Landscape, like any other sort of design, is impacted by changing fashion, which sweeps over gardeners' creations in waves. In recent years, so-called "natural" and "ecological" gardens have gained popularity. The urge to recreate the natural complex on a private plot of land is comprehensible in Western Europe, where the passion for them is linked first and foremost to the degradation, and in some cases, the near-complete loss, of natural vegetation. This effort may be seen in many contemporary landscape design projects.

1. Use gravel instead of concrete

In order to lay out a path to a gazebo or some outbuilding, it is not necessary to use concrete. Choose a permeable surface such as gravel. Moisture will go through it well. This will favorably affect all landings near the track. In gravel, you can make inserts from wooden boards or stone tiles to make it more comfortable to walk. On a gravel base, you can even install a brazier or a seating area and beat it beautifully with plants.

It is also worth thinking about outdoor furniture: choose natural materials so that they easily integrate into the green atmosphere of your garden. Pay attention to such items of outdoor furniture as tables and chairs, garden swings and deck chairs, hammocks and sofas, armchairs and rocking chairs and, of course, benches. All this can be purchased on https://www.parasoldubai.com/ or if you're in the UK on www.lazysusanfurniture.co.uk/. In the UAE, for example, where the shortage of plants is especially felt, residents are actively trying to fill this gap and planting gardens on the territory of their homes, ennobling them with high-quality outdoor furniture in order to comfortably spend as much time as possible outside.

2. Old overgrown garden

An old, overgrown, maybe even neglected garden is a popular theme. Its basic skeleton is made up of a number of trees with a high crown. Ordinary maples, little larches, and bird cherry with amber and very attractive bark are all possibilities. A relatively unusual species of red-leaved birch, red-leaved cherry plum, really beautiful variegated forms of tree-like turfs, and an exquisite variety of ash-leaved maple 'Flamingo' with white-pink-bordered foliage are all employed with the same success.

The tree trunks are covered by a dense planting of red-leaved barberries, park roses, flowering weigela, and variegated turfs, all of which are already bushy. Deep within the forest, rhododendrons are evergreen. Pyramidal blue and prostrate junipers can be planted to keep the landscape fascinating even in the winter, creeping down the path, falling from a low retaining wall, and meandering onto the rocky frame of a tiny reservoir.

It may appear that there is no more space, but every available plot of land has been planted with perennials. There are hostas, a sea of blue and purple geraniums, astilbe, and the increasingly popular daylilies. The leaves of decorative perennials grew arrows of varied bows, adorned with blue and pink inflorescence balls. Lavender, sage, phlox, little petals, gypsophila, and high cereals grow abundantly in sunny areas.

In such a garden, the path is frequently dirt or rocky, with rough limestone lining it. Thyme, sedum, and bryozoan had overtaken the spaces between the stones where it was damper. The walkways are not clearly defined, and pebbles or sand are poured along the edges, where the tenacious, the arabis, and the silvery acena have sprouted.

3. Plant flowers and herbs for the bees

Environmentalists around the world are talking about the decline in the number of honey bees on the planet and warn of the unpleasant consequences of this phenomenon. Do your part to support the ecosystem in the area where your home is located and plant plants that attract bees. Here's what you can do:

• Plant flowers and herbs. Any source of nectar is good for the bees, and also for the garden if you have fruit-bearing plants.
• Avoid toxic insecticides. If the garden is filled with a certain type of parasite and you cannot get rid of them without the help of chemistry, apply it pointwise and strictly in accordance with the instructions. If there are few pests, try to get by with natural means or mechanical methods.
• Do not destroy the wild bee hive in your area. Call specialists who will transfer it, for example, to the forest.

4. Village house

Landscape designers' best efforts are "village" gardens. Meadow grasses have totally replaced lawns. Variegated splashes of flowering self-seeded poppy, familiar chamomile, catnip, and calendula color the most common cereals (fescue, hedgehog, timothy, foxtail, and so on). A dirt route with a slight bend cuts through the meadow, leading to a crumbling wooden fence.

A log cottage with a green grass roof, climbing roses clinging to the walls, a rough wooden table and chairs near the porch, and a few fruit trees in the distance High mallow paired with delphiniums and peonies, lavender, and a delicate cloud of gypsophila at the windows. Geraniums and forget-me-nots peek out from beneath an openwork fern in the cool shade.

A garden with curly green carrots, dark green beet tops, and the rounded side of cabbage shining in the sun is also available. Colorful foxglove arrows in a softly framed cuff along the fence. All of this is framed by the crowns of a massive larch and an old alder, with only a cat in the window and a lamb in the field missing. A true pastoral, developed with city inhabitants in mind who miss the outdoors. Although practically every suburb in the Moscow region might compete with the exhibition garden, there is still something that forbids such a comparison.

5. Dig up dried grass

If there are areas with completely dried grass on the site, this indicates serious problems with the soil. Many do not know that they cause irreparable harm to their garden by burning such grass. After that, the fertility of the soil worsens even more and for a long time nothing but the most unpretentious weeds will grow on it.

To tidy up your garden, dig up an area with withered grass. Next, add fertilizer to the soil and water it. Then plant unpretentious field herbs. This will help the soil in the garden to recover, and after a couple of years you can plant more demanding ornamental flowers and shrubs in it.