Interior design ideas

Fences care
Green hedges can correspond to the final purpose only in that case that they are carefully treated on a regular basis and are correctly looked after. In the first year after the planting regular watering is required; the same concerns loosening and weeding. The basic care is, certainly, a hairstyle of a fence. Art of a figured hairstyle gardeners of Ancient Rome is still in fashion. It is possible to cut bushes in the form of animals, geometrical and architectural forms. In fact many breeds are the fine material, allowing giving the unexpected form to the plant.
Not all plants can be cut. So, for example, if the fur-tree, with its compact and dense crone, is perfectly cut, the pine having a sprawling rare crone does not transfer a hairstyle, dries, and breaks from a snow. Accordingly, plants with a rare sprawling crone can’t be used for “green figures”. And the majority of bushes is good for hairstyle (look the description of plants). The first hairstyle should be done for the second year after the planting. It is possible to do this in the autumn before the leave fall. Sometimes it is better to cut plants in the summer.
The regular hairstyle during warm time promotes development from sleeping kidneys of new runaways in the bottom part of bushes that does not allow a fence to become bare from below. From the very beginning the hairstyle should be lead in the first part of June. Sometimes it is done by pulling a cord and raising the bushes on 4-6 centimeters before the achievement of the necessary height. Often high fences (because of a wrong hairstyle of a branch) grow well only in the top part of bushes, and the bottom dies off, suffering from shortage of light. Such fences are necessary for cutting by forming a cone or a trapeze with an inclination of lateral faces approximately 70 degrees to horizon. Dry and sick branches should be cut out on a regular basis.
Wrong, rare and untimely hairstyle
It leads to the “baldness” of the bottom part of the plants. If the fence has become too bare from below, it is necessary to be rejuvenated by having cut off plants “to a stub” - on some centimeters above the ground, - and anew fence will start to growing.
The most suitable plants for fences are: lilac ordinary, dog roses (wrinkled, cinnamon, and ordinary), honeysuckle (Tatar, dark blue, edible, golden, Alpine, etc.), and fur-tree (ordinary, Caucasian, white or Canadian, prickly), currant (Alpine, golden, red, black) etc.
 

If to you don’t like wooden or stone fences and you the aesthete - try to make a green fence.
The first green fences have been incorporated a long time ago. It is known that in the beginning of XVIII century landscape dendrology green fences have found wide application due to the development park business in France.
Sovereign persons and the large land owners consumed of many game, pawned green fences - given a shelter to feathery (to pheasants, partridges and so forth). Skilled gardeners considered that the competently incorporated and correctly grown up green fence is much more durable and it is more reliable than the strongest fences.
What is the green fence? These are linear plantings from trees and the bushes, landed in one-two of some on close distance from each other. Green fences can be low - from 0,5 up to 1 m, average - 1-1,5 - 2 m and high - over 2 m. Green hedges below half a meter, applied for a bordering of paths, flower orchestras and beds, refer to as borders.
Concerning the form, it is possible to say that green fences can be freely growing and formed. Beautifully blossoming bushes and trees with the decorative fruits, used for creation of green hedges, are cut rarely (flowering and fructification worsens). The best protection is always given with short-haired fences, which can be so dense that they would not allow even a fine animal to get through them

Tree is always in fashion
The main task of furniture is to be convenient. Sometimes inconvenience of garden furniture irritates much stronger, than a fog or gloomy morning. Therefore, when you are choosing garden furniture it is important to remember about its purpose and not to forget, that sometimes excessive pretentiousness of the form harms the maintenance. But the garden furniture can play the important role in aesthetic decoration of the garden: for example, the patio - paved court yard - are simply inconceivable without it. It is quite often possible to observe a ridiculous-sad picture on a site at those owners who reflect a little on the art of landscape design: a white plastic table with chairs on the big, paved site of a garden under high trees. And in fact here the big thorough wooden table and chairs would be much more convenient.
The tree can be combined with many other materials - for example, with a straw, which is used in a braid and for seats and backs.
Separate kind of garden furniture belongs to the wooden boxes in which it is possible to store fine garden utensils, and at the same time to use them as seats. Such chests can have both a back, and armrests, and they are advices to be made in the same style, in accordance with other garden furniture. It is desirable, that the furniture made the complete set in which both garden benches, and the furniture located at the house would be combined.
Convenience
Today a tree, plastic and metal are the most popular materials for manufacturing garden furniture. Basic plus of plastic furniture is ease in transporting and care, but plastic does not always approach to the house and a garden’s style. The metal garden furniture can be of the most different kinds- but, as a rule, it requires the individual order and it is rather expensive. Therefore tree is the ideal material: the wooden garden furniture can be made without problems to order, and it is possible to buy ready made wooden furniture, having chosen suitable one on the style of your garden. Tree is the most “alive” and warm natural material. The natural tree garden furniture practically looks naturally always and everywhere. A file of a tree, even of rough sharp, perfectly looks as near the wooden house and near to brick construction.
It is not necessary to forget that tree is a healthy material, and the wooden garden furniture does not break the entire ecosystem of the garden.

The landscape gardening furniture has occurred together with landscape science. The designed park has been made for constant movement, for unexpectedly changing landscapes, that the spectator will admire its beauty. The architect conceived a garden in which “casual charm” waited for the visitor behind each turn of a twisting footpath. The garden was made in such a way that admiring of each new, suddenly opened, kind was as much as possible convenient. That is why special furniture for a garden has been thought up. First of all it was portable armchairs which “followed” owners, completely justifying the name. (In fact the term “furniture” occurs from a Latin word “mobilis” - “mobile”.) In due course the spectrum of landscape gardening furniture extended. Regular parks, for example, have been equipped by benches and pergolas, which, sometimes, formed freakish labyrinths. Today garden furniture is represented by various tables, chairs, armchairs-rocking chairs, chaise lounges, sofas-swing, and benches. They can be of the most different style and a kind, mobile, made manually and bought under the catalogue. But a garden without garden furniture is not a garden.
First of all let’s talk about portable garden furniture. It is necessary to carry ease to its advantages: if the rain has suddenly begun it is possible to hide to hide tables and the chairs stood open-air in reliable shelter. If you don’t have a place paved by a tile or a stone, or you have chosen any special corner of a garden, it is possible to take care of that there were furniture on “legs” and there were the devices giving to stability at it for the installation on a soft surface, - and then the favorite chair will turn “after the sun”. But the solid stationary garden furniture is pertinent, for example, in family, which has a tradition to have breakfast, dinner and supper outdoors. Then it is necessary to put a thorough table with chairs or benches around of it, to think over the device of a special canopy, additional shelves for utensils in order to not to run all time in the house behind subjects of lying. It is even possible to make a small bar. If there are children in the family, they for certain will like to draw and play on air, so, it is useful to have a reliable wooden table with a bench somewhere on a verandah or a terrace. Benches also concern to stationary furniture along garden paths in picturesque corners of a garden.

Manual work and natural materials are the main highlight of the fashionable garden.

The garden furniture from plastic is not so modern this season. Natural materials are in fashion. The so-called sans serif furniture becomes especially fashionable. The qualitative, sound wooden furniture frequently speaks about a high social status of its owner. Its major advantage is an ecological compatibility.

Now the most progressive public buys archaic wooden chairs and the armchairs cut from trunks of the big diameter with a great pleasure. The most valuable is an expressiveness of the rough, almost raw texture, and various defects, for example, cracks and knots are emphasized in every possible way.

When it is necessary, such furniture it is artificially olden: the tree, beaten by bugs, is filled with a special dust, and from above it becomes covered by the structure protecting it from rotting. The “ecological” furniture reminds very much museum subjects of a country life. And in it its main glamour!

Especially valuable furniture is the furniture made of old boards, thrown out the sea and long laid under the sun is considered. Salty sea water discolors wood a little, and the sun does it more darkly. Firstly, it seems, that such furniture is unpretentious and simple; however its cost can reach enormous sums.

It is possible to arrange all territory of a garden with subjects made of crib. There are also chairs with tables, benches, supports for colors, stools, lockers and other elements of a decor: wooden mushrooms, artificial hemps. There are unusual combinations to glass and metal.

Wicker furniture is in a great demand. The fashion on it is constant and does pass neither in the summer, nor in the winter. Armchairs-rocking chairs are an embodiment of romanticism of a garden, and also furniture complete sets use huge popularity. A hazel grove turns into baskets, armchairs, carriages, flowerpots and colors, lamp shades, holders for newspapers, cases for gas bags, caskets, padded stools, and small houses for cats.