Easy ways to create a peaceful outdoor escape in the city - Your garden should be your own private place for solitude, a quiet space dedicated to give you a respite from the bustle of the urban life. Noise affects the way a restful garden feels, and unwanted traffic noise or mechanical systems can put a damper on your outdoor serenity. However, you can change the noise level in your garden with a few simple design changes. Now is the perfect time to plan how you can implement these ideas ready for spring.
Jarret Interior Design
Pinpoint the source of the noise
identify, as precisely as possible where the noise comes from and how it is reaching your garden or patio. Whether the sound you are trying to block is ambient, such as the adjacent traffic, or a single source, such as the air conditioner of a neighbor, the tips here can help you create quiet in the garden.
The designer of this small urban garden used a lot of sound reduction ideas for creating a private oasis. The dense vertical planting, location of the seating area and floor soundproofing materials all help to block out the noise.
identify, as precisely as possible where the noise comes from and how it is reaching your garden or patio. Whether the sound you are trying to block is ambient, such as the adjacent traffic, or a single source, such as the air conditioner of a neighbor, the tips here can help you create quiet in the garden.
The designer of this small urban garden used a lot of sound reduction ideas for creating a private oasis. The dense vertical planting, location of the seating area and floor soundproofing materials all help to block out the noise.
Plant vertical layers
Think of all the vertical space and scope for blocking noise to disturb you in your garden. Plant different tree species and evergreen in vertical layers: vertical trees and grasses as the uppermost layer, shrubs and sprawling plants that the intermediate layer, and shorter perennials and ground covers like the lower layer . Living walls and hanging gardens can help you achieve vertical stratification with limited space.
This courtyard features vertical planting and plants in layers, with green walls and a variety of plants at different heights.
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Think of all the vertical space and scope for blocking noise to disturb you in your garden. Plant different tree species and evergreen in vertical layers: vertical trees and grasses as the uppermost layer, shrubs and sprawling plants that the intermediate layer, and shorter perennials and ground covers like the lower layer . Living walls and hanging gardens can help you achieve vertical stratification with limited space.
This courtyard features vertical planting and plants in layers, with green walls and a variety of plants at different heights.
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Red Squirrel Architects
Fill the containers with many vegetation types
If you are limited to planting in containers, use all the space available in your pots, planting each fully.
A large container, like the one shown just beyond the door in the photo here, may have a small tree, low grasses and trailing vines planted in it all. Combine plants to reach as vertical stratification you can to reduce noise.
If you are limited to planting in containers, use all the space available in your pots, planting each fully.
A large container, like the one shown just beyond the door in the photo here, may have a small tree, low grasses and trailing vines planted in it all. Combine plants to reach as vertical stratification you can to reduce noise.
Chicago Specialty Gardens, Inc.
Plump for columnar trees
You can plant a hedge in the narrow garden spaces with straight, columnar trees. Some large trees and lean popular offering quick vertical vegetation include columnar varieties of red maple ( Acer rubrum 'Columnare), sweetgum ( Liquidambar styraciflua ' Slender Silhouette ') and European charm ( Carpinus betulus 'Columnaris'). columnar plants amounted to grow vertically, and they can be kept as thin covers with a regular size.
Here, columnar hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata') is planted in a container garden on a roof. columnar hornbeam can spread wide if unpruned, but responds well to the size hard to keep as a hedge.
You can plant a hedge in the narrow garden spaces with straight, columnar trees. Some large trees and lean popular offering quick vertical vegetation include columnar varieties of red maple ( Acer rubrum 'Columnare), sweetgum ( Liquidambar styraciflua ' Slender Silhouette ') and European charm ( Carpinus betulus 'Columnaris'). columnar plants amounted to grow vertically, and they can be kept as thin covers with a regular size.
Here, columnar hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata') is planted in a container garden on a roof. columnar hornbeam can spread wide if unpruned, but responds well to the size hard to keep as a hedge.
The Patio
dense plant
Think about how you can create a bubble of the vegetation surrounding your space to block sound. Dense vegetation planted as a sound barrier around your garden will filter some of the noise.
Trees in sizes 23 or 45 liters can be planted 10ft apart to dampen sound and imitate a wooded area. They will grow straighter, instead of branching off, as they compete for light. Plant the perimeter of your property with thick trees, but leave an open space in the middle to allow the sunlight. The small multi-stem trees are good candidates for this type of planting in small spaces: consider birch, serviceberry ( Amelanchier ( Betula spp.) spp.) and hollies such as holly possumhaw ( Ilex decidua ) or yaupon holly ( Ilex vomitoria ).
This garden is wooded with birch ( Betula papyrifera ) planted densely with other layers of vegetation.
Get advice creating a lush jungle paradise style
Think about how you can create a bubble of the vegetation surrounding your space to block sound. Dense vegetation planted as a sound barrier around your garden will filter some of the noise.
Trees in sizes 23 or 45 liters can be planted 10ft apart to dampen sound and imitate a wooded area. They will grow straighter, instead of branching off, as they compete for light. Plant the perimeter of your property with thick trees, but leave an open space in the middle to allow the sunlight. The small multi-stem trees are good candidates for this type of planting in small spaces: consider birch, serviceberry ( Amelanchier ( Betula spp.) spp.) and hollies such as holly possumhaw ( Ilex decidua ) or yaupon holly ( Ilex vomitoria ).
This garden is wooded with birch ( Betula papyrifera ) planted densely with other layers of vegetation.
Get advice creating a lush jungle paradise style
Matthew Cunningham Landscape design LLC
Bring new sounds pleasant to your garden
One way to cover the unpleasant noise is actively create pleasant sounds . Water is a simple way to do this. You should not use a lot of water to create sound, and there are many products that are suitable for small spaces. Water can create many different sound effects, including bubble, fizz, pouring, flowing, dipping and spraying.
music works, too. Sometimes just having a radio outside, turned down so that you are a good neighbor can help cover the noise.
One way to cover the unpleasant noise is actively create pleasant sounds . Water is a simple way to do this. You should not use a lot of water to create sound, and there are many products that are suitable for small spaces. Water can create many different sound effects, including bubble, fizz, pouring, flowing, dipping and spraying.
music works, too. Sometimes just having a radio outside, turned down so that you are a good neighbor can help cover the noise.
Boekel Tuinen
Create a dedicated quiet space
If all surrounding your yard or garden with dense urban plants is not possible, a place entirely in your landscape surrounding and enclosing the whole field.
The pergola covered seating area in the Dutch urban garden creates a quiet section in one corner of outer space.
If all surrounding your yard or garden with dense urban plants is not possible, a place entirely in your landscape surrounding and enclosing the whole field.
The pergola covered seating area in the Dutch urban garden creates a quiet section in one corner of outer space.
Dean Herald-Rolling Stone Landscapes
Use absorbing materials
Every surface in your outdoor space, especially if it is small, will either amplify or absorb sound. Consider each area and how this area can be modified to absorb sound rather than reflect. Your outdoor furniture, for example, should have a soft surface, such as, cushions and textiles outdoor rated weatherproof.
The soil is a great amplifier sound in smaller urban outdoor spaces, especially when it is made of concrete, metal or stone paving. Integrate all areas to cover the ground as possible, be planted in the ground or in large containers to create a textured surface of plants that absorbs sound.
This garden has a mixture terraces and ground cover that breaks the ground plane with absorbing textures.
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Do you have any tips for creating a peaceful urban oasis? Share them in the comments below.
Every surface in your outdoor space, especially if it is small, will either amplify or absorb sound. Consider each area and how this area can be modified to absorb sound rather than reflect. Your outdoor furniture, for example, should have a soft surface, such as, cushions and textiles outdoor rated weatherproof.
The soil is a great amplifier sound in smaller urban outdoor spaces, especially when it is made of concrete, metal or stone paving. Integrate all areas to cover the ground as possible, be planted in the ground or in large containers to create a textured surface of plants that absorbs sound.
This garden has a mixture terraces and ground cover that breaks the ground plane with absorbing textures.
Tell us ...
Do you have any tips for creating a peaceful urban oasis? Share them in the comments below.