At the beginning of the very first warm spring days, each owner of a personal plot has a manic desire to turn his garden into a real fairy tale of landscape design. Lovely fences, decorative fountains and blooming flower beds made with love with your own hands will bring bright colors to the picture of any garden, and the use of old automobile tires for this purpose will add originality. In addition, such beauty will cause envy among all neighbors. Here's how to make a flowerbed from a tire, we’ll talk today. Exclusive compositions made from this waste material are created without any special effort or expense. The most original flower beds from old tires that are found in the gardens are flowerpots in the form of birds of paradise and exotic animals.
How to make a flowerbed for flowers
In order to decorate your garden, you need only a few old car tires, a sharp knife or a jigsaw, brute masculine strength, a bit of free time, a lot of enthusiasm, a mountain of ideas and, of course, your imagination. If everything is prepared, you can start!
How to make a flowerbed from a tire
We offer not very experienced landscape gardener-designers to start with flowerpots that are simple in technique. The most suitable option is to simply wash the old tire, paint it bright and dig it into the ground (or fix it on the wall). To make your flower garden look more presentable, use several tires at once. Set them on top of each other or make an alpine slide, each wheel painted in its own color. Each woman can build such flowerpots, since there is absolutely no need for male physical strength. And how to make a flowerbed from a tire more refined and interesting?
Flowerpots in the shape of a flower
This will require the help of the stronger sex, old car tires, a powerful knife (you can use a jigsaw) and a container with plain water or soapy water. The technology itself is very simple. Select any tire (size does not matter), lay it on the ground. First you need to remove its inner rim, as it is too hard. To do this, stick the knife into the sidewall, where the softer and thinner rubber begins, and cut the rim in a circle. We do not need this detail - you can throw it away. Next, make incisions from the center of the tire to the tread to the metal cord - these will be the "petals" of your flower pot. The width and shape of the cuts is determined only by your taste. They can be made triangular, rectangular, semicircular - whatever. Now it remains to unscrew the tire and paint the resulting flowerpot.
How to make a flowerbed from a swan-shaped tire
To begin, cut a strip along the tread from the middle of the tire (a little more than half). It will be the neck. To give it the desired shape, prepare the same strip of tin and connect them together with the help of sturdy. For the manufacture of the head of a swan, use any materials at hand - a tree or a piece of foam. Now it remains only to shape the neck, bend the edges of the tire like wings (you can make incisions on them to make it more realistic) and paint the bird. For stability and beauty, put the resulting swan on another tire. Pre-paint it in blue, simulating a lake. Provided that all the tips are followed, wonderful flowerbeds are obtained with your own hands, the photo of which is presented in the article.