The design and decoration of the front garden with your own hands is a matter, although difficult for several reasons, but very beautiful. Usually, too small a plot of the yard is allocated for it, such that the soul of the gardener, with all the desire, will not be able to turn around properly.

Front garden in front of the house

But our front gardens are the “face of the house”. Although it is located next to a dusty road, it should look its best! One glance at the territory near the dwelling gives an idea of ​​the owners.

Lightweight front garden - simple and fast

Of decisive importance in the composition of the front garden are its dimensions. The area of ​​​​the site allotted for the palisade dictates to us how to design it. Next, I will consider the option of designing a small site and also what to make it from.

Beautiful front garden - an example to follow

Depending on your desire and budget, the front garden can be made inexpensively either as a decorative low picket fence, or with investments as an openwork wrought iron fence.

By the way, you can do without a fence at all - such device options are common in America. Of course, a metal fence will last much longer than a wooden fence, and it does not require maintenance. The photo below is a very good example of a beautiful wooden front garden.

Front garden with wooden fence

I do not advise making a fence from a profile! Any dense fence is unsuitable for a real front garden. Even a plastic fence will look better than a profiled sheet ... In extreme cases, make it out of a grid and put a bindweed on it.

A small front garden in the form of a flower bed

How to arrange a small front garden

There are techniques for visually enlarging a very small front garden. They are similar to those used when planning a small area.

Winding path in the front garden

For example, make the track going through it a little longer, giving it a curve. This technique works both in large areas and in areas of modest size. In the second case, it is recommended to make the track narrower so that the bend is visually noticeable.

Front garden design - gravel, stone and wood accents

If there are a lot of details in a small front garden that you want to consider, then it will always seem a little larger. It is not necessary to make all the inclusions in one go, add them little by little so that you do not have a feeling of uniformity.

By the way, this is how you can play sawn wood ideas. Using an old oak, you will use such a path for decades, especially if you process the cut before laying.

Beautiful front garden

As experience shows, if you add one detail at least once a week, then the overall picture of landscape design looks more multifaceted. After all, you have time to think about every little thing how to equip the site. The front garden, beautifully decorated with your own hands, is a wonderful prelude in front of the house.

Front garden design with a low fence

Once again I will duplicate the title photo, focusing your attention on the fence and on the rose bush. The design itself in this front garden is made in a rather classical manner, with a lawn, without an abundance of flower beds.

Animal figurines in the front garden

All kinds of animal figurines will look beautiful in front of the entrance to the house. they can be placed near a pond, fountain or just in a flower bed.

DIY flowerbeds are not like everyone else - interesting photo ideas in the front garden

Small water containers, gravel backfill, small ceramic figurines - all these nuances will create a unique character for your front garden.

For example, a very tiny fountain, figures on the lawn, beautiful stones, a standard rose - all this will not take up much space, but it will attract attention.

Decoration of the front garden with ceramic figurines

If your front garden is bordered by trees, then you can use them by hanging a decorative birdhouse on the branches, plant figurines of birds or some animals.

Do-it-yourself front garden - Pot Plants

One of the simple ways to decorate a front garden is to display beautiful plants in tubs, highlighting them with decorative gravel or pebbles.

Conifers in the front garden

You can make small coasters from improvised materials (stumps, bricks, etc.) that will lift your plants above the overall composition, giving it an interesting volume.

Tiers in front garden design

Another way is to make "tiers" in the front garden, using such simple techniques as retaining walls, only in miniature.

Tiered front garden

If one tier of plants is raised above the others by 20-30 cm, this will also make the front garden more interesting. For example, you can arrange height differences as in the photo - using pebbles and decorative bricks.

The main thing is that in a small area there should be a common stylistic and compositional design. Then such a front garden can become the highlight of your household.

Large front garden

How to decorate a large front garden

The front garden of a larger area allows us to “roam around”, arranging a lawn on it, planting bushes, trees, flower beds, ridges, and even equipping a patio.

An example of a large front garden

About that, you can learn from my previous article.

Pergolas in the front garden

If you want to use this part of the site for gatherings, then it is recommended to protect it somewhat from prying eyes - for example, a hedge, a pergola with climbing plants, or (in extreme cases) a camouflage net construction.

Lawn in the front garden

When designing a front garden, the appearance of the house should also be taken into account, since the front garden, garden and house should be a single ensemble created on your site.

The front garden of incredible beauty

This can be achieved in various ways. Firstly, the stylistic direction in the design of all components is important. If your house is built in a rural style, but you should not set up a Japanese rock garden near it, etc.

The second way is to use the same materials in the front garden design as in the construction and decoration of the house, as well as use the colors that are present on the facade.

Compact front garden

A garden path lined with clinker bricks will harmonize well with the brick walls of the house. You can plant flowers to match the color that the exterior walls of the house are painted in, you can decorate the front garden with snags that match the style of the log walls, etc.

When designing a front garden, it is necessary to take into account how it will be in harmony with the rest of the site.

The front garden should be designed in the same style as the rest of the site. Naturally, the best option would be to design a garden and a front garden at the same time.

Choose plants for the front part of the garden, taking into account the size and how much shade the plants cast. Trees should not be excessively tall so as not to cast a shadow on the house, and shrubs should not interfere with the approach, grow strongly or interfere with the view from the windows.

Pick up such plants with a long flowering period so that they decorate the front garden from early spring to late autumn. Plants should have beautiful foliage and match in size and color. If you like flowers with a strong scent, then plant them closer to the house so that the smell penetrates the open windows.

Lawn in the front garden

Almost every front garden has a path, because this part of the garden is also a walk-through. The best choice for paving a walkway is an all-weather surface such as pavers, tile, or brick. Or you can make a path in the front garden from a soft coating - from gravel, gravel or granite chips.

Front garden without fencing

You can make a border around the edges. The width of such a path is about one and a half meters, so that two people can disperse on it. Before entering the house, it can be slightly expanded for convenience.

More photos of palisade design ideas

Very beautiful front gardens in Germany! When my husband and I were there in our car, then, driving through the country streets, we stopped literally at every house. The Germans treat design with such care, they put so much effort into the arrangement that one can only admire their diligence!

Of course, the village, in their understanding, is not at all the same as in ours ... Their villages are more like our towns, with pavements, stone houses, and so on ...

German front gardens

Here are some photos from the trip. These are not typical houses, see more in my other publications.

Front garden in Germany

Video - how to arrange a front garden in front of the house

Well, at the end of my material, I want to show you another video of front garden design ideas. Still, the face of the house should be in perfect condition. Watch and get inspired!

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In the article we will tell you how to decorate the front garden in front of the house with the help of improvised means and more. There are no special requirements for appearance. Unless it should form a single whole with the rest of the territory. Agree, a colorful rustic-style hedge will look strange next to a high-tech building. First, we will give a few recommendations that will help you understand how to design this place.

Front garden decoration:

• The more expressive the flowers and compositions from them should be. It's more about the palette than the size. Large leaves and buds in large numbers will narrow the space.
• If the entire area between the cottage and the road is occupied by an asphalt path, the front garden is laid out next to the porch.
• It happens that the territory is fenced deaf. Then the plants are taken out for him. Of course, if there is enough space and the rules of the village, dachas, SNT allow.
• A small area can be visually expanded with a diagonal path or path with bends.
• Objects look beautiful, where there are enough plants to close the basement of the building. The size of the landings in this case is ⅔ of the height of the building.
• It is good to plant tall shrubs and trees near a blank wall.
• Choose contrasting plants. The flower bed should not merge with the house or the fence.

Flower beds can be open and closed. The first ones are a lawn with a small amount of decorative or. At the same time, the object is clearly visible from all sides. The latter do not look so minimalistic and are always fenced off from the side of the street. Photo for example.

improvised materials

It is possible without buying materials and decor. The easiest option is to make a border of stones, bricks or colored glass bottles half buried in the ground. Concrete flower beds raised above the ground look beautiful in a modern garden. Painted tires, old stumps, unnecessary furniture are used as a limiter for a flower garden.

Tracks

Even in a small space usually. If the area allows, you can make a winding or diagonal path between the flowers. The passage is usually covered with gravel, gravel, granite chips or covered with concrete slabs, bricks, paving stones. These are the most practical options.

Plants

We will give some tips for those who are just planning or want to update an already created composition.

• To understand how to decorate the front garden with flowers, find out the type of soil on the site, the level of groundwater, and the degree of illumination.
• Consider the perspective of tree growth. They should not cast a lot of shade, and also grow strongly. It is best to buy standard shrubs with even round crowns.
• Of the flower beds, mixborders are the most practical. They bloom continuously throughout the season and look attractive even in winter.

What can be planted in front of the house:

• Hostas, hydrangeas. Minimalistic and at the same time elegant composition for the north side.
• Roses. This flower is good both in itself and in the neighborhood with other plants. For example, clematis, stonecrop, iris, coniferous, panicled phlox, delphinium, rudbeckia.
• Begonia, cineraria. Bright, low flower bed. Red goes well with silver. You can dilute this combination with blue, white or purple ageratum.
• Coleus. If you pick up different varieties, you can not add anything to them. But the area must be well lit, otherwise the color will fade. Coleus are also used as the lower tier of shrubs. They look good with spherical chrysanthemums, sage, lilies, peonies.
• Decorative cabbage. Usually only her is planted, but with different colors. In addition to cabbage, you can plant an undersized monochromatic bush or small islands of red, white, yellow, undersized flowers. Stonecrops are used as a companion plant in a hanging flower bed.
• Ferns, geyhera. Another find for a shaded garden.

A piece of land from the house to the roadway is usually called a front garden, and the fence separating it from the road is called a palisade. In a small area, flower beds are most often located, a beautifully designed path leading to the house, an arch in flowers, compositions of low trees and stones. This is a place where you can implement the most daring design solutions, and the opportunity to create an original front garden in front of the house with your own hands.

Before you start decorating the front garden in front of the house, you should get acquainted with the variety of adjacent territories and their features.

From the point of view of openness, front gardens are divided into two types:

• open- without a fence. The space adjacent to the house is perfectly visible both from the porch and from the roadway. Most often, this is a neatly trimmed lawn with flower beds and a path leading to the entrance.
• Closed- fenced off from the street with a hedge or fence (forged, brick, wooden, wicker, stone, metal mesh).

The open front garden is clearly visible from the road, bushes, flower beds, decor are visible. High fences excluded

A striking example of a closed front garden is a courtyard surrounded by a high hedge. No dust or noise penetrates from the roadway

Some designers, when drawing up a project, are interested in the owners of the house, what is more important for them: personal preferences or the opinion of neighbors and passers-by. Depending on the opinion, the front gardens were conditionally divided into two varieties:

• Russian type. Everything that is outside the windows of the house should, first of all, delight the eyes of the owners, rather than guests and neighbors. Accordingly, the view from the windows will be more attractive than from the road. Most likely, the area in front of the house will be closed on all sides by a fence, albeit not always deaf, or a dense hedge. But it will be decorated from the heart: wooden painted decor, clay figurines, and numerous lush flower beds.
• European type. Everything here is arranged according to strict standards. Accurate line geometry, neatly trimmed shrubs and trees, even lawns, impeccably designed flower beds and paths. An open type is often used so that any passer-by can appreciate the quality and level of design.

The front garden in the Russian style is distinguished by the presence of many wood products

On the European courtyard, everything is calculated and thought out: from the shape of the steps to an exotic plant in a flowerpot

Some homeowners choose a front garden design depending on the style: romantic, Mediterranean, Japanese, rustic.

Step-by-step device of a front garden from a picket fence

Many people ask: how to decorate the front garden with your own hands quickly and inexpensively? This is easy to do by building a simple picket fence.

A low picket fence, painted white, goes well with the surrounding greenery

A low picket fence only conditionally performs a protective function, most likely, it serves for decoration and zoning. Simple, but neat and even picket fence front gardens are an option for owners who want to try their hand at ennobling the site on their own. With a small set of tools and materials at hand, you can slowly assemble a figured or the simplest fence for the front garden.

Required wood material:

• bars with a section of 100x100 mm;
• boards 25x80 mm;
• horizontal strips (crossbars) for fixing a picket fence 40x100 mm.

Tools and additional materials:

• shovel;
• saw (jigsaw);
• hammer;
• screwdriver (drill, screwdriver);
• self-tapping screws, bolts, nuts, washers;
• mixture for concreting;
• loops for the gate.

To begin with, poles should be dug into the ground at the same distance from each other, starting from the corners. A more practical option is to install them on concreted metal anchors: a hole is dug out, a pipe (tin or asbestos-cement) is inserted into it, a galvanized anchor is inserted into the pipe, all this is poured with a mixture of sand and cement. Crossbars are screwed to the posts, boards are screwed to them. The gate externally is a part of the fence, fixed with a loop on a support post.

The diagram clearly shows how to properly fix the boards on anchors and crossbars

The next step is painting the boards and posts. In order for the fence to serve for a long time, it should be treated with a special compound against mold and fungi, and then paint based on mineral pigments and alkyd resins should be applied. This combination will protect the wood from decay and preserve its natural texture.

A bright and cheerful picket fence will turn out if the boards are painted in different colors. If you have children, they will be happy to help.

It is not difficult to build a front garden with your own hands, it is equally important to learn how to care for it. Here are some tips for taking care of your picket fence:

• The tree perfectly absorbs moisture, so it is necessary that the picket fence elements are at least 15 cm above the ground. For the same reason, you need to get rid of the thickets of grass growing along the fence.
• Approximately once every three years, the picket fence must be updated. At the same time, you can change the color of the fence - the appearance of the front garden will immediately become different.
• The wood dries out, cracks appear that can be easily repaired: gently puttied, and then rubbed with sandpaper and painted.
• The hinges on the gate need to be lubricated so that they do not creak.

Another version of the picket fence is metal. Its construction will cost more, but it will last much longer.

Decorating the front garden with plants

How to design a front garden without using complex technical techniques and construction? Of course, with the help of plants.

Vegetation must be selected based on the general style, as well as depending on its orientation, practical or purely decorative. Consider several groups of plants:

Fruit bushes and trees

Spreading apple and pear trees are more suitable for the backyard; standard plants will become the decoration of the front garden. These are not the usual bushes, wild and neglected, but decorated on a flat crown trunk. Standard currant, raspberry or gooseberry looks unusual, but this is just that neat decorative touch that will give the front garden some sophistication. A properly designed tree is best purchased in a nursery, where specialists know the secrets of growing it.

A neat rose on a trunk can become the focal point of the front garden

With the help of low trees and shrubs, you can create a hedge. Hawthorn, barberry, wild rose are suitable for this purpose. Their delicate flowers will decorate the front garden in the spring, and bright fruits and foliage in the fall.

An arch in a hedge with flowering plants looks romantic and a little mysterious.

coniferous plants

Beautiful, geometrically correct compositions are created using small cone-shaped and spherical coniferous trees. There should not be many of them, because plants lose their attractiveness from overloading the landscape with plantings of the same type. An exception is the arrangement of hedges: trees are planted in a row in front of the facade or around the perimeter of the entire site.

With the help of coniferous trees in the middle of the front garden, you can arrange a small rockery, the main thing is that the plants are low

It is better to choose breeds that easily tolerate a haircut: boxwood, yew, dwarf spruce, thuja. Tall trees are absolutely not suitable for decorating the front garden - with their crowns they cover the facade of the house and the rest of the decor.

Flower beds and flower beds

If the climate allows, the best option is continuous flowering beds, which can please the eye from early spring to late autumn. Otherwise, you can use decorative flower beds, decorated with stones or arranged in clay and wooden pots. To make the flowerbeds unique, the planted flowers are combined with garden figurines, rocky hills, and wooden crafts. Mallows, roses, peonies, dahlias, asters and phloxes look great against the background of the rest of the greenery.

Material on creating a continuous flowering flower bed will also be useful:

When arranging flower beds and flower beds, you can use the most daring color combinations, for example, red and purple

Even a modest wooden fence can be made luxurious thanks to a lush flower arch.

Climbing plants are successfully used, especially when the front garden is divided into several zones or they want to protect it from the roadway. They let wisteria, kampsis, climbing roses or creepers through the trellises - in a short period of time they are able to create a real green screen.

It is not necessary to arrange a front garden using traditional principles. You can combine design techniques, stylistic nuances, various materials - the main thing is that the area in front of the house is in harmony with the building and is attractive.

Such a phenomenon as a front garden is familiar to many of us from childhood. It is rare that anyone in a village or a dacha cooperative does not have a small fenced area in front of the house. And you are mistaken if you think that the time of front gardens has irrevocably passed. This technique of landscape design has never lost its relevance, so you should get to know them better.

Front garden and its functions

In the usual sense, a front garden is something in between a courtyard, a flower garden and a vegetable garden. This is a kind of front of the house and a personal plot. He greets guests and talks about his owners, and hides the personal life of the owners from passers-by. Traditionally, the front garden is fenced off from the roadway or sidewalk.

Classic front garden in front of a village or country house

In addition to decorative functions, the front garden can also perform many practical functions:

• parking for cars and other vehicles (bicycles, motorcycles, ATVs, etc.);
• place of storage of garbage containers;
• location of the mailbox;
• cultivation of fruit and berry crops;
• flower garden;
• "small garden" - the performance of part of the functions of the main economy;
• area for minor repairs;
• playground for children's games;
• vacation spot for the whole family;
• registration and provision of passage to some hard-to-reach areas of the site.

By installing a small children's town in the front garden, you can always keep your baby busy

Types and styles

Another misconception is the idea that the front garden, as a type of landscape design, is found only in the post-Soviet territory. They are even more popular in foreign countries than here. Only their appearance is somewhat different from our "Russians".

There are two types of front gardens - closed and open. The first always involves a fence. At the same time, the fence can be made of a wide variety of materials: wooden picket fence, corrugated board, brickwork, forging, wicker rods, chain-link mesh, hedges, etc. The degree of closeness also varies: from a low, very conditional fence to a deaf high fence.

Closed front gardens are often called "Russian", because it is this type that is typical for our country. The arrangement of such courtyards is aimed primarily at creating an attractive view from the window or porch of the house. The entire landscape design will be focused primarily on the perception from the inside: such a front garden should please the eyes of the owners, and not passers-by from the street. Often, all the beauty and charm created by densely planted plants and shrubs will be hidden behind the fence.

Weaving a fence for a front garden from a vine is not difficult

Open front gardens do not have a fence and are very well visible both from the side of the house and from the roadway. It is easy to guess that it is the open view that is characteristic of foreign countries and is called “European” in another way. It is traditionally represented by perfectly trimmed vegetation - from lawn to trees, neat flower beds and impeccable paths leading to the house. The open front garden is primarily aimed at creating a beautiful view from the side of the road, so that you can start admiring it from afar.

An open front garden is most often characteristic of foreign countries.

In addition to the two types, front gardens have many stylistic designs. The most popular are worth getting to know better:

1. Rustic (or country) style is characterized by simplicity and the use of a large number of wooden elements in the decor, for example, a low perimeter fence and fences for flower beds. Plants are better to choose perennial and unpretentious care.
2. Mediterranean style suggests mobility - all plants are planted in large containers and tubs that can be rearranged depending on your mood. This style welcomes the creation of a recreation area with furniture made from natural materials - wicker chairs, forged tables, wooden deck chairs. The decor includes a variety of lamps and ceramic crafts.

   Mobile tubs and containers - the main characteristic of the Mediterranean front garden

3. Asian and one of its directions - Japanese style, are accentuated on restraint and multi-tiered. Plants of low-key, soft colors. Most often these are perennials (for example, irises, daylilies), cereals (ryegrass, gray fescue), dwarf conifers. The decor uses only natural stones.
4. Romantic design speaks of beauty and tenderness. Therefore, it contains forged elements, from fences and arches to garden furniture, and necessarily climbing plants, for example, climbing roses, clematis.
5. Modern style involves the use of original plants, unexpected shapes and colors, bold ideas and modern technologies.

   An interesting idea - the continuation of the front garden on the roof of a nearby building

How to choose the right design for your site

Open or closed? The degree is strictly individual for each building. Here it is worth considering:

• the location of the house - far or close to the roadway, it was built on a hillock or in a lowland, how close neighboring buildings are located on both sides, etc .;
• specific features of the building - the number of floors, dimensions, the presence of a veranda or a small porch, etc.;
• plot dimensions;
• the initial degree of landscaping of the site;
• traffic intensity.

Brick fencing became the starting point for design selection

The choice of style depends on:

• architecture of the house - they must be in harmony with each other;
• type of fence - sometimes it can become an inspiration;
• the initial degree of landscaping of the site - perhaps when designing a front garden, you will want to leave some bushes and trees;
• the size of the territory - competent ergonomics allows you to equip all the desired zones even in a very small area;
• the functional purpose of the future front garden (whether it will be a recreation area with a barbecue, parking for vehicles or something else);
• personal preferences (listen to yourself and decide which of the existing styles is closest to you).

The front garden will talk about its owner. Therefore, no matter which of the types and styles you choose, the main thing is to keep everything in a well-groomed and unopened state.

The main function of this garden is the decoration of the porch.

Plants in the front garden will perform several important functions:

1. Decorative - to decorate the territory;
2. Household - many plants give delicious berries and fruits;
3. Ecological - maintain the correct composition of the soil.

All these functions are performed to some extent by flowers, shrubs and trees.

For decoration, it is best to choose flowers that will bloom from early spring to late autumn, gradually replacing each other. A bright front garden is always a guarantee of a positive mood! Asters, dahlias, peonies, phloxes, mallows - go well with the rest of the greenery. Try to use perennial herbaceous plants of several varieties. For example, lavender, geranium and foxglove look good together. Rounded leaves and umbellate inflorescences of geranium, combined with small lavender flowers, are a good background for foxglove spikelets.

Lavender will decorate any site, except, perhaps, Asian

To divide the front garden into several zones, use climbing plants - climbing roses, honeysuckle, wisteria, kampsis.

The most successful option is clematis, which produces large and bright flowers. And if you choose “yellow Tangut” among them, then its flowering will delight you from May to October.

Petioled hydrangea looks very impressive - its creepers are incredibly lush and voluminous. But keep in mind that the result will be noticeable only after a few years from the moment of planting.

An approximate scheme for arranging flower beds and planting trees

From shrubs, you can plant barberry, hawthorn, elderberry, shadberry, chokeberry, currant, raspberry, dog rose, gooseberry, linden. If you do not want to spend a lot of time caring for the front garden, then you need to choose bushes with a natural spherical crown. For example, white acacia. She has a naturally lush crown that does not need a haircut.

Of the trees, it is best to choose conifers that are easy to cut - thuja, yew, juniper, dwarf spruce, boxwood. One of the advantages of such plants is that they look great in winter. And from them you can create a hedge. High crops are not suitable for the front garden, as they block the entire yard and house with their crowns.

As a rule, a closed space is formed around the house - a rectangle, square, circle or oval. It is advisable to plant a shrub along this perimeter. Near the walls, they should be slightly higher than the top of the plinth. At the entrance to the house, you can plant flowers, and their height should decrease as you approach the porch.

When there is no other territory, many different zones can be placed in the front garden

The diagram above shows one of the options for zoning a small front garden in front of the house. Since there is no other territory near the site, it was decided to equip the front garden with a pond, flower beds, barbecue and recreation areas, and partially enclose and delimit all zones with a hedge. The paths are paved with decorative concrete tiles. Parthenocissus is used as a hedge. Mountain pine, thuja, boxwood are planted along the perimeter of the site. Astilba, bergenia, hydrangea, iris, calendula, daylily, lily, fern, phlox, hosta are planted in flower beds and near the pond.

Step-by-step instructions for decorating a beautiful front garden with your own hands

1. We decide what part of the territory you allocate for it. The scale directly depends on the size of the house. The ideal depth is 2/3 of the height of the building.
2. Determine what functional load the front garden will perform - after all, anything can be done here - from a recreation area with hammocks, a playground with a sandbox and a slide to a place for meditation and contemplation of the surrounding nature (a more detailed list is given at the beginning of the article).
3. Choice of fencing. If this is your first experience in arranging a front garden, then for a start you should use some simple option, for example, plant a hedge, make a fence out of a vine. Or build a light decorative picket fence that will serve as decoration and zoning.

In order to try our hand, we choose a simple version of the front garden: an indoor flower garden in a rustic style.

Making a picket fence

• shovel;
• hand saw or chainsaw;
• hammer;
• nails;
• concrete mortar;
• bars 100 × 100 mm (for poles);
• boards 25 × 80 mm (for vertical strips) and 40 × 100 mm (for horizontal strips);
• special impregnation against mold and fungus;
• paint (based on mineral pigments and alkyd resins);
• brushes.

Picket fence zones and decorates

Sequencing

1. Starting from the corners, through an equal distance from each other, dig the ground under the pillars.
2. Cut the bars and boards to the desired size (we decide on them ourselves - depending on how high the fence you want to install).
3. Treat all wooden parts with a special compound that will protect them from decay.
4. Insert posts into the dug holes and concrete. Wait until the solution hardens.
5. Nail horizontal strips to the posts. Attach vertical strips to them at a height of more than 15 cm from the ground. This is due to the fact that the tree perfectly absorbs moisture and can become unusable much faster. For the same reason, it is necessary to regularly remove the grass along the fence.
6. Paint the resulting structure. Once every three years, it will need to be updated: cracked cracks must be puttied and rubbed with sandpaper, repainted.

Scheme with the dimensions of one of the simplest options for making a fence

Now you need to equip the tracks. It is better to make them wooden, since the rustic style is characterized by the use of elements from this material. A simple and effective solution is cutting logs.

wooden walkways

Necessary tools and materials

• logs (different breeds are suitable: they can be remnants from construction work, from trees broken by bad weather);
• hand saw or chainsaw;
• shovel;
• special impregnation against mold and fungus or stain;
• wide brush.

Sequencing

1. Mark the paths on the ground: from where and where they lead, how wide they will be.
2. Saw the logs into round pieces about 5–6 cm thick.
3. Treat all wooden parts with a special impregnation or stain. These compounds will help protect the tree from decay.
4. Place the parts over the entire area of ​​the marked tracks. Try to put large circles in the center, and fill the remaining space with small ones.
5. When the layout plan will finally suit you, dig the ground under each detail of the mute. The depth of the holes should be equal to the thickness of the cuts (i.e., about 5–6 cm).
6. Press all the parts into the ground so that their surfaces are on the same level.

For the path in the front garden, you can use not only concrete slabs or gravel, but also sawn wood

The final stage of arranging the front garden is planting plants. A beautiful and simple solution for a rustic flower garden, which does not require the manufacture of flower beds, will be a Moorish lawn - a meadow consisting of herbs, cereals, and simple wild flowers. Most of these plants are honey plants, so there will always be a lot of butterflies and bees on such a lawn. The classic composition of the Moorish meadow is oriental poppy, meadow chamomile, field cornflower, large-flowered flax, nemesia, echinacea. Such a lawn will delight you from early spring to late autumn, as plants have different flowering periods. A ready-made mixture for a Moorish meadow can be bought at a flower shop. And you can make it yourself, supplementing it with some other plants to your taste.

Bulbous flowers - daffodils, tulips and crocuses - also go well with the Moorish lawn.

Arrangement of the Mauritanian lawn

Necessary tools and materials

• a mixture of seeds for the Mauritanian lawn (the amount is calculated at the rate of 10 grams per 1 sq. meter);
• shovel;
• rake;
• watering can with a fine sieve.

Sequencing

1. Prepare the land for sowing: dig to a depth of 15-30 cm, clean from debris, stones, rhizomes and weeds, fertilize (with humus and nitrogen-containing compounds), level, compact.
2. Let the prepared area stand for two weeks. During this time, regularly remove new weeds.
3. Sow seeds in the first half of May or autumn (in winter). The weather during sowing should be calm and the soil should be moist.
4. Sow the sown seeds with a rake into the ground to a depth of 1–5 mm;

A mixture of herbs and simple wildflowers will delight the eye for a long time.

Photo gallery: ideas for inspiration

Where can I get unconventional ideas for inspiration? Observe nature more often. She so often prompts us with interesting forms and combinations. You can also be inspired by photographs from books about famous gardens and parks of the past, such as Peterhof or the Tuileries in Paris.

Flowers in the Tuileries Park are planted in the form of a complex horizontal pattern Flowerbeds in the form of beautiful curls in front of the Monplaisir Palace Flower beds can be made from old things - chairs, for example
The fence for the front garden can be made from the most unexpected materials, for example, old cart wheels


Everyone can arrange a beautiful front garden with their own hands. The main thing is to follow the recommendations and not be afraid to show imagination. Try your hand at landscape design with such a small project - what if you are a born gardener?

A beautifully arranged front garden of a country house is a kind of work of design art.

Rustic front garden

The design of the front garden of the house may include:

• flower beds;
• flower arches;
• beautiful designer garden compositions;
• execution of the original picket fence (fence).

In this article, we will tell you how to decorate the front garden, as well as provide you with original ideas for its design.

A well-groomed corner in front of the house will turn your estate into a nice, kind fairy tale. At the same time, the front garden will beautifully emphasize the house itself and successfully hide, for example, outbuildings.

Making a front garden with your own hands will not be particularly difficult if you have a little artistic taste and a sincere desire to create a picturesque corner in front of the house that will delight you and your family for many years.

Original front garden decor for a country house

An important condition for the design of the front garden is the harmony of its external decoration with the architecture of the main cottage. The fence for the front garden can be made of both wood and metal. Metal fences are a rather original decoration of the front garden of a country house.

Also a suitable option for a small country mansion is to make a fence made of wood from metal with a hedge.

If you own a modern cottage, then you can with evergreens and decorative design compositions. The fence for the front garden can be either wooden or represent.

Varieties of garden flower beds

Depending on your preferences, you can create an open front garden without a picket fence on your site.

An example of a front garden made of forged elements

It can be all kinds of beautifully arranged flower beds.

And you can install a picket fence in the form, for example, or a wicker, forged or wooden fence. This type of front garden is called closed. According to their external design, garden flower beds are conditionally divided into Russian and European.

"Russians" have an unusually beautiful appearance, they can be decorated with painted decorations, clay figurines and original flower arrangements.

"European" are distinguished by neat lawns, as well as impeccably executed flower beds and garden paths.

In addition, the design can also differ in decoration styles: rustic, romantic, Japanese, Mediterranean.

What you need to remember when decorating a front garden

Harmony of beauty and functionality

When arranging a front garden, you must first consider for what additional purpose it can be used. Perhaps it will play the role of a parking lot for a car or motorcycle, or you will install garbage cans on its territory.

Proper use of the plot of a country cottage will help to place everything you need on it, and at the same time the garden will look very well-groomed.

Roses and various undersized shrubs look great in the interior of the front garden. Your guests will not be able to take their eyes off if you place these plantings at the very entrance to the courtyard.

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What materials can be used to build a front garden fence

As a garden fence, as a rule, natural materials and components are used. For example, wooden or metal fences.

The device of the front garden from a small wooden picket fence

You can make a fence from natural stone or using pretty ones. As a supplement, you can use flowering plants.
It should be noted that the walls of the fence are made low and neat, thereby emphasizing the impeccable style of the entire composition as a whole.
Perfectly combined with romantic style. For a rustic, “wickerwork” will be indispensable. As for the modern style, stone structures are used for it.

How to start decorating a front garden

If you want your front garden to look beautiful both inside and outside your summer cottage, install a "transparent" decorative fence.

The size of such a garden should correspond to the size of a country house.
The best option is a front garden, under which an area with a width of about 2/3 of the height of a country cottage is allocated.

Schematic plan for the location of the front garden on the site

At the same time, bushes planted near the walls of the estate should cover only the uppermost part of the basement. The outlines of the garden should be similar to the river valley, the role of which is played by the path leading from the gate to the porch.

A front garden with shrubs planted around it will be good, which forms a kind of closed space: round, oval or square.

If your estate has a “blank” wall, then it is preferable to beat it with a closing crown of thuja, birch or low spruce.

Moreover, if young trees were planted relatively recently and there is still an open area between them, then it is better to cover it with decorative mulch. In this case, there will be no fear that weeds will sprout, and the closed space will look more than elegant and neat, because the flowers on such a site will look very beautiful.

Important household properties of garden flower beds

In addition to being pretty, a beautifully designed front yard will allow you to:

• "hide" your estate from prying eyes;
• place a mailbox in the front garden;
• in the absence of a garage, arrange a specially designated place for a car;
• arrange a small playground;
• grow a variety of fruit and berry plants and shrubs;
• carry out all kinds of repairs that may be necessary when living in a country house;
• hide the trash can.

Design and style

Any owner of a country cottage chooses for himself how he wants to see his equipped front garden and the corresponding fence.

Diagram of a wooden front garden

Some people prefer country style, others choose romanticism, others prefer oriental style.
Let's take a look at each of these areas.

Style romanticism

A similar direction is indicated by delicate beautiful flower plantings. An excellent fence for this type of front garden will be a wrought-iron fence with pretty climbing plants.

Japanese style

This design combines predominantly chic coniferous plants and natural stones. You can also create very beautiful compositions from cereals.

Asian style

Such a flower garden combines plants of soft colors. As a rule, it has a multi-tiered form. The branches of the flower garden are divided among themselves by natural stones, the main fence for such a front garden also consists of them.

Front garden decoration in Asian style

In addition, low plantings of coniferous plants will look great in it.

Country style

This direction is very original and at the same time quite simple in execution. For example, in it you can arrange a flower garden of perennial varieties of plants. As a charming addition, a fence for the front garden in the form of a rustic-style wooden fence.