Flowerbeds and flower beds with their own hands

Bright spots of flower beds and flower beds on the site are not only a way to decorate the site. They perfectly distract attention from some problem areas. By the way, this can also be guided when choosing a place. We will talk further about how to make flower beds and flower beds with your own hands in the country, in the courtyard of a private house. This is not an easy task, of course, but it does not require knowledge of higher mathematics.

What are

First of all, let's find out what is the difference between flower beds and flower beds. The flowerbed has clear boundaries and shape: circle, oval, square. Most often, it is separated from the rest of the site and raised above it. We most often observe this type of landscape design in parks and on the streets.

This is a flower bed. It has a clear, strictly defined shape and geometrically correctly arranged plants.

A flower garden is any place for planting plants of an arbitrary shape. It happens with a fence, and sometimes without. Flower boxes hanging on a fence or a wall are a flower garden, plants planted in old galoshes are also a flower spot on a lawn and a ribbon along the path are all flower beds.

The terms have been sorted out a bit. Now about what they are. They are distinguished primarily by the time of flowering:

According to the type of planted plants, there are annuals, perennials, and there are mixed ones. In some, only one type of plant is planted. They are called monoflowers or monoflowers.

They are raised, they are also called high, they are multi-tiered. Their device consists of several stages: first of all, a fence is built, then the earth is poured into the finished form and plants are planted.

With theory, let's move on to practice. We start with where you can make flower beds and flower beds with your own hands.

Where to do

When the yard is spacious it's just fine. Find the most viewed place and set up a flower garden there. What to do if the whole territory has already been developed, but you want to plant flowers? You can always find a place. For example, near your house, the area is concreted or lined with slabs, stone, etc. At the wall of the house, you can make an excellent raised or even multi-tiered flower bed with your own hands. And no need to break the cover. A fence made of brick or stone is built right on it. It is advisable to put them on the solution, and then cover them from the inside with waterproofing impregnation (bituminous mastic) so that when watering, water does not flow onto the track. Then you can fill the soil and plant flowers.

Break flower beds along the fences. This is a common way to decorate, for example, a long driveway to the house. But this can also be done in different ways. Here, as well as near, a high flower bed looks better.

High flower bed from boards. The construction will be inexpensive, and the view is solid

You can break a flower bed in front of the gate. Street beds must be durable. Therefore, stone fences are usually used for their execution: just in case. If desired, you can make longline flower beds. They are more difficult to build, but much more attractive than flat ones.

Street multi-tiered (multi-level) flowerbed of complex shape

Even if the yard is surrounded by walls on all sides, you can still find a place for flowers: Hang on the walls, in pots or in the form of a flowering wall, put a rack, etc. Flower beds in the courtyard of a private house with your own hands can be made from everything and everywhere. It is only important not to make a mistake with the style: it must match the design of all buildings. Some ideas in the photo gallery.

You don't need a lot of space and can be moved. Portable flower bed is convenient

You can make a flower garden in the country near the tree. They already belong to the category of garden. Don't want it to be banal? Come up with an interesting fence.

What and how to make a fence

The most common fence for a flower bed is brick, wild stone, boulders. You can make a building out of brick in a strict "ceremonial" manner. Boulders and wild stone are already more intimate, non-standard fences.

Since they have a decent weight, a foundation is often made under a brick or stone fence for a flower bed. Not if one or two rows fit, but if there are four or more rows. If the device is on a concreted platform, you can do without a foundation at all, but if a flower bed is broken on a lawn or soil, then it is advisable to do it.

It is not even necessary to fasten two rows of stone or brick with mortar. They can simply be laid out one on top of the other, lined with geotextiles from the inside and covered with earth. Brick beds made in this way will often have to be corrected: bricks can “move out” from their place

First of all, the sod is removed on the marked area. If you plan to make a high flower bed, dig a groove along the perimeter, about 20 cm deep, and 5-10 cm wider than the planned fence in width. This ditch is filled with crushed stone, rammed, spilled with a liquid cement-sand mortar. For 1 part of M400 cement, 4-5 parts of pure sand are taken, mixed and poured with water to a state of sour cream. Crushed stone is shed with this semi-liquid solution. When the concrete sets - you have to wait a few days - you can lay out the border for the flower beds.

How to make a brick or stone border

DIY flowerbeds and flower beds made in a stone and brick fence are the most expensive in the device, but also the most durable. They will last for several years with no problems.

Stones or bricks are placed on a cement-sand mortar, similar to that used for crushed stone, but thicker. There should not be much mortar between the bricks - 5-8 mm. If you are laying cobblestones or natural stone, it is easier to lay them “dry” first, choosing the dimensions, and then transfer them with mortar.

A few ideas on how to arrange stone borders for flower beds and flower beds in the photo gallery below.

This is a border for a cobblestone flower bed. The technique used is different - a roller is formed from a semi-dry solution, small stones are stuck into it

If you don’t need to raise the plantings so much, and you only want to mark the boundaries of the area planted with flowers, but you are afraid that if you just dig in the brick, it will fall, then you can dig a trench, fill it with rubble, and insert limestone into the rubble (stone sawn into plates , it can be found in the section selling materials for the exterior of the house) or standing up to put bricks. Spill a liquid cement-sand mortar around the installed elements of the fence. After two or three days, when the concrete sets, you can continue to work: fill in the fertile soil, but you can’t load the curb or step on it for about a month: it takes so much time for it to gain strength.

By the same principle, you can make a frame for a flower bed with your own hands from slate or tiles cut into strips. A flower bed can be made from metal or asbestos slate. There are trimmings left after the roofing device - use them. Here's what might work.

Photo of a slate flower bed - such a fence looks good

from wood

Making a fence for a flower bed made of wood is easier: it does not weigh that much. On the other hand, it is less durable. Flower beds and flower beds made from wood can stand for several seasons. Then you have to restore or redo them. It is used very rarely for front flower beds, but in a country house or near a private house, a flower garden fenced with a wooden border is original and stylish. Especially if it echoes the design style of buildings on the site.

You can use wood in any form for decorating country flower beds. They make flowerbeds from boards, round timber of small diameter (small logs), block house (boards, convex on one side, similar to a log) and any other wooden remnants. You can even saw a dried tree into chocks, bury / hammer them into the ground, making such an unusual flower bed.

Birch poles - a fence for a flower garden turned out to be an excellent idea. An interesting idea for a high flower bed - a well is made of scraps of logs.

How to make a wooden border? Find a log of small diameter, saw it into chocks of different lengths and split them in half. You will get blanks, as in the photo on the left. They are laid on a flat surface with the convex side down one next to the other. They take a flexible thick wire and fasten the wire to the flat side of the pieces of wood with staples from a construction stapler or bent nails. One wire is nailed at the bottom, the second at the top. It turns out a flexible border made of wood, which can enclose a flower garden of any shape (pictured right).

So that the wood does not lose its attractiveness and does not rot, it is treated with protective impregnations. They can simultaneously give it color, or they can be colorless. From such pieces of wood collected in a ribbon, you can make flower beds with your own hands of any shape. You dig a shallow groove, a little wider than your fence, insert a fence for a flower bed there and sprinkle it with earth, tamp it down.

From boards and timber

In our country, one of the most inexpensive building materials is wood. Therefore, they build a lot of it and often. They make a fence or a fence for flower beds from wood. The easiest way to fence a flower bed with boards. For support, you will need several bars - not very thick, but wide. Approximately 50*150 mm and edged board 20 mm thick. Choose its width yourself so that several pieces installed on the edge will give you the required height.

Impregnate the wood with protective impregnations, when it dries, you can begin work. First install the support bars. They can be sharpened at one end and carefully hammered in without damaging the upper surface (place a piece of a bar and hit it), or you can dig a hole about 50 cm deep, install a beam in it, bury and compact the earth around. Bars are installed in increments of 1-1.5 meters, depending on how wide the flower garden will be. The wider and higher it is, the greater the mass will have to be kept, therefore, supports are more often placed.

Boards are nailed to the exposed supports. They can be stuffed from the inside and then the support bars will be visible, or from the outside. In the second option, only a wall of boards will be visible. The joints of the boards should fall on the bars.

Flowerbeds from boards can be made in a variety of shapes. Even in the form of a pyramid. Some interesting ideas are below.

And this is how to make a flower bed in the form of a pyramid

Made of plastic

There are many types of ready-made fences for flower beds and flower beds made of plastic or plastic. They have special legs that sink into the ground along the edge of the planted area.

But it's not about them, but about flowerbeds from improvised materials. For example, you can make a decent fence for a flower bed out of plastic bottles.

They are selected by volume and color. This will make the fence look better. Then the necks are cut at the same level and stuck into the ground. This is one mounting option for creating a low curb. The second one will be much higher. It can be used when fudge taller plants. In this case, they take a wooden beam, to it at a certain distance, so that the bottles are close to one another, the lids are nailed. Bottles are screwed into the caps. To make such a plastic flower garden fence more stable, it is pierced through with wire closer to the bottoms and closer to the narrowing at the neck. The finished section of the fence is installed and fixed on the ground.

Despite the fact that the material is junk, if everything is done carefully, such a fence looks decent, pleasant, nice. Photos of fences for flower beds and flower beds made of plastic bottles are in the photo below.

Couldn't get past... a fence made of old bicycle wheels. Original flower beds can be made from any junk. If there is talent, of course ...

Old bicycle wheels can decorate your country house. How? Make a flower garden fence out of them. A flower bed of wheels is cool ...

Original and unusual flower beds and flower beds

Sometimes you will be amazed at what people manage to make original, unusual, and, most importantly, beautiful things. So it is in the design of flower beds. Well, I myself would never have guessed that an old chest or galoshes, a hat can be turned into a flower garden or flowerpot for plants. See for yourself - the photos don't lie.

Tire beds

Completely unattractive car tires turn into beautiful flower beds. Tires are cut, the edges are polished with a grinder with an emery nozzle. The resulting flowerpots are washed with soapy water and dried: the plants will not develop well if you do not wash the machine oil, gasoline and other similar substances that get inside.

After drying, it is painted. You can paint a tire (tire) with ordinary oil paint, only the surface must be fat-free, dry and clean. She keeps for several years. There are special paints for tires. They are much more expensive - they are made for styling tires. After the paint dries, you can install a ready-made bed of tires and fill it with soil, plant plants. How you can make a flower garden from tires with your own hands, or rather, how to arrange it, see below (the photo gallery scrolls automatically, if you need to stop, click on the picture).

A tiered bed of tires - easy and cheap

From old things

Whether this will surprise you or not, I don’t know, but flowers are planted even in old things. Children grown out of rubber boots? Why throw them away? Make a couple of holes in the sole for drainage, pour in the ground, plant a few flowers. Original flower beds and ampelous plants are obtained.

Gathering dust in the barn is an old gas stove? It can also be adapted for a flower garden. The ancient chest of drawers is exactly the same - drawers are pulled out to different levels, soil is poured into them and a tiered flower bed is obtained. Do you have an old bathtub? Or an old car? Plant flowers in them flowers. It turns out a stylish and original flower garden. In the photo gallery, some of the unusual flowerbeds I liked from old things. They can be placed not only in the country, but also in the courtyard of a private house.

An old car doesn't need a place in a landfill at all ... Flowers grew in the bath - a flower bed turned out great. The bicycle cannot be repaired - paint it and plant flowers. Few people have such a country flower bed (the main thing is not to be scrapped) A broken toaster, an old kettle and shoes - and this is also a flower bed, only mini Even barrels ....

Now, you probably don’t have a question: “What can a flower bed be made of”. Now it's hard for you to decide what exactly you want to make it from ...