There is one good saying: "The garden begins with a fence", this has a certain meaning. This expression is also suitable for flower beds, the edges of which are the boundaries between the elements of the garden landscape, paths, neighboring flower beds, lawns and so on. Beautiful fences play a special role in flowerbeds; they serve both as a fence and as a beautiful decorative element. Aren't you hunting for your garden or flowerbed to look beautiful and well-groomed? Then it is better to do demarcation and learn how to make a decorative fence with your own hands.
Why not buy, but make a fence?
It’s easy to buy a fence, but usually it’s a costly pleasure, and nobody wants to spend a lot of money. The best way out is to devote a day to making a decorative fence with your own hands. If you put your soul into the work, then you will succeed. The first thing you need to do is decide on the materials.
Do not rush to go to a hardware store and buy raw materials, see what you have on the site, lying idle. Perhaps you will find extra boards, mesh, slate or something else? Everything can be used in work if you connect your imagination and give it a field for creativity.
What is the role of the fence?
Why is it needed? Is it worth it to do a decorative fence with your own hands? An important and complex role is assigned to the fence:
- Bordered flower beds look beautiful, neat and well-groomed.
- You can divide the territory into small zones.
- They keep plants from uncontrolled growth.
- You can distinguish the entire territory in one style, and it will look very interesting, beautiful.
- The fenced area is easier to care for, weed, water the plants.
- Protects plants, flowers from accidental damage by pets.
It doesn’t matter whether a decorative wooden fence is made by oneself or whether it was purchased from what material the product was made. Many designers recommend dividing the territory into zones at first, and then engaging in bordering, but gardeners often think about fencing after a broken flower garden. This approach takes place, the main thing is to choose a design in a single style so that the garden looks neat and well-groomed.
Don't forget
Do-it-yourself decorative fences in the garden give the site an originality, make it stylish, but if you don’t have the soul to design the fence, then do not bother with this - it’s easier to buy a ready-made one and install it.
The most important thing is to choose a design that suits the style, budget, and there is plenty to choose from! Yes, you can buy a ready-made standard design, but it’s better to show a little imagination and create a decorative fence with your own hands. You can take traditional materials for the fence and create something interesting and unique. Of course, the masters already have a lot of ready-made simple solutions.
Which materials to choose?
To create a decorative fence with your own hands from improvised materials, you will first need to find out what tools and raw materials can be used in the work. The choice directly depends on the stylistic design, the functions that the fence will perform, on your budget. It is worth considering the most popular materials:
- Tree. Wooden structures just look great on country-style plots, where there are still various carvings, wooden benches, barrels, carts and more. Wood is also an environmentally friendly product, because a wooden fence is suitable not only for flower beds, but also for beds. Is there a drawback to wood? The material is afraid of moisture, and to increase the life of the fence, it will be necessary to cover it with varnish or impregnation, which prevents moisture from destroying the structure of the tree.
- Plastic. This is a convenient material for decoration, in addition, it is inexpensive. It is difficult to make a plastic fence on your own, therefore it is better to buy a ready-made design right away. Fences are often sold in the form of flexible ribbons of various colors and designs. They are characterized by mobility, they can be reused. The main disadvantage is that the material can break down in cold weather. This problem can also be solved - in frosts, fences should be simply hidden in a house or a barn, and installed again next season.
- Metal. Fencing made of this material is durable, and thanks to a special coating, the fence is also not subject to corrosion. Protections from metal differ in reliability, durability. In addition, forged fences always look elegant, stylish and solid.
- Plastic bottles. Many homes have enough of this material in abundance, so why not make decorative fences for flower beds with your own hands, especially if it's so simple. It is enough to take the bottles and dig them into the ground with the bottom up to the depth you require. You can somehow color the bottom beautifully. Another point - the bottles are not afraid of moisture, insects, and the damaged element is easy to replace.
- Brick. Typically, a brick fence has a zigzag shape, but there may be other variations.
- A rock. It is also a common material from which it is very simple to construct a decorative fence with your own hands. All you need to do is dig a shallow trench, lay a sand pillow on the bottom. Stones stack on top of each other, fix everything with concrete mortar. If the fence is needed not high, then you can simply lay it out with beautiful stones without mortar.
- Glass bottles. Bottles are filled with sand, gravel, and then dug into the ground. Glass is considered a fragile raw material, but such a fence will last a long time and will easily endure heat and cold.
Brick fence
You can create a decorative fence with your own hands from anything. For example, take the bricks. Classic fences look strict, neat and beautiful. Designs can be completely different, it depends on the gardener's imagination. In addition to bricks, you may need a masonry mortar, insulation material in your work. Hollows are made around the perimeter of the flowerbed, you will have to remove the sod, remove the soil and deepen the brick. The trench needs to be compacted, lined with a film, and then already lay bricks on it in accordance with the scheme you have chosen. If you need a high fence, then the rows can be fastened with mortar. According to the same principle, fences made of stone or paving slabs are also created.
Advantages of brick fences:
- Borders look neat, beautiful, especially if they are made of colored brick.
- The material is quite durable, so you can do without concreting.
- This is an additional drainage of the earth during a rainfall.
- Prevents plants from growing outside the flowerbed.
Do-it-yourself decorative fences for summer cottages made of bricks also have disadvantages:
- Moisture and temperature changes negatively affect the strength of the material.
- Over time, the brick is covered with moss, mold.
Concrete edging
The concrete edging cannot be called a full-fledged fence, but nevertheless it is often used by gardeners for the visual separation of flower beds. This decision seems formal, but a similar border is very strong and irresistible for many types of weed. In addition, a concrete edging facilitates the mowing process, and a curved shape is used to form beautiful garden paths.
Wall blocks - a great solution for the fence
Do-it-yourself decorative fences are easy to create from improvised materials , especially if you have concrete blocks in your home designed for the construction of any buildings. This material is very durable and ideal for erecting a decorative fence for flower beds.
To attach such blocks simply with building glue, and to form additional containers for plants in the cavities, you can use a metal mesh. Drainage is added to each container of this kind, and then nutrient soil is poured. The height must be at least a couple of elements in height.
Stone fences
Interested in how to make a decorative fence with your own hands at the cottage of stones? It is as simple as that. Suitable for this purpose are stones of various shapes and sizes. They can simply lay out the borders of the flower garden. It will look beautiful, neat and stylish.
Border tape - solution to the problem
Look at the photo of a decorative fence with your own hands, which was formed by a special border tape. It looks neat and beautiful, however, you will need to purchase this material first. On sale now there are a variety of types of special border tape that delimits paths and flower beds. You can find ribbons with an edge, with a cut-through pattern. Installing such a fence is very simple, you only need to purchase scissors, tape measure, stapler, shovel.
It is also worth installing plastic fences imitating a wooden picket.
What are the disadvantages of plastic structures?
Tapes have a lot of advantages, but the solution has some disadvantages:
- Poor plastic quickly loses useful properties, becomes brittle, dull and toxic, and this is not good for the soil.
- The strength of the fence depends on the quality of the material from which it is made.
- The fence does not prevent the spread of weeds.
- The fence has an unnatural appearance (if it is poorly made) and looks artificial.
Wooden fence
It is easy to make a decorative fence made of wood with your own hands, the main thing is to allocate time for this. Wood is the most sought after material in the world. It is very simple to create a frame for a flower garden from a couple of pegs and bars.
An interesting fact: wood is the most environmentally friendly material used to build a fence for a garden plot or garden. It does not harm, does not emit toxins into the soil.
To create a decorative fence from a tree with your own hands is simple, you only need to choose one option. Now thousands of different variations of creating a wooden fence have been developed. There are boardwalk constructions, log borders, low structures, high, horizontal and vertical fences.
As a rule, do-it-yourself decorative fences for flower beds fit very organically into the design, but do not forget that all wooden structures are not durable, and you can increase the life of the fence by processing varnishes and impregnations. Take care of this in advance so that the work does not go down the drain in the future.
Wicker fence - an interesting solution for the garden
This type of fencing is in great demand among gardeners, despite the fact that creating it is not so simple. Weave it, for example, from willow twigs or other smooth, but flexible branches. Yes, you can quickly learn how to weave high fences, but they are often used to arrange beds, strengthen slopes and form vertical landscaping.
Slate fence
Cut slate found in virtually all households. Usually they remain after repair work on the roof. The material simply lies and is waiting in the wings, as it often does not rise to throw out the leftovers. This material can be an excellent basis for creating a fence for beds or flower beds.
Around the perimeter, you will need to dig a shallow trench and drive strong rods into it. Spread pieces of slate of the right size along the border of the flower garden, compact the trench and fill it with soil. By analogy, you can also make a fence from corrugated board.
Living plants are a great way to edge
A flowerbed fence can be made from a low line of hard plants. It will be necessary to select them carefully, because they must meet the established requirements: succumb to the formation of the crown, fight against the spread of weeds, guarantee a dense coating.
Advantages of a live fence:
- The edge is soft, natural and attractive.
- In maintenance, the fence is simple, as, however, in the care.
Bottle Guard
Some people think that creating a bottle fence is the most affordable option. In landscaping, you can use anything you want, the main thing is that in the end result everything looks beautiful, concise and extraordinary. Fences are allowed to be made of plastic bottles, and glass can also be used. If you do not want the vessels to suffer due to temperature changes, humidity, then it is worth filling them with sand in advance and closing.
Pallets - interesting material for the fence
You can take ordinary wooden pallets and create an interesting, original railing. This is suitable for raised gardens, as well as for cottage gardens, rock gardens and other structures in an unconventional style.
Pallets are an unusual material that can be completely different. Of these, you can perform a ground version of the structure or a high fence raised above ground level.
Can novice gardeners do landscape design?
All novice gardeners are quite capable of independently creating interesting fences for their flower beds, beds. Any material can be the basis for creative thought. The main thing is that they’re not afraid to create, don’t give up and make a drop of labor.
There is a good saying: “You can’t catch a fish from a pond without labor”, a very correct expression. The result will undoubtedly please everyone: both you and the household.
Is it worth the time to equip the site?
If you are satisfied with the current position of your site, then you can not change anything or even think about landscape design. Are you not comfortable with this state of affairs? Would you like to turn a garden or flower garden into a beautiful and neat place? Then get ready to make a lot of effort, because no one will do the work for you. Definitely, it is worth spending time and energy on the site, if you wish and you are interested in doing something unique at home.
Which fencing option to choose?
It is up to you to decide. You can first see what you have at home, and then think about what type of fence to choose for a flower bed or garden. Perhaps you immediately imagined what your site would look like, then do not push this thought away, but grab onto it and develop it. Describe everything to the smallest detail, calculate the amount of materials, and start creating a fence. Perhaps, in the process, you decide to improve something else on the site.