Winter garden with your own hands for one season: interior of the winter garden

Everyone knows who brought fashion to the palace in Russia,courtiers, and then aristocratic orchards (greenhouses), and when the first winter gardens appeared in the cold, marshy Petersburg: plantations of oranges, oranges, pineapples and other exotic flora. The king could be understood: outside the mud, then drifts, wind, frost, and here apricot trees and orchids blossom. Thank you for the idea.

In modern, well-equipped and ina measure of prosperous Russia to build their own small garden with their own hands on the balcony or in a private home can any uninhibited host. True, the size of the kindergarten can vary significantly depending on the housing and financial resources of the ascetics, but is it really the case. We will call the winter garden all the variants of compactly placed and expediently organized plants of various species growing in artificial conditions, whether it is a special extension to a country cottage or a flower garden on the loggia of a panel house.

Common problems when creating a winter garden with their own hands

This is the moment when you have not yet begun to break anything and rebuild, but simply soberly assess the ability of their households to follow the green plantations. In this regard, several questions.

• arrangement, purchase and planting of plants will sometime end, and who will provide daily care for them;


• Do you know in full the information about the conditions of natural growth of the types of bushes, flowers, trees chosen by you and the peculiarities of agrotechnical care for them?


• Have you considered the possible symbiosis and biological incompatibility of future tenants of your kindergarten;


• You are sure of the allergic and toxic safety of your potential pets.

The answers to these questions, although they do not seem directlyconnected with the most grandiose idea of ​​creating a winter garden, in fact determine its further appearance and content. It would be a shame to throw out tubs and pots with plants in two or three months, violate the interior of the blooming winter created in plans and redo the irrigation and lighting systems. Therefore, the choice of plants for the winter garden should occur at the stage of its design study and construction design.

Winter garden in a private house

This case can be called the most realistic. The cost of construction and finishing work is quite large, but the result is worth it. To accommodate a winter greenhouse, you can use one of the attic rooms, a glazed veranda or make a special extension to the house.

Main requirements: maintenance of a necessary temperature mode, humidity and illumination, are technically solved simply enough, and the financial side of a question is defined by taste and a purse of owners. Technological requirements are provided by a set of modern automated instruments: temperature sensors, heating and irrigation equipment, air humidifiers, ultraviolet lamps, etc.

Naturally, if you are going to grow inhis winter garden tropical or subtropical plants, it must be isolated from the rest of the living space by a dense partition. The microclimate of such a zone of relaxation, as a rule, is little reconciled with the comfortable conditions of everyday life of a Russian person. The construction of the pavilion for familiarization with nature is best assembled with light and air (aluminum, wooden frame assemblies), and it will be most reasonable to arrange it in the south-eastern sector of your house.

Winter garden in the apartment

The position is ambiguous, suggesting the presence ofFree space in the dwelling and passionate love of the owners for exotic plants. If there are well-insulated panoramic windows and reliable heating, special construction works do not require. The interior of such a recreation area can be chosen to your taste, but the preparation of conditions for poisonous oleander, intoxicating plumeria or malicious ficus completely lie on your shoulders.

Remember that the same humidifiers,additional heaters and lighting equipment will make the microclimate of the home greenhouse different from the rest of the rooms. One can not live in such a room, of course, but sometimes dream of warm islands and paradise pleasure - the very thing.

Winter garden on the balcony with your own hands

Variation of the apartment garden, only with largecosts and less losses for others. Most often designers of such interiors recommend to combine the loggia area with the adjoining room. Conveniently this is not always, but it allows the use of a common heating system. Of course, the balcony (loggia) needs to be insulated: not only glazed, but also to make the walls and conduct the wiring of the warm floor.

Interior solutions of such a natural corner inthe strength of its insignificant area can be the most unexpected (pergolas, artificial stone), and two wicker stools under loose lianas and coffee will undoubtedly brighten up the long January nights.

Author: Katerina Sergeenko