No matter what tricks sometimes the summer residents go, so that their garden looks well-groomed, neat and originally decorated. Creating a flowerbed from plastic bottles is one of the ways to bring new breath to your garden and make it interesting and unusual.
Do it yourself flowerbed
It just seems that creating a flowerbed is a laborious thing. Of course, you will have to work hard, but after all, as they say, “eyes are afraid, but hands do”!
A self-made flowerbed from a plastic bottle is not so complicated. The main thing is to prepare the necessary material and clearly think through the whole algorithm of work.
Why plastic bottles?
The answer is obvious: firstly, because it is the cheapest and most affordable material - plastic bottles in our life are found daily. Secondly, there is a wide scope for realizing one's creative potential - plastic is very malleable, and almost anything can be represented from it. It is not for nothing that they also carry out the design of flowerbeds with plastic bottles. Thirdly, they are strong enough and durable. By the way, with the help of bottles you can make not only a standard flowerbed - round, but also any other. There would be a fantasy! And plastic bottles are a great barrier to annoying weeds and grass.
What will be needed for work
First of all, of course, bottles, the quantity of which directly depends on what size of the flowerbed is planned to be made. It is only important to remember that their shape and volume should be the same - otherwise the product will not look so organic. However, if this is an authorial move, then, of course, the difference in forms and volumes is quite acceptable. As a rule, twenty to twenty-five 1.5-liter bottles are enough for a small flower bed.
Also, to create a flowerbed from plastic bottles, you will need a shovel, enamel paint (if the bottles will be painted), a rope, wire or twine, a pair of interconnected sticks.
Procedure
The first and most important thing is to remove all kinds of stickers from bottles. If they will not easily lag behind, you can resort to the help of water. In addition, in order to avoid deformation of the bottles, care should be taken that they are free of corks. For the same purpose, and so that the flower bed does not lose its original appearance, it is recommended to fill the bottles with sand before installation in the trench. In addition, they will be more sustainable.
And only then it is necessary to tackle the choice of a place in the garden for a flower bed and decide on what shape and size it will be (unless, of course, this was taken care of in advance). When deciding on a place for a flower bed from plastic bottles (they usually choose between the adjoining territory and the plot in the garden), you must carefully weigh the pros and cons regarding this plot, so that subsequently it does not turn out that its location will cause discontent.
The next step - regardless of the shape and size of the flower bed, you need to mark and dig a trench, where the bottles will be placed later. Dug land should not be thrown far away - it will still come in handy.
Simple round flower bed
It is possible to outline the circle along which the trench will be dug, if it is correct. And you can use a kind of compass - to connect two sticks together at the top. So the circle will certainly be even. Another way to align the walls of a flowerbed from plastic bottles is to take something big and round enough: a car tire, a basin, a bicycle rim, and so on, squeeze the bottles around the perimeter of this thing, and then remove it.
In a pre-dug trench in a circle, you need to install pre-filled sand bottles upside down. They do not need to be completely buried, but they also should not stick out much above the ground - about ten centimeters are enough. To dig them in easier, you can pre-lightly water the soil - the main thing is not to make it too wet. When digging up the bottles, it is important to ensure that there is no liquor between them.
"Swan"
The flowerbed "Swan" made of plastic bottles is perhaps one of the most common and unusual garden decorations. It really looks very fresh and original, and to make it with your own hands, special skill is not required.
So, for such a bed of plastic bottles (the photo below shows such a “Swan”) you need: bottles, plywood, white paint. By the way, it is better to take plastic containers not one and a half or two-liter, but a large one, five liters - this looks more impressive. Elements of the future composition must be painted from the inside - pour paint, shake and pour into the next container. Bottles are dug into the ground around a circular perimeter.
From plywood, you need to make the neck of a swan, while it is important to observe the proportions correctly: they must be proportionate to the swan body. The cut neck is cleaned and painted, after which the eyes and beak should be carefully drawn on it. Then the neck must be dug up to a place previously left between the bottles between the bottles and fastened with tape with tape, tape, or any other material. Flowerbed "Swan" is ready!
"Ladybug"
Another popular flowerbed made of plastic bottles (second only to a swan flowerbed, perhaps) is the Ladybug. To create it on your site, you need to get bottles of three different colors - white, red and black (eyes will be white, eyes will be red, wings will be red, heads and spots will be black). At the same time, it is recommended to pick up small containers, preferably not more than one liter.
It is necessary to first measure the outline of the body of a ladybug, along which a trench will then be dug. Bottles of the right color are placed around its perimeter - as usual, with its neck down. They must be tightly packed into the ground. Inside, the flower bed should be well covered with soil.
Flowerbed container
Large plastic bottles can be useful not only for creating a swan, but also for creating the so-called flowerbed container. Such flower beds are made in the form of all kinds of animals - rabbits and mice, hedgehogs and pigs.
The bottle should be placed horizontally and cut a hole of the desired size in the upper part. It is filled with drainage and earth, and then the necessary plants are planted there. However, before placing grass or flowers in a bottle, it is necessary to make any animal out of it. To do this, paint the bottle in a specific color - depending on the chosen animal. Gray is suitable for a mouse or a bunny, pink for a piglet, brown for a hedgehog or bear. Do not forget about the paws and face! A cork should be used as a spout, painting it black. On both sides of the nose, you can draw funny eyes and a mustache, and for the animal to have ears, it is necessary to make incisions on both sides and insert products from cardboard or paper.
Another important point: you must definitely make holes in the bottom of the composition - three to four is enough. Thanks to this action, the soil will breathe, and the water will not stagnate in the roots of the plants planted in the container.
Plastic Bottle Guard
In addition to the main structure itself, you can also make a flowerbed enclosure with plastic bottles. To create such a fence, there are two methods - vertical and horizontal. The first is easier, the second is more original. When mastering the curb from plastic bottles for flower beds in a vertical way, the bottles must be placed in previously dug pits vertically and densely sprinkled with earth, making sure that they fit against each other and to the edges of the flower bed without any gaps. With a horizontal arrangement, the bottles are stacked one on top of the other. In this case, it is necessary to use a much larger number of them, and also be sure to fasten them together (for example, with cement mortar), so that the fence does not subsequently collapse.
Bunk bed
One interesting variety of flowerbed made of plastic bottles is a flowerbed of two tiers. It is being built almost in the same way as a normal one: first, the first "floor" is made, the entire area of which, right up to the top of the bottles, is covered with drainage and earth. And already on top is erected "floor" number two. In principle, it is not forbidden to organize a greater number of levels on a flowerbed - it will look extremely unusual. As a rule, such flower beds are best placed on the territory of the house and in a small area. Saving space, they will allow you to plant a fairly large number of plants.
Flowerbed in a bottle
This is a completely different type of flowerbed, it is also often called a mini-flowerbed. Such flowerbeds will revive any corner of the house, garden, garage, and generally any room, give it brightness and color.
How to make a flowerbed of plastic bottles in the bottle itself? For these purposes, you need strong good scissors, an awl, several washers, and also a rope. In a horizontal bottle, you need to make a hole of the desired size and shape (rectangular, rounded, oval, and so on). Parallel to the length of the hole made, two holes need to be pierced - a rope should be passed through them, and the washers should be fixed at the ends of the hole. Pour drainage with soil into the bottle and plant the plant. It is important not to forget to pierce the bottle from below in several places so that the soil breathes.
Flower bed decoration
From plastic bottles you can make not only the flower beds themselves, but also all kinds of jewelry for them. For example, flowers - making them is not so difficult. At the same time, if you take not transparent bottles, but colored ones, and the products will turn out in very different shades. And you can make a flower of several layers by putting one bottle in another. If you pick up multi-colored bottles, such a figure will look incredibly beautiful.
In order to make a flower, you need to cut the edges of the bottles and bend in the right direction. By the way, the necessary shape of the petals of a bottle flower can be given using ordinary boiling water and tongs.
What plants are suitable for bottles
In this matter, everything depends on the creativity and imagination of the creator of the flowerbed. For example, in a two-tier flowerbed, you can plant climbing plants - on the sides, and in the center - any flowers that will be higher than others in the flowerbed (for example, dahlias or irises).
In a mini-flower bed you can put not only flowers, but also greens - for example, dill and parsley. In tall bottles, flowers like petunias or begonias look good.
Useful Tips
- The layout of the flowerbed is most conveniently carried out using twine.
- To make the flowerbed of plastic bottles for the garden seem brighter, you can use colored bottles. In this case, it is best to paint from the inside - with the external processing method, the bottle will sooner or later lose its color.
- When using containers of different shapes and volumes, it is most desirable to distribute them around the perimeter of a future flowerbed symmetrically.
- In addition to the vertical arrangement, it is possible to place the bottles horizontally - in this case, a certain base will be needed on which it will be possible to fix the bottles with cement mortar.
- To make the border of plastic containers look appropriate, you need to take care of it - wash the dirt off the bottles.
That's the whole answer to the question of how to make a flower bed out of plastic bottles with your own hands. Wisdom is not great, the main thing is the presence of imagination, patience and desire. And everything will certainly work out!