Interest in landscape design among lay people is constantly growing. Each summer resident wants to comfortably equip a place of rest, flower beds, have a pond. Making garden decor with your own hands is quite easy from improvised materials. It will be quite budgetary, but at the same time spectacular and original. Ideas come in all sorts - from miniature sculptures for flower beds to furniture and swings. So look, choose, embody.
DIY garden decor from improvised materials
If you show imagination, then decorations for your site can be made from almost everything, even from old unnecessary things that can no longer be used for their intended purpose. Usually, dishes, pots, jugs with slightly broken edges, shabby, burnt, leaky basins, pots, vases, barrels, and even furniture are used.
Any materials are used, both of natural origin - rods, driftwood, stones, bark, and artificial - broken ceramic tiles, old car tires (tires), plastic and glass containers (bottles, containers) and much more. The main thing is to show imagination and work hard.
Making beautiful flower containers
The simplest and at the same time spectacular and attractive garden decor with your own hands can be made from any old unused containers. They are placed both without any decorations and complemented with ornaments or other drawings made with waterproof paints.
If you like the rustic style, find in the attic or ask your neighbors for iron pots , jugs, clay pots. Usually, old things all remain somewhere. Even if their edge is beaten off or the bottom is leaky, they can still decorate the flower garden or resting place. Just arrange them so that defects are not visible.
You can plant flowers in any containers. Do not forget that they will have to be watered more often, since the earth in them dries faster. Original cache-pots, including hanging ones, can be made from any old vessel (pots, dishes, basin). Some even paint water barrels, giving them a spectacular decorative look. You can turn them into funny characters or make a beautiful landscape on the surface.
How to make a pond and a mini-pond
A fountain, a pond, a waterfall is the dream of many summer residents. It’s not so difficult to make such a decor of a garden plot with your own hands as it seems. It is enough to act on the same principle as described in the previous section. Only the container should be larger and without holes (at least in the lower half of the volume). Better if you find a basin, bath or cistern. Pouring water, putting stones, or even putting decorative flowers is easy. The main thing is that your mini-pond does not turn into a swamp. To do this, you need to constantly change the water, cleaning the tank of sludge that has appeared, and even better, use special products (algaecides) to combat algae. However, when buying them, pay attention to whether the composition is used in ponds with plants or fish, if you are going to breed them.
It is worth noting that you can simply raise the capacity above the ground or dig it on the same level with the surface. In any, even a small pond, it is easy to put a fountain. Now quite budget models are on sale. The main thing when installing it is that the water does not splash outside the pond bowl. If there is no water left in it, the fountain pump will burn. As for plants, they can be purchased and artificial. It is cheaper and easier. Water lilies and lilies from non-wetting material look quite impressive and natural.
We use stones
If you have already decided to organize a reservoir, it is worth saying that you can make a spectacular garden decor with your own hands from ordinary boulders or river pebbles . Photos clearly demonstrate this. Not only the coastline is decorated with stones, but they also frame the flower garden, recreation areas, and also perform separate compositions - rockeries. They are also often supplemented with special ground cover, dwarf, alpine plants. Some people like to paint stones with acrylic paints, giving them the appearance of animals, insects, birds, fairy-tale characters.
Another effective way to create something unique in your garden is to organize a dry pond. It does not require such complicated care as usual. The meaning of this solution is that with the help of a certain arrangement of stones, the channel of the brook or the bottom of the reservoir is imitated. Using pebbles of different shades and shapes, they create the effect of depth or flow movement. Some even cover the stones with a special composition that gives them shine. Also use artificial filling with pebbles or glass balls (transparent or blue) to simulate droplets and splashes. It turns out very effectively.
Decoration from broken ceramic tiles
From the rejection of porcelain tiles, they also create an interesting garden decor with their own hands. The photographs show how many different ornaments can actually be made from waste. If you do not have unnecessary tiles, the material can be purchased at a low price in any store specializing in porcelain. Very often, entire boxes deteriorate (prick, break) during transportation. It happens that they bring simply defective products, for example, with slightly chopped corners. You can’t put such a thing on the wall, but in the garden - quite.
Tiles are used for laying tracks, framing flower beds and making various decorative elements. The material is usually used in combination with cement mortar or gypsum. From broken porcelain tiles make decorations for the surfaces of tables, benches, balls, flower containers and much more.
DIY plaster garden decor
Volumetric objects are made from this material or used to decorate flat surfaces. Making yourself small sculptures, decorative balls, tiles, planters is not so difficult. There are two ways to work:
- Pour a creamy aqueous solution of gypsum or alabaster into molds.
- Sculpt from a thick mass.
It is worth remembering that gypsum hardens very quickly, so you need to perform all the manipulations in a short period of time. Usually sour cream-like mass becomes completely solid in 10-20 minutes, a maximum of half an hour, depending on the size of the product. Gypsum is convenient because any decor can be applied to its surface in a liquid state (pebbles, shells, balls, broken glass or porcelain tiles). After hardening, all small pieces of jewelry will be one with the base. It looks very impressive. All products made of gypsum or alabaster should be coated with weather-resistant varnish. So jewelry will last longer and will not lose their original beauty.
Weave a fence, or a flower garden fence from twigs
Usually, willow vine is used for such products, but it must be harvested at a certain time of the year and using special technology. Although you can make a similar garden decor with your own hands from the branches of any trees. The main thing is to weave the object until the material has dried out and remains flexible. If you don’t have the opportunity to do something big, do a short “fence” around the flower bed. By the way, such a rural-style composition can be supplemented with an old unnecessary basket.
We use car tires (tires)
If you still have worn rubber from the wheels of the car, it is quite possible to let it go and make an unusual decor of the garden plot with your own hands. Photos clearly demonstrate how various objects can be made from this material. Flowerpots look especially interesting . If they are coated with white waterproof paint, they will look like gypsum containers.
In general, almost everything is made of tires: animals, birds, children's horizontal bars and swings, tables and chairs, fences. Show your imagination and patience - and you can make original jewelry from what others have taken to the trash.
As you can see, it’s quite simple to make garden decor with your own hands from affordable, inexpensive and often no longer used for other purposes. Choose ideas, fantasize, complement the options you see. Turn your summer cottage into a cozy vacation spot.