The problems that many homeowners are facing in connection a confined area. Limitations of this field is used often spurred homeowners to every inch of land he owned the room. Dus, no area was left open at the back of the house. This air circulation and the availability of light for the house will be less because there is only one opening, ie at the front of the house.

The lack of openings in the house beginning to make health is at stake. In addition to health considerations, the absence of openings in the back of the house will eliminate cross-ventilation) (cross-ventilation. Thus the hot air trapped inside the house and is less comfortable conditions for occupants.

A solution for the trapped hot air is expected to create a small opening in the center of the house. Why in the middle? As a rule, the rooms are not always the exposure as a source of light and air in the middle of the house (especially at home) with elongated shape.

Make small holes in the middle of the house, the remaining space in the back, you can still use the space. Here could be your opening into a garden design. Because of the park, which is clearly not “rejected” when the rain-soaked, you can create a model of an open roof to allow fresh air and sunshine more freely entered.

Small size is no obstacle for you to make this opening into a beautiful garden. So, is achieved in addition to functional objectives for flow of fresh air and sunshine, a small park in the middle of the house can the beauty of the interior of the house. Here are some garden design to defraud was the small size.

Two trends Gentong
Them a Central Park spent the entire area into the pond. The use of water helps a cooler atmosphere in the house. To add a dynamic pool, add the owner of a small waterfall flows through the barrel-shaped clay.

The position is “solid” in the middle of the house, a garden center is just a little sunshine.Therefore, plants should be used to hold the shade. Leaves of ornamental plants would be a good choice. In addition to the selection, pond care must also be considered true, because it would be easier, moss.

Tiny with natural stone
This park was really tiny. Size of less than 2m x 2m, but still cool and gemericiknya bring the element of water. With the principle “may seem a little too nice”, the waterfall created by the design of small steps. The construction of these steps are also useful to be covered during the installation of water pipes and pumps a little less noticeable.

The material used for the measures, coated brick and cement stone. Natural stone is also selected as a filler to another element in this park. The impression gained in the use of natural stone is a natural shade. Not too crowded, the plants, the only three types of classes and all are using the leaves of ornamental plants.

Okay, stay dry
The owners do not want to be bothered with the contaminated soil. Therefore, the selected design a piece of sidewalk that among the white coral. To be similar to cream in the back wall lined with stone-and-white color.

Elements plants need to be added to the rectangular openings, remains a lush. Planting with potted plants released it easier for maintenance because the plants can once a week in the front yard to get the full sunlight.

Cloudy with antique vases
Opening times that provided by the improvement of the ground and a sort of “how”. Also, the bathtub filled with white coral. As an accent here and there, stone laid. Rear wall with drawings of stone, a natural cloudy appearance.

Ornament is added antique urns and shellfish. Jars of Clay color matching the color of the wall with a brown back coupled. While the shells add colorful accents of brown and green dominance.

The Yellow Chic
The house is shaped in the longitudinal direction. To overcome the lack of light and air has an opening on the left side of the building. To clothe this opening was covered waterfall on the wall with natural stone model bundles of betel leaves.

Be merry, was chosen yellow for the walls and stone deer as a coating bath basin. Dutch betel plants regulated hang from the wall of waterfall to enliven the atmosphere.

To Secured
Home security in order to stay awake should be given then the top of the first bars of the security. So, could not enter the fixed maximum but uninvited guests.

Landscape gardening has often been likened to the painting of a picture. Your art-work teacher has doubtless told you that a good picture should have a point of chief interest, and the rest of the points simply go to make more beautiful the central idea, or to form a fine setting for it. So in landscaping there must be in the gardener’s mind a picture of what he desires the whole to be when he completes his work.

From this study we shall be able to calculate a bit theory of landscape gardening.

Let us attend the lawn. A good extent of open lawn space is always beautiful. They are restful. It adds a feeling of space to even small grounds. So we might generalize and say that it is well to keep lawn spaces. If one covers his lawn space with many trees, with little beds of flowers here and there, the general effect is choppy and fussy. It is a bit like an over-dressed person. One’s grounds lose all individuality thus treated. A single tree or a small group isn’t a bad arrangement on the lawn. Don’t centre the tree or trees. Let them drop a bit into the background. Make a pleasing side feature of them. In choosing trees one must keep in mind a number of things. You shouldn’t choose an overpowering tree; the tree should be one of good condition, with something interesting about its bark, leaves, flowers or fruit. While the poplar is a rapid grower, it sheds its leaves early and then is left standing, bare and ugly, before the fall is old. Mind you, there are places where a row or double row of Lombardy poplars is very effective. But I think you’ll agree with me that one lone poplar is not. The catalpa is quite lovely by itself. Its leaves are broad, its flowers attractive, the seed seedcases which cling to the tree until away into the winter, add a bit of picture squeness. The bright berries of the ash, the brilliant foliage of the rock maple, the blossoms of the canary whitewood, the bark of the white birch, and the leaves of the Fagus purpurea all these are beauty points to consider.

Place makes a difference in the selection of a tree. Suppose the lower portion of the grounds is a bit low and moist, then the spot is ideal for a willow. Don’t group trees together which look awkward. A long-looking poplar does not go with a nice rather rounded little tulip tree. A juniper, so neat and prim, would look silly beside a spreading chestnut. One must keep proportion and suitability in mind.

I’d never advise the planting of a group of evergreens close to a house, and in the front yard. The effect is very gloomy indeed. Houses thus surrounded are overcapped by such trees and are not only gloomy to live in, but truly unhealthful. The chief requisite inside a house is sunlight and plenty of it.

As trees are chosen because of certain good points, so shrubs should be. In a clump I should wish some which bloomed early, some which bloomed late, some for the beauty of their fall foliage, some for the colour of their bark and others for the fruit. Some spireas and the forsythia bloom early. The red bark of the dogwood makes a bit of colour all winter, and the red-berries of the barberry clutch the shrub well into the winter.

Certain shrubs are good to use for hedge purposes. A hedge is rather prettier usually than a fence. The Californian privet is excellent for this purpose. Maclura pomifera, Japan barberry, buckthorn, Japan quince, and Van Houtte’s spirea are other shrubs which make good hedges.

I forgot to say that in tree and shrub selection it’s usually better to choose those of the locality one lives in. Unusual and foreign plants do more indisposed, and often harmonize but poorly with their new setting.

Landscape gardening may follow along very formal lines or along informal lines. The first would have straight paths, straight rows in stiff beds, everything, as the name tells, perfectly formal. The other method is, naturally, the exact opposite. There are danger points in each.

The formal arrangement is likely to look too stiff; the informal, too fussy, too wiggly. As far as paths go, keep this in mind, that a path should always lead somewhere. That is its business to direct one to a definite place. Now, straight, even paths are not unpleasing if the effect is to be that of a formal garden. The danger in the arced path is an abrupt curve, a whirligig effect. It is far better for you to stick to straight paths unless you can make a really beautiful curve. No one can tell you how commotion this.

Garden paths may be of gravel, of dirt, or of grass. One sees grass paths in some very lovely gardens. I doubt, however, if they would serve as well in your small gardens. Your garden areas are so limited that they should be re-spaded each season, and the grass paths are a great bother in this work. Of course, a gravel path makes a fine appearance, but again you may not have gravel at your command. It is possible for any of you to dig out the path for two feet. Then put in six inches of stone or clinker. Over this, pack in the dirt, rounding it slightly toward the centre of the path. There should never be depressions through the central part of paths, since these form convenient places for water to stand. The under layer of stone makes a natural drainage system.

A building often needs the help of vines or flowers or both to tie it to the grounds in such a way as to form a harmonious whole. Vines lend themselves well to this work. It is better to plant a perennial vine, and so let it form a permanent part of your landscape scheme. The Virginia creeper, wistaria, honeysuckle, a climbing rose, the clematis and trumpet vine are all most satisfactory.

close your eyes and picture a house of natural colour, that mellow gray of the weathered shingles. Now add to this old house a purple wistaria. Can you see the beauty of it? I shall not forget soon a rather ugly corner of my childhood home, where the dining room and kitchen met. Just there climbing over, and falling over a trellis was a trumpet vine. It made beautiful an awkward angle, an ugly bit of carpenter work.

Of course, the morning-glory is an annual vine, as is the moon-vine and wild cucumber. Now, these have their special function. For often, it is necessary to cover an ugly thing for just a time, until the better  things and better times come. The annual is ‘the chap’ for this work.

Along an old fence a hop vine is a thing of beauty. One might try to rival the woods’ landscape work. For often one sees festooned from one rotted tree to another the ampelopsis vine.

Flowers may well go along the side of the building, or bordering a walk. In general, though, keep the front lawn space open and unbroken by beds. What lovelier in early spring than a bed of daffodils close to the house? Hyacinths and tulips, too, form a blaze of glory. These are little or no bother, and start the spring aright. One may make of some bulbs an exception to the rule of unbroken front lawn. Snowdrops and crocuses planted through the lawn are beautiful. They do not disturb the general effect, but just blend with the whole. One expert bulb gardener says to take a basketful of bulbs in the fall, walk about your grounds, and just drop bulbs out here and there. Wherever the bulbs drop, plant them. Such small bulbs as those we plant in lawns should be in groups of four to six. Daffodils may be thus planted, too. You all remember the grape hyacinths that grow all through Katharine’s side yard.

The place for a flower garden is generally at the side or rear of the house. The backyard garden is a lovely idea, is it not? Who wishes to leave a beautiful looking front yard, turn the corner of a house, and find a dump heap? Not I. The flower garden may be laid out formally in neat little beds, or it may be more of a careless, hit-or-miss sort. Both have their good points. Great masses of bloom are attractive.

You should have in mind some notion of the blending of colour. Nature appears not to consider this at all, and still gets wondrous effects. This is because of the tremendous amount of her perfect background of green, and the limitlessness of her space, while we are confined at the best to relatively small areas. So we should endeavour not to blind people’s eyes with clashes of colours which do not at close range blend well. In order to break up extremes of colours you can always use masses of white flowers, or something like mignonette, which is in effect green.

Finally, let us sum up our landscape lesson. The grounds are a setting for the house or buildings. Open, free lawn spaces, a tree or a proper group well placed, flowers which do not clutter up the front yard, groups of shrubbery these are points to be remembered. The paths should lead somewhere, and be either straight or well curved. If one starts with a formal garden, one should not mix the informal with it before the work is done.

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