Decorate your summer cottage with a flowerbed "like in a magazine" - why not? But before you go shopping for expensive materials, take a look around. At any dacha, there will definitely be items that are long overdue for a landfill. Here they are useful to you.
Old furniture, shoes, boxes and even a sawn tree can be an excellent basis for a future flower bed. You just need to connect your imagination, and the result will be brilliant! In any case, a neighbor in the country will definitely not have this.
We suggest you look for a suitable option among our tips.
1. Use tapeworm plants
Many summer residents prefer to use the so-called tapeworm to decorate their plots - a single plant that sets the tone for the entire flower bed. If it comes O large area, whether it is a public garden or a park, then a tree or shrub usually acts as a tapeworm there. As for the flower bed, in this case it will be appropriate to use plants that take the form of a dense bush (rosette). The solitaire should look good from all sides, because in most cases it is planted in the center of the flower bed, at the entrance to the house, at the bend of the garden path. A lawn or other well-groomed area will be an excellent background for a tapeworm.
As a tapeworm, you can use marsh iris, rogers, peonies, daylilies, park roses. On a large plot, hawthorn or lilac will perfectly play the role of tapeworm. In flower beds, tapeworms should not be tall, therefore, in landscape design, mallows or delphiniums are rarely used for this role. open area these tall plants can look disproportionate.
It is important that the tapeworm should please the eye throughout the season. Therefore, when choosing a plant, it is important to take into account not only the flowering time, but also the decorativeness of the leaves. For example, irises and daylilies, even after flowering, are able to decorate a flower bed thanks to their long, beautiful leaves.
2. Try to create a floral arrangement
If you are the lucky owner of a large plot, then you can try to create an array on it - a large floral arrangement. This will become a real highlight of your garden. As a rule, flowers are planted in large clearings, away from the paths. Often, such landings are appropriate where it is necessary to decorate a corner or a wall area.
As a rule, plants of one, two or three colors are used in arrays.
When creating an array, landscape designers recommend observing tiering - start with tall plants(they will be in the background) and gradually lower their height. For the first (highest) tier, mallow, delphinium, tall lilies are brilliantly suitable. For low plants, cosmos or lily of the valley loosestrife will be a suitable background. The lowest tier should be distinguished by something - either by its graphic quality or by color.
3. Car tires - classic country fashion
Old car tires, which seem to be unnecessary, but also a pity to throw away, can serve a good service in the design of the site. With a certain amount of imagination, they can be used to create original flower beds to the envy of neighbors.
Car tires are good because they can be placed anywhere on the site, in a different order. You can paint them either in one or in different colors, hang tires on trees or put one on top of the other, beat in a different way. But before you start forming a flower bed, wash the tires from dirt, degrease with acetone and only then start painting.
4. Flowerbeds of stones - durable and budget option
Homemade stone beds are very popular. Probably because this "good" in the country is always enough. Plus, if you place the stones correctly, these beds will be durable and stylish.
5. A flower bed made of bottles - an old idea in a new way
In many summer cottages, you can also see flower beds made of plastic and glass bottles... Maybe it's not fashionable anymore. But why go to waste in vain? And even if such a flower bed does not look as chic as, for example, made of stone, it has other advantages. Such a flower bed is easy to repair if necessary. And when you get bored, you can generally remove or redo it. Or you can create an original vertical composition.
You need to form a flower bed from bottles filled with earth (not empty). This way they will be more stable.
6. Wooden flower beds - what's in trend now
A good solution in country design there will be wooden flower beds, and they can be both horizontal and vertical. You can also organize a flower bed in the trunk of an old dry tree, if you have one on the site. If there is no tree, but a good stump remains from it, then you can use it.
And if you have from construction or finishing works there are many wooden blocks left, from which you can make a wonderful fence for a flower garden.
7. Do you always follow the rules? Round flower bed is your option
Round flower beds are a real decoration of any gardens and plots. True, there is one nuance here: in order for your flowerbed to really decorate, and not look like an incomprehensible spot, flowers must be planted according to certain rules: high - in the center, then medium, and undersized around the edges.
If you have good taste, you can try planting flowers of the same height, but it is important to pay attention to their color.
8. Don't like it when the land is empty? Make flower beds under the trees
As for the flower bed around the tree, it is not as easy to make it as it seems at first glance. First, you need to consider how compatible (and whether at all) the tree and the plants that you plan to plant under it. There are trees - birch, willow, Walnut, maple, pine, which hate any vegetation next to them. They will fight to the end with the "aliens" for nutrients and moisture, and then the plants will not have a chance to grow in this flower bed. But under such trees you can sow lawn grass.
And here fruit trees- apple and pear, as well as rowan, linden and oak - will always be glad to new "neighbors". Under them, you can safely create a flower bed. True, only those plants that love shade are suitable for her - lily of the valley, lungwort, snowdrop, fern, violet, bulbous. Lovers of the sun run the risk of withering away under wide crowns.
Flowerbed in trunk circle do so. Careful not to damage root system wood, remove the top layer of soil. The bottom of the dug groove is covered with a non-woven material that will protect the plant root system and restrain its growth. Further from suitable material(pebbles, broken brick and crushed stone) form a drainage layer 10 cm thick. Instead of soil, a mixture of compost, sod land and peat with the addition of complex mineral fertilizers is laid around the tree trunk.
Before planting flowers, the flower bed must be moistened. Free plots cover with sawdust or chips. On the edges of the flower bed, stones (bricks) are laid out or a border made of other materials is arranged. It will not only protect the soil from washing out during watering, but also give the flower bed an additional zest.
It is not at all necessary for the flower bed under the tree to be round. You can make it asymmetrical if you like. And there are no strict requirements for the arrangement of colors. The only thing to consider is that tall flowers are planted closer to the trunk of the tree.
9. Rabatka - for lovers of clarity and order
Most often, flowers in such flower beds have approximately the same height. And if you need to strictly adhere to the rule of equal height when decorating a rabat, then you can easily experiment with the color of plants.
Among all flower beds, it is precisely the geometric severity that distinguishes the rabat. This is the decorative specificity of the flower bed. In the rabatka, you can see the repetition of colors, shades and shapes. How complex the composition will be depends on the designer's imagination, as well as on the area allotted for creating a flower bed. The easiest option is to make a garden bed with a couple of stripes of flowers. Bright flowers can be alternated in a checkerboard pattern. In order to create a delightful visual effect, you can plant flowers in whole sections of various shapes.
Mixborders are often called rabatkas, but this is wrong. On the one hand, they are really similar - mixborders can also be long and narrow, like rabatki, they are often used to decorate paths. But on the other hand, the rabatka is a stricter flower bed. It was created to emphasize with its clarity and accuracy how well-groomed the garden is. As for mixborders, they are very close to natural nature and therefore are ideal for creating a landscape style, thanks to their smooth lines and variegated shades.
Beautiful pebble flower garden in the country
The idea of a flower garden in the country in the form of a jug
Every suburban area is unique, and no doubt beautiful precisely for its flower beds and flower beds. Many of us spend a lot of time looking for ideas for our flower garden in the country, so, in order to facilitate your work, I suggest you look already ready-made solutions for inspiration. In this collection, I have collected quite interesting non-standard solutions flower beds that might interest you.
The idea of decorating a flower garden with jugs with succulents
Decorate especially dry and sunny areas in your country house with pebbles and jugs with succulents, then watering and caring for such a flower bed will turn from difficulty into pleasure. In general, the theme of spilled flower beds, like a flower stream, is good for introducing succulents and different kinds ground cover plants.
Wild bed of ground cover plants
It is a great idea to pour flowering ground cover plants from an old container, planting spectacular tussocks in the background.
High flower garden in the country near the fence
By the way, you can hide from neighbors with the help of a high flower garden, instead of a fence. Having broken such a high flower bed, you will enjoy the flowers and hide from the eyes of the neighbors.
A flower bed with a decorative cart in the country
The tub flowers can be placed in decorative containers such as large boxes or stylized carts. Of course, here you should take into account the general style of your site.
Climbing rose arch in front of the entrance to the summer cottage
The idea of decorating an entrance using an arch with a climbing rose will require regular attention from you, since the plant needs to be pruned and growth regulated in a certain direction.
High wild flower bed at their summer cottage
From perennials in remote corners of the garden, dense tall wild flower beds can be formed. They are very nice to me, and caring for them is simple and they are incredible beauty.
Flowerbed with pebble decor
The use of curbs and pebbles as mulch will create a permanently beautiful flower bed, without any weeds. Of course, in this case, it will be necessary to take into account that not all plants will be able to feel good in such a stone frame.
Beautiful flower bed of perennials at their summer cottage
The advantages of a flower bed of perennials becomes easy care, associated only with the adjustment and harvesting of faded plants.
Vertical stand of a flower bed with petunias
Nobody, I think, will argue that petunia is the most versatile flowering plant for a summer cottage. I myself like to buy petunias with seedlings, but there are those who prefer to grow them from seeds on their own.
The idea of \ u200b \ u200bdesigning the entrance to the dacha using ampel colors
Here is another interesting idea for decorating the entrance to the country with the help ampel plants in tubs. It turned out very nicely, as it seems to me!
Ideas for decorating a porch and veranda with tub plants in the country
Here's another beautiful idea registration country veranda petunias in tubs. Using just one plant, you can get a great design in the country. The fact is that there are extremely many colors of petunias and the big picture will be quite interesting.
An example of using tree cuts for a flower bed
If you have a lot of wood cuts at your dacha, then you can try to implement this decorative idea... Flowerbed - your child will like the engine, by the way, you can also paint this flowerbed with it!
Tire swans in a flower bed
Disputes about beauty or the imperfection of using handicrafts from car tires in the country. I will not accept any of the positions, I will only note that colored oil paint tires no longer emit a toxic odor, and if you want to use tires in the country, be sure to paint them on all sides.
Decorative well flower garden in the country
Another one great idea- creation decorative well flower garden in the country. Ideal option will be placing tubs with ampel flowers around the perimeter of the well.
The idea of a flower bed in wooden tubs
If you have any old ones left at your dacha wooden tubs, then they can be used here for such decorative flower beds.
Ideas for decorating a dacha with ampel flowers
Ideas for using ampels are especially good because they can be placed anywhere - in the front garden near the house, and in the garden, and on the fence, and even on the gate, as already shown earlier.
The idea of a flower bed in an old tree stump
Even an old tree stump can be used either as a base for a flower bed, or as a stand for a tub or container. Additionally, you can plant a figurine of an animal or a gnome on the flower bed.
Using a tree stump as a stand for a flowerpot
An example of how you can use a stump to create a beautiful flower garden in the country in a rest corner.
Flowerbed container made of tires
A beautiful flowerbed of a container of car tires, as already mentioned, the tires should be painted with oil paint to prevent toxic fumes.
Flower bed vase
Well, at the end of the selection, I propose to go to the page with materials on ideas with flower beds, vases and jugs -
The blooming garden is especially beautiful, so we try to extend the time of admiring it. To do this, we arrange long-term flower beds in the garden and in the country. And we specially select flowers there that delight us from April to November.
The landscape will become luxurious from the community of early and late species... After all, the flowering period itself is short, then we will close the dried buds with blooming beginners.
Perennials
The decoration will make it easier to care for: they germinate and grow here for several years. Although we correct their growth, we remove dried leaves and weeds. But we do not need to sow seeds every year, grow and plant capricious seedlings.
Spring flower bed decoration
- These are primroses: woodlands, snowdrops, hyacinths, crocuses. And by June, daffodils, tulips, lilies and hazel grouses will make the garden bright and festive.
- Closer to the edge we will plant woodlands, muscari, further - multi-colored tall varieties. A beautiful flower garden combining small and large bulbous plants.
- Irises will bloom by summer. Designers claim that flower beds in a country house with irises are beautiful on an independent flower bed. In this case, it is better to plant them in different varieties and shades.
- Spring islets of tulips and daffodils gracefully frame delicate and fragrant hyacinths.
- A beautiful Moorish lawn with bright splashes of tulips and sun daffodils.
- Noble lilies effectively coexist with summer flowers.
Advice! Avoid dense planting of bulbs: they need space to grow. In the meantime, cover the free land with sawdust.
Beds of summer varieties
In the photo - a riot of colors in a summer flower bed
- Perennials reproduce by roots, cuttings, seeds, bulbs.
- For the flower bed, we will select several varieties, the buds of which appear alternately before the cold weather. For example, liliaceae, pelargoniums, followed by foxglove, catnip.
- Rich primrose buds in various shades majestically frame the flower garden and create a unique color palette.
- A low-growing perennial primrose bloom first and surprises us with its fresh emerald greens before frost. Therefore, the flower bed along suburban path will benefit from this vibrant curb plant.
- Aristocratic roses colorfully coexist with white, burgundy or pink phlox blooming at the same time. The showiness of the rose will exquisitely green up the yarrow or lavender. The play of contrasts only emphasizes the individuality of each plant.
- The delphinium is remarkable in that it blooms again, if we cut off the dried buds and some branches, and fertilize the earth. Then for 4 years it smells fragrant in one place, delighting with luxurious shades, and undersized perennials emphasize its beauty.
- Ball-shaped bunches of decorative onions, garden chamomile, rich lilies and a majestic delphinium will perfectly decorate the landscape. They are especially beautiful, planted in groups.
- Bells, violets, subulate phlox, oxalis and euphorbia grow rapidly and thus inhibit the growth of their neighbors. Therefore, we will limit their territory with a border tape.
Autumn flowers
- In autumn, motley asters reign, then September (alpine asters) and, finally, chrysanthemums.
- The multicolor of asters delights: from delicate white, pink, lilac to rich and bright purple, burgundy.
- Chrysanthemums different varieties, sizes and shades bloom until frost.
- Hosts surprise original form, emerald green embossed and amazing endurance. Heat, cold, drought, shade do not harm them.
Trouble-free annuals
Growing through seedlings will bring flowering closer. And renting a diesel generator for a summer residence is useful and not expensive, but we will grow not only flower, but also vegetable seedlings in a greenhouse, and its purchase costs a lot.
Advice! We choose varieties that are resistant to cold, drought, then neither late nor early frosts will harm them, and they will not dry out from skipping watering.
The price of seeds is minimal. We will not buy bags with a mixture of seeds of different types, but of the same color: white, red, pink or blue. Low views drowned out by high, and comfortable conditions various.
For neat low flower beds
| Species name | Description | Growing instructions |
| Nemophila | New for us low (25 cm) graceful plant with openwork greens. Its frost-resistant 3 varieties are especially popular: with bright blue petals, white with blue dots and dark with a white frame. |
We will sow nemophila in May, and a month and a half later we will delight our guests with its wonderful novelty. |
| Limnantes Douglas | A charming, yet rare visitor to our landscapes. Cute and elegant small buds of sunny yellow color. |
We will sow it in May, and in a month the bushes will already be covered with "suns". |
| Phlox | Abundant flowering, with a long flowering period. Inflorescences are simple (of any shade) or white-red stellate adorn half-meter or dwarf bushes. |
Especially beautiful terry varieties growing in decorative baskets. Prefers the south side. |
| Eschsholzia | The sun-loving Escholzia's poppies bloom only for 1 day, and immediately new bright buds with simple or double petals appear. | It blooms a month after sowing and flaunts among the greenery for 2 months. We can sow in sandy soil until June. |
| Pansies | Their best mixtures are Rococo with wavy multi-colored flowers or Pure crystals with amazing yellow, blue or snow-white petals without dark spots. | We sow them in partial shade in May. We sow in the middle of summer: then, after overwintering, they will bloom in the spring. |
For lush flower beds
High flowering plants will decorate comfortable, but typical country houses from block containers. They will give a characteristic uniqueness.
Output
A self-made flower bed will open us the freedom of creativity and experimentation, when buds of different types beautifully update the landscape throughout the season. Interesting are the unusual configurations of blooming islets in the garden, on lawns and in the yard. Bright colors petals will fill us with joy and life-giving energy.
For successful result we will learn about the requirements of the plants we have chosen: the place and time of their planting, flowering, preferences for the soil. And after watching the video in this article, we will become even more competent in this matter.
Which of the owners suburban area I would not like to decorate it with a beautiful, graceful and constantly blooming flower bed? Almost everyone. After all, you really want the site to be beautiful and pleasing to the eye. However, the arrangement of a flower bed is actually not so quick and easy: here you need to take into account different nuances(choice of plants, features of their flowering, color combinations, design schemes and much more).
Annual flowers for a simple flower bed
First of all, when organizing a simple flower bed, you should pay attention to the fact that all ornamental plants have a variety of life forms. There are ones that need to be sown again every year. There are biennials that bloom only in the second year of life. There are also perennial plants that bloom brighter and more luxuriant every year.
If for the device of a simple and beautiful flower bed you plant plants from seeds, then this year only annual plants will be able to bloom. Some of them only begin to bloom after 13 to 15 weeks. These types include late asters, tall marigolds, verbena, salvia, petunia, lobelia.
These flowers can only be grown through seedlings, while other annuals can be safely planted immediately in the ground.
For example:
- dahlias;
- marigold;
- matthiola;
- calendula;
- nastrution;
- Drummond's phlox
- escholzia;
- cornflower.
The above plants can be sown in early or mid-May, and their beautiful bloom can be seen as early as July-August. Decorativeness annual plants appears only in the second half of summer.
It is worth noting that growing flowers through seedlings significantly speeds up their flowering time. And planting ready-made sprouts in a flowerbed is somewhat more pleasant than expecting shoots.
Creating a flower garden
To create a harmonious and beautiful flower garden Plants should be planted in groups: high are left for the background, low for the front.
There are two most easy ways flower beds:
- White and pink range. For such a scheme, you can use pink, white lavender, pink cosmeia, placing them in groups in the background. Place white and pink zinnias closer to the center. In the foreground, Godezia will also look good. The edges of the flower garden can be edged with allisum for a more accurate design. Also, a cornflower will be a good highlight of such a flower garden.
- Annual flowers are red-orange. Here crimson amaranth with groups will come to the background decorative sunflowers... You can also add groups of yellow and red zinnias,. As long as the zinnias are growing, escholtia will look good between them. You can also add red and yellow asters, a little calendula, and undersized marigolds will be an excellent border for the edge of the flower bed.
Flower bed layout
Before organizing a simple flower bed, you should carefully plan what and how to plant, in what order and color scheme. And for this, a couple of tips will come in handy.
- Absolutely all flowers move their heads following the sun. And therefore, if the view on the flowerbed opens with north side, then most day the flowers will be turned away from you. It is recommended to plant flowers on such a bed that do not follow the sun so clearly. These include: marigolds, zinnias, irises, lupine, Buzulnik Rocket, delphinium.
- If the site for the flower bed is located along the fence, through which people passing by can admire your flowers, then make a choice in advance: the flower bed will have to delight you or passers-by.
- When sowing seeds, a sufficient distance should be left between the different groups of plants. Better at the end of June, the flowerbed will look a little empty, but in July you will not have to free some plants from others, more aggressive and spreading.
- When planning a flower bed, careful attention should always be paid to the height of the selected plants, which is usually indicated on the seed packaging. You also need to follow the recommendations for the distance between them. If the seedlings are too frequent, they can be carefully dug up and transplanted. However, some plants do not tolerate this procedure very well.
- If you decide to collect seeds from flowers that have a certain shade, then do not be lazy and mark the selected plant in advance, immediately after the beginning of flowering. Since the next weekend the flowers can bloom and get lost among the "comrades" painted in another color range.
- For long-term flowering of summer plants and perennial flowers, it is necessary to remove from time to time already faded inflorescences, as well as fruits and ovaries. Thus, you can maintain the decorative effect of your flower bed.
- Do not sow seeds of the same species over too large an area. When the time of its flowering has passed, you can get a very unsightly, empty area, which can very much disrupt the holistic appearance of a simple flower bed.
- It should be noted an interesting property of some flowers, for example, escholzia, the buds of which close in cloudy weather. And the tricolor bindweed closes with the onset of the afternoon. But mattiola, on the other hand, opens up and begins to smell fragrant only in the evening and at night.
Do-it-yourself simple flower bed in the country (video)
How to organize continuous flowering
The most decorative look can be obtained by achieving harmonious combination annuals and perennial plants... This combination will allow your flower bed to bloom almost continuously from the beginning of May until the onset of frost.
The use of perennial flowers has a number of distinct advantages. They only need to be grown and planted once every few years. Such plants do not require unnecessarily careful care, but every year they please more and more. lush bloom... Perennials are easily grown from seeds that you can collect yourself, or can be purchased at your nearest store.
If you have planned to organize a flower bed continuous flowering, then be sure to use bearded irises and lupine. Already in June, your flower garden will be enveloped and very beautiful flowers iris sparkling among the green foliage. Shade-tolerant and picky Turkish carnations, as well as red and bright lychnis, will pick up the flowering baton. Long blooming and powerful foxgloves and light, delicate butterflies of Escholzia will bloom almost simultaneously.
A flower bed in the shade: which plants to choose (video)
Poppy, nastrutia, salvia, kosmeya, cornflower, calendula, marigolds, dahlias, gladioli and lilies bloom in yule. At the end of August, a round dance of flowering will happily take over the magnificent asters.
Flower bed design schemes
By picking up various plants by combining them, you can create an almost endless number of variations of a simple but very effective flower bed. But if you are new to this business, it will be easier to use already ready-made options and simple schemes creating flower beds.
- Central flower bed - this scheme is the easiest to organize a flower garden. It consists of circles. The center is filled with cannes with dark leaves, which are the soloists of the whole composition, then green-leaved cannes are planted in a circle, the third row is decorative-leaved gnafalium and this parade ends with a snapdragon.
- Vienna flower. To create such an option, it will require organizing a six-leafed flower on the flowerbed, the center of which will be white levkoi, the border for which will be Alpine forget-me-nots. The outer edge is well organized with islands of viola, zinnia, primrose.
- A fancy pattern is a round flower bed that is decorated with big amount undulating elements, decorated with variegated, sun-loving perennials. In the center of such a flower bed, you can place a squat chamerops with a beautiful crown of fan leaves. Its shadow will be a good background for dahlia zinnia, and coleus will act as a contrast. Fancy curls can be created with begonias and pelargoniums, which will look very impressive against the backdrop of lawn grass.
The proposed schemes are just a few of the many options. Or maybe you already have your own creative ideas for the design of a beautiful flower bed - amazing decoration your site?
Bright spots of flower beds and flower beds on the site are not only a way to decorate the site. They are great for distracting attention from some problem areas. This, by the way, can also be guided when choosing a place. We will talk further about how to make flower beds and flower beds with our 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 either.
What are
First of all, let's find out what is the difference between flower beds and flower beds. The flower bed has clear boundaries and shape: a circle, an oval, a square. Most often, it is separated from the rest of the site and raised above it. This kind landscape design we most often see in parks, on the streets.
This is a flower bed. It has a clear, strictly defined shape and geometrically correct arrangement of plants.
A flower garden is any place where plants of any shape are planted. It happens with a fence, and it happens without. The boxes with flowers hanging on the fence or on the wall are a flower garden, plants planted in old galoshes are also, a flower spot on the lawn and a ribbon along the path are all flower beds.
We figured out the terms a little. Now about what they are. They are distinguished primarily by flowering time:
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 monoclumbas or mono flowers.
Sometimes they are raised, they are also called high, there are multi-tiered. Their device consists of several stages: first of all, the fence is built, then the earth is poured into the finished form and the plants are planted.
That's all 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 entire territory has already been developed, and you want to plant flowers? You can always find a place. For example, near your house, the site 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 there is no need to break the cover. A brick or stone fence is built right on it. It is advisable to put them on the solution, and then cover them from the inside with a waterproofing impregnation (bituminous mastic) so that when watering, water does not flow onto the path. Then you can fill up the soil and plant flowers.
Flower beds are set up along the fences. This is a common way to decorate, for example, a long drive to the house. But this can also be done in different ways. Here, as well as near, a high flowerbed looks better.
A high bed of boards. The building is inexpensive and the view is solid
You can make a flower bed in front of the gate. Street beds must be sturdy. Therefore, for their execution, stone fences are usually used: just in case. If desired, you can make tiered flower beds. They are more difficult to build, but much more attractive than flat ones.
Street multi-level (multi-level) flower bed of complex shape
Even if the yard is surrounded by walls on all sides, and then you can find a place for flowers: Hang on the walls, in pots or in the form of a flowering wall, put up a rack, etc. Do-it-yourself flower beds in the courtyard of a private house can be made from everything and everywhere. It is only important not to be mistaken 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. A portable flower garden is convenient
You can make a flower garden in the country near a tree. They already belong to the garden category. Don't want it to be trite? Come up with an interesting fence.
What and how to make a fence
The most common flower bed fencing is brick, wild stone, boulders. A structure can be made of bricks in a strict "ceremonial" manner. Boulders and wild stone are 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 goes on a concrete site, 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, covered from the inside and covered with earth. Brick flowerbeds made in this way will have to be corrected often: bricks can "move out" from their place
The first step is to remove the sod on the marked area. If you plan to make a high flower bed, dig a groove around the perimeter, about 20 cm deep, and 5-10 cm wider than the planned fence in width. This ditch is filled with rubble, rammed, spilled with liquid cement-sand mortar. For 1 part of M400 cement, take 4-5 parts of clean sand, mix and pour water until sour cream. Rubble is spilled with this semi-liquid solution. When the concrete sets - you need to wait a few days - you can lay out the border for the flower beds.
How to make a brick or stone border
Do-it-yourself flower beds and flower beds made in a fence of stone and brick are the most expensive in the device, but also the most durable. They will stand for several years without any problems.
Stones or bricks are placed on cement-sand mortar, like that with which rubble was poured, but thicker. There should not be a lot of mortar between the bricks - 5-8 mm. If you put cobblestones or natural stone, it is easier to first fold them "on dry" by selecting the dimensions, and then transfer them with the solution.
A few ideas on how to arrange stone borders for flower beds and flower beds in the photo gallery below.
This is a curb 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 do not need to raise the plantings so much, and you only want to mark the boundaries of the area planted with flowers, but are afraid that if the brick is simply dug in, it will fall, then you can dig a trench, fill it with rubble, and insert flagstone into the rubble (stone sawn on plates , it can be found in the section selling materials for exterior decoration at home) or while standing to put bricks. Spill liquid cement-sand mortar around the installed elements of the fence. After two or three days, when the concrete has set, you can continue to work: fill up the fertile soil, but you cannot 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 do-it-yourself frame for a flower bed from slate or tiles cut into strips. A flower bed can be made of metal or asbestos slate. There are scraps left after installing the roof - use them. Here's what you can get.
Photo of a slate flower bed - such a fence looks good
Made of wood
It is easier to make a fence for a flower bed made of wood: it does not weigh so much. On the other hand, it is less durable. Do-it-yourself flower beds and flower beds from wood can stand for several seasons. Then you will have to restore or alter them. For ceremonial flower beds, it is used very rarely, but in the country or near a private house, a flower garden fenced with a wooden border is original and stylish. Especially if it has something in common with the style of design of buildings on the site.
You can use wood in any form to decorate summer cottages. They make flower beds from boards, small-diameter round timber (small logs), block house (boards, convex on one side, similar to a log) and any other wooden remains. You can even cut a dead tree into chocks, bury / hammer them into the ground, making such an unusual flower bed.
Birch woods - an excellent fence for a flower garden An interesting idea for a high flower bed - a well is made of scraps of logs Two pieces of a block house, installed one on top of the other - and in front of you is already an excellent summer cottage flower bed
How to make a wooden border? Find a small diameter log, cut 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 flat surface convex side down one next to the other. They take a flexible thick wire and use staples from a construction stapler or bent studs to attach the wire to the flat side of the pieces of wood. One wire is nailed at the bottom, the other at the top. It turns out a flexible border made of wood, which can be used to enclose a flower garden of any shape (pictured on the 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. 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.
From boards and beams
In our country, one of the most inexpensive building materials wood. Therefore, they build from it a lot and often. They are made of wood and a fence or fence for flower beds. The easiest way is to enclose a flower bed with boards. For support, you will need several bars - not very thick, but wide. Approx 50 * 150mm and edged board 20 mm thick. Choose its width yourself so that several pieces installed on the edge give you the required height.
Soak the wood with protective impregnations, when it dries, you can start working. Support bars are installed first. They can be sharpened at one end and carefully hammered without damaging the upper surface (put a piece of a bar and hit on it), or you can dig a hole about 50 cm deep, install a bar 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 held, therefore supports are more often put.
Boards are nailed to the exposed supports. They can be stuffed from the inside and then support bars will be visible, but it is possible from the outside. In the second option, only a wall of planks will be visible. The joints of the boards should fall on the beams.
Plank beds can be made in a variety of shapes. Even in the form of a pyramid. Several interesting ideas there is 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 are immersed in the ground along the edge of the planted area.
But we are not talking about them, but about flower beds made of scrap materials. For example from plastic bottles you can make a decent fence for the flower bed.
They are selected by displacement and color. This will make the fence look better. Then the necks are cut off at the same level and stuck into the ground. This is one mounting option for creating a low curb. The second will turn out to be much higher. It can be used in fondant taller plants. In this case, take wooden bar, to it at a certain distance, so that the bottles are close to one another, caps are nailed. Bottles are screwed into the caps. To make such a plastic fence for a flower garden more stable, it is pierced through with wire closer to the bottoms and closer to the narrowing point at the neck. The finished section of the fence is installed and fixed on the ground.
Despite the fact that the material is waste, if everything is done carefully, such a fence looks decent, nice, nice. A photo of fences for flower beds and flower beds made of plastic bottles is in the photo below.
Couldn't pass by ... a fence made of old bicycle wheels. Original flower beds can be made from any junk. If you have talent, of course ...
Old bicycle wheels can decorate your summer cottage. 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 wonder how people manage to make original, unusual, and, what is important, beautiful things. So it is in the design of flower beds. Well, I myself would never have thought that old chest or galoshes, the hat can be turned into a flower garden or flowerpot. Look for yourself - the photos don't lie.
Flowerbeds of tires
Completely unattractive car tires turn into beautiful flower beds. The tires are cut, the edges are sanded with a grinder with emery tool... The resulting flowerpots are washed soapy water and dry out: the plants will not develop well if the engine oil, gasoline and other similar substances that get inside are not washed.
After drying, they paint it. You can paint a tire (tire) with ordinary oil paint, only the surface must be degreased, dry and clean. It lasts for several years. There are special paints for tires. They are much more expensive - they are made for styling tires. After the paint is dry, you can ready-made flower bed install and fill soil from tires, plant plants. How you can make a flower garden out of 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).
Tier flower bed - easy and cheap
Of old things
Whether it will surprise you or not, I don't know, but flowers are planted even in old things. Children grew out of rubber boots? Why throw them away? Make a couple of holes in the sole for drainage, fill in the earth, plant some flowers. Original flower beds and ampelous plants are obtained.
Get dusty in the old barn gas stove? It can also be adapted for a flower garden. Likewise, the ancient chest of drawers - drawers slide out on different level, the soil is poured into them and a long-tiered flower bed is obtained. There is old bath? Or an ancient car? Plant flowers in them flowers. It turns out a stylish and original flower garden. In the photo gallery there are some unusual flower beds made of old things that I liked. They can be put not only in the country, but also in the courtyard of a private house.
An old car doesn't have to have a place in a landfill ... Flowers have grown in the bathtub - an excellent flowerbed. The bike cannot be repaired - paint it and plant flowers. Few people have such a summer cottage 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 do not have a question: "What can be used to make a flower bed." Now it's difficult for you to decide what exactly you want to make it from ...