Cereals in the Garden: Is It a Trend or a Type of Low-Maintenance Garden
Is this a trend? Is this a variation of the low-maintenance garden? Is this a trend of the "high-tac" style? Or maybe, on the contrary, a grass hummock contains all the salt of the Dead Sea?
And is there anyone who is simply ossified and anachronistic and does not want to accept this element into their garden with open arms?
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Every argument has a right to exist. Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist and landscape designer, shared her thoughts.
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According to the expert, cereals in the garden are appropriate in three cases.
- Precisely, with emphasis.
- On large plots they can occupy up to 60% of the area in compositions, if the garden is specifically with a "grain" bias and this does not conflict with the surrounding nature. That is, the principle of harmony is a priori observed.
- If the architecture of the house allows it. For example, your house is a container type or somehow lost in the steppe. Then yes, a sea of feather grass can consider itself an appropriate landscape.
There are a lot of herbs that are not demanding to agricultural technology, you don't need to "dance with tambourines" over them, etc. But you need to be on your guard, because these "comrades" are aggressive in turn. And before you blink, the garden is not so much low-maintenance, but rather poorly maintained, striving for the title of very neglected.
There are masters of cereal gardens in landscape design. But their creations are far from 1 square meter.
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Landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh does not say that it is easy to create a truly worthy cereal garden, with a transition to nuances, accents and other things. But, as they say, nothing is impossible.
To help you, be well-read, have a sense of proportion and style, and, of course, a sense of inner and outer harmony. Create, but be careful. And always doubt!
