We make fences for flower beds ourselves

Stone fence

The height, appearance and material of fencing are determined by their function. If this is a decorative fence, it can be no higher than 5–7 cm, it can be made from whatever the owner desires. The border around the beds or lawns can be made 10-15 cm high. Stone fences for flower beds can solve purely decorative tasks, for example, it is easy to lay out beautiful stones around the perimeter of a flower bed with your own hands to simply indicate its boundaries. You can stack flat stones around the beds or beds on top of each other, they will only hold due to gravity.

If they want to organize a permanent flower garden, which will always be in one place, then it is worth digging a groove, making a foundation of cement, and installing a stone wall of the required height on it. In this case, the first row of stones should be slightly immersed in cement, then the next level of large stones should be laid out on top, small stones should be inserted between them, closing all the cracks, and all this should be fastened with cement. Such a solid border is built for raised flower beds, consisting of one or more levels.

They often build a fence made of bricks or paving slabs with their own hands. The bricks are simply stacked on top of each other in a checkerboard pattern, without fastening anything - this way you can achieve any degree of curvature, bending around the flower garden around the perimeter. For a more serious fencing, masonry is made, fastening the brick with mortar. Such a fence can be planted on a foundation, then it will restrain the spread of weeds. Some summer residents recall the experience of their grandmothers, marking the border of the flower garden with half-buried bricks. A shallow ditch is dug along the border, a brick is placed at an angle, the same brick is attached to it and this tape of brick is held by the ground trampled on the sides.

Paving slabs are convenient for decorative work with their small size. It is easy to make a solid wall of any shape, size, color from it. It is easy to work with it, it is suitable for decorating even the smallest flower beds.

Garden fences made of stone are the most expensive, but their beauty, strength, durability are worth the money, effort and time spent. In addition, other materials go well with the stone.

Video "A selection of options for flower beds"

Video selection of several options for fences for flower beds.

Made of wood

Wooden fences for flower beds, lawns and beds are most common. This is understandable: wood is a natural material that looks organic in the garden, does not heat up, does not injure plants, does not require special skills or abilities to work. If you make a fence with your own hands, then not only new wood will be used, but even any waste, of which there is always a lot in the country. The forms of such barriers are varied:

• any flat sticks become a type-setting picket fence;
• buried pegs turn into a curb;

• fences are made from laid logs;
• wicker hedges are created from the branches;
• transversely sawn logs are dug in vertically or laid out in flat paths.

The only drawback of wooden products is fragility. Air, water and sun are slowly destroying them with constant exposure. But there are special tools, the treatment with which lengthens their service life.

If you pick up logs of the same size, you can shield the flowerbed with them, just digging around the perimeter. The logs are cleaned of bark, treated with an antiseptic, a ditch with a depth of 20 cm is dug along the flower bed, wooden blanks are firmly set on the bottom, covered with earth, tamped. The logs are buried to a depth of 20 cm, which means that their size is the height of the fence + 20 cm. If the part that is buried in the ground is wrapped with roofing material, it will last longer. With such precautions - roofing material + antiseptic - this fence will stand for at least 10 years.

Made of metal

Metal fences for flower beds are the most durable, but also the most expensive when it comes to forged or cast gratings, created to order. Even fences welded from metal rods can be very beautiful, they can simultaneously (or specially) support climbing plants. If wood and stone look organically on their own in garden plots, then metal products should still fit into the overall design, and only a metal master can create them with their own hands.

Some people use finished metal products in the country. For example, pipes of different diameters are dug in along the perimeter of flower beds or beds, filled with earth, ampelous or climbing plants are planted in them, hanging down with whips. This is how very beautiful compositions are obtained, which are at the same time a hand-made fence.

Plastic

Stores offer a huge variety of plastic fences for flower beds, garden beds or lawns. They, as a rule, consist of separate modules that are easily assembled and fixed in the ground, they are very easy to transport and install with your own hands. Plastic is indifferent to the effects of water, wind and sun, it is durable and undemanding. In addition, it can easily imitate a tree or stone, fences from it can be selected for every taste, used anywhere in the garden, and, if necessary, simply removed from the ground and moved to another place.

In addition to all kinds of sectional fences equipped with special pegs (which hold them in the ground), a curb tape is sold. It is flexible, sold in rolls, it can be used to fence flower beds or beds of any shape. The tape can be smooth or textured, it can imitate brickwork or tree bark. A groove is pulled out along the perimeter of the flower bed, the edge of the curb is lowered into it, buried in, tamped. Its width is different, it can be buried at different depths depending on the purpose: for a purely decorative purpose - a few centimeters so that it only holds, and to protect the roots or control weeds - deeper. All this is very easy to do with your own hands.

Cellular polycarbonate or profiled plastic sheets are also used as fences. Only they will have to be glued together with construction glue or sealant. Plastic fences can be deformed due to mechanical influences: they can be knocked down by children, dogs, and strong showers can wash them away. But they are not damaged in this case, so it is easy to restore the barrier.

Materials at hand

Very often, fences for flower beds or beds in summer cottages with your own hands can simply be made from scrap materials. What is a pity to throw away is always brought to the dacha: old furniture, things, dishes. In addition, the remnants of the last renovation materials are certainly stored somewhere in the barn. All this can decorate a summer cottage, make it original and unique.

You will get cute fences if you stick old vinyl records or plates left over from different sets into the ground around the perimeters of the beds. A grateful material for decorating summer cottages is old car tires. They make both the simplest flower beds and complex multi-tiered structures. If you simply bury the tires in an upright position around the beds, you will get a simple but reliable fence. Having cut out the middle, soil is poured into the remaining rubber ring and flowers or vegetables are planted. Cutting on the pattern and turning the tires inside out, they create vases with or without a leg, swans or outlandish birds, on the backs of which flowers grow. Whole compositions are made from tires, representing different animals or tea-drinking utensils in which vegetation lives.

And if you cut out the outer side with the protector, you get a wonderful flexible curb tape, the sections of which will need to be connected with rubber glue. The tires are useful for fencing young trees or bushes growing in the middle of the lawn. Such a fence can protect the plant from a lawn mower or a child's bike.

The simplest fence that you can create with your own hands is made from bottles. For this, plastic or glass bottles are suitable. They just need to be buried around the perimeter of the flower bed with the necks down. For stability and shape retention, plastic bottles are filled with bulk materials - earth, sand or small stones. If you cut off the necks of plastic bottles and insert them one into the other, you get a kind of long snake that wraps around the garden bed. Just for stability, it will also need to be filled with sand and slightly dug in.

Plastic bottles are easy to cut, and it is convenient to make a fence from their parts, like plastic modules, sticking into the ground. To do this, take bottles of the same size, cut off the bottom, cut out and slightly bend the edges in the form of petals, and stick their necks into the ground. It turns out a fence of plastic flowers.

Raised flower beds are made from whole bottles, often glass. They are laid along the perimeter of the flower bed, fastened together with cement mortar in several rows. Vases with wide (bottle length) walls are obtained. In this way, they arrange high multi-tiered flower beds, the main thing is to collect more bottles.

Video "Ways to fence a flower bed"

Demonstration video with recommendations for self-creation of fences.