Each owner, taking care of the landscaping of the country area, wants to make some features in his design. Today it can be done with the help of green sculptures created by their own hands.

Technology of figure trimming of plants is called "Topiary". Thanks to this method, your garden will play new paints and acquire a strict or playful look. True, for this you will need the presence of special tools, more fantasy and tremendous patience.

Ways to form sculptures from plants

There are 3 main options:

1. Traditional.

In this case, Topiari is formed using a haircut or trimming of a live plant.

Severe two types of traditional Topiari:

• trimming plants by frame;
• trimming on the eye.

2. Sculptures created on the basis of peat.

Such figures are completely covered with green moss. This uses a sphagnum-based framework, which consists of several parts.

3. Figures from ivy.

This type of topiary is created on the basis of ready-made carcass, which is completely soaked with ivy.

Selection of plants for sculptures

Green sculptures are of a wide variety of forms, ranging from geometric shapes and ending with animals, birds, fruits and letters. However, novice gardes are recommended to start with the most simple elements and small structures.

The main feature of the top art is that the form and variety of plants is selected depending on the size of the future sculpture. However, there are a number of requirements to which "architects" hold:

• it is advisable to use plants that have a frequent branching, well tolerate trimming and tights with a dense crown (for example, thuja, pyramidal juniper, linden, maple, hawthorn, barbaris, shiny Kizniest). If the shape of the sculpture is conceived with sharp corners and small details, then it is necessary to take plants exclusively with small foliage;
• from the curly plants, it is better to give preference to the grape vines, coalitus, jasmine, a dwarf creepy ficus or an English Ivy;
• you can use a certain kind of forest herbs, such as lavender, chamber or rosemary;
• the most popular plants are shrubs - Holly, Tis and Samshat;
• if you select plants for shapes that are filled with peat moss, then give preference to Koleus, fragrant geranium, begonias, perennials, transducery, hypooeteste or mooring.

How to make topiary

The tool that will be needed to create garden topiary:

• equipment and subtle garden gloves that close their hands to the elbow;
• a secateur or garden scissors from which the hand should not be tired;
• garden saw and suchcores (will be needed if you trust shrubs and trees);
• means of disinfection and smear of sections;
• pattern or frame made of metal mesh.

Topiari in the form of an animal with their own hands

Progress:

1. Initially, it is necessary to make a sketch of the future sculpture and create a frame for it.

2. Then you should purchase a special material: steel grid or polypropylene mesh, welding and steel wire with a thickness of 8 mm.

3. Next, proceed to creating a shape of the wire, connecting it with welding. The lower part of the frame will need to wrap the grid, which will allow the soil in it comfortably.

4. Fill the finished product can be ordinary soil with the addition of straw and nutrient mixture:

• connect the Earth with the nutritional composition;
• then all moisten and add straw;
• put the soil into the frame in such a way that it does not fall out of the mesh cells.

5. After the frame will be filled, proceed to plant landing. For example, to create animal wool, use the usual lawn grass. As an additional decor, put small flowers in the face of the muzzle (for the formation of the nose and eyes). If you wish, you can plant the whole design by seeds of flowering plants that have short stems.

If you are new to and afraid of difficulties, then for the first experiments, pick up the form simpler: ball, cylinder, cube, pyramid or cone.

Care of frame green sculpture:

• be sure to eliminate patients and weeds;
• be careful when watering, so as not to wash the ground;
• if you used the grass or planted the Liana, but they should be touched on time and correctly.

Topiari from Samshata

Progress:

1. Create a frame and land in the soil of the crawling bush.
2. Fix the frame in the ground next to the planted bush.
3. Gently guide the branches on the design and secure their wire.
4. Cut everything that is located outside the framework.

Thus, gradually the bush will grow, and its branches will close the entire frame. The main thing is to constantly cut the plant so that it does not lose the form, only in this case you will see a figure.

Sculpture of plants on the back of the bench

With this technology, you can not only transform your site, but also to create a favorable atmosphere for relaxing in nature. The plant decorates so beautifully decorating the design that many have the impression of absolute naturalness and irrelevant sculptures.

In this case, we will need a backdrop of a garden bench, from the back of which
In the immediate vicinity of the back, make a falling out of several bushes of the Chubuschnik.

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