What allows you to at least somehow embellish the gray everyday life? Of course, this is the transformation of your favorite summer cottage. Where you can install flower beds, but you can’t just dig a hole and put them there. You need to choose seedlings or seeds, some decorating materials and to top it off, to give uniqueness, you should choose the right design. You can make borders for flower beds with your own hands, using a little imagination and improvised means for this.
Landscape design
When creating decorative fences for flower beds, it is important that the materials used are combined with the overall design of the site and the house. In addition, they serve as a backup for the earth, protect plants from weeds and parasites. In some cases, the installation of borders is simply necessary, for example, when watering, water remains in the flowerbed and does not flow out onto paths or other beds. It also gives a great view to the plot and goes well with the lawn.
Dug up border
This species is widespread in the UK. To make the borders for flower beds with your own hands, you will need to dig a ditch in the shape of the letter U, thereby separating the flower garden from the lawn or path. We remove the roots, excess earth and other debris from the dug hole and fill it with peat and wood chips. Next, the groove must be leveled and do not forget to sometimes cut the roots of the sod.
Border mosaic
In the manufacture of border mosaics, you can use glass bottles, dishes or ceramic tiles remaining after repair, after breaking it. Stones of different shapes and colors are also great. To make a mosaic, cement should be made and applied to the edge of the flowerbed. Next, we lay out the available means in a random order, based on our own imagination. Do-it-yourself mosaic borders for flowerbeds - a fairly simple option and a unique design solution.
Brick curb
Quite often they create curbs for flower beds with their own hands using bricks, installed in the form of a small round or rectangular fence. The only problem with this method is that this material is short-lived and degrades under the influence of the environment. If possible, it is better to use a more durable facing brick. They must be laid either horizontally or vertically.
Natural stone border
Widespread decor flower beds made of natural stones. To do this, you need to go only to nature and find the necessary materials for work. Sandstone, marble, granite, limestone, any stone that you like is suitable. You can lay it out both with the use of cement, and without it. Use a cement mortar in order not to constantly pull out weeds from the cracks between the stones. To begin with, we select the necessary dimensions of the future border, dig a small groove around and remove the roots of weeds. Next, pour cement solution. From above, in random order, we stack stones as tightly as possible and fill with a solution. If you use only granite, you get a magnificent granite border. The work is not easy, but the result will be great.