Original and beautiful design of flower beds with improvised means

Decoration from natural materials

The most popular materials for creating flower beds are stone and wood. Decorating flower beds with stone has many advantages: such flower beds are durable, do not require maintenance, they look natural, effective and stylish. In addition, the variety of options for using stone as a decor is simply amazing - every designer is now trying to use this material to create an original landscape.

Decorating flower beds with wild stone requires some investment, but this is the most win-win option - even the simplest flowers look great in such a frame. The following stones are most often used in decorating flower beds:

• sandstone - a soft rock, easily amenable to processing, has a varied palette of warm colors and shades;

• limestone is a durable and durable stone with a porous structure, easy to work with, the color palette is white and pastel colors;

• tuff - a porous rock, is one of the most valuable finishing materials due to its high decorative properties and an extensive color palette - white, all kinds of shades of gray, brick, burgundy;

• basalt is a dense rock of predominantly dark shades; in landscape design it is used for making sculptures, decorating ponds, paths and flower beds;

• dolomite is a very dense mineral rock, the stones have an original irregular shape, due to which they are widely used in the decoration of various landscape objects;

• slate is a layered rock, the original flat shape and a varied color palette allows the stone to be widely used for decorating different flower beds.

The easiest way to frame a flower bed with your own hands using a stone is to mark the boundaries of the flower garden with large natural stones. Small pebbles or stone chips can be used to fill the gaps between flowers, painted small stones will serve not only as a mulching material, but also as an original decoration of a garden or territory in the country. With the help of slate, you can equip unusual multi-tiered flower beds with your own hands. The layered structure of the material allows you to create cascading structures that imitate natural rocks. Ampel and weaving flowers in such flower beds look just magical. It is good to equip alpine slides, rockeries from large stones.

Wood is an equally popular finishing material. For the device of a flower garden, you can use any remnants of wood: dry logs, branches, stumps, boards, pegs, sawdust. The use of these materials is possible in the following ways:

• in a large log or stump, you can cut a depression into which you can fill in the soil and plant flowering plants;

• you can weave a wattle fence from a vine or ordinary thin branches - a very stylish decorative fence for fencing a flower bed;

• small planks, pegs and logs can become an original frame for a flower garden;

• Colored sawdust and chips are poured into the aisles and between plants - sawdust is not only a decorative element, but also a good mulching agent.

Video "Beautiful and unusual ideas for creating and decorating a flower bed"

Demonstration video with useful recommendations for creating and decorating a flower garden.

The use of improvised means

You can also equip flower beds in the country with your own hands with the help of improvised materials and tools. The following items are suitable as a fence for a flower garden:

• plastic and glass bottles (plastic containers are preferable, since they are easy to cut, paint, bend) - bottles can be used as borders for flower beds, as well as a container for planting plants;

• car tires - halves of brightly painted tires will serve as an original fence for flower beds, and a whole tire will serve as a full-fledged flower bed;

• old vinyl records or unnecessary discs - some summer residents used these improvised means to frame their flower beds - objects half sunk into the ground turned out to be an original border for a flower bed;

• cracked dishes - knocked or cracked plates can be used as a flower fence by analogy with plates;

• umbrellas - it is easy to create a real design masterpiece from an old umbrella with your own hands, if you lay it on the lawn with the inside, pour soil, plant flowers, and paint the umbrella itself in bright colors - it seems that in an accidentally lost umbrella, over time, it sprouted from the ground and blossomed a real garden;

• troughs, baskets, suitcases, bags, basins, buckets, watering cans, cups - from these improvised means, you can organize full-fledged miniature flower beds or whole flower arrangements in the country with your own hands.

Other design options

In principle, almost everything that can be found on the farm is suitable for creating a flower bed in the country. If desired, the most common household item can be turned into original flower beds with your own hands, which will become a real decoration of the area near the house.

Some inventive summer residents manage to transform the most unexpected things and objects into flower oases:

• faulty household appliances - now you can often find flower beds in the country house, equipped in an oven or on the surface of an old gas stove, TV, or a speaker from a music center;

• plumbing: old bathtubs, toilets, sinks, cisterns - from such improvised means you can build not only colorful flower beds, but also small reservoirs (metal baths are used for a reservoir);

• old furniture: wardrobes, dressers, beds, chairs, benches - you can also create original flower beds from these improvised items by pouring soil, for example, into the drawers of a dresser or cabinet, and planting plants there;

• old vehicles: cars, bicycles, carts, boats - decorating flower beds with such improvised means can be considered the most original solution of all those created with your own hands - a floating boat with flowers, a car of flowers, or a truck carrying a flower garden look not just original, but magically.

To create a vertical flower bed, you can use the following improvised items: metal frames, parts of fittings, remaining pieces of mesh-riffle, backs from metal beds - these items dug into the ground will serve as an excellent support for climbing and ampelous plants.

Useful Tips

Making flower beds with improvised means is not only an exciting process, but also very responsible, since when creating flower beds with your own hands, you need to take into account many points:

• for normal plant growth, air must circulate in the soil, therefore, for arranging a flower garden, choose containers made of breathable materials and give preference to natural finishing methods;

• at the bottom of any container that is not intended for growing flowers, it is necessary to lay a layer of drainage - otherwise the moisture will stagnate, and the plants will hurt and rot;

• when creating flower beds with your own hands, you need to pay attention to the location of plants and colors - chaotically planted multi-colored flower beds do not look aesthetically pleasing and illogical;

• it is better to bring small containers into the room for the winter period - this way they will retain their appearance longer;

• metal containers for flower beds must be pre-treated with special anti-corrosion agents, wood - with antiseptics;

The design of beautiful flower beds with improvised means implies an original and high-quality finish of the source material. Take the time to wash, clean and polish well the containers intended for future flower beds.

Video "Selection of original ideas"

Video selection of original ideas using scrap materials.