How correctly to plan a winter garden

The winter garden always was considered as the perspective form of internal gardening of the premises, combining architecture, construction business and landscape gardening art.

Winter gardens for short-term rest at any time year serve. Create them at the industrial enterprises in a rest zone, in a hall of hotels, at station, in конференс halls, at apartment houses, and recently even in small private котеджах.

The sizes of a planted trees and shrubs premise essentially influence its planning and the volume-spatial decision. It is conditionally possible to allocate three basic types of gardens; small (the area 100—200 м2), averages (200—600 м2) and big (from above 600 м2).

At the device of a winter garden by means of live vegetation and small architectural forms space various green interiors (will organise so that to receive a Japanese garden, landscape compositions, regular plating and etc.), united in the general composition. In a small garden a considerable part of territory paths, arbours and vacation spots take away under green plantings, other under architecture. From plants create силуэтные compositions. Special attention give to vertical gardening of buildings or premises (twisted and ampelous plants decorate protecting designs, give the big weight of greens and occupy the insignificant space on a floor).

The garden of the average sizes should have an allocated central part and the volume decision of green plantings and. In it three components are obligatory: plants, water and a lawn.

Decoratively-front door the zone can serve in the big garden as a place of flower-shows, birds, aquarian small fishes. In this zone, necessarily there should be an artificial reservoir, замощенная a stone or тратуарной a tile the central platform calculated on a considerable quantity of visitors, plaster sculptures, colour stained-glass windows, illumination of plants and pools with water are pertinent. At a lay-out of the big winter garden it is possible to use receptions both regular, and landscape style.

So that it is necessary to make correctly to plan a winter garden. To begin with choose style of a winter garden (Japanese, landscape, regular and etc.), select corresponding plants. Define places of a reservoir and its gardening. Select plants for vertical gardening and for containers. Plan places of benches for rest, garden sculptures of vases and other small forms of architecture. Then on Whatman paper sheet draw the plan of gardening of gallery on the scale of 1: 10.

Ways of landing of plants in a winter garden are various: in the general pallets and the ferro-concrete baths filled with the vegetative earth; in pots or tubs, деко

рированных plates, a moss, a pebble. But the best conditions are created for plants at the device of a winter garden directly on a ground. In this case an existing ground choose, do a drainage and fill a layer of the nutritious earth.

At designing of a winter garden special complexity is represented by creation of suitable conditions for growth and development of plants: the ceiling light, is better natural (a light dome) in a combination to one or several transparent glass walls, artificial illumination (about 300 Vt on 1 м2 a garden), premise temperature is admissible no more 16-20С. It will be natural to communicate interesting in such garden. As a rule for such conversations it is necessary to select cosy places what the winter garden is.