Worthy decoration of the garden: small architectural forms, their types and applications

Decorate the garden - a worthy desire. Besides garden plants, there are many more ways to equip the site. homemaster.techinfus.com/en/ editorial review today includes small architectural forms. We will consider the types and use of different LFAs in more detail.

It's time to think about contemplative beauty

Application and types of MAF

Small architectural forms include various sculptures, artificial reservoirs, pavilions, gazebos, ladders and much more. Why equip a garden with such products if trees, shrubs and flowers are beautiful in themselves? The green and variegated territory pleases us only in the warm season, and the design with the help of the MAF allows the site to be beautiful all year round.

The gazebo is always beautiful, and if you equip it with a font, this element will become almost the most desirable on the site

Depending on how and what the architectural product is expressed, one can talk about their varieties. The MAF also includes items delimiting the territory, presented in the form of arches, ladders, pergolas, and bosquets.

MAF can be natural, but collected in an unconventional composition

Decorative forms - fountains, waterfalls, sculptures, alpine slides, flowerpots we need it for aesthetic pleasure, and utilitarian ones allow us to equip public parks or recreation areas in private households.

If the site allows, you can make a whole labyrinth on it, with stairs made of stone blocks, mysterious back streets and secret places

Types of small architectural forms: material, purpose, dimensions

What are architectural forms for a garden made of? These are wood for arches, pergolas, gazebos, metal as a frame for sculptures, stone for rockeries, waterfalls and alpine slides, plaster or cement base in sculpture. The sizes of products are very different, even the same MAF can be large or small, depending on the area that needs to be decorated. Consider options for garden products that have a decorative function.

Bringing the Garden to Life: Sculpture and Figures

The variety of sculptures allows you to competently and interestingly equip a garden corner. The figure of a woman, an angel, an animal, suddenly appearing among greenery or flowers, definitely makes the right impression.

Seeing such a miracle under a bush of roses or hydrangeas is charming

You can install the sculpture in any place: even on an open area, even in a dense bush - the size of the products allows it.

There are no barriers or rules for sculpture as a form

Sculptures are made from cement base, plaster, wood, stones. Each material "speaks" its own language, and therefore the impression they produce is fundamentally different.

The statues perfectly fulfill the decorating function at any time of the year

If you use columns and special dilapidated figures, then the garden begins to seem ancient and mysterious. The good thing about sculpture is that you can find a suitable product for any stylistic design.

You can make the whole garden with female statues in different poses, and, moreover, arrange them in the most unexpected places, thereby providing the effect of a living presence

Refreshing element: decorative ponds and waterfalls

Water is not only a source of life, but also a great way to refresh the air on the site, ennoble the territory, fill it with the sounds of bubbling water and playful glare of rays on the water surface.

For artificial reservoirs and waterfalls, a base is needed in the form of a pit that is suitable in shape, filled with cement, covered with a special film or tiled in a Moorish style.

The smoothness of the water soothes

The reservoirs are good both small and large, the main thing is to decorate them with greenery correctly.

Near the reservoir is an excellent place for a gazebo, and if you throw a bridge over the pond, then it's just perfect

The waterfall requires a pump to run. The water circulating in a circle does not allow stagnation and bloom, irrigating the space around with the smallest cascade of refreshing spray.

The murmur of water is to the liking of many

Floral decor: flowerpots and trellises

You can make different garden corners with flowerpots. The form, materials for their manufacture should be in harmony with the environment landscape design... It is not only the appearance of such products that plays a role, but also their dimensions: different flowers require a certain amount of soil.

The flowerpots themselves are embossed and textured if they are not made of plastic

The color of the flowerpots should not compete with the flower plantings.

A trellis in the form of a crate made of wood or metal decorates the walls. It can serve as a separate decorative element, zoning the territory.

Such a lattice allows you to visually separate one zone from another.

The trellis looks great as a separate decorative element. A climbing plant can be planted in a flowerpot nearby

Zoning, hidden corners: pergolas, arches and bosquets

The pergola is a gazebo with a wooden crate instead of a roof. In part, this design protects from the sun's rays, especially if it is surrounded by ornamental vines.

Air circulates freely inside the pergola, so you can sit on the bench even on a hot day.

The pergola is often used as a "transparent" gazebo with seats

There is also a transitional form between the pergola and the arch above the path

The arch participates in the zoning of the territory, separates different zones, decorates the entrances. Arched structures, depending on the style of the garden, are made of wood or metal.

Arched art serves the benefit of landscape design

It is not necessary to wrap the arch with flowers, it is good in itself

As for the bosquet - the green "room", it is quite possible to create a fairy-tale labyrinth on a large territory.

A bosquette requires a lot of attention, both in creating and maintaining the beauty of geometry.

Instead of simple flower beds: alpine slides and rockeries

The alpine slide is usually the pride of the garden: it is a wonderful combination of stones and correctly selected plants that makes the landscape look simply enchanting.

To create a rock garden, you need not only to select the right amount of stones suitable for the concept, but also to lay them out so that plants can be planted in niches filled with soil.

On an alpine slide, those plants should grow that will withstand a more arid microclimate and some elevation above the ground level

Traditionally, conifers grow in the rock garden, but succulents also feel quite comfortable in such a place.

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Rockery fell in love with many. This is a stone variation of an alpine slide, when it is the stone that will be the soloist, and the greenery will be a likely, but not necessary addition. To create rockeries, their own rules and regulations apply. The result is a long-lasting creation that can look like a natural formation or a special decor.

Rockery - rock garden

A whole stone ensemble

Utilitarian MAF and their application for decorating private and public areas

The decor of the park area is created exclusively for the beauty and comfort of guests. Many of these types of small architectural forms are used in private gardens: bridges, ladders, fences, gazebos. They are designed to provide comfort and beauty to the beholder.

Up, down and across the stream: stairs and bridges

The ladder is used where the garden is laid out on a slope. If there is no pronounced slope, and you really want the stairs, then you can make a small flight of stairs where the difference in the height of the soil allows. The photo shows how you can beat this decision.

The material for the steps can be sea pebbles, gravel, wood and frame

Wooden steps are suitable for a country-style garden

Bridges are thrown both over water and over stone streams. The main thing is to organically fit it into the space.

Indoor and outdoor fences

Unsightly fences remained in the century before last. Now these are creations worthy of a separate word with an admixture of admiration. Fences can be located both along the perimeter of the territory, and inside it, as a dividing element or a small fence for a flower bed.

Wooden fences create coziness

Bamboo in the garden is quite atypical for Russian gardens, but it is durable and natural

Swimming pools

The pool was invented a long time ago. Thanks to those people for such a helpful solution. On any site or in a park, the pool occupies a worthy place both as a cultivated reservoir and as a swimming area. The decor created around the pool transforms the pool into a haven of cool and beautiful surroundings.

Wooden decking can be made around the pool

The elongated shape allows you to fit the pool in a small area

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Drinking fountains: an escape from thirst on hot days

The arrangement of a drinking fountain in the public area allows visitors to quench their thirst and feel a surge of energy. The appearance of this small architectural form finds a place in a park or garden of any style.

Fountains can be modern in shape, or presented in the form of an old sculpture

Equipped playgrounds

Playgrounds are made by different manufacturers and craftsmen. Someone prefers the already familiar look of a yellow-red-blue playground, while others are looking for a creative solution.

A lot of space is needed for such a site

Playgrounds for adults require a basketball hoop or a volleyball net, and green spaces are already being planted behind a protective fence.

A gazebo as a comfortable place for spiritual relaxation

The gazebo is the favorite architectural form of different people. This is a convenient place for privacy, private conversation, card game or breakfast. The roof always gives shade, and the railing allows you to feel security and peace of mind.

White gazebos don't seem so hot at noon

The gazebo is equipped with a seating area, benches and a table, lighting is very welcome inside, although the evening light from a street lamp will make the atmosphere chamber.

There are also very decorative arbors

The roof of the gazebo sets the tone and the shape sets the style.

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Garden furniture: comfort in the garden or park

Just standing and admiring the beauty of landscape design is good, and when you can comfortably sit on a bench under the shade of a spreading bush, then enjoying the view is much more pleasant.

Garden furniture includes all kinds of tables, chairs, benches, swings. They are made of plastic, wood, concrete, metal, rattan.

The bench should be beautiful and comfortable

Whole recreation areas are organized from garden furniture

Such furnishings will make the park area more attractive in every sense.

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Devices for trade services: pavilions or kiosks

Trade surrounds us everywhere. One has to accept this, but one cannot agree with the appearance of such tents: only style, only beauty. You can even combine business with pleasure by decorating a kiosk in a certain genre.

Street lighting: lanterns

Lanterns for landscape lighting are different: built-in for the facades of houses, suspended, vertical, underwater. The design of the products is varied, the prices are also variable. If you want something grandiose, then they acquire a number of the same type of lamps in some desired style and set them in the most favorable position in terms of the illumination of the site in the evening and at night.

In the daytime, the lantern should also play a decorative role.

Light shining through the foliage creates magic around

Flashlights can be small: they are installed directly into the ground, and they work on solar batteries.

Ideas for the device of small architectural structures on the site

Each site is equipped individually and uniquely. Even if you take the same basic LFAs, choosing their different incarnations, you get completely different results: someone has a gazebo with a sloping roof by the pond, and someone has hidden it deep in the garden. In either case, it will be a different perception of the same object.

When equipping the garden with the help of the IAF, you will need to ask yourself a few questions: where will the gazebo stand, do I need it? How deep should the reservoir be? Maybe it's better to make a simple Moorish fountain? In order not to get confused in your own desires, it is worth seeing how a garden interior is created through the MAF in different ways.

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Share your dreams of a better garden design project in the comments. What MAF would you like to see in your garden?

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