How to decorate a stump in the garden with your own hands: 6 interesting ideas for skilled summer residents

Cutting down trees in the garden leads to the appearance of rough and not very attractive stumps. You can solve the issue in two ways - study the uprooting and get down to business, or decorate the stumps after cutting them down and liven up the quiet garden a little.

We decided that summer residents, who are always busy with complex work, would find it interesting to take a break to put the garden in order without spending physical effort on it. Today we will look at the problem of stumps in the garden without uprooting and organizing tree stumps, which we have already discussed earlier. We will simply decorate the stumps with improvised objects and means, improve the area and give it an even more interesting and cheerful look.

Decorating and decorating stumps is an excellent way to save yourself from the hassle of uprooting, especially if there is no opportunity for this.

So, we forget about working with an expensive chainsaw, exclude cutting down roots and physical fatigue, and simply consider the most interesting ideas that will help transform the stumps and cuts of old trees .

Decorating a cut tree with homemade figurines

We have a great idea that absolutely anyone can bring to life. In the photo below you can see an interesting picture - little fairy-tale woodcutters working over a tree trunk. You can make these babies from plastic or tin, or you can simply buy figurines in a toy and souvenir store.

You can place the figures and their accessories on the barrel using screws, nails, wire or clamps. As a result, you no longer get a bare tree trunk, but a truly soulful picture.

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1. Application from the patient or his guardian, certified by an employee of the Social Security Administration.
2. An inspection report of the applicant’s social and living conditions, certified by the USZN.
3. Certificate of first or second disability group.
4. Patient's medical card. It must contain a conclusion from a neurologist, surgeon, urologist or gynecologist and therapist. It is also necessary to provide a certificate of absence of infectious diseases for the person entering the boarding house, which is issued based on an examination by a phthisiatrician, dermatovenerologist and oncologist.
5. Conclusion of the VKK.
6. Extract from the medical card.
7. A court decision declaring a citizen incompetent.
8. Certificate about the amount of pension payments.
9. Extract from home book.
10. Departure slip issued by the passport and visa service.
11. Photocopy of passport.
12. Photocopy of pension certificate.
13. A trip to a boarding school or an individual program for providing social services to a patient.

We decorate the stump with pots of plants

Surely, many of us grow flowers not only in the palisade or specially equipped flower beds, but also in pots and vertical beds. Our next proposal will be to decorate the stump with just such flowers, in pots. You can install several nice clay or plastic pots with already grown flowers around the stump, or you can plant them again. In addition, there is always the opportunity to decorate a stump with moss, to play with it in a fairy-tale version, for example, by adding ferns, bright flowers, animal figures nearby, turning a small space into a real forest.

Inspiration from professional designers and amateur craftsmen

Wood is one of the most democratic materials. To process and finish it, you can use the simplest techniques that are accessible even to children. When skillfully working with carpentry tools, real works of art are obtained from stumps.

Children's crafts from decks

Children's favorite subjects are fairy-tale houses. In your work, use decorative fences for flower beds, multi-colored stones, and old pots. Doors and tiles can be cut from linoleum. The composition will be enlivened by figurines of gnomes or animals.

Houses on plots - photo gallery

Fairytale house with a moss roof

Forest palace on a garden plot

Cozy manor

Charming house with a “lake”

The chaga mushroom makes an original roof

Children also enjoy inventing characters. Old shoes, ties, gloves, and unnecessary buttons will be useful for decorating crafts. We recommend using acrylic paints to paint details. They have a non-toxic composition, dry quickly, and are not afraid of moisture and sunlight.

Finished decorations

Landscape designers, sellers of gardening stores, as well as ordinary entrepreneurs who want to make a little money, have long come up with garden figures. They are intended for partial or complete decoration of the garden, lawn, and area as a whole. It is these colorful and funny products that are perfect for decorating a stump.

The image below shows a cheerful plaster frog, which majestically “conquered” a stump and remained on it forever. In addition, the stump of an old tree is decorated with improvised objects, ordinary country trash, and painted in cheerful colors. To tell the truth, this is only for two hours of free time and for an amount that could be spent on just a few chocolates.

How does a penalty differ from a fine?

These are two different types of penalties. They both impose a fee for failure to fulfill obligations, but the accrual mechanism is different. So, the fine involves a fixed amount of money. For example, for late payments on a credit card, the bank imposes a one-time fine of 590 rubles.

A penalty is a certain percentage that is charged on the amount of debt. Let’s say the penalty for the supply of some goods is 0.1% per day of its cost. Most often, one type of penalty is applied, less often both at once, when, according to the contract, a fine must be paid, and the penalty accrues every day.

As for consumer lending agreements, banks can only impose penalties on them, and in the amount limited by law to 20% per annum. But fines may apply to credit cards.

How to make a mushroom from a stump

The classic form of transforming an old stump in the garden is a mushroom. It could be a white mushroom or a fly agaric – it’s your choice, but we start from a more cheerful mood.

Below is the simplest option, which is perfect for summer residents who do not want to spend money on such fun. Yes, it is an old and dilapidated basin, which no longer holds water and cannot be used around the house, that becomes a mushroom hat. The stump itself forms the leg.

The inverted basin is secured with a pair of nails to the saw cut, painted in the color of the mushroom that you have chosen, and the stump is tinted in a color corresponding to the name of the mushroom or your mood. You can add decoration, plant flowers or herbaceous plants nearby, but you can leave the mushroom in this form.

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1. The right to respectful and humane treatment is guaranteed to every person, regardless of his citizenship, gender, race, nationality, social or other status.
2. According to Art. 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, man, his rights and freedoms are the highest value;
3. A person is guaranteed equality of all before the law, protection of personal integrity, protection of personal dignity and the right to life (Articles 19-22 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation).
4. In accordance with Part 2 of Art. 21 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, no one should be subjected to torture, violence, or other cruel or degrading treatment or punishment. No one can be subjected to medical, scientific or other experiments without voluntary consent.
5. Receiving free information in an accessible form about your rights and obligations, types of social services, terms, procedure and conditions for their provision, tariffs for these services and their cost for the recipient of social services, the possibility of receiving these services for free, as well as about providers social services;
6. Selecting a social service provider or providers. The recipient of a social service has the right to independently choose a social service provider based on personal preferences and based on information received from the provider about its activities, types and features of the provision of services.
7. Refusal to provide social services. Refusal to provide social services is also a right that belongs to all categories of recipients of social services.

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It must be taken into account that if the recipient of social services is incapacitated, then the refusal of social services must come from the legal representatives of such a person - guardians, trustees. In this case, the opinion of the recipient of social services must be taken into account.

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DIY stump chair

Here we will take a little break from fun and games, and move on to serious, and even adult things. The example we presented can only be done by real professionals with a certain amount of time and the availability of tools.

We propose to convert the stump into a chair that can be used in the garden for relaxation. How to do this, read now!!!

Correct cut

If there is an old and thick tree in the garden that needs to be cut down, it is perfect for our idea. Immediately you remove the upper branches, then the thicker ones below, and so on, according to all the rules for cutting down large trees. But once you reach the main trunk, you should stop and work with the dimensions a little.

A comfortable sitting height will be between 40 and 60 cm, but do not forget that each chair has a backrest. Therefore, the seat is at a height of, say, 50 cm from the ground, and the back and cut are at a height of 100 cm. It is at this mark that the chainsaw is cut.

Next, along the height of the seat, the trunk is cut 2/3. The horizontal cut should be on the side you want the chair to be facing.

Now a vertical cut, all the way to a horizontal one, to remove a piece of the trunk from the place where the seat of the chair is formed.

Naturally, all such work takes place with preliminary markings and compliance with all safety regulations.

Decorative finishing, seat formation

Now the chair is subject to decorative finishing, since we have only a rough version in front of us. Finishing occurs with the help of special tools - a chisel, mallet, hammer, hacksaw, grinder, and possibly with the use of professional devices. The result depends on your efforts, desire and time, but we have come up with such an interesting option.

Fairytale castle made from a stump

There is already one of these in our previous article about the design of a dacha area, but today we decided to install the castle a little higher. How to make it, decide for yourself - with your own hands or purchased. But installing a castle (or maybe an ordinary house or a forest hut) is simple. You need to nail or screw the base under the structure with self-tapping screws. This can be a figured board or a piece of chipboard impregnated with protective varnish.

Afterwards, using glue or screws, we install all parts of our structure, slowly and confidently moving towards the result. Upon completion of the work, you can get something similar to our example!

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1. Anonymous
   09.09.2021 at 15:11 If the main debt for utilities (telephone) is paid. but the penalties remain, tell me about the unpaid penalties, penalties will be charged
   Reply ↓ Anna Popovich
   09.09.2021 at 20:30

   Dear author, no, as a general rule, such an accrual is impossible.

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Decoration with live plants

Agree, it is much more pleasant to observe living pictures of plants on the territory of a summer cottage, rather than forms and compositions, which cause more surprise and misunderstanding than joy and delight. That’s why we suggest trying the option of decorating a cut tree with live plants. These can be herbaceous plants, small annual flowers or even some ornamental plants. These are the ones we will plant in the stump.

On the cut of the stump we make a hole, which according to agricultural technology is sufficient for the root system of the selected plant. This may be a hole the size of a flower pot. Next, pour a little nutrient substrate or garden soil with fertilizer inside and plant the plant inside. See below what it will look like after a while!

Garden figure from a stump

Making garden figures, sculpting or carving is very interesting, but today our task is less creative. We just need to come up with an image for the stump that will match the design of the garden or flower bed. Colorful characters, famous cartoon characters, and so on often come to mind, but doing something like this with your own hands is quite difficult. And this means only one thing - we will simplify everything as much as possible, paint the stump, create an elementary image that will not require investment.

The result is a wonderful image of a face on one half of the stump, as well as a decoration for the cut.

Funny figure from a stump, garden scarecrow

This completely non-scary scarecrow can be made from the trunk of an old tree. A stump is not suitable for this, but when cutting down, you can make the cut a little higher, then everything will definitely work out. To create an image we use imagination, old clothes and accessories, perhaps some additions. As a result of pleasant work, we get a wonderful creation that will amuse your guests and relatives.

If you have similar ideas or are ready to surprise us with something more exclusive and even exotic, please leave your thoughts in the comments, for which we will be very grateful.

Decorating stumps and saw cuts in the garden (20 photos)