Daisies for Landscape Design
The origins of the major garden styles go in deep antiquity. Currently, the most common are English, French and Japanese styles. Recently, “Russian garden” is particularly popular. Since exotic shrubs and trees require certain climatic conditions, and endure badly our cold winters, it is better to break the garden, in which plants, natural for our latitude, will increase. Practically, daisy, which is so familiar to us, makes harmony in every style. There are about 300 species of daisies, and new ornamental varieties are widely used in modern landscape design.
English style of landscape design requires maximum unity with nature, the lack of clear boundaries between itself and the surrounding garden area. Landscape design, executed in the English style, is characterized by the predominance of a certain romanticism and sentimentality in the design. Winding paths, natural reservoirs, large boulders are highlighted by flowerbeds. Especially flowerbeds of daisies look harmonious. You can fill with them the space between hedges or fill out separate “islands” nooks in the garden. Daisy looks especially beautiful with red poppies and blue cornflowers. Planting medicinal chamomile, you, besides the aesthetic pleasure, can use it for medicinal purposes.
French style involves strict symmetry and predominance of close-cropped lawn of flowering plants. However, if you want to bring in a style a little romanticism, you may design the nooks with benches, small fountains and beds of flowering plants.
Moreover, you can split a small so-called “monastic” garden. In addition to the spiritual and the aesthetic, this garden has a purely practical value. On a small plot you can grow vegetables and herbs for food and medicinal herbs. Hedges of evergreen plants, small fountains and lawns of chamomile, medicinal and aromatic herbs are considered to be typical for such gardens.
