A high-quality lawn is an integral part of any completed architectural appearance of the garden and summer cottage area. In general, with other parts of landscape design, a beautiful lawn can bring the strongest aesthetic pleasure. It is also necessary to create contrast in the relief and depth of the site, evoking the feeling of a natural landscape. However, he is able not only to decorate - in addition to this, the lawn performs other functions:

  • absorbs noise and dust;
  • helps to maintain optimal humidity and temperature on the site. The humidity level increases, and the temperature drops by 2-3 degrees;
  • cleans the soil from harmful microorganisms.

How to arrange a lawn with flowers in the country?

How to decorate your lawn? With flowers, of course! In summer, a beautiful lawn in the country with your own hands with planted flowers looks mesmerizing. They will look most attractive if you build a certain composition of them. In fact, it is not as difficult as it sounds.

Beautiful lawn in the country

It is enough just to follow a number of rules of landscape designers:

  • It is necessary to decide on the goal - it will be a small lawn without flowers, a flower bed with constant flowering, or some seasonally flashing set of flowers.
  • It is necessary to take into account their height - higher ones should not block low flowers.
  • It is important to determine in advance the place for the flower bed in order to know the level of lighting. Which varieties of plants will need to be planted depends on this. Also here the sub-clause should be the exclusion of plants that cannot grow normally in the same flower bed, for example, peonies and roses.
  • This rule consists in choosing the main and minor plants. The main ones should be large and bright, while the secondary ones should beautifully fill in empty spaces and emphasize the advantages of the main colors.
  • Without defining a color scheme, nothing good will come of it. There are two options here - choose either one predominant color and then the flower garden will look neat. Or create a variegated palette of colors - then the flowerbed will attract everyone with its diversity.

Types of flower beds

Summer residents have already come up with dozens of types of flower beds, of which the most popular are now:

  • Regular flower bed. Its main difference from others is its resemblance to a strict geometric figure. Flowers should all bloom at the same time.
  • Irregular flower bed. Probably one of the most common types. The main attribute is undulating flowering. One species fades and together with it the other immediately begins to bloom.
  • Raised flower bed. The difference here is the design features. It looks like flower containers.

Beautiful lawn with flowers

  • Monoclumba. From the name you can understand that this is a flower bed with one type of flowers inside.
  • Vertical flower bed. Especially she helps out summer residents with a small area.

How to make a lawn in the country with your own hands

Decorating a lawn with flowers is a difficult task, so many summer residents entrust the creation of a lawn design to landscape designers. However, this entire process can be done independently.

Lawn decoration with flowers

The first step is to select the territory. The main requirements for it are the absence of soil contamination and an even relief without places of accumulation of moisture. Only in this case, then it will be possible to easily deal with the design of the lawn design.

The second step is to determine the time for disembarkation. Here you need to take into account many factors, ranging from the climate of the region and ending with the provision of the future lawn with a sufficient amount of moisture.

Important! In addition to the soil conditions themselves, it is necessary to take into account the fact that in spring weeds grow much more actively than in late summer and early autumn.

The third stage is soil preparation. It is necessary to arrange a fertile layer of at least 10 centimeters thick without debris, roots and weed roots. To eliminate stagnation of excess water, it is necessary to carry out drainage work. You also need to apply complex mineral fertilizers so that the lawn has the resources for growth.

The fourth stage is sowing and further arrangement of the lawn. Before it, it is advisable to mix the seeds with sand for even distribution. Sowing starts from one edge so as not to trample the seeds. After that, the earth is loosened with a rake, rolled with a lawn roller and watered.

Landscaping ideas and ways to care for a lawn with flowers

Almost any summer resident who decorates his territory is partly a landscape designer. After all, picking up gazebos, ennobling and decorating the lawn at the summer cottage, building alpine slides near the house, creating paths from the entrance to the yard and erecting flower beds, a person is engaged in the creation of landscape design.

Landscape design

It is important to determine in advance how to arrange a beautifully lawn and in general a personal plot. Most popular landscaping styles:

  • country (rural);
  • classical;
  • landscape;
  • architectural;
  • Asiatic.

In each of them, an integral part is the presence of a lawn in front of the house. Proper care is important for him, which consists of several parts. First, you need regular watering through small spray nozzles. Secondly, it is necessary to carry out regular mowing of the grass when it reaches a height of 5-10 centimeters. Thirdly, to accelerate the strengthening of the root system, high-quality soil aeration is needed.