Frontage performs a variety of functions, but it has to look good all season and at the same time be easy to care for. First decide where will be located the working zone, and then think about planting.
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Sloppy snout of land in front of house
This garden crosses a few narrow paths, which greatly complicates the care of plants. Gravel blind area and grills at the bottom of the house make it difficult to collect the leaves and uneven tiles are simply dangerous - they can easily stumble. Place the car park can not be used for other purposes. Lots of lawn overgrown with moss and require updating. Blind area of the house is untidy, rubbish bins disfigured facade. Flower beds in front of the hedge impede her haircut. Frontage requires a complete renovation - both functional and decorative terms.
Alternative: a tidy and practical garden
The front garden will look much nicer and more spacious, if all its territory pave large tiles and divided into narrow strips squares of small tiles. Small strip tiles darker fringe beds and hedges. Plants are planted in two easily accessible from all sides of the beds. Caring for planting on such beds simple. Garbage bins are hidden in wooden latticework, braided vines. It is a continuation of the evergreen hedge on the other side of the gate. All purchases are easily delivered from the trunk of the car to the door of the house. Bench in front of the house like a call to rest, and the faucet and sink in the front wall of the house facilitates home and garden work.
Set in the garden external socket for connection to the power supply of automotive equipment and gardening tools.
Install the faucet to connect a garden hose.
Under the tap, set at a comfortable height sink for washing pots and garden tools.
The procedure works
The first step of the dig flower beds all valuable plants.
At the time of reconstruction of the front garden plant them on some shady flower bed. Then carefully remove the flower beds with topsoil and fold it into a pile in any place.
Now, root out the old hedge to the right of the gate to make way for the garbage cans and the planting of masking their vines. Remove all the old tiles and ask a specialist to evaluate the quality of the soil in order to choose the right place to park the car and the type of front garden paving. Falling asleep territory frontage gravel layer, leave free space for flower beds and two pits for planting vines, masking dustbins.
Electrical wires are laid at a depth of 60 cm and backfill rubble; their progress is marked on the surface. Water and drainage pipes are sometimes placed more deeply, to protect them from frost. The thickness of the layer of crushed stone for laying tiles depends on the soil type and purpose of a particular frontage area (m. e. the magnitude of the load that it will withstand): Walks require less of its thickness than driveways and parking space. Of the load will depend on the thickness and shape of the tiles to paving driveways and parking places. If the gaps between the tiles are wide, the need for a drainage system frontage disappear. Entrust paving site professional who will take into account your needs and financial capabilities.
When the front garden Paving work will be completed, you can proceed to the construction of shelters for garbage cans and arrangement of flower beds, first covered them with earth excavated from the old beds. For the majority of plants suitable humus rich garden soil or a mixture consisting of equal parts of loam subsoil, sand and compost. The surface of the beds should be located about 5 cm below the tiles to facilitate cleaning paving.
For herbaceous perennials soil layer is sufficient depth of 25 cm, planting hole for vines and shrubs need to pour a layer of fertile soil depth of 40-50 cm. Plant the plants are not too tight - otherwise you'll have to thin them in 2-3 years after planting.
Plant tall plants in the background or in the middle of the beds, and the small front.
Cushion-plants form a smooth transition from a flower bed to the paved surface. Finally, lay between the plants a thick layer of mulch, which will not grow weeds, and arrange benches.
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