Tire flowerbeds for your dacha: a large selection of photos and instructions

• Posted by Elena Fitisova
• Date: February 12, 2019

Watching tire decorations in other people's front gardens, people often sigh with envy. It is believed that not everyone can make a flower bed out of tires with their own hands. But the master’s work is scary, and it’s worth trying to decorate a summer cottage or flower garden at the entrance yourself. Here are some ideas and instructions for implementing them.

• 2 Making flower beds with your own hands
  2.1 Three-tier flower bed made of tires

  2.1.1 Photo gallery: options for three-tier flower beds made of tires

Where to get tires in sufficient quantities

For old tires, go to your neighbors in the garage cooperative or to the nearest tire shop. Unfortunately, suitable material can also be found in natural landfills. Under natural conditions, rubber decomposes for more than 100 years! Take your used tires to work - this way you will make your contribution to caring for the environment!

What tires are best for crafts?

• When choosing between domestic and imported tires, give preference to the second. Foreign-made products are softer and easier to cut. Famous foreign brands: Michelin, Yokohama, Hankook.
• Rubber intended for use in winter conditions is often more pliable than summer tires. It is easy to cut and process.
• The longer a tire is used and the more wear it wears, the thinner and softer it is. This means it will be easier to work with. Sometimes you will have to not only cut, but also turn out the rubber.

The tread pattern has almost worn off - driving on such tires is unsafe, but they are ideal for creativity

What else will you need for work?

1. Reliable, sharp knife.
2. An electric drill for drilling holes in rubber for a knife to fit into.
3. Grinder or file.
4. Electric jigsaw.
5. Wire brush for removing dirt.
6. Chalk or marker for marking.
7. Primer, PVA, degreaser, machine oil for lubrication.
8. Rigid wire with a diameter of 5–6 mm, plastic clamps.
9. Roulette.

Decoration

To increase the resistance of rubber to moisture, temperature changes and ultraviolet radiation, painting is recommended . When choosing paint, preference should be given to those marked KCH-136 (intended for rubber). This paint absorbs up to 97% of sunlight and creates the smoothest possible surface. Once applied, it dries within a few hours.

If painting is done at a temperature of +25 °C, the garden path can be used within 2 days.

Useful tips

• The first step to creating a craft is preparing the material. Thoroughly clean the surface of dirt, and degrease immediately before priming and painting.
• An excellent knife for rubber - sharp, with a thin spine. How to check sharpening? Run a notebook sheet over the blade. A well-sharpened knife will cut paper like a razor.
• When cutting a tire, lubricate the knife blade with machine oil - the work will go easier and faster.
• Before cutting out figured elements, do not be lazy to apply markings. Based on the eye or the tread pattern, you can bevel the line and ruin the part.
• Before painting the tire, prime the surface. A primer with a small amount of PVA will enhance the strength of the coating and reduce paint consumption. Quick-drying compounds harden in 6–7 hours, conventional solutions require 10–12 hours.

Do you want an unusual flower bed? Decorative trim for a tire can be found literally under your feet. For example, the surface can be covered with beautiful pebbles or smooth pebbles, cones, pieces of colored tiles or plastic bottle caps. Small fragments stick well to a primed surface using Moment glue.

Garden figurines

The most common figurine is a white swan; its production requires a tire without a cord. Crafts in the form of a giraffe, frog, zebra and many other animals will look good in the garden.

Multi-tiered compositions

Imagine that tires are construction parts. Now come up with compositions from them: pyramids, turrets and other figures. To prevent the earth from waking up, geotextile inserts are placed on the bottom of the tires located on the upper tiers. Don't forget to make holes for water drainage.

Photo gallery: multi-tiered flower beds made from tires

For a bed of tires, choose durable and unpretentious flowers: marigolds, phlox, marigolds

Old textured rubber also has decorative properties

The ladybug's head can be made from an old bucket or canister, the antennae can be made from knitting needles

Use tires of large and small sizes, with different tread patterns

You can make a well from three tires of the same diameter, a pair of planks and a piece of roofing material

Your favorite cartoon can be a source of inspiration

If you don't like the appearance of your tires, you can trim them with stones.

Stones are fixed to the concrete mixture

Smooth sea pebbles are also good for decoration.

The handle can be made from a separate piece of tire

You can cut different parts from tires. Then “assembling the construction set” becomes an even more exciting activity.

Photo gallery: prefabricated flower beds made from tires

The flowerbed is made in the shape of an oval

To create a daisy flower bed, just cut three tires in half

Parts can be fixed with construction staples

What design options are available?

To get started, you should familiarize yourself with the main points, prepare the tool and follow the instructions.

Tire structures are conventionally divided by type:

• low and high;
• rounded and curly;
• single-tier or multi-tier;
• suspended or horizontal.

The simplest option is a round flowerbed. To obtain a complete composition, you need to cover the whole tire with paint of any color, then fill it with soil and plant plants.

Multi-tiered flower beds consist of several multi-colored tires stacked on top of each other. Moreover, the wheels can be either the same or different diameters (they are folded in descending order, like a pyramid). The hanging type involves a tire with a closed bottom, secured with a rope or chain to a pipe or tree (similar to the principle of creating a flowerpot).

If you hang a decorated tire and plant flowers in it, the faded wall will clearly be transformed

Interpretations of shaped flower beds made from used tires are varied. These can be images of animals and birds, flowers, kitchen attributes (for example, compositions of tea set items). Here are some common options:

• frog;
• turtle;
• swan;
• parrot;
• penguin;
• vases;
• chamomile;
• teapot and cups.

Flowerbed made from tires

A tire daisy is both an independent model and a basic part of many designs. Flowerbeds can be arranged in a row to decorate the approach to the house or a relaxation area.

1. Apply markings to the rubber.

The lines go from thickening to thickening

2. Before cutting the tire, you need to make sure that there are no metal cords inside. They are not present in ordinary tires for passenger cars, but they may be present in tires for trucks.

Petals can be triangular, semicircular, square

3. Cut off the side on the opposite side.

We make transverse cuts to the beginning of the tread, every 20 - 25 cm

4. Turn the part inside out.

Inside the product you can make a bottom from geofabric

5. All that remains is to paint the flowerbed!

A flower bed can be placed on a “pedestal”

Photo gallery: compositions based on the basic flowerbed-flower scheme

The flower is assembled from two tires, the lower petals are fixed with construction staples

Two tires were used for the design, one was cut along a zigzag line

The turtle's head is sculpted from a plaster mixture on a wire frame

Flowerbed-bowl made of tires with a disk

1. Mark a zigzag cutting line along the entire frontal circumference of the tire.

Thanks to the triangular petals, the flowerpot will look like a large flower

2. We begin to cut out the part along the contour.

Don't forget to sharpen your knife well before work!

3. Check to see if there are any uncut areas left. And we “turn out” the workpiece slowly, piece by piece.

It is easier to do the work together with an assistant

4. If there is a tube in the wheel, it must be carefully cut out.

We remove everything unnecessary; we definitely won’t need the tire for the flowerbed

5. The bowl is ready!

The flowerbed can be painted as your imagination dictates.

Photo gallery: flower beds based on the basic “bowl” design

Be sure to wait until the paint dries and hardens

Complex pictures can be painted with artistic acrylic paints

A beautiful drawing can be achieved using three or four colors.

Tire scales made from old CDs

The bowl can be decorated with unnecessary small tiles

The same model, but with sharp petals looks completely different

Tires are a truly universal material. Look for creative ideas based on your skill level.

Photo gallery: fantasy flower beds made of tires for every taste

The numbers and hands for the clock flower bed are cut from sheet plastic

To create a donkey with a cart, take wheels from an old bicycle

For hippo stability, make sure to cut the leg splint exactly in half

Cascading, chaotic flowerbed of unpainted tires

The handle and saucer of a tea cup are carved from a tire

A frog flowerbed can decorate a playground or sandbox

The turtle's face is made of sculpted concrete

The fish fin is made from the remaining piece of tire and inserted into a sawn groove

Flowerbeds of different designs are united by a color scheme

How the flower bed is made can be seen in the photo

The tire can be equipped with wooden legs

If it is possible to order a welded support, you can assemble a vertical flower bed.

Preparatory work

If you have sufficient quantities of the necessary material, you need to prepare it. To do this, you need to remove all objects stuck in it and wash thoroughly with water and detergent. Next, the tires are dried and you can proceed directly to the process of making crafts.