I would advise creating a pond. This will beautiful arrangement suburban area, decorated with aquatic plants. It is not difficult to do it yourself. First you need to dig a hole, and give time for the soil to settle. Then plan the distribution of water from the water supply. This is not a difficult matter. Lay out the bottom of the pond with a special film, so that it covers the walls, but not too tight. I advise you to take the film in black, so the illusion of depth will be created. It must be brought out half a meter beyond the edges of the reservoir, and sprinkled with sand, and then overlaid decorative boulders. You can do it even easier - buy a plastic bath, or any other form, and dig it in the area at ground level. Cover with decorative stones, sprinkle with multi-colored pebbles, and plant water-loving plants and lawn grasses along the coast.

Thinking about how to equip a summer cottage, you need to take care of the lighting. it important point especially after dark. After all, in the evening, after working in the garden, you will want to sit on the terrace with a cup of tea. This is where inexpensive and beautiful flashlights come in handy. solar panels. They will create soft lighting in the gazebo, emphasize the fancy line of the path in the dark. And you can create such lanterns with your own hands, using unnecessary tin or glass jars, decorating them with different colors, and cutting out patterned holes in tin. Will look effective forged lanterns on pillars, beautifully and mysteriously illuminating a romantic bench in the garden.

If you got a small space where you need to save every square meter area, great solution will build a summer cottage with vertical beds. So you can make a real strawberry tree out of an old wooden barrel by drilling holes with a diameter of 5 cm over the entire surface and planting bushes in them. The barrel itself is completely filled with earth. published

P.S. And remember, just by changing your consciousness - together we change the world! © econet

On the bank of the river, our friends purchased an abandoned plot of land, which is a wasteland covered with bumps and bumps, overgrown with bushes and weeds.

Landscaping

Four years of hard work allowed us to build country house with all urban amenities and turn the surrounding area into a piece of paradise.

house project, internal organization and landscape design was carried out by the owner of the summer cottage independently. Since the summer cottage was created for recreation in the summer, most of the land was set aside for a green lawn and flower beds.

Only a small part of the land in the far corner behind the house was used to install a greenhouse and beds for growing greenery. Currant bushes and apple trees with plums were also planted.

In order for the paths to be dry and clean in rainy weather, they were paved paving slabs elevated above ground level. As a result, it became possible to walk around the territory of the summer cottage even in indoor slippers.

A wide path was made for the entire length of the suburban area from the gate, which ends with a canopy without walls, intended for parking a car. The canopy allows not only to protect the car from precipitation and solar radiation, but also to do household chores under it in rainy weather.

A garage canopy of this design is a good design solution, as it does not obstruct the view and fits well into the overall design of the summer cottage.

The owners of the summer cottage are very hospitable people. Relatives and friends often visit them. Thanks to the wide walkway from the gate, up to six cars can be accommodated in the yard at once.

A strip of land was left between the fence and a wide path, on which flowers and spruce forests were planted.

Along the opposite side of the path and a green lawn, there is also a flower bed.

All paths are made of paving slabs of gray and red color. A narrow path leads from the wide road to the house.

Before front door a spacious open veranda overlooking the river was built in the country house. It has a table and chairs. After visiting the steam room on the veranda on summer evenings, in any weather, it is very pleasant to dine with soft drinks and barbecue in the company of friends.

On the summer cottage, before the construction of the house, was built outbuilding, consisting of three separate rooms with doors. Two entrances are equipped with a small common porch with a canopy. One of the rooms has a window overlooking the river. It has a bed with a bedside table for overnight guests. The second room is windowless and serves as a workshop, while the third is used to store inventory and tools.

Next to the utility house, opposite the veranda, there is a platform covered with paving slabs for frying shish kebabs on the grill. Nearby there is a place for a mobile garden rocking sofa.

Flower beds and flower beds

Considering the above published photos, you probably noticed that almost all, even the smallest plots of land between the paths have flower beds and flower beds. The hostess of the summer cottage fantastically loves flowers, and is ready to deal with them tirelessly from morning to evening, which, by the way, does all her free time.

She treats flowers as her own, and therefore the thought of asking her to pick at least one flower for a bouquet does not even occur to her. She buys flowers for a bouquet as a gift, despite the abundance of her own, she buys in a flower shop.

By the way, if you need a simple or exquisite bouquet of flowers for a special occasion, then you can order it online with home delivery to any city not only in Russia, but also in the World, in a specialized online store "Megaflowers".

The pride of the owner of the summer cottage is a spacious green lawn. Although it often has to be cut, there is a place for children to run barefoot, play ball games and badminton.

A low fence with a gate in the center separates the summer cottage from the public area. There is a flower bed in front of the fence, separated from the path by wooden chocks. In addition to flowers, Christmas trees are planted in the flowerbed, each of which is planted in honor of one of the granddaughters and named after them. Children will grow up and watch how spruces grow with them. It will be very interesting for children.

Marigold flowers are planted along the low fence from the side of the river. On the left side of it, next to the canopy, there is a box with a tight lid for the disposal of food waste and garbage of plant origin.

Almost the entire area not occupied by a green lawn, a greenhouse and a small vegetable garden is planted with spruce forests and flowers.

The corners between the paths are beautifully decorated with paving slabs. Not flashy, but tasteful.

A flower garden in the form of an alpine hill decorates the edge of the grassy lawn. original composition and harmonious combination different colors in combination with boulders and pebbles is admirable. The photo shows a view from the second floor of the country house.

The flowerbed of the alpine hill view is not symmetrical, and when you look at it from different sides, a completely different composition of flowers opens up.

And in this photo, on the site of last year's alpine slide, a new one has been created, which has larger size and with a different design. For a detailed review, I decided to present close-up photographs of plants and flowers.

In the photo, a perennial, unpretentious to the soil, sun-loving cinquefoil is golden, with beautiful yellow flowers, growing on an alpine hill. The plant is not afraid of frost, and Potentilla tea has medicinal properties. Golden cinquefoil begins to bloom, usually in the second half of summer.

And this is thyme (creeping thyme), popularly called "Bogorodskaya grass". Thyme is a very beautiful perennial plant with a noble aroma, which has about 400 species. There are different colors. Thyme is also medicinal plant. Blooms from early June to late July. Thyme is great for creating alpine slides.

This flower is called the rock rose, a relative of the cacti, which has nothing in common with ordinary roses, except that they are similar in shape to rosettes, and the leaves are pink at the edges. The Latin name is Sempervivum, which means "always alive." Unpretentious beautiful perennial plant with fleshy leaves, odorless. Ideal for alpine slides.

Heather is an evergreen, low-growing perennial (grows up to 30 years), shrub plant and blooms in our latitudes from July-August until late autumn. Heather photophilous plant, and with enough sun, the flowers are saturated with color and do not fall off for a long time. Excellent honey plant and bees never fly by. The flowers are small, lilac or lilac-pink. The bushes grow to a height of 60 cm. Heather is the national flower of Norway, as Heather fields cover more than half of the country's area.

The dwarf mountain pine jacobsen has a beautiful decorative form and surprises with its fluffiness. The needles are not prickly and it is pleasant to touch them with your hands. This coniferous plant is unpretentious to the soil and grows in any conditions, loves the sun, is not afraid of frost. The height of an adult plant does not exceed 40 cm, which makes the mountain pine an ideal conifer for alpine slides.

Due to the unusual red color of the leaves, it is very popular among gardeners. perennial flower Geichera. Garden geyher is the fruit of the work of American breeders. Heuchera does not like direct sunlight and grows better in the shade of other plants.

Heuchera flowering time depends on temperature environment and illumination. Due to the bright red color of the leaves and the beautiful flowers of Geichera, it is excellent in combination with other plants to create alpine slides. It is better to plant Heuchera in the shade from conifers or other flowers, so that the rays of the sun fall on it only at sunrise or sunset.

This is another variety coniferous plants. Unfortunately, I do not know the scientific name of this Christmas tree.

Sizaya Canadian spruce Konika (Conica) comes from Canada. dwarf variety grows in ten years to a height of only one meter. This is a very beautiful conifer, excellent, as well as spruce, grows in our latitudes.

It is probably not necessary to imagine a lily flower. Lily is the oldest known flower, the flower of purity and purity. There are thousands of legends about Lily. The lily is considered the flower of kings. Everyone knows and loves this beautiful flower. Pictured is Canadian Lily.

In this photo, too, a lily, only bright red.

Roses are perhaps the most popular flowers for expressing the feelings of the giver. Thanks to the variety of shades of rosebuds, they were "taught" to convey attitude without words. A scarlet rose or a bouquet is given when expressing romantic love and passion, a donated red rose bud expresses confusion, a tender attitude is emphasized by a pale pink bouquet of roses. It is customary to give a dark pink bouquet as a token of gratitude.

Astilbe is unpretentious frost-resistant perennial plant with bright red flowers. There are varieties that bloom in other colors. The flowers can reach a height of 60 cm and rise beautifully above low-growing grass and other flowers.

Pansies are popularly called violet tricolor. These pretty flowers seem to be looking at us. Pansies are one of the most unpretentious flowers to environmental conditions, they bloom from early spring to late autumn.

Petal color combination pansies tends to infinity. This is one of the gardeners' favorite flowers.

Cannes are exotic flowers for our latitudes. The flowers are very beautiful, and in one flower the petals can be of different colors. Cannes are excellent flowers for decorating a summer cottage.

And this flower Gatsania liked the bee, and she collects nectar. Gatsania, or gazania, is a South African flower that looks like a Russian chamomile. Flowers appear from July and delight the eye until the end of the season. The flower loves abundance sunlight and has an attractive look.

The Gatzania flower has color scheme sunlight, and therefore it is difficult to look away from it.

Summer is a wonderful time when people tend to escape from the urban jungle and go to the country. It is in the country that you can relax from the bustle of the city and from the noise of the metropolis. And of course, you want the house where you are going to spend the whole summer to be comfortable. We have collected for our readers the most original ideas for arranging a summer house.

1. Support for climbing plants

The original support will allow you to turn grapes or other climbing plants into an exotic tree.

2. Pergola

A creative wooden pergola will undoubtedly become a highlight of the garden, making it elegant and stylish.

3. Landscape lighting

A fence adorned with small glass candle jars will transform your backyard into a magical place filled with magic and mystery.

4. Garden path

Simple, budget, but no less stylish and original idea garden path design

5. Flowerbed

Take your time to uproot the old stumps on your site, turn them into charming flower beds.

6. Vertical garden

You won’t surprise anyone with simple, neat beds. Now the trend of vertical cultivation of various plants is gaining more and more popularity. So why not decorate your summer cottage decorative wall from useful plants?

7. Rain barrel

A rain barrel will significantly reduce water consumption, which means significant savings on garden maintenance. Most often, a barrel for collecting and storing rainwater is installed at the end of a downpipe.

8. Table

The original garden table with a mobile top and a compartment for storing drinks.

9. Summer booth

Resting in the country, you should take care of your pet. Make a small open booth (like a gazebo) so that your beloved dog does not overheat in the sun.

10. Fountain

An elegant stone garden fountain that you can make yourself.

11. Terrace

If the cottage is equipped with a balcony, you should definitely use the area under it to arrange a comfortable terrace.

12. Pond

If the territory and financial possibilities allow, then feel free to equip the backyard with a large pond with a recreation area, dense vegetation and other accessories.

Wooden shelves with flower pots will help to decorate an old nondescript fence.

14. Garden furniture

Update old garden furniture with lush moss.

15. Gazebo

The original project of a simple and beautiful garden gazebo made of wooden beams.

16. Fireplace

The sight of a flame calms and creates a romantic atmosphere, and an open fire warms not only the body, but also the soul. There are many ideas and instructions for creating an open hearth that can be set up even in a tiny area.

17. Music of the wind

Create your own original design made of metal and wire, which will fill the yard with wonderful sounds, decorate the yard and fill the territory with positive energy

Having bought a land plot for a summer residence, the owner also acquires a lot of certain problems, one of which is the improvement of the entire territory. After all, it is not enough just to build a house or an ordinary temporary house on it, you also need to create comfortable conditions for recreation and, if possible, set up a garden or start a vegetable garden. Therefore, the improvement of the suburban area is always put forward in the first place.

Country house on your own

Naturally, landscaping should begin with cleaning the entire territory. It is cleared of last year's fallen leaves, all unnecessary garbage is removed, old stumps are uprooted (if present on the site), old buildings are disassembled, if possible, etc.

After restoring order in the territory, you can move on to landscaping. But before you arrange the summer cottage with your own hands and achieve complete harmony of all the landscape elements on it and various buildings, certain sequential actions are needed. To do this, it is recommended to draw up a plan for all upcoming landscaping work.

Zone Planning

All these zones are not mandatory, since the improvement of a suburban area may depend on the area of ​​​​the land allotment and, of course, on the preferences of the owners themselves. After all, for someone it is important to have a garden with a garden, and for someone it is just comfortable to spend their time among the flower beds and neatly broken lawns.

Whatever preference the owners make, in any case, the dacha should have a well-groomed appearance, and a worthy fencing of the site can play an important role here.

hedge selection

For landing ornamental shrubs, which are usually planted along garden paths, fences and near alpine slides, lilac is most often chosen, as well as dwarf trees, weigela, jasmine, Japanese rhododendron. These types of shrubs are not whimsical to care for, and if the landing site is chosen correctly, with regular pruning of extra branches, they will constantly delight the owners with their appearance for many years.