How to decorate a garden, backyard, summer cottage (50 photos)

I would like the plot located next to the house or summer cottage to look like a piece of paradise. For a city dweller, this is, after all, more a place to relax, although, if there are beds, this vacation is very peculiar)) Nevertheless, the decoration of the site - a summer cottage, a garden, a backyard - worries all owners. The range of possibilities is wide. There are even different styles, so they all look different, expressing the personality of the wearer. True, this is if you decorated it yourself, on your own. Let not all be according to the canons of landscape design ... But it is precisely these areas, decorated by amateurs, for some reason are more comfortable.

Site planning

The first thing to do when getting a plot is to think about what and where you will be located. Splicing it, you decide where the house will stand - at the beginning of the site, in the middle, closer to its far edge. Then "arrange" the rest of the planned buildings. If you plan to build, determine a place for a bathhouse, then place outbuildings - a shed-utility block, a chicken coop, woodcutter, garden beds and greenhouses, decide where the garden will be. Resting places follow - these are awnings, gazebos.

There are main buildings on the plan, now paths are being laid between them. Straight paths are needed only in one case, if the section is long and narrow. In this case, an even path to its far end will visually make it closer. For all other objects, it is better to make them sinuous, with smooth curves.

Site plan - we place the house and the main buildings

Now it's time to think about placing decorations for the lot. First of all it is flower beds and flower beds... They are built quickly, planted with annuals already in the first season will delight you, while everything else is still under construction and beauty is still far away. Longer business - the device of rock gardens and rockeries. Cooking and laying a couple of tons of stones is no joke, besides, they are planted mainly with perennials, they take the final look only after three or four years. And then, only on condition that you immediately chose and planted all the plantings correctly, that without experience - unprecedented luck.

Want to surprise your friends and neighbors? Paint the flowerpots with luminescent paint. As darkness falls, they will glow, giving your lawn an unusual look.

Clay pots painted with luminescent paint in the evening shine no worse than lanterns

The second option for turning ordinary things into extraordinary is to use car paint with a chrome effect. Paint a few stones or the same pots and get mirror stones ...

Mirror balls are balls painted with chrome effect paint

Another traditional type of jewelry is small or large bodies of water - ponds and ponds... Very small ones are built quickly - from a tire, so in general in a couple of hours. It can take a couple of days to arrange more voluminous ones. But it is not worth arranging reservoirs before the house is built and paths are laid. Save this decoration closer to the finish line. Also, after the main construction, it's time to install pergolas, arches, awnings. And already quite close to the curtain, they begin to play with backlighting, although there are very simple and original ideas. For example, take a tin can, make holes in it, but not just like that, but according to the scheme, creating a pattern. You can bring an ordinary low-power lamp inside, and if there is no electricity yet, put a candle and put / hang it near the house.

A completely unsightly jar turns into a wondrously beautiful flashlight….

Put a candle inside

And hang on the veranda or gazebo

Such decoration of the site can be hung in the garden or on the veranda. It's not difficult to do, it looks great, however, only in the dark))

A little about styles

The most common with us style "naturgarden", although many owners do not even know about it. These are the plots that have everything at once - the entrance-front zone, the garden-vegetable garden, the recreation area. Moreover, the areas are small and all, or almost all, zones are visible. Natural style allows, focusing on the existing relief and soil, to create areas with any landscapes. Is there a swampy lowland? Decorate it slightly by adding a pond or making a swamp, leaving natural plantings and adding decorative, ennobling the banks. You can make a dry stream or build a natural one. Is the plot flat? Organize the site according to the type of meadow, you can - alpine lawn. Put a gazebo, plant ivy.

The Naturgarten style strives to make the landscape as natural as possible using wild plants, to which new ones are only added

For romantic natures, the same style is closer. It is characterized by entwined with roses gazebos, well-groomed lawns, flower beds that coexist with thoughtfully overgrown secluded spots.

Cozy places and arches, pergolas, flower beds, climbing roses are signs of a romantic style in the design of the site

Country style easily recognizable by the characteristic "household" decor elements. Internal fences - wattle or a picket fence, flowers - in tubs, cans, carts. Benches and garden furniture are deliberately rough, if painted, then with a dark tint composition, and not with covering paints.

Some examples of a rustic garden

English stylelovers can choose lawns... Any free area is sown with lawn grass. This type of gardens can be described in two words "all in a heap". In English kindergartens, everything can really be mixed: a garden / vegetable garden is a single concept, besides, flowerpots are placed everywhere, all free places are occupied by grass. Another feature is ivy-covered walls, a large number of roses, figurines and funny figurines, placed in suitable places.

Lush vegetation interspersed with manicured lawns - signs of an English garden

Classic gardendraw up strictly according to the plan. This is the option when everything is clear, borders, shapes, height of bushes and borders. Everything is under the ruler and exactly. In strictly designated places, artsy benches are installed, next to which they arrange fountains, set up decorative flowerpots, statues and columns.

Clear geometry in everything - a sign of a classic garden

Fences and fences

First of all, the site is fenced off. This is understandable: building materials need to be started, but how to protect them? It's easier behind the fence. If possible, it is better to immediately put a beautiful, capital, reliable fence. Not all of them cost a lot. Budget options can be very attractive too. The main thing in this business is the idea, and they are in the photo. So, from a combination of long and short boards, you can get an interesting fence, more transparent on top and almost without cracks on the bottom.

An ordinary picket fence with a non-standard approach also looks good

If the boards are placed on the edge, the effect is even more interesting. Now, if you don't see, you won't believe ...

Who would have thought that often nailed thin boards would make such an interesting fence?

With thin, fresh boards, you can make a beautiful fence that uses the principles of making wattle fence. The boards are passed between the uprights and bent.

Beautiful fence made of boards

You can make an original fence from the slab. You will have to tinker - and treat well from parasites, and pick up the boards one to the other so that there are as few gaps as possible. You may have to earn them with an ax or a plane.But the croaker is almost a waste material, its prices are low, so there is a chance to get a designer fence for little money.

Slab fence - cheap and cheerful, however, a lot of work ...

More models and photos of wooden fences in this article.

If funds allow, you can put something monumental, such as a fence made of stone or brick. It will take a lot of work and money, but it will also stand for a long time.

My home is my castle…

For the internal division of the site, such solid fences are useless. For a garden-garden, you can put a lattice made of a thin bar, grow a hedge, weave wattle.

Internal fences for the site

If you are "lucky" and a blank wall comes out into your garden, you can also decorate it with a kind of fence, on which to let climbing plants. An interesting option is presented below. When the ivy grows a little, it will be very beautiful. Instead of ivy, you can plant clematis. In winter, it looks like it's over, worse, but in summer ...

Wall decoration methods

Read more about fences in the article “Types of fences for private houses»

How to decorate your garden with flowers

This part in gardening brings the fastest results. Annual flowers bloom within a few weeks after planting, perennials also delight, growing more and more every week. ABOUT regular flower beds have a separate article, and here we will post some interesting ideas that can give impetus to the choice of garden style.

Site decoration often consists of little things. For example, an ordinary wooden box easily turns into a garden decoration - interesting coloring and non-standard installation - hang on ropes that you can arrange like hands. The pillar is used as a base for hanging ampel flower pots.

A little imagination and the most ordinary things become a decoration of the site

Sculptures are made from ordinary pot. They pick them up in different sizes, fasten them with wire, add a little paint or plants - everyone has their own fantasies ... marvelous figures are obtained.

Flower Pot Man

Even leaky rubber gloves are used. It's good that the colors are bright, and the base is dense. They pour soil, plant annuals, tie them to trees or ropes, nail them onto fences. Fun and bright.

Hanging flowerbeds of gloves

That flowerbeds and flowerpots are made from car tires everyone knows, but probably few know that you can make a wonderful flowerbed in the shape of a swan from the planks. Such a wonderful swan turned out: cut out "feathers", fastened with wire, glued, the head and neck were cut out of the board.

Swan flower garden from planks

For those who are not afraid of difficulties, there is a more complicated option: a flower bed in two tiers. Made an arch, spread geotextile and a net, a layer of soil was poured into which light-loving plants were planted. Shade-tolerant flowers grow in the niche below. Such is the extraordinary two-tiered flower garden.

Arch of flowers ...

Read more about flower beds and fencing for them here.

Highlights of our garden: reservoirs

Perhaps the second after flower beds, the favorite decoration of the site is ponds and ponds... The picturesque combination of water and plants is mesmerizing, gives coolness in summer. The design of reservoirs is a creative process and there are also many styles. You can make plank flooring around. And in order not to suffer with their painting and impregnation, they may not be wooden, but composite - there is such a new material that looks very much like wood. The only difference is that it does not rot, does not change color. This material is called decking. It can be used for flooring an open veranda or terrace near the pool. You can see an example of its use around a pond in the photo.

Decking around the pond - it will be convenient to walk even after rain

You can lay out the space around with stone slabs. Such arrangement will take more time, but many like this option more.So that the whole finish does not "float", you will have to remove some of the soil, fill in rubble, tamp it, and on top - a layer of sand. You can already lay plates on it. The gaps can be covered with a mixture of sand and cement, thoroughly sweep the excess, and then either wait for the rain, or pour over the blind area - the cement will grab, securing the plates. The coverage will be reliable.

Beautiful red granite, and even a stream. This garden decoration took patience and cost a lot.

Using the same technology, you can lay out the edges with boulders collected on the banks of the river (or bought in the garden center).

Boulders are a great way to decorate pond banks

If paths in the garden made of paving stones, it makes sense to arrange the shore of the reservoir as well. The technology is known, only the material is different.

Paving stones - you don't need to look for anything, everything is in the store

Decorating a garden or cottage with scrap materials

As you probably understood, you can make a garden decoration from any object or thing. The main thing is the idea, then a little imagination and work, and the decor is ready. For example, you can make a table around a tree, a small terrace, a bench and use this corner for relaxation.

Resting corner around the tree

Stumps often remain on the site. It takes a long time to uproot them, in the process they will trample everything around ... They stick out until they become rotten and crumble themselves. And very interesting things can be made from hemp. For example - use as a flower bed.

And even a stump on a spring day ...

Or make an interesting figurine for the garden out of it.

Hemp garden decoration

On the prosaic but necessary - toilets

These buildings sometimes appear before fences, because without them it is a disaster. The builders will master all the nearby nooks, and who, I wonder, will like it. So, perhaps the most necessary building on site - toilet... And why are we talking about toilets, in relation to the decoration of the site? But because this building can be made in such a way that it will not necessarily be hidden. Displaying is also not an option, but masking is not required. For example, a standard birdhouse can be made from logs. Get a mini-hut.

There is little cost, it looks good ...

Plant around a plant, make it pretty trackand this corner of the garden will be attractive too. For example, such as but the photo below.

A cozy corner for thought))

A few more options on the same topic. One and the same uncomplicated design can be designed in different ways. You choose the style depending on the one in which the cottage or the personal plot is decorated.

And only the roofs are made differently, but the windows are different

Well, if you need a stone toilet, why not decorate it in the style of a medieval castle. Only crowds of tourists will need to be driven away ...

Interesting embodiment in the style of the wall of the cross

Photo ideas for garden decoration

There are many ways to make your garden or summer cottage area bright and beautiful. Several of those who liked the eccentricity were collected in a photo gallery. Maybe some of them will help you decorate your corner.