(Material Alina Rabuško, published in the Journal of Master, No. 2, 2007)

Do you know what the phrase is most likely to be heard by the suburbs? "Look at how many different plants I've got, including rare ones, I've done. And even the lawn showed up. But there's no beauty like the pages of the specialized magazines. Well, explain why?"

Of course, in every specific case, the reasons may be different, but there are the most typical of all. We'll talk about some of them today.

One of the problems is the basic ignorance of the basic habits of building landscape composites. Because people read literature more often about the properties of a plant or something: what does it look like when to plant rather than feed, how to protect the pest? Also intercepted by new varieties - oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. And then, normally, everything is intact: garden - I just found an empty piece of land here - and I didn't think it would be harmonic with the plants already in place?

In order to answer this question, it is necessary to know not only the colour of the leaf and the flower, the height of the derev, the handicraft, the years, but also the rhythm, symmetry and asymmetry, proportionality and proportionality, horizontality and fertility, and so on. As for the last term, it has a very important effect on our perception of a particular garden.

Horizontals are gasoline, watermelons, flower treatment, gardens. They're putting the scene calm.

Verticals (builders, trees, handicrafts, painted architectural forms) are movement. And it's clear that only a skilled combination of both can achieve harmony.

By the way, a lot of people on the plots have a predominance of arrogance, and verticals must be added here. So, in the form of trees, craftsmen, multi-years planted by groups. They are small (2-3 exes), medium (4-7 exes) and large (8-15 exes). They are structured according to five basic principles:

• noble beauty (not more than three species);

• superiority(dominates one breed, the rest are subordinated);

• Harmony (growths must be combined by the shape of crowns, the colouring of leaves, the speed of growth);

• Ecological (growths should be from one community: gardens with gardens, wild with wild. Clearly, it is incompatible with the tree and the siren, the bare and the gasmine;

• adjustable (Growths must be the same as development requirements, easily adapted to local conditions).

Usually, the groups are planted on the range, along the fence, the walls, the stairs, to disguise the economic posts, within the section as a cross-section of any functional zona. It is also possible to make an effective entrance to the calibre or to the house, to steal the lights of the rest, to emphasize the direction of the ropes.