The natural beauty of nature always attracts a person. It is not at all surprising that in the field of landscape design such a style as Art Nouveau has become widespread. Architectural buildings against the backdrop of open space, decorated with twisting lines of floral ornaments - in such a garden you can not only enjoy the bewitching beauty of the landscape, but also have a fruitful break from the bustle. The Art Nouveau garden, which is very popular among connoisseurs of beauty and grace since the 19th-20th centuries, is distinguished by the laconicism of elements and details in combination with the smallest set of plants.
Art Nouveau garden features
Art Nouveau landscape design combines home decoration in harmony with the surrounding area: plant compositions are used to decorate the building, while the facade lines of the building are repeated in the garden.
The interior of the premises, the appearance of the house and the style of the garden, complementing each other, create a holistic harmony
All space is connected by an ornamental rhythm and is subject to a single symbolic design.
Often when planning on a garden plot in the Art Nouveau style, designers adhere to a centric composition, the starting point of which is precisely the building structure. From the house, as from the sun, open spaces diverge in spiral or arc-shaped rays, unobtrusively separated by hedges, lined with stone paths and soft lawns.
In all landscape creations embodied in this style, there is a predominance of smooth bends, which “zoning” the space do not create cutting right angles and lines. The bends of the arc are also guessed in the elements of decor, the design of the pond and flower plantings.
Pleasant gaze visual landscapes are created using curved shores of the reservoir, the framing of lawns, winding paths
Repeatability of motives is another characteristic feature of this style. The selected element can be repeated many times and played out in a wide variety of variations: the curvature of the lines of the trunk of a climbing plant can be found in fancy patterns of forged railings.
A certain floral pattern can be embodied not only in the compositions of street beds, but also in the colorful mosaic of the interior
Another feature of the Art Nouveau garden is the contrast, which manifests itself in color combinations, the interaction of light and shadow. Successfully applied in creating the original design of the garden, the contrast of verticals and horizontal lines, as well as combinations of fluffy lawn with rough paving.
Art Nouveau motifs in the design of the garden
Since the minimum number of plants is used to decorate the garden, their choice should be approached with all reasonableness. Interestingly, the plants most often used to create the Art Nouveau garden are appreciated for the exotic tortuosity of the trunk, the original shape of the crown and inflorescences, as well as the "architecture".
Preference is given to samples that stand out against the background of others with an interesting crown and pattern of branches, as well as having a peculiar color of leaves.
In the design, you can use traditional species such as ash, oak, birch, maple, willow, planted singly or in small groups. When creating a garden made in this style, you can safely use non-traditional floral combinations. So against the background of a pine tree with fancy bends of the trunk and branches, dwarf forms of fruit trees look original.
Graceful birches, willows and mountain ash with an umbrella-shaped or weeping crown can be an unusual decoration of the landscape. Trees with such a crown shape will give a distant, thoughtful corner of the garden a mood of special peace and tranquility. The graceful iris is the king of garden flowers in the Art Nouveau garden.
Unusual and surprisingly beautiful flowers of iris can be of a wide variety of shades, ranging from snow-white and delicate peach to rich blue and even black
The bright and unusual color palette of the Art Nouveau garden allows you to create exquisite compositions that include both delicate fragrant flowers of pastel shades and bright plant specimens with lush flowering.
Variegated compositions of daffodils, phloxes, lavender, Chernobrivtsi, dwarf chrysanthemums, lilies and daylilies are well suited for creating mixborders that bizarrely envelope arbors, ponds and creeping along paths. Creepers used to frame architectural forms will create that smoothness of lines, a favorite of modernity.
