How to decorate a garden with hanging plants
Beginning gardeners often have the problem of how to arrange something unique in their garden without sufficient experience? The easiest way to achieve this is to decorate garden structures, verandas and even the walls of the house with hanging containers with hanging plants. Their name comes from the German language and means “hanging vase”, since when they grow they form a whole luxurious “waterfall” of leaves and flowers.
The advantages of decorating a garden with ampels are obvious:
• They can make both a large garden and a modest-sized courtyard, a small terrace and a spacious veranda cozy and original;
• By changing floral ensembles from time to time, you can achieve constant novelty of perception;
• Thanks to hanging plants, you can either hide unsightly fragments on the site, or give them a completely new shape and purpose; • Bring more bright colors to featureless parts of the landscape;
• Caring for plants in pots is minimal (watering and fertilizing) and does not require effort and time for loosening and weed control;
• With the onset of the cold season, some plants can be moved from the street indoors and you can enjoy their splendor even in winter.
There are basic rules that must be followed to achieve the best results:
• Hanging containers must be positioned so that it is possible to move safely around the site;
• Plants must be well-groomed and correspond to the overall design idea of the garden;
• It is necessary to periodically change the floral ensemble to enliven the environment.
Usually small garden structures (pergolas, gazebos, trellises), walls of houses, verandas are decorated with hanging compositions. They create a bright, joyful mood.
To obtain the greatest effect, several are planted in containers and pots at once plants , creating harmonious combinations of shapes, colors and sizes with each other. If such a composition is chosen successfully, the result will be a magnificent work that will delight and surprise.
A wonderful effect can be achieved if you use the strangest and most inappropriate things instead of decorative containers – a wheel from an old bicycle, a rusty cast iron or a broken wheelbarrow.
The main thing is to always remember that any unexpected and even at first glance strange ideas can become the “cherry on the cake” that will give the garden a unique charm.
