Decoration of flower beds and flower beds from plastic bottles. New garden ideas or plastic bottle crafts. Fence from plastic bottles
A more popular junk item than a plastic bottle is hard to come by. The sales volumes of carbonated drinks, mineral waters and light alcohol increase many times by the summer, which means that even for large structures made of plastic bottles enough consumables. Gardeners have long appreciated the practicality of this container, actively using it as jars for seedlings, boxes for small things and molds for kids to play in the sandbox. But the possibilities of using plastic containers do not end there. This material has a number of characteristics that allow you to create not only exclusive landscape decorations but also durable practical designs.
Material Advantages
The advantages of this material in gardening practice are obvious:
- plastic is a cheap and ubiquitous material;
- thin plates are easily cut and glued without requiring professional equipment for processing;
- polyethylene is easily painted;
- plastics do not lose their shape, do not corrode, are not subject to destruction from changes in humidity or temperature;
- a plastic bottle itself can withstand heavy loads, and filled with water becomes stronger than wood.
These qualities and freeness have made bottle plastic one of the most popular materials among lovers of exclusive country decor.
A plastic bottle is a cheap material that gives a huge scope for creativity.
How to decorate a flower bed with plastic bottles
The easiest way to organize a flower bed from plastic bottles is the elementary edging of the area prepared for planting. The container pressed into the ground will not only decorate the flower bed, but also keep the earth from being washed out. Plastic parts can be used in the "original form", leaving them the factory color, but they can also be easily dyed. Enamel or acrylic paint with the addition of color expands the horizons of fantasy. The very bottom of the bottle, designed by someone in the shape of a five-petalled flower, looks very elegant when filled with a contrasting color, turning into a camomile. A self-made flower bed made of bottles will last longer without deformation if the container is filled with water before digging into the ground. In addition, if the bottle itself was not painted, then the sun's rays refracted in the water will turn into sparkling sunbeams that scatter along the paths from a makeshift flower bed. Decorating a flower bed with plastic bottles is an interesting and exciting activity. The fence can be both multi-colored and monophonic, the flower bed itself is simple in shape or intricately indented, flat or multi-level.
Bottles dug around the perimeter of the flower garden - a finished fence
high flower beds
A higher design can be organized using the "woodpile" method. The height of such a flower bed is limited only by the desires of the gardener. In a kind of plastic "wells" you can confidently plant even plants with creeping roots, since the margin of safety of the structure is quite solid. Ordinary glue can be used as a fastening material, although many craftsmen prefer to heat-weld the structure in one piece. For such work, even a gas burner is not required, just enough heat from a candle or soldering iron.
Artistic cutting and heating turns a plastic bottle into a work of art
Those who decide to aim at complex forms will have to work a little harder. Making a flower bed from plastic bottles in the form of a ball or a boat requires preliminary cutting of the bottoms, which will require a lot. The main difficulty lies in finding the most original form for such a cavity. As a support, you can take an ordinary children's ball. Pre-prepared bottoms, which can also be pre-painted, are fastened in contact with the ball. After the volume is laid out and dried, it is enough to blow off the ball and return it to the children. The question of how to make a spherical flower bed out of bottles has been resolved. The bottom of the structure is laid out with a dense film that prevents soil from spilling out, and flowers can be planted. The same structure can also be used as large vase, as it will hold water securely. The design of a flower garden made of plastic bottles can be both plain and colorful.
Lightweight and practical plastic allows you to build a wide variety of shapes
For greater structural strength, you can cement the base of a kind of fence, but in this case the flower bed will already be stationary, and serious dismantling of the foundation will be required to transfer it to another place. An unsecured model is less durable, but also more mobile. Such a flower bed made of plastic bottles is easy to disassemble. Just don't be in a hurry to throw it away. construction material". The bottles have not lost their shape, it is enough to wash them and carefully put them away until next spring. The winter months are enough to come up with an even more original design for an exclusive flower garden.
Flower beds from plastic bottles in the photo
Hanging flower beds and planters
Hanging cups with greenery perfectly mask nondescript walls of garden buildings.
In addition to the flower beds, the vertical surfaces of the garden can be decorated with decorative planters made of the same material. Plastic is simply cut with the most ordinary knife, turning into a real work of art in the hands of a master. Mini pots of various shapes fixed on ropes or chains are a great opportunity not only to place your favorite bindweeds and marigolds in a variety of ways, but also to cover the nondescript wall of an agricultural building with them. The only thing required condition design - the presence of a hole for rainwater runoff. This will keep the soil from rotting. The holes for the tapes that hold the cups themselves can be punched with a regular paper hole punch.
So miniature homemade flower beds even children can make plastic bottles, and the process will give them a lot of fun. The only danger is the possibility of injury from the sharp edges of the plastic, about which children must be warned in advance. However, this risk remains when planting flowers, but it is easy to prevent it by edging the cut edge of the bottle with insulating tape or tape. The first one will also play the role of a decorative border, thanks to the range of colors offered by manufacturers.
Hello dear gardeners! The topic of today's material is interesting to everyone and always relevant. It is probably familiar to many, but still I hope to surprise you.
Today, everything is sold in plastic bottles: water, lemonade, milk ... Of all the garbage that we accumulate, the most voluminous are the bottles: you put one in the trash can - and that's it: consider half a bucket occupied. And what is it like in the country! In many holiday villages, there are simply no garbage containers. There is only one way out: either take all this “good” to the city, to the nearest container, or somehow use what cannot be processed in country conditions.
Logical question: how plastic bottles can be used on the farm to be both useful, and convenient, and beautiful? That's what we'll talk about.
By the way, information sheet: plastic decomposes in water 100 to 500 years(according to different sources and depending on the type of plastic).
We have few factories that process waste, so people themselves find interesting application simple and seemingly completely unnecessary things.
Plastic bottles in garden decor
If you wish, you can create such beauty - the neighbors will envy! Want to decorate your garden without spending too much? See if there are empty plastic bottles in your country house.Beautiful neat flower beds
Plastic bottles can be used to protect flower beds. The benefits here are obvious: flower beds and beds are not washed away by showers, they always look neat and pleasing to the eye. I think it looks great ... How to make such a flower bed?
Of course, you will need a lot of bottles (preferably the same size). We pour sand into them, close them and begin to build a "palisade". Bottles will have to be dug a little into the ground to give them stability. After the flower bed is fenced, paint the resulting border in any color. In principle, you can do this in advance - as you wish. But it seems to me that it is more convenient to paint an already finished fence than each bottle individually. And dark plastic containers can be left as they are, it also looks pretty. An example of the performance and opinions of summer residents on this method of using bottles, see the materials:
Flowers, palm trees, butterflies and other "tropics"
The beauty is indescribable. Turn on your imagination, wake up your fantasy and create all kinds of flowers in your garden that will never fade or rot)).
To make it clearer how to make something out of bottles (for example, flowers), let's look at an example.
What may be needed:
- plastic bottles of different colors;
- scissors, awl, thick threads;
- PVA glue and "Master";
- acrylic paints;
- candle;
- wire;
- beads, beads - for decoration.
The stem is best made from thick wire. The stamens are made of thin wire, on which beads can be strung. It remains only to assemble the whole thing, fastening it with glue, using an awl and wire if necessary. Just look how beautiful the result is!
Palm trees, bells, butterflies and other things are also easy to make. For example, the trunk of a palm tree is easy to build from brown plastic bottles, cutting off the lower part of each and stringing the bottles one on top of the other. Fantasy and everything will turn out! Want more cool ideas? Then take a look at the article:
Cute animals for the garden
No one is made from bottles. The simplest, perhaps, is this. All you need is to cut and bend the ears, attach the tail and color it beautifully. However, there are crafts and very complicated ones. For example, animals from fairy tales. I will not describe their production step by step, otherwise the article will turn out to be of galactic proportions. I'd rather just show the video from the slides. From the photo, in principle, you can see what and how to do, it's not difficult to figure it out.How do you like these animals? I think they look great! And if you involve children in the process, they will be delighted!
The tools used are the same as listed above. Paints - not necessarily acrylic. But they dry faster, which is a plus. And they hardly smell. True, they are also different.
Air curtains for the garden
These crafts captivated me precisely with their lightness and unusualness. I’ll specially collect bottles and make such a curtain in my yard! I think you can use bottles of different sizes.
The bottoms will come in handy, but you can also cut the leaves! From a distance it is not very clear what these transparent flowers hang on, but more interesting idea. We look ...
As you can see, you can fasten the flowers with threads, you can glue them to the base (for example, plastic wrap). I think this option is perfect for a gazebo. And it will be light, and the rain will not penetrate. There are a lot of options for curtains from bottles. But I still liked the first one better, and you?
Lamps and chandeliers for the garden
Actually, why not? Buying a lamp for the garden is unprofitable, just hanging a light bulb is ugly. Light from plastic bottles - great option lighting garden plot.Such chandeliers are not ashamed to hang in the house.
Main rule: do not allow plastic parts to come into contact with the light bulb, otherwise they may melt. True, you can use an energy-saving lamp, it heats up less - up to +50 ... + 60 ° C.
Girls! If you don’t know how to attach the light bulb itself, leave this matter to husbands, brothers or fathers ... From you - creativity, from them - a lighting element \u003d)))
bottle garden path
I recently wrote about garden paths in the article. But there was nothing about bottles, only about their caps. It turns out that a good path is obtained from the bottoms, along which it is pleasant to walk barefoot. note: the bottoms are laid on loose sand, the master must make an effort to fill them with sand. This will prevent their deformation in the future when you walk around them.Household supplies from plastic bottles
That's where the expanse is ... If you think that garden decor from bottles is not for you, perhaps you will be interested in useful things that can be made from them.Wash basins and boxes
The easiest option is to hang upside down the bottle, and when you need to wash your hands, just turn off the cap a little. It is better to cut off the bottom of the bottle and make it removable so that it is more convenient to pour water. There is nothing complicated here, even a child can handle it. Such a washbasin can be hung on a tree or somewhere else. By the way, use this idea when you go on a picnic - it's very convenient, and your hands are always clean.
It is advisable to make a homemade washbasin closeable so that leaves, insects and other debris do not get into the water. There are also more complex designs. You can, for example, embed a hose with a tap into a large bottle. But this is to be quite convenient.
Or you can make a box for bags, napkins or something similar out of a bottle.
Scoops and shovels
Making a scoop with your own hands is easy. Take the bottle and mark the shape of the future scoop with a marker. Next is the case of scissors. Well, or a knife.
Slippers
These are shoes that wear out pretty quickly. Therefore, durable and beautiful slippers on the farm will always come in handy. No, no, don't think that bottle slippers are just scoops with heels =))). I would like to see it ... Although simple options is also there. For example, this one:A more complex version looks like this:
Of course, it is not necessary to make such bouquets. But in general, slippers are excellent. In order not to slip, and the leg feels comfortable, you can experiment with “layers”. How to make holes? Yes, even a hole punch! And if there are men in the house, let them solve this problem.
And from plastic bottles you can make very useful large containers for household needs:
Devices for repelling rodents and insects
There are many different ones. I will only talk about the mole repeller and the mosquito trap.Let's start with the trap
Make it very easy. Cut off the top of the bottle and insert it into the bottom with the neck down. The design must be darkened with paper or cloth - mosquitoes will be more likely to fly there.
Pour into the bottom of the bottle as bait sugar yeast syrup. Easy to make: pour hot water, add sugar and yeast there, stir and cool. Such a trap will attract not only mosquitoes, but also bees, wasps, flies.
You can put the structure on the window or hang it - this is optional. It needs to be cleaned once a week.
By the way, I don’t know why the syrup is brown in the photo - maybe from cane sugar?))) Or maybe it’s kvass. By the way, yes - insects also fly to kvass. Somehow they left a jar of kvass on the porch, so many midges flocked there!
Wind vane repelling moles and more
These devices were described in detail in the article. There is also a video - you can see how to make such a design, how it works. Ask what scares him? At the bottom of the bottle, it is advised to pour beads, balls from bearings and other “rattling” elements. They say that the sound that this windmill makes is not tolerated by moles. Who has moles? Try it, then unsubscribe here, agreed?
Yes, the axis on which the craft is attached must be stuck into the ground - I think you understand.
About the fact that some use bottles, I think you already know. The bottom and throat of the bottle are cut off - a cylinder is obtained, which is dug into the ground. Such a cover protects the root system of a young plant from attacks by a bear.
Tool boxes
For these purposes, rectangular bottles are more suitable. For example, from under machine oils. However, there are also water bottles of this shape. Containers are made simply: mark with a marker, cut. Everything =))
These boxes can be very useful in the household.
Device for deep watering plants and their night heating
Some plants do not like surface watering. Therefore, my mother waters some beds with plastic bottles.You need to cut off the bottom of the bottle, but not completely, to get something like a cap. We tear the earth on the side of the plant, make a small trench and put pebbles there. Drainage is needed so that water does not erode the soil. Then we put the bottles with their necks down and lay them on the ground. Now, to water the plant, all you need is to open the lid and pour the right amount of water. Here, look how our summer residents use plastic containers.
Some people dig in containers upside down, but then you need to make holes in the bottle so that the water leaves.
As for heating plants, you can simply pour water into bottles and put them over the plant. In the sun, the water will heat up and will give off heat to the earth for some time. I know that glass bottles are also dug into the ground, but today we are talking about plastic.
Garden knee pads
It is generally contraindicated for many people to work bending over, this is especially true for hypertensive patients. But how then to weed the garden? Yes, I'll tell you about the knee pads. If you work on your knees, your head will no longer be down, therefore, your well-being will not suffer.All you have to do is find the right bottles, fit them to your knees and cut the knee pads to the desired shape. Then attach the ties. Everything is simple.
Flower pots
And what only pots from plastic bottles do not exist! Some simply pour earth into bottles, others make real masterpieces. The possibilities are endless. What's good: the bottles can always be painted in any color and hung anywhere. For example, what do you think of these ideas?
Very cute, and you will not immediately guess what the pots are made of.
Candlestick
I made my first candlestick from a plastic bottle back in primary school, at the lesson of labor. It's simple. Cut off the neck and bottom of the bottle (about half the bottle). Then cut the part with the bottom into strips and bend them. And inside you insert the part with the neck. She will hold the candle. In general, it's easy.
But this is only one of the options, you can connect two necks.
Broom
Instead of a thousand words, I will show one video.Why buy a broom when you can make one in half an hour?
Funnels
On the farm, from time to time there is a need to pour something from one container to another. Not necessarily something edible - it happens, and diluted fertilizer, and poison for Colorado beetles ... Do not use a funnel from the kitchen for such purposes! And you can make a funnel from a bottle at any time.
Bird feeders
We fed the birds in these all winter. Bottles used large, 5-liter. I cut out windows in them, made small “thresholds” and “porches”. So that it was comfortable for the birds to sit, and the snow did not sweep inside. Another plus is that it is convenient to hang such feeders on trees, they already have handles.
Buildings made from plastic bottles
These are not funnels with pots, but something more serious. Entrepreneurial people can build something out of anything. Plastic bottles, for example, make excellent greenhouses and gazebos.Greenhouses from plastic bottles
A finished medium-sized greenhouse costs more than 15 thousand rubles. I know for sure, because I was interested in this issue. Add to that the cost of assembly. Not everyone can figure out what's what. But there is an alternative that is not inferior in performance and will cost you ... only 500-700 empty plastic bottles! =))The plastic from which the bottles are made is 20 times stronger than dense polyethylene. It keeps the temperature perfectly, does not melt in the sun and can last for decades. Greenhouse made of plastic bottles there are a number of advantages:
- she is cheap;
- durable;
- easily repaired;
- light in weight, it can be rearranged if necessary;
- looks pretty cute.
I took a look at different sites and realized that there are 2 main ways to use plastic bottles in construction:
- The bottom of each bottle is cut off. A thin rail is taken and all the bottles are strung on it. Get ready-made building strips.
- The bottom and neck of the bottles are cut off. Then what happened - the middle part - is cut along. It turns out a rectangular piece of plastic. We iron it with an iron (necessarily through hard paper) to level it. From such sheets we sew more sheets. Overlap preferably. You can use an awl; for fastening parts - cord thread or wire. It is not recommended to sew with thread or fishing line - the seams will quickly rot and disperse.
When the sheets (slats) are ready, you can make a frame. It is made from ordinary wooden bars with a hammer and nails. Form - any. You can - a house, you can - a triangle. And then we attach what we made from bottles to the frame. In the first case, the planks should be placed as close to each other as possible so that the wind does not walk. Well, you can always stick it with tape. In general, you'll figure it out!)) And in the second case, ready-made plates from plastic bottles are simply nailed to a wooden frame.
Important point- roof. In general, a good frame is able to withstand a rather heavy weight, but knowledgeable people advise covering the roof not with bottles, but with polycarbonate sheets. Or something to strengthen for the winter - suddenly it will pile up a lot of snow. Here is another interesting post
Used plastic and glass bottles can gain new life if you try to make flower beds from plastic bottles with your own hands. Of course, a large "army" of bottles should not be kept at home, because with their help you can make flower beds and crafts for the garden with your own hands in a couple of days. You will learn how to decorate a garden or make a path to the house from plastic bottles below.
Flower beds from used raw materials have many positive sides. The most important thing is the availability of the material, because almost every family buys drinks in plastic or glass containers. Secondly, the craft made does not allow perennial plants to grow randomly, that is, beyond strictly allotted limits. Weeds also have a hard time getting past the plastic barrier. This will save you time on spring work when planting and weeding a garden or flower bed. Thirdly, a flower garden with plastic fencing does not allow the soil to dry out.
Another very important advantage such a fence - the ability to replace any fragment of the structure when it fails. Plastic is a material that does not decompose naturally, so reuse is more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It is not difficult to make such a structure in the garden with your own hands, since plastic is easily cut and dug into the ground.
What are the types of structures
To date, there are a lot of options for decorating the border of a flower bed or flower garden with plastic bottles. Using PET raw materials and your imagination, you can make a fence of almost any shape and size. Most often, crafts are made in the form:
- circle;
- rectangle;
- square.
Of course, you can get more creative and make something in the form of a designer in the shape of a butterfly, sun or any other shape, since plastic will endure everything.
It is easiest to work with bottles of the same shape and color. However, you can also make a multi-colored flower garden by alternating PET bottles in a certain sequence so that the design is neat and attractive. Types of placement of plastic bottles to form a flower garden: vertical crafts, horizontal crafts.
Video "Instructions for making a flower bed"
Video instruction on how to make a flower bed yourself.
Flower bed installation process
A vertical fence is most often used as a border for an existing flower bed, while a horizontal structure is created along with the flower bed. Making a vertical craft is much easier as the shape of the bottle matches the overall theme of the design. Before installation, stickers are removed from the bottle, then it must be washed and dried. To make the structure more stable, sand can be poured into the tank. The installation of the fence takes place in two stages:
- Determination of boundaries and their marking. At this stage, we determine the shape and boundaries of the flower garden, make a sketch on paper, and then measure the required distance along the perimeter and form a groove 8-10 cm in depth. The width must correspond to the diameter of the bottom.
- Filling a PET bottle. The container is filled with sand, pebbles or any other filler and set butt to each other along the marked contour. Thus, flower beds are formed from plastic bottles. vertical type for the garden with their own hands.
Placing PET bottles horizontally is a little more difficult than the previous option, as some skills and auxiliary materials are required. Such a barrier looks very beautiful, and its protective functions are much stronger. As additional materials For registration, you need a base and fasteners. A cement substance is often used as a fastening material, and an old leaky barrel or a used tire can be taken as a base. flower bed borders this case determined by the base diameter. The base is covered with fastening material to the thickness of the neck, while the plugs must be removed.
The cement substance is prepared from cement and sand in a ratio of 1 to 2. If possible, you can use ready-made assembly adhesive. We start to apply the solution and fix the bottles from the bottom, gradually rising to the top, since each circle acts as the basis for the next row. Strive to do everything carefully and carefully, especially with the first bottom layer. We form each row of crafts after the previous one dries. To decorate the last row of bottles, use moss, pebbles, or special decorative elements for the garden and flower beds. So, according to the type of designer, you can decorate the courtyard with your own hands personal plot used plastic bottles.
How to arrange a decorative component
Once the fence is installed, the main part of the work can be considered completed. In principle, such a flower garden will more than perform its protective and enclosing function, however, you can show your imagination and decorate the resulting structure. To do this, you can use multi-colored paint, pebbles, or make various figures from plastic with your own hands, for example, tulips. To do this, the neck of the bottle is cut off in the form of a flower petal, and then each flower is painted with acrylic paints. With such a decor, hand-made flowers will look bright both in warm weather and in winter.
Video "Master Class"
A master class on how to make an original flower bed with your own hands using plastic bottles.
There are a lot of options for arranging flower beds with your own hands. We can say that ideas for decorating a personal plot are born every day. great way make it free and practical - collect it from empty bottles. Plastic packaging decomposes in natural conditions for more than 100 years - for environment real disaster. But as a material for a free fence - a real find!
An example of a fence for a garden bed made of plastic bottles
If a large number of bottles have accumulated at home, their place is in the country as an original fence for flowers or beds.
From seemingly useless garbage, you can make a fence, which has the following useful characteristics:
If we talk about the shortcomings of the fence made of plastic bottles, this is a small mechanical strength.
Decor option for a garden fence made of plastic bottles
To make the fence more reliable, the bottles are tightly packed with sand or earth.
Options for using bottles in a fence
There are many ways to arrange a flower bed with bottles. The fence can be from a whole container, from bottles cut into strips. The shapes, sizes and configuration of the fence are limited only by your imagination.
Vertically arranged bottles
The easiest and most obvious way to make a flower bed with your own hands is to install plastic bottles vertically:
The main advantage of this method is that with its help you can easily arrange an existing flower bed. To make the fence look solid and neat, it is best to use the same type of two or one and a half liter bottles.
Different bottles are best used with system alternation. A multi-tiered flower bed made of dug plastic bottles will look beautiful.
You can make a border for flowers from plastic bottles without a neck. In this case, the ditch can be made shallow 5-7 cm. The bottles are stuffed with earth and buried along the marking line. Bottles can be painted any color you like. Acrylic paint is most suitable for these purposes, it fits best on plastic and is more durable. Light transparent bottles can be painted from the inside by pouring paint into it and shaking the container well. So the paint will not be affected by precipitation.
Horizontal arrangement
More complex and costly is the horizontal masonry method. The height of the fence in this case may vary, outwardly such a fence looks more solid and solid. Used to hold plastic bottles cement mortar. Also, for a flower bed, you will need a base, such as a cut barrel or a car tire. The bottles will gather around this base, forming a round flower bed.
Stages of work:
Mini flower beds from plastic bottles
Small flower beds can be broken right in the bottle.
Original mini-flower bed made of plastic bottles
For example, large bottles of drinking water are well suited for this. There are a lot of ideas for decorating such mini-flower beds. Crafts for the garden can be made in the form of piglets, hedgehogs and so on. These flower beds look very cute, are easy to make with your own hands and can be moved from place to place.
The job usually requires a minimum of tools:
- scissors;
- paints;
- brushes;
- various details for decoration.
Plastic bottles are used by craftsmen in a variety of life situations. One of the ways to use them - the creation of fences for flower beds - has found a lot of followers among the owners of private houses and household plots. Such borders look interesting, adequately perform the functions of organizing the shape of flower beds, and even do not burden the budget. In addition, the creation of flower beds from plastic bottles allows you to solve the problem of recycling without negative consequences for the environment.
Border made of plastic bottles - a budget and very worthy optionAdvantages of flower beds from plastic bottles
Flowerbeds made of plastic bottles will fit well into any garden. Such fences have a number of advantages:
- Plastic fences for competent installation turn out pretty solid. As a result, root system perennial plants do not break through the plastic barrier, which greatly facilitates the work of caring for them.
- Bottle fences help maintain the moisture level in the ground.
- Maintaining such a fence in working condition is quite simple. If one of the elements is damaged, it is easy to replace it with another one without touching the "neighbors".
- Thinking about the shape of the flower bed, the gardener is practically unlimited: due to the use of rather small elements, the future flower garden can be determined by absolutely any contours.
- It is known that the plastic from which the bottles are made does not decompose for decades. This means that the fence of them can last a long time.
The sequence of making a flower bed
simple plastic bottle border
If you have not tried to build flower beds from plastic bottles with your own hands, you should try to start small. We offer step by step master class for making borders from plastic bottles with your own hands for beginners. Of course, first of all, you need to prepare the material that will be needed for the fence.
Material for creating a flower bed - ordinary plastic bottles If the container has different shades, the result may seem untidy, and the outline may be blurry. However, over time, having mastered this science, you can learn how to build flower beds from bottles of different shades and different sizes.
- Remove paper stickers from all bottles. In addition, the containers must be washed and dried.
- It is desirable to paint the container, and this can be done in several ways. The easiest is to apply paint to the surface of each bottle. However, such a coating will gradually be washed off by rain, cracking in frost. It is better to paint the container from the inside - pour a little inside each container acrylic paint and shake well. Another way is to pour colored sand or pebbles inside and screw the lid on securely.
- Sand as bottle filler good way make them heavier and more stable. A fence made of such elements will be stronger.
- The elements of the fence prepared in this way can be dug into the ground along the marked contour. The depth of the bookmark can be from 1/2 to 2/3 of the height of the bottle. You can measure the depth, focusing on the height of the bottom, which should rise above the ground. To organize straight sections, it is convenient to use a pre-stretched cord.
- It is important that the next element of the border is dug close to the previous one in order to avoid the appearance of cracks and gaps.
- If the prepared bottles are pre-cut off the body by 1/3 of the height, the groove for the fence can be made smaller.
The design of the bottle border can be very different. Plastic borders need to be looked after: wash off the dirt from them while watering the flower beds. Otherwise, such fences will be covered with dust, and the whole composition will take on an untidy look.
Two-story flower bed
Having mastered the method of constructing simple flower beds, you can try to make a two-level flower garden out of bottles. Such a structure will allow you to streamline the plants, raise them above the ground, make the garden picturesque and cozy. In addition, multi-level structures look good near the house, they are ideal for decorating a small area.
For such a flower bed, you must first dig the container along the contour of the first main tier. Then fill up the entire area bounded by the curb, drainage and earth, to the very bottom of the bottles. Then build the next tier, also covering it with earth. You get an interesting two-level flower bed, which will diversify the flower garden.
Climbing or carpet plants can be planted in a two-level flower bed along the edges. Further, closer to its middle, flowers of medium height are planted. In the center of the structure, the plants that will rise above the flowering carpet look most spectacular - irises, phloxes, dahlias. Photos of such flower beds will allow you to find your own version of the ideal composition.
The arrangement of bottles in several levels expands the possibilities graceful swan
A fascinating activity is to build a swan flowerbed out of plastic containers with your own hands. First you need to cut out the neck of a noble bird according to a plywood template. It is important that the size of this detail is proportional to the size of the swan's body, the contours of which will be made in the form of a flower bed. Burrs on the plywood part should be cleaned with emery cloth and painted. Then you need to draw the eyes and beak.
On the ground, you need to draw the outline of a flower bed - a circle or an oval, digging prepared bottles around the entire circumference. In the place where the swan should have a neck, you need to leave a small gap. Then dig in a piece of wood. In order for the neck to hold well and not fall, it can be fastened to the border with electrical tape.
If there is a desire to create a white swan, then the wooden neck and bottles must be painted white. You can also make a black bird or a pair of swans by painting the flower beds in contrasting colors. Now you can fill the soil in the flower garden and plant the plants.
Garden swans will be a wonderful decoration suburban area Mosaic - garden decoration
Flowerbeds that are made entirely of plastic bottles look good, and even a beginner can build them. At the same time, plastic containers are a fairly convenient material to use. Mosaic for the design of the site in the country will require a large number source material, but making it quite interesting. Follow the instructions step by step following our recommendations.
For the manufacture of mosaics, bottles of various colors are selected, or pre-painted, as indicated above. With their help, whole pictures of a mosaic type are created: animals, insects, landscapes, etc. The “ladybug” motif is ideal for a summer cottage.
Mosaic flowerbed - a wide field for fantasy The composition execution scheme is created in advance, drawing it on paper, like a pattern for cross-stitching. Then think clearly color solution paintings and count the number of bottles of each color needed to create the composition. In order not to miss anything, it is necessary to act, observing the following technology:
- Prepare a calculated number of plastic bottles. Color them in red (the back of the insect), black (antennae and dots on the wings), white (eyes) colors.
- Choose a place for the mosaic, make the contours of the future ladybug.
- On the entire area bounded by the contour, pour an additional layer of earth. Build a small elevation out of it.
- Tamp the ground, then apply an arrangement of elements to it.
- Along the entire border, you need to lay out stones that will highlight the mosaic, create a restrictive outline.
- Only after these preparations can you start laying out the mosaic. To do this, you need to choose painted bottles of the desired color and screw them into the ground in the marked areas.
In the same way, an impromptu lake can be made in the country. To create it, you need to outline the contour of an irregular rounded shape inherent in a natural reservoir, overlay it with stones that need to be painted white. The entire area of \u200b\u200bthe "lake" is filled with bottles painted with blue paint. The whole composition will come to life if you put figures of herons in the "water", place artificial lotus flowers on the surface of an unusual lake.
Such images look beautiful on the site and make it special, different from others. At the same time, special costs will not be required, except for the purchase of paint. First, you can try to build a small flower garden, limited by a colored plastic border. If successful, try to complete the task more difficult, lay out a mosaic image from this material.
