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- Creating a front garden as a farm garden - Tips & Tricks
- Basic elements in historical plan - an overview
- Characteristic plants for the farmers garden
- Tips
Colorful flowers are reminiscent of historic cottage gardens
Creating a front garden as a farm garden - Tips & Tricks
The opulent and romantic farm garden is the perfect counter concept to the noble modern garden design. Those who can not make friends with a deliberately barren look of stones and grasses, transfers the lavish plant splendor of historic monastery gardens on his front yard. With which components the plan succeeds, you will find out here.
Basic elements in historical plan - an overview
Since the Middle Ages, the concept of the farmer garden has undergone various developments. These fell primarily in the contemporary planting. In contrast, the historical floor plan is still valid today. These components shape your front yard to the authentic cottage garden:
As an alternative to the road, you can choose between a fence fence, a low dry wall or a green picket fence. Weighing made of gravel or bark mulch round off the stylish appearance. Integrate natural stone slabs in access to the front door as stepping stones.
Characteristic plants for the farmers garden
Design the front garden as a cottage garden, dominate decorative aspects and fewer criteria of self-sufficiency. This change finds expression in the appropriately modified planting plan. Here vegetables are only included if they boast a beautiful flower or shape. We have put together typical plants for the modern farm garden for you below:
Emblematic Marian flowers, which give authenticity to your front garden as a farmer's garden, are very popular. The milk thistle (Silybum marianum) is just as important as the Madonna lily (Lilium candidum). Above all, the columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) must not be missing in this round, because the perennial symbolizes the seven pains of the Blessed Mother.
Tips
Boxwood is on the decline as a border plant by the boxwood creamer and leaf fall disease. The Japanese holly (Illex crenata) has proved its worth as an alternative to the bedding bordering on the cottage garden, which looks a bit like a Buxus sempervirens and thus does not run counter to the historical concept.