What can an empty terrace look like in 4 years? Today let's walk into the terrace garden of this Chengdu flower friend, she also shared a lot of gardening experience, come and get new knowledge.
2017 Horticulture begins
At first, I was not interested in raising flowers, formed a two-person world and moved into a small home of 80 square meters, at first I just wanted to have more green plants at home, and then I began to contact succulents, and I was out of control and went into the gardening pit.
After three years, various coincidences and strong interest in planting led us to decide to change to a house with two terraces, and the desire to own a garden overcame the old disadvantages of the old community without elevators on the sixth floor.
- Terrace renovation process -
The house is a duplex, the first floor terrace 30 square L type, the second floor terrace 40 square rectangle, it does not look big but has enough gardening small white toss, how to design two terraces, how to deal with the ground, how to deal with the wall, how to establish the planting pond... At first it was all ignorance.
I only had two ideas at that time, the floor tiles were light-colored, we must build a turtle pond to meet the wishes of many years, and how to build a flower pond did not have any concept, so I randomly set two positions with the decoration company, and the result became a hard wound to the entire garden.
After the decoration company left the scene, the whole terrace effect was as seen in the picture, we tried to move the seats in, the plants filled in, but we still felt that the picture of the whole garden was unbearable, and the distance from the psychological expectation was not two or three floors but more than a dozen floors, which was really unbearable.
At the beginning, due to the limited decoration budget, we suppressed the budget for garden decoration, and now we have verified the truth that there is a return on how much investment is made, and we have begun to analyze how to make the garden transform under limited experience.
The first is to consider covering the ground with anti-corrosion wood to soften the stiffness of the hard ground, the wall surface is painted with external wall paint, and at the beginning I want to use red paint to achieve the effect of red brick wall.
The result is too fresh and harsh to sit next to at night or a little panic, we simply use white paint to paint all the surrounding walls, cover the original gray and white bricks, and then arrange some large and small ornaments, the entire terrace initially has a sense of nature.
- The stay of the plants -
In terms of plant configuration, the old three kinds of moon season, hydrangea and clematis occupy the protagonist, especially the moon season, and many flower lovers have completely fallen into the moon season pit because of the picture of longsha gemstones.
The year began to frantically enter the various varieties of the month, Lonza, the Great Parade, the Free Spirit, Thomas, Hamilton, the Duchess, Aoi, the Pompom Porch, Juliet, the Blue Storm, My Heart... There are also a number of unknown moon seasons purchased by the flower market, and then crazy to watch the wolf's monthly maintenance video.
These years are the biggest improvement in horticultural planting skills, and the spring and moon seasons still give us great surprises, although the amount of flowers is not large, and the plant shape effect is not ideal.
However, the first time I planted the moon season by myself, the standard flower type, the psychology still has a huge sense of satisfaction and surprise, and only this spring has the strongest sense of surprise, from the perspective of the flowering effect of various flowers and plants, my planting technology is an entry.
2018 The garden is getting better
After a sweaty summer of watering and fertilizing, and winter pruning and changing pots, this spring, the plants bloom without hesitation.
- Chun Man Yuen -
The first surprise for us is the wood hydrangea, a small seedling that grows several times in just one summer, and the white flowers and beautiful leaves look fresh and elegant, which is particularly suitable for the temperament of early spring.
Charlotte Girl is always the first to bloom in the moon season, and when other moons are still bone, her classical apricot blossoms have become the focus of early spring.
Angela crawled all over the flower trellis, and I finally had my own wall of dragon sand.
Angela
Pink Dragon Sand Gemstones
All kinds of abundant flowers bloom in the moon season, and for the first time, the family has realized the freedom of cutting flowers in the monthly season.
Compared with the monthly season that requires careful care, the management of hydrangea is much more extensive and simple.
Endless summer a summer has experienced a fierce growth, loose mud charcoal formula soil is particularly suitable for the growth of rich and fragile virtual roots of hydrangeas, and the branches cover the flower box completely, and the amount of flowers is huge.
Among the many varieties of hydrangeas, Endless Summer is indeed the best, except for the soft branches that are easy to hang their heads, and if my original idea is to achieve the goal of flowers and full of flowers, this spring is undoubtedly achieved.
- Garden color subtraction -
But when we look at the whole garden as a whole, we begin to find that this is not the effect we want. Compared to other excellent gardens, I began to see the problem.
The first is that the color is too complicated and completely jumps the color, and several colors such as yellow, red, purple, pink, white, and blue are mixed together.
In order to solve this problem, we can only do subtraction, control the color within 4, with green, light pink, purple and white as the main colors, eliminating a large number of months.
The second is that the visual sense of the garden is very flat, and the plants have no sense of hierarchy.
Previously, in order to provide the best possible growth environment for plants, i purchased a lot of green mountain pots that lacked aesthetics, and many plants were just randomly arranged in a row, and the height was almost particularly lacking in the beauty of the overall structure.
How to arrange the garden is much more difficult than how to plant good plants, in order to enhance their aesthetic ability, on the one hand, take advantage of the opportunity to travel abroad, be sure to go to see the local park or go to the town to see the local people's private garden, on the other hand, buy a lot of gardening books to learn the excellent garden introduced in the book.
To this end, I bought a lot of antiseptic wood and made a lot of flower boxes to replace the pots, which not only made the beauty better, but also made it possible to plant in combination.
2019 Garden Spans the Ordinary
The terrace garden is in its third year, and this spring is the year of the greatest progress, both in terms of the hard decoration of the garden and the performance of the plants themselves.
The biggest change in hard decoration is the addition of a wooden fence on the right side, which was not only made of a lot of flower boxes last summer, but also made by hand, brushed with white primer and coordinated with the surrounding environment, which not only obscured the stiff stainless steel railing, but also enhanced the sense of enclosure and privacy of the garden.
I also added some decorations, moved the work table under the Longsha wall, installed a dwarf flower box under the wall to plant grass and flower plants, and formed a flower landscape with the Longsha gems.
I also used flower boxes and two clay pots to roughly divide the garden into two areas, enhancing the sense of depth of the garden.
A lot of subtraction has been done on the plant configuration, eliminating many monthly seasons that are not performing well, and also starting to plant more varieties of plants.
For example, in early spring, a lot of bulbous plants were planted, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths... That way I'm looking forward to it in March.
I also grow a lot of linear plants with a certain height, such as foxglove, flying swallow grass, and large onions.
In order to make the garden more flat view, I also added eucalyptus, maple, lollipop phenanthragus and other relatively tall plants.
At this point, I have also paid more attention to the existence of foliage plants in the garden, and added many jade hairpins and ornamental grasses as the background color.
This spring plants ushered in their heyday.
2020 Harvest Garden Spring
At the coldest time of the winter every year, there was always a time to be busy in the garden, and I not only needed to do a lot of pruning and turning pots on the plants, but also continued to toss the layout of the garden.
On the one hand, I subtract from the existing plants, on the other hand, I keep adding my favorite plants, the aesthetic seems to change every year, last year there were many garden plants, two pots of hydrangeas grew huge, making the whole garden look too rigid.
This year I gave up two large pots of hydrangeas, in order to make the skeleton of the garden more plump, added a two-meter-high acacia and several maple trees, adjusted the position of some plants, so that the garden has more freshness, and it is precisely because of these tosses that when the garden harvest is ushered in, it will be more rewarding.
The harvest garden, the freedom of cutting flowers made me very satisfied.
Summarize my gardening experience
(1) Be sure to pay attention to the hard decoration of the garden.
Even if there are no plants, the garden is hard-mounted, and the planned structure has a good sense of beauty, paying attention to the coordination of the overall environment of the garden, and investing energy and money in this regard is often the effect of doing more with less.
(2) Control the color of the garden.
At the beginning of the plant configuration, we must determine a good color matching, and control the number of colors, I suggest that the space that is not too large can be controlled within four, with white, purple, green, and pink as the mainstay.
Colors with a particularly strong sense of color, such as red, yellow, and orange yellow, must be used as a focal point, such as a large green with a red vine in this month.
(3) Determine the skeleton of the garden, increase the level of the garden, and increase the appropriate ornaments.
You can configure some plants with a certain height, such as maple trees, various lollipops plants, acacias, eucalyptus and so on.
The placement of the flower utensils avoids the placement of rows and rows, and it is best to reduce the amount of potted plants and increase some combination planting. Ornaments such as garden chairs, must be decorated appropriately, not too much.
(4) Control the number of flowering plants and pay attention to the effect of foliage plants.
Of course the garden is first and foremost to please oneself, everyone has their own aesthetic, this is just my personal experience.
Every year I feel that there are still too many dissatisfactions in this garden, but every year I also get a lot of simple happiness in this garden, and whenever I see other people's gardens envious, I will always dislike my own garden as too small and complicated.
Whenever I go back to my terrace garden, I always can't help but take out my mobile phone to take a few photos to share, the garden needs to pay, only if I pay will I really appreciate the beauty of it, just like the little prince's rose, because she is my rose.