Terrace with plants - a corner of nature in a bustling metropolis

Many city dwellers are often unable to travel outside the city to spend time with family and friends in the great outdoors. But, how do you want to, at least occasionally instead of the gray walls of neighboring houses, passing cars and city residents hurrying about their business, see a small green corner, breathe clean air, feel freshness, smell of herbs and flowers. And to do this, not tens of kilometers from the city, but leaving your own apartment. If you have already thought about implementing such a project, then our selection of photos with images of landscape design and decoration of terraces located in the metropolis may be useful to you. This short photo tour is an example of how you can create a real oasis of freshness, silence and purity in the middle of the stone jungle of a bustling city on a few square meters.

What could be better than having the opportunity to drink morning coffee or hot tea, sitting outdoors in the shade of plants on your own terrace, breathing in the smells of herbs and flowers, enjoying peace and freshness?

Most often, for the arrangement of the terrace, wooden floorings are used, lined with a slatted board, impregnated with special antiseptics that protect the material from moisture and other weather manifestations. To create a more harmonious atmosphere close to nature, you can also veneer part of the wall adjacent to the terrace. Plants in large tubs or mobile bulk beds are the best option for landscaping small terraces and open balconies. If your tubs and garden pots with plants will be mobile, then for a Russian climate with a sufficiently long period of cold weather this will be an ideal opportunity to shelter greenery in the premises of your apartment.

Garden furniture for organizing a place to relax is better to choose a strong, but light, because you will most likely have to bring it for a period of cold weather. Bright coloring of outdoor furniture items will not only bring color diversity to your terrace arrangement, but also create a positive atmosphere, will lighten your mood in the morning and energize you for the whole day.

Not so long ago, a green wall of plants began to be popular in our country, sometimes it is called a phytowall. A similar design element is used both for landscape decoration and for interior decoration. For many homeowners, the living green wall has become a real revolution in the field of eco-design and landscape gardening. In addition to the fact that you significantly save the useful space of your terrace, bring an element of originality and originality to the landscaping of your personal corner of nature within the dusty city, you also purify the air, filling it with freshness in the recreation area of ​​an open balcony or veranda.

The living green wall allows you to take a fresh look at the placement of plants on the terrace in particular and the method of landscaping a particular site as a whole. Styles and tastes, ideas and approaches are changing, so why not reconsider the traditional methods of gardening and not allow yourself a new opportunity to breathe freshness into the green corner of your terrace?

Fitostena can be purchased as a finished product - from the standard offers of companies involved in floristry and landscape design or choose the plants that you would like to see on a living wall, on your own. But you will need a specialist consultation in any case, not all plants are adapted for such vertical placement, not to mention the fact that they need a special frame with soil.

For terraces located on the ground floor, there are much more opportunities for organizing not just a place to relax, but a whole imitation of the landscape design of the local area.For example, you can simulate garden paths made of stone or concrete slabs with small-leaved plants or lawn grass in between sections.

Plants on the ground floor terrace, planted near the fence, serve not only as a decoration for a place to relax, but also as a hedge that separates you from the surrounding bustle of the big city. From the side adjacent to the terrace wall, you can plant perennial perennial plants that will stretch along specially equipped hooks or a grid mounted on a vertical surface.

As the basis of the flooring, you can use not only a traditional wooden platform, but also imitate parquet masonry using wooden floor racks arranged in a checkerboard pattern, diagonally or “herringbone”.

As you know, the green color has a very favorable effect on the receptors of our eyes - thoughts calm down our running, emotions acquire a more stable position, the body relaxes and attunes to rest. Therefore, the abundance of green plants near your home is not only an opportunity to create a beautiful corner for relaxing in the fresh air, but also a message to the physical and emotional healing of the body.

Against the background of the wooden finish of the building’s facade, the green hedge of the terrace and plants in tubs and pots look especially impressive, creating a real living corner of nature in the middle of a dusty metropolis, an oasis of greenery and its own place of relaxation.