A flower bed is a real decoration for any garden plot or local area. Usually these mini-oases have a beautiful curly shape and are fenced with small fences. However, flower beds can be made from absolutely any thing. It's time to sort through the deposits in the barn and garage and choose for creativity those items that, it would seem, are no longer suitable for anything. It’s easy to make flowerbeds with your own hands from available materials - all you need to do is apply a little imagination, patience and desire to create unique installations from fresh flowers and objects in your local area, which can thereby be given a second life.
Beautiful flower bed with annual flowers
Do-it-yourself flower beds from improvised means
Types of flower beds
Those who want to amaze guests and neighbors with the beauty and uniqueness of their garden plot often invite landscape designers to visit. The profession of these people is to create unique beauty from flowers, combining them in all possible ways. However, the services of such people are quite expensive. What to do if you want to decorate your dacha, but don’t have the extra money for it? Of course, use your own imagination and use your ability to search for the necessary information on the Internet! And, having learned something new and interesting, put it into practice.
New life for old things - crafts for the garden
Original flower beds for a summer residence using improvised means
Schemes and shapes of flower beds, methods of combining plants by color and shape can easily be found in gardening magazines or on websites for flower fans. At the same time, one version of a flower bed can be combined with another at your request and, thus, it is often possible to create completely unique, inimitable and very beautiful installations.
Unusual flower bed made of tires
But before we present options for flower beds that can be made from old unnecessary things, let’s get acquainted with what types of flower beds exist.
Table. Types and types of flower beds and flower beds.
| Name, photo | Characteristic |
| Regular | All plants begin flowering at the same time, but the flowers differ in color and type of buds, as well as in size. |
| Irregular | In this case, flowers are planted in groups, selected according to the timing of flowering so as to evenly replace each other as some fade. |
| Monoclumba | A flowerbed in which plants of the same type, type, and color are planted. |
| Flower bed-carpet | In this case, all the plants spread directly over the surface of the earth, covering it tightly. |
| Vertical | Walls, fences, and garden buildings are decorated in this way. Boxes with flowers stacked on top of each other, where plants grow through the cracks in the containers, can also serve as a vertical flower bed. |
| Ring | Such flower beds are usually formed around bushes and tree trunks. |
| Rabatka | Simply put, this is a flower border enclosing a garden path or lawn. |
| Alpine slide | A flowerbed-slide with inclusions of stones and driftwood, which is covered with all kinds of, usually low, plants - small perennials. |
| Flowerpot | Any flower bed that is formed in a wide vase or other container can be portable and often decorates alleys or the porch of a house. |
| Multidimensional | A flowerbed, to create which various additional structures can be used. |
Decorating a flower bed with natural stone
Each of these types of flower beds can be improved and turned into a real work of art. And creating an unusual art object based on an ordinary flower garden is an excellent opportunity to try yourself as a landscape designer.
Flowerbed from an old stump
Tips for beginner gardeners
Even inexperienced gardeners can create beautiful flower beds. The main thing is to understand what kind of flower bed is needed and what should happen as a result. This will make it easier for you to select and place colors.
Select varieties of plants that do not require care.
If the plot of land has not been planted, then it is better to feed it.
An ordinary flowerbed should have high, medium and low growing flowers. Place tall plants of several types in the center, plant low ones in front.
Do not buy a lot of seedlings, especially different varieties. Don't make the flower bed too bright. Don't forget about the flowering periods of plants.
At the edge, plant low-growing species that creep along the surface of the soil.
If you plant perennials between them, it is better to leave free space. They will sprout every spring in the same place, but with children; after a few seasons the plant grows. You can plant the empty space with annual flowers for the first year.
So we figured out how to beautifully decorate a flowerbed. You already understand that doing this is not difficult and interesting.
Use your imagination and take into account your own desires, with their help you will have an incredibly beautiful flower garden.
Come up with new ideas and bring them to life. Only you can create beauty in your dacha with your own hands.
What are the benefits of unusual flower beds?
There are several main reasons why flower beds from old shoes, teapots or chests of drawers may appear on some gardeners' plots.
- Such flower beds attract the attention of guests, demonstrating the owner’s creativity.
Original flower beds attract attention
- This is a great opportunity to give a second life to old things (grandmother’s chest of drawers, etc.) that you don’t dare send to a landfill.
- You can involve children in the creation of such flower beds, who will willingly take part in turning improvised means into bright art objects.
- Unusual flower beds will make your dacha or garden look like a fairy-tale park.
- The beautiful views that result are calming and calming, allowing your eyes to rest.
- With the help of such flower beds you can create stunning relaxation areas.
- If you think through such a flowerbed correctly, then you can use it to hide the shortcomings of a garden plot (for example, an unflattering wall of a barn) or to use that place in the country where you cannot grow vegetables.
Flower beds made from children's rubber shoes
Making a flowerbed with your own hands from car tires
Bed in the garden
Wire frames
Excellent original compositions can be created using wire mesh frames. They are tightly wrapped with cloth or film, after which they are filled with fertile substrate.
High-rise flower beds look especially advantageous next to:
- Garden verandas;
- Barbecue pavilions;
- Chinese tea houses;
- Anti-solar canopies.
What can you make a flower bed from?
You can make unusual flower beds with your own hands from almost anything. For example, flower beds made from car tires have already become familiar, but still remain relevant. Moreover, if earlier they were simply filled with soil where flowers were planted, now gardeners are trying to give them unusual shapes - swans, flowers, shuttlecocks and much more can be easily created from an outdated tire and an ordinary large knife.
Flowerbed-swan from a car tire
Often flower beds are formed from stones, driftwood, and embankments. It is enough to pour a mound of soil, compact it, cover it with pieces of brick or large pebbles, and on top lay several picturesque branches selected from the forest, plant flowers - and the original alpine hill is ready.
Unique fences made of driftwood and roots
Flowerbed made of natural stone in the form of baskets
A very beautiful flower garden can be created from old furniture. In this case, anything can be used - the frame of an old sofa, chairs, beds, chests of drawers.
The idea of using an abandoned bathtub
Favorite, but, like tires, the usual “bases” for flower beds are plumbing equipment. Old pipes, bathtubs, sinks can become not only a pond, but also a flowerbed itself.
Flowerbed in the toilet
Flowerbeds on wheels have recently become increasingly popular. Moreover, absolutely any product that has wheels can be turned into an original flower garden. If you have an old bicycle, then just attach a couple of leaky buckets to it, paint them and plant vines in them - that’s it, your unusual transport is ready! Broken and rusty cars, motorcycle cradles and other items are used for the same purpose.
Unusual use of an old bicycle
On a note! It’s especially chic to turn an old “Zaporozhets” or “Moskvich” into a flowerbed. Everyone will definitely envy such a flower garden. And you shouldn’t feel sorry for the old car - no one will drive it anyway.
Blooming flower bed in a car
The fence around the house is often decorated with old shoes, which are turned into original flowerpots. Make drainage holes in the soles, fill the boots with soil, plant flowers and hang them by the laces from the railings. You can also form real installations from shoes by placing them in rows on a shelf - here you have a ready-made vertical flower bed, which, if desired, can be easily disassembled and the plantings moved to another place.
Photo of a beautifully decorated flower garden with your own hands
Teapots, barrels, basins and other items can become hanging mini-flower beds or beautiful flowerpots. Even an old stump that you have been meaning to uproot for a long time can become a wonderful flower garden. The most important thing is to show your imagination and see what you can turn an ordinary and seemingly worthless object into.
Beautiful flower beds at the dacha with your own hands
Do-it-yourself vertical flower beds - a magnificent decoration for a summer house
Tips for caring for flower beds
Having carefully planned and planted the flower arrangement, you should take care of it throughout the entire time. The main care activities are:
Any plant needs weeding. Floral arrangements are no exception. Timely removal of weeds will avoid soil clogging. Cultivated plants need sufficient moisture, sunlight and nutrients. Otherwise, they quickly fade.
Without fail, the flower garden needs watering. This is especially true in the first few weeks after planting. Rooted plants should be watered only in stable dry weather, monitoring the potential risk of soil drying out.
Apply fertilizer according to the planting schedule, and also ensure that the soil does not contain excess roots. This can lead to abundant formation of the vegetative component of the plant. The flower part will be very scarce.
Do not forget to protect the flower garden from harmful insects and all kinds of diseases.
To summarize, it should be recalled that creating a bright flower bed is a creative process. This is why no two flower beds are alike. To successfully complete the work, you will need to make an effort, but the result will more than reward you for your efforts.
Where to begin?
Where to start creating an unusual homemade flower bed? The first step is to clear out the old junk in your shed or garage. Then you need to think over the design of the flower bed and choose a place for its location. To do this, carefully examine the area and choose a piece of land that is clearly visible. It should also be relatively well lit.
On a note! It is best to place flower beds (and especially unusual ones) where they will be clearly visible from the house or porch, as well as from the street, if you want to please people passing by with their beauty.
Do-it-yourself log flowerbed
When you create a flowerbed project, be sure to draw the shape of the flower bed on paper, and also mark where and what flowers should be. Consider their flowering time, growth rate, petal color, height and much more. If you are forming compositions from perennials, then you should select plants with special care - if annuals are easy to replace with others next year, then perennial crops will grow in your flowerbed for several years.
Sketch of the future flower garden
3 design options for a cereal flower bed
Scheme of a round flower bed of continuous flowering
Scheme of a flower bed of perennials
Those items from which it is planned to create a flower garden should, if necessary, be washed, provided with drainage holes, painted, and unnecessary parts removed. If this is some kind of container, then expanded clay must be poured onto the bottom as a drainage material so that excess moisture does not accumulate in the soil itself.
Elegant multi-colored discount
A decorative bed with strict outlines is called “edge”. This is one of the most common types of flower beds. Most often, the discount is made square or rectangular.
- For this design, choose bushes whose petals recreate, if not the entire solar spectrum, then most of it.
- If the motley palette clearly raises objections, then the discount is made strictly one-color.
- At the same time, no restrictions are imposed on the shape of plants and their height.
DIY tire flower bed
We present to your attention two master classes on creating flower beds from scrap materials. Let's try to make a flower garden from old tires and ordinary logs. Since car “shoes” are very often used as the basis of a flower bed, let’s start with them.
Step 1. Select the tire sizes you need. Tire wear is not important here - it can be completely “bald”. But the tire itself must be intact. Also take and sharpen a regular kitchen knife well. It is best to take one with a pointed tip and a larger blade to make cutting more comfortable.
The tire must be intact
Step 2. On the surface of the tire, draw a zigzag along which you will cut the rubber to give the tire a “flower” shape. It is convenient to draw with a pen (in the image the zigzag is indicated by a red line to make it easier to see).
Recommended tire markings
Step 3. The thinnest layer of rubber is in the sidewall of the tire, so start cutting from this place. And having already made a hole in it, cut the rubber up and down from it.
You need to start cutting from the side
On a note! Before cutting, make sure there is no metal cord inside the sidewall. The cord is usually found in truck tires.
Step 4. On the outer corners, cut the pattern almost to the beginning of the tread.
Tire cutting
Step 5. Cut out the entire design in the same way.
The drawing is almost cut out
Step 6. Turn the tire over and, starting to cut the rubber in the middle of its side, cut off the excess.
The tire is cut on the other side
Step 7. Along the edge of the back side of the trimmed tire, make cuts in a circle until the tread begins.
Making cuts
Step 8 : Now turn the tire inside out. The preparation for the flower bed is ready.
The tire turns inside out
Blanks for flower beds
This blank can be painted, dried, and then filled with soil and flowers can be planted.
Video - Flowerbed from a tire
Tire prices
tires
Scheme and preparation of candidates for the flower garden
If there is a site, and the favorite plants have already been selected, then novice decorators just have to determine their number, as well as a suitable location. To find out the exact number of seedlings, the future flower garden is divided into squares with a side of 1 m. After this, the area that each species will occupy is calculated. The result is divided by the average planting rate per 1 m2. They are different for all plants:
- 2-3 pieces for large samples - 1-1.2 m high;
- 4-6 - for medium-sized specimens (40-90 cm);
- 7-9 - for “halfling” plants (20-40 cm);
- 16-20 - for dwarf flowers (5-20 cm).
Vegetation is removed from the area, then the fertile layer of soil is removed. The ground is dug up to a depth of 400 mm, then the prepared soil is filled in. To transfer the diagram to a future flowerbed, use sand, sawdust or chalk.
DIY flowerbed made from old chairs
Very nice and unusual flower beds can be made from old chairs. To do this, you will need the chairs or stools themselves, some paint, sandpaper, brushes and, of course, desire.
How to make a flowerbed from old chairs
Step 1. First, remove the old paint from the chairs and carefully sand their surface with sandpaper. If necessary, they can be partially disassembled, but there is no need to rush. It is important to decide how the container with flowers will be attached. It is quite possible that it will be placed in a hole cut in the seat. In this case, cut this hole to the size of the pot.
Preparing an old chair
Step 2. Remove dust from the surface of the chairs and coat them with paint. It is most convenient to paint from spray cans. The procedure should be carried out outdoors, as the paint has a very strong odor that is difficult to remove. After this, dry the chairs thoroughly.
Painted chairs
Step 3. You can also paint the pot or flower boxes if desired.
A flower pot
Step 4. You can create a beautiful floral design on the backs of the chairs using paints and brushes. It is best to paint with acrylic paints.
Chairs can be further decorated
Step 5. After the drawings have dried, install the pots, add soil and plant the plants.
Ready flowerbed
Flower beds made from old chairs
Video - DIY log flowerbed
The need for fencing
Luxurious flowers without a frame, like a diamond without a frame, have an unfinished look. The fence transforms the appearance of plantings, giving them neatness and presentability. The edge prevents the spreading of ground cover plants, and it also serves as protection for fragile shoots, keeping pets out of them.
On the dacha site you will certainly find wooden and metal scraps, pipes, brick pieces that will cope with the role of flower bed fences. Remains of slate, tiles or linoleum are suitable for these purposes.
Bottles are also good
Original and interesting design solutions can be realized if you try to use bottles as a flowerbed (or rather, its fencing). In this case, both plastic and glass are suitable.
Flower beds made from plastic bottles
Flowerbed at the dacha made of plastic bottles photo
If you fill plastic bottles with sand (for weight) and stick them around the perimeter of the flower bed, you get a very durable fence that is not afraid of any weather conditions. At the same time, bottles, if they are colored, do not need to be painted. But if desired, an original ornament may well appear on their surface.
Bottles can also become flower beds themselves. For example, if you take large enough containers, cut holes in them and paint them properly, you will get original pigs.
Pig flower beds
How to make a flowerbed pig from a plastic bottle
You can also form a flower bed from glass bottles. If you lay them out in rows in a circle on some kind of base (for example, a barrel), securing the necks in cement mortar, you will get a very nice tall flower bed.
Flower bed made of glass bottles
Arrangement of a country front garden
If the owner of a summer cottage or personal plot has decided to plan the design of a flower bed himself, then it is advisable for him to spend at least one day studying the varieties of decorative front gardens that prevail in garden aesthetics today.
They allow you to deftly and beautifully solve any complex problems generated by:
- Difficult landscape;
- The presence of many engineering structures;
- An abundance of outbuildings;
- A network of drainage, water supply and other trenches;
- Collector pits, street washbasins, bulky benches and other elements that do not fit into the usual aesthetic framework.
