Landscaping ideas, how to beautifully decorate the area around the trees!

Landscaping ideas, how to beautifully decorate the area around the trees!

Gone are the days when the soil around the tree was covered with stones or bricks were laid along the border of the trunk circle. There are a lot of more interesting (and sometimes even useful) ideas on how to make a tree growing on the site more attractive and add decorativeness to it.
Flowerbed in the trunk circle
The easiest way to beat a tree growing on the site is to place a flower bed under it. However, this can only be done under an adult tree: it is better to mulch the trunk circle of a young seedling or sow, for example, with siderates. What flowers can be grown under a tree? First of all, these are bulbous: daffodils, tulips, crocuses, muscari, etc. In early spring, when they decorate the garden with their bright flowers, the trees are still without leaves or are just beginning to bloom and do not give a thick shadow. In addition to bulbous, shade-tolerant plants with a superficial root system feel great in the trunk circle: hosta, fern, periwinkle, ever-flowering begonia, etc.
Raised bed or flowerbed
A variant of a flowerbed in the trunk circle is a raised flowerbed or a bed located around a tree. Faced with brick or stone, it adds decorativeness to the tree and makes it more noticeable. If you add bright plants there, then such a group will become the highlight of your garden. Such constructions will be especially appropriate in areas with uneven terrain.
By the way, if there is not enough space on your site for a full-fledged vegetable garden, you can plant not only flowers, but also vegetables near the tree.
Terrace or wooden decking around a tree
If you decide to build a terrace or decking on the suburban area, do not rush to cut the trees growing in this place. They can be very interesting to beat.
In order not to harm the tree, when building a terrace, leave a hole larger than the current size of the trunk, because the tree continues to grow. Otherwise, the wooden flooring will not interfere with him in any way: through the gaps between the boards, water for irrigation and air will easily penetrate to the roots, besides, which is also very useful, the ground in the trunk circle will always remain loose, because no one will walk on it.
Chairs, tables are installed on the site, or pillows are simply laid out, turning the territory in the shade of a tree into a comfortable recreation area.
Recreation area under a tree
Lunch with the family at a round table hidden in the dense shade of a huge tree… Who doesn’t dream of such an idyll? And it is not difficult to build such a recreation area if a tree grows on the site. The easiest option is to simply put a set of garden furniture under it. However, the legs of the table in this case will constantly fall into the ground.
There is a more reliable option, although it requires more investment of money and labor, – the creation of a special hard-surfaced platform. It is covered with stone, brick, concrete tiles, paving stones, decking and other similar materials. This dining area will serve you for more than one year.
Trunk furniture
Quite an interesting design idea is the location around the trunk of a large tree of furniture. Most often, benches are made in this way. You can make a round bench, for example, from pallets, wooden beams and slats, or even from old chairs. If desired, you can create a whole dining group – benches along with a table.
Gabions around the trunk
It is not often that gabions are used in suburban areas – large structures made of metal mesh filled with stones. But in vain. It is not very difficult to make them (although time and effort, of course, will be required), and they look very impressive. Moreover, these can be not only free-standing stone structures, but also quite practical benches framing a tree. To make it comfortable to sit on such a bench, its upper part is covered with wooden slats or pillows for garden furniture.

This video is educational in nature! Author of the channel “100 Ideas!” demonstrates garden and backyard ideas and explains their merits.
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