How to make flower beds and flower beds with your own hands from scrap materials?

Not a single summer cottage is complete without a flower bed: flowers decorate the courtyard and delight the eye, a successful composition is the pride of the owners. If you add to the beauty of flowers a fancy design made of unconventional materials, you can create unique floristic masterpieces that have the exclusivity of your idea. To do this, you need to take a fresh look at some of the things that we usually throw in the landfill, or they gather dust in the barn for years. What can be used to create an original flower bed? Let's try to figure it out.

A flower bed is a kind of frame for a picture of natural splendor. Even modest wildflowers and cereals, decorated in the form of a flower bed, become a work of art. Vases and pots with plants, installed on the porch or suspended in pots, transform the entrance area and make it hospitable.

Many gardeners make their own flower beds in the garden. To make a flower bed beautiful, it must be properly decorated.

Garden flower beds are organized in several ways.

The most common shape of the flower bed is rectangular or round. Bright annual or perennial flowers are often planted here. Such a flower garden stands out against the background of a garden or courtyard with a bright floristic spot. The technique for creating such a flower bed is quite simple. A plot of the desired size or shape is dug up, the necessary fertilizers are introduced into it and flowers, zoned for this area, are planted.

A flower bed can be designed in the form of a long ribbon composition located along the path, being its natural border and background. The laborious process of replacing the soil will be inappropriate here. It is worth dwelling on the varieties and types of plants that are suitable for the existing soil. Such a flower garden is called discount.

Recently, an indispensable attribute of the suburban area of ​​steel rockeries... Natural or natural stone is laid out in a certain shape, soil is poured in between the stones and flowers or conifers are planted. This technique creates an artificial relief of rocky terrain (stones are the limiters of the flower bed). Rockery is easy to make even for a beginner.

Any ornamental plants that the owners of the dacha like are planted in rockeries.

Collectors of rare mountain plants often design their plantings in the form alpine slide... It differs from rockery by the approach of the composition of the soil and plant species to the natural alpine landscape. To create a rock garden, special rocks are purchased, the gaps are covered with fine gravel mixed with soil. Flowers or miniature conifers with a root system adapted to such soil are planted in these pockets.

The favorite type of flower garden in summer cottages is mixborder (a flower garden of different plants).Tall specimens are placed in the background, low ones in the foreground, so that each plant appears in all its glory. According to this principle, front gardens are arranged in traditional styles of site design. Mixborders decorate the entrance area and the adjoining territory.

Enthusiasts add color to flower beds using materials at hand, such as making a flower bed out of tires, an old suitcase, or outdated furniture. Mixborders, rockeries are decorated with such unusual flower beds or set as a separate accent in the garden. These compositions take up little space and can be used for vertical gardening. The climbing plants are supported by specially installed high stumps or picturesque driftwood. They are treated with antifungal drugs to increase their lifespan.

When starting to create a flower bed, you need to stock up on a site plan, because the flower garden will be located in this place for many years. It is necessary to take into account the illumination, irrigation methods, the presence of natural relief, the composition of the soil, the surrounding vegetation and structures. Plants are selected based on all of the listed factors. Plants are planted in one flower bed with the same requirements for illumination, soil acidity and irrigation regime.

Optionally, the choice is made in favor of annual or perennial plantings. Annuals bloom beautifully and vigorously, but require constant care for growing seedlings and annual spring planting. Perennial flowers, ornamental shrubs and conifers are a permanent structure of the flower garden, they keep the composition throughout the growing season.

Flowers need to be selected according to the flowering time, so that the flower bed looks decorative all season. At the same time, early flowering bulbous plants are laid, they are replaced by plants of summer flowering periods, then autumn chrysanthemums, dahlias, gladioli enter.

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The layout of a flower garden implies the distribution of the selected plants over the area of ​​the flower bed in a certain order. Tall views are placed in the background (the closer to the foreground, the lower the height). They mark the place of each plant on the plan, taking into account its growth: in the first years, empty spaces can be planted with annuals.

A single flower will not be able to create a sufficient amount of color spot in the composition. The effect of repetition is often applied (the same plants are planted in several places of the flower bed). When planning, the color of the foliage and inflorescences should be taken into account: they should be in harmony with each other on a limited area of ​​land. You can make a monochrome flower bed (for example, white, blue or pink, consisting of flowers of the same color).

The flower beds can be simple horizontal, on the ground, or vertical. Vertical decorative flower beds have become quite fashionable in recent years; they are used when space is limited, if you need to decorate a fence or a wall of a building.

You can make such flower beds with your own hands. This will take some time, but the result will be pleasing for many years. Designers suggest using all kinds of materials for decorating flower arrangements; most of these materials are available in many farms.

The flower bed can have a smooth transition to the natural turf covering of the site, or it can be limited by a border:

• A simple border is made of hemp, natural stone, pebbles. Step by step, this process consists of the following operations: a trench is dug along the contour of the flower garden, then a stone in the form of a wall is laid in this trench to the desired height. If necessary, the walls can be fastened with cement mortar.It is good if the material of the curb and the covering of the tracks are made in the same style. When finishing, take into account the color of the stones. Rockery looks harmoniously with natural stone paths.

• Another type of border is pebble or round stone trim. On the border of the flower bed, a formwork of the required height is installed in the trench, reinforced with reinforcement and poured with cement. After drying, the outer side is trimmed with pebbles, which are planted in a cement mortar. The inside is filled with earth, then the plants are planted.
• Recently, the device of gabions for the border of the flower bed has gained popularity... In this case, a pocket of the required height and width is constructed from a reinforcing lattice; pebbles are poured into this pocket, which is held by the lattice. The fenced part is covered with earth and planted with plants.

• It is enough just to make a pot of concrete. This will require two basins of different diameters, wrapped in cellophane (a cellophane layer is needed for better separation of forms). The pots are inserted into one another, cement mortar is poured between them, after drying, the pots are removed, decorating the concrete form as desired. The flowerpot is decorated with stone, mosaics, shells, sand, and painted with oil paints.

If the area is not abundant in stone, but there are forests around, it is better to use wood cuts. For the device of such a flower bed, remove wood from the middle of the stump, fill the cavity with soil mixture and plant the plants. Stumps are placed in groups or singly to decorate the garden. Perhaps, on the territory there is already a stump from a sawn tree, and hands do not reach to uproot it. It is worth hollowing out the middle of the stump and making a small flower bed in it.

An old log or log can be easily turned into a fantasy flower bed by scraping out the top. You will get a rectangular cavity suitable for flower cultivation. Stumps are also useful for creating tall decorative beds. In terms of aesthetics, such beds will replace a flower bed, at the same time they will become a source of beauty and benefit.

Various driftwood can become a material for arranging a flower garden: their service life is limited by the lifetime of the wood.

A wattle wicker made of thin branches or vines will be an excellent decorative decoration for a flower bed. The fascinating weaving of wattle fence for the curb can diversify the pastime in the winter, and in the spring it will only be necessary to strengthen the finished sides on the supports. The inside must be lined with foil or other durable material to avoid soil spilling into the cracks. A drainage layer (broken gravel, expanded clay or sand) is poured onto the bottom. The rest of the volume is filled with earth. Even vegetables are placed in such beds.

From planks of bright color, they make flower beds or beds fences. The shape and color can be any (those that you like and suit the composition). Inside, it is worth isolating the sides from moisture, fixing a film on them, pouring drainage and soil into the rest of the space. The shape of the flower bed can become a source of inspiration and an exclusive decoration of the site.

Wood is a versatile material. All its parts are used. Do not forget about the speed of wood decay. To lengthen the service life of wood products, the structure must be impregnated with antiseptics and coated with oil compounds (paint, oil, wax).

Professional topiary art presented a lot of ideas to flower growers for arranging flower beds. These include vertical beds and flower beds on a metal frame.

To perform such a miracle, you need to install a post made of a metal mesh frame, cover it from the inside with black non-woven material or black dense film, then fill it with soil, and install a pipe with irrigation holes in the center. Outside, cuts are made and plants are planted. Over time, foliage and flowers close together and form a vertical flowering column. This method is one of the most difficult to perform and maintain: flowers are difficult to replace and water.

In most cases, after repairing a home, a bunch of linoleum scraps, remnants of slate, bricks, pipe trimmings, pallets from building materials, packing boxes remain. All this can be taken to a landfill, but it is better to use it as an improvised material for the construction of flower beds.

Brick paths are beautifully combined with flower beds, framed by borders of the same brick. Such curbs are laid out in trenches along the contour of the flower bed: the foundation is poured into the formwork and several rows of bricks are laid on the mortar. From this material, you can make a multi-level bed: the play of the relief will add decorativeness to the composition.

A round flower bed around a garden tree will make watering and fertilizing convenient, it will add an aesthetic decorative effect to garden plantings. Flowers and garden strawberries can be grown in near-stem flower beds: they are decorative and have delicious berries.

The border of the flower bed is made from plastic and glass bottles. You can argue about the artistic value of this material, but with proper execution, interesting compositions are obtained.

Ceramic trimmings should be used to decorate the surfaces of the paths and sides of the flower bed. The base can be made of concrete and decorated with a mosaic of shards. Crockery shards can also be used. If desired, the pieces of the mosaic are painted in various bright colors with paint for outdoor use and pasted over with them on the outside of the rabatka.

Metal objects are used as a container for planting flowers (for example, discs of old wheels).

A flower bed design made of old tires is as popular as a brick finish. This material has become traditional: it is affordable and relatively easy to process. The tire is filled with soil and plants are planted, the rubber surface itself is painted in a bright color or painted with patterns. Such flower beds can be placed in different corners of the site or grouped into a beautiful composition.

You can make a swan or a donkey from tire scraps, build a real art group in the garden. A more complex device near the flower beds of car tires with a curly edge.

An unsightly structure or a monotonous fence is decorated with vertical flower beds made of wooden boxes in which pots of flowers are placed. Before that, the bottom and sides of the desired height are laid out from the scraps of linoleum. Then drainage and soil are poured, the plants you like are placed. This type of decor looks colorful during the flowering period.

Suspended beds and flower beds made of cuttings from pipes or gutters have gained popularity. To do this, the pipe is cut lengthwise into two halves. Each half is independently fixed on the wall or a suspended structure is created on cables from several parallel gutters. Flowers or vegetables are planted in these peculiar pots.

Vertical flower beds anywhere on the site can be arranged from building pallets. Original flower beds will be a bright decoration of the site. However, such flower beds require regular watering and timely replacement of faded specimens to preserve their decorative effect. In winter, these plants need to be transferred to heated rooms or limited to growing annuals.

The old plumbing remains after the renovation. She can also be given a second life in the garden. For example, an old bathtub can be painted on the outside with waterproof paint. A drainage layer must be placed on the bottom.The rest of the container is filled with potting soil.

The composition of climbing plants and lianas looks incredibly beautiful. Broken pots and old basins should be decorated, filled with earth and planted with a flower arrangement. Human imagination is limitless: amazing household items are used in garden design.

The plumbing set, covered in gold paint and decorated with thujas, becomes a piece of art (a little ironic, but original). It is worth beautifully and with humor to paint old rusty barrels and plant flowers or vegetables in them so that they please the eye and cheer up.

Old furniture has become no less popular for arranging flower beds. For a successful composition, it is worth spying on ideas from professional designers by correctly copying them on your site. Otherwise, you can get a warehouse of old furniture in different parts of the garden.

The technologists for converting the old sideboard into a flower garden are as follows:

• we paint the old cabinet in a bright color;
• we use drawers as mini-flower beds;
• we install this buffet-flower bed in a suitable place in the garden or yard.

Landscape designers offer to decorate an entire room in the open air, decorating old objects in a certain style.

For example, the bed frame is exposed to the garden and painted in the desired color. Instead of a mattress, a bed box is mounted. Then the container is filled with soil and the place of the couch is planted with flowers. It turns out a fabulous picture. It is worth adding a chair or an old wooden chair to the decor of the room, where instead of a seat, a container with earth is installed and flowers are planted.

Old shoes in such an open-air room will acquire a second life. Boots, boots, shoes should be painted with waterproof paint, put in a cellophane bag filled with earth, plant different flowers: the shoe shelf of flowers is ready. If it rains, an umbrella will come to the rescue.

A flowerbed in an umbrella is easy to arrange using a layer of cellophane and flowers with a shallow root system. If you have an old suitcase, you can use it too. Of course, such flower beds are short-lived, but for some time they will be bright accents of the site.

Bright inflorescences of plants by themselves are the best decoration of the flower bed, but in some cases it is worthwhile to arrange the very frame of the flower garden.

This should be done in such a way as not to violate the aesthetics of the finishing material:

• It is best to leave the wood cuts in their natural color or soak them with a colored stain, so that the beautiful fibrous structure of the wood will remain in sight.
• Boards, pallets and boxes can be treated with natural wood stain or painted in a specific color. The smooth surface of the treated wood looks good in both variants.

• Old bathtubs, concrete frames of flower beds should be decorated with pebbles, colored mosaics made of broken dishes and ceramic tiles, or painted with oil paints.
• Plastic and rubber paint well, but flexible material does not hold the paint layer well (such surfaces need to be tinted frequently or the design must be completely renewed).
• The stone is usually left in a natural color; in rare cases, painting of individual elements is required to complete the idea.

The garden lives its own life, grows and changes. For such conditions, the use of concrete flowerpots, car tires, wooden boxes is suitable. Flowerpots can be installed in different places every year, drawing attention to one part of the garden, then to another. For decoration, natural materials and artistically processed are suitable.

Unusual flower beds on the site are often created from quite ordinary things:

• a hanging flower garden made of old teapots adorns the descent of the garden staircase;
• the original design of the old boat creates a wonderful flower garden near the house;
• a bicycle with flowering plants in pots, painted in bright colors and installed in the courtyard of the country house, will create a unique atmosphere of a provincial street;

• a stream of flowers under a tree comes to life with the help of an old clay pot;
• if the personal plot of a private house is decorated in country style, by collecting several items of peasant life and picturesquely arranging it with barberry and conifers, you can create a suitable stylish composition.

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