2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
In our fast-paced age, when you have to not only keep your apartment clean and tidy, raise your children, but also work, and not always have a short working day. But you still want to have your own summer cottage outside the city, a small garden where you could relax with family and friends after a long hard working week, admire the green spaces planted with your own hands. We offer busy modern people to approach planning a garden on their suburban area consciously, reasonably, so that care for it is minimized, and there is more time left for a suburban vacation among natural greenery
Low-maintenance garden principle 1. Refuse in the planning and landscaping of the garden from paths consisting of individual tiles or logs chopped in even rounds (weeds constantly grow between them that need to be removed), from a gravel path, from high curbs (it is difficult to remove weed trim or fallen leaves from them). If there is a lawn in the garden, then it is better to raise the pedestrian path near it by a few centimeters above its level. This principle will not interfere with the operation of the lawn mower, and the water will leave the paths after rain into the soil. The paths in the garden are initially best done with concrete or asphalt. This will prevent weeds from sprouting through the path.
Principle 2. Everyone in their garden wants to see a velvet lawn in the form of a lawn. It is clear that by concreting a large area of paths in the garden, lawns cannot be avoided. And you still have to take care of him: the lawn requires cutting the grass and watering. Therefore, make these two points as comfortable as possible for yourself. Initially, buy a gasoline lawn mower so as not to drag electric wires around the garden. Also, let it be a model with an integrated grass catcher so that you don't have to work with a rake after mowing. Well, watering should be as comfortable as possible - drip, with spraying, automatic, the operation of which is set by the owner of the garden and the built-in microcomputer of the system.
Principle 3. Even the shape of the lawn needs to be planned. Its outline should be rounded, without corners, uncomfortable convolutions, so that it is convenient to cut it with a lawn mower. For the same reason, you should avoid the presence of large stones on the lawn, special plants that need to be looked after separately, installed furniture, lamp posts, and so on. If the lawn is close to a summer cottage or wall, make a gravel embankment in this place so that you can run over it with the wheels of the lawn mower. In hard-to-reach places in the garden, try to avoid spreading lawn lawns in general. Instead, the most practical will be either "carpet" coverings from ground-covering plants, or from a pebble fill.
Principle 4. To prevent the lawn from growing too much and not having to mow it often, control the amount of fertilizer applied to the lawn and the amount of watering. Vigorous turf overgrowth is provided by fertilizers containing nitrogen. Pay special attention to them. If you have an automatic lawn watering mode in the garden, you will be spared from calculating how much moisture is needed at different times of the summer cottage, so as not to allow the greenery to grow too quickly, but also so that it does not lose its juicy green, eye-pleasing appearance.
Principle 5. On flower beds, mixborders, on green hedges, select plants that do not require everyday tedious worries. It is these areas of the garden that subsequently take the lion's share of the gardener's time. Take for consideration conifers, frost-resistant, evergreen. It would also be good to use drought-resistant, ground cover, perennial and cereal plants. Of course, there are hundreds of such plant species. And it will be difficult to list all of them. We can suggest some that have proven themselves in gardening and landscape art, which do not require close attention and much care.
This is:
• virgin juniper
• Chinese juniper
• juniper medium
• prickly spruce
• European spruce
• Scots pine
• mountain pine
• black pine
• thuja western
• dwarf yew
• Hungarian lilac
• the Alpine prince
• spirea (various types)
• wild-growing viburnum, cherry, sea buckthorn
• Japanese quince
• maiden grapes
• hops
• elecampane high
• golden ball
• daylily
• pion
• phlox
• double monard
• astilba
• ash-tree and many, many others.
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