To create beauty with your own hands, you do not need to have a lot of money. Especially if a person has unbridled imagination and skillful hands. An example of this is the original scenery for the garden, with their own hands created on the site.
Topiary - art pruning of bushes
Today it is considered very fashionable to decorate the landscape without the use of artificial materials. It is on this that the new trend in the design of territories, topiary, is based. With this technique, do-it-yourself garden decorations can be created from green spaces: shrubs, tree crowns, ivy-wrapped frames. The designer cuts off excess branches with garden scissors , forming real sculptures from plants: a horse in motion or a fairy-tale character, a girl or a wild animal collecting water from a reservoir.
Junk - to the point!
You can create figures for the garden with your own hands from improvised material that is prepared for disposal in the trash. For example, from old flower pots an original decoration is obtained, which has an additional function - a scarecrow that repels birds and rodents. After all, a funny “peasant” with a fishing rod in his hands, who has potted “joints” ringing in the wind, will be pleasing to the eyes, but frightening for animals and birds.
We decorate the garden with the children!
Involving children in this business is also very beneficial. Do-it-yourself garden decoration helps to reveal their creative potential, develops imaginative thinking, work skills, patience, perseverance and a sense of beauty. And a variety of waste will be used: plastic containers, old tires from cars, broken furniture and even parts of broken toys. You can build such wonderful decorations for the garden with your own hands together with the children that they will be proud of them in adulthood. To perform them, first prepare the plastic mass of gypsum or cement. You can also add to it the garbage that "keeps its shape" - broken glass, glands, stones and bricks. Then the frame is molded or cast in the form of a parallelepiped, a cube, a cone - it all depends on what character is thinking of making. Further, on the frame, the designer directly forms the figure itself from pure gypsum or clay. You can decorate the “sculpture” on a still damp surface, sticking on it wheels from cars or parts of “Lego”, buttons, parts of broken hairpins or jewelry.
Pond decoration
Artificial ponds and pools require special attention. Here you should do the decorations for the garden with your own hands of such a plan that they not only decorate the landscape, but also perform any other functions. For example, you can build something that casts a good shadow: a sculpture of a huge bird with wings in its wings, a “fungus” or a figurine of a gnome with a huge umbrella. Pergolas in the form of fabulous miniature houses, magnificent imitations of ancient cast-iron benches, “rocks” from natural cobblestones, “tea tables” made from hemp look great next to ponds. It is only necessary to adhere to the general direction in design. It is foolish to put a white plaster sculpture next to a cheerful smiling mushroom imitating the masterpieces of antiquity. However, each talented artist himself feels the best way for him to apply his abilities.