Sometimes summer residents go to whatever tricks to make their garden look well-groomed, neat and originally decorated. Creating a flower bed from plastic bottles is one way to bring a new breath to your garden and make it interesting and unusual.
Make a flower bed with your own hands
It just seems that creating a flower bed is a laborious thing. Of course, you will have to work hard, but, as they say, “the eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing”!
A DIY flower bed made from a plastic bottle is not that complicated. The main thing is to prepare the necessary material and clearly think over the entire algorithm of work.
Why plastic bottles?
The answer is obvious: firstly, because it is the cheapest and most accessible material - plastic bottles in our life we meet every day. Secondly, there is a wide scope for realizing one's creative potential - plastic is very malleable, and almost anything can be depicted from it. It is not for nothing that they also carry out the design of flower beds with plastic bottles. Thirdly, they are strong enough anddurable. By the way, with the help of bottles you can make not only a standard flower bed - round, but also any other. It would be fantasy! Plastic bottles are also a great deterrent for annoying weeds and grass.
What you need for work
First of all, of course, bottles, the number of which directly depends on the size of the flower bed. It is only important to remember that their shape and volume must be the same - otherwise the product will not look so organic. However, if this is an author's move, then, of course, the difference in forms and volumes is quite acceptable. For a small flower bed, as a rule, twenty to twenty-five 1.5-liter bottles are enough.
Also, to create a flower bed from plastic bottles, you will need a shovel, enamel paint (if the bottles will be painted), rope, wire or twine, a pair of sticks tied together.
Procedure of actions
The first and most important thing is to remove all kinds of stickers from the bottles. If they do not easily fall 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 without corks. For the same purpose, and in order for the flower bed not to lose its original appearance, it is recommended to fill the bottles with sand before installation in the trench. It will also make them more stable.
And only then you need to decide on a place in the garden for a flower bed and decide what shape and what size it will be (unless, of course, this was taken care of in advance). Determining witha place for a flower bed made of plastic bottles (usually chosen between the local area and the plot in the garden), you must carefully weigh the pros and cons regarding this site, so that later it does not turn out that its location will cause dissatisfaction.
The next step - regardless of the shape and size of the flower bed, it is necessary to mark and dig a trench where the bottles will be placed later. Dug earth should not be thrown away - it will still be useful.
Simple round flower bed
It is possible to outline the circle along which the trench will be dug by eye - if it is correct. And you can use a kind of compass - to tie two sticks together at the top. So the circle will certainly be even. Another way to line the sides of a plastic bottle bed is to take something fairly large and round: a car tire, basin, bicycle rim, etc., press the bottles around the perimeter of the thing, and then remove it.
In a previously dug trench in a circle, you need to install pre-filled sand bottles with the bottom up. You don’t need to completely bury them, but they shouldn’t stick out much above the ground either - about ten centimeters are enough. To make it easier to dig them in, you can pre-lightly water the soil - the main thing is not to make it too wet. When dropping bottles, it is important to ensure that there is no lye between them.
Swan
The Swan flowerbed made of plastic bottles is perhaps one of the most common and unusual garden decorations. looksit is really very fresh and original, and to make it with your own hands, special skill is not required.
So, for such a flower bed made of plastic bottles (the photo below shows such a "Swan") you need: bottles, plywood, white paint. By the way, it is better to take a plastic container not one and a half or two liters, but a large one, five liters - it looks more spectacular. 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 along a circular perimeter.
You need to make a swan neck out of plywood, while it is important to keep the proportions correctly: they must be proportionate to the swan's body. The carved neck is cleaned and painted, after which the eyes and beak should be carefully drawn on it. Then the neck must be dug into the place previously left between the bottles and fastened to the bottles with adhesive tape, electrical tape or any other material. Flowerbed "Swan" is ready!
Ladybug
Another popular flower bed made of plastic bottles (perhaps second only to the swan flower bed) is Ladybug. To create it on your site, you need to get bottles of three different colors - white, red and black (the eyes will be white, the wings will be red, the head and spots will be black). In this case, it is recommended to choose small containers, preferably no more than one liter.
It is necessary to first measure the outline of the ladybug's torso, along which the trench will then be dug. Around its perimeter are placed bottles of the desiredcolors - as usual, neck down. They must be firmly rammed into the ground. From the inside, the flower bed should be well covered with soil.
Flower-container
Large plastic bottles can be useful not only for creating a swan, but also for creating a so-called container flower bed. 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 a hole of the desired size should be cut in the upper part. It is filled with drainage and earth, and then the necessary plants are planted there. True, before placing grass or flowers in a bottle, it is necessary to make some kind of animal out of it. To do this, you need to paint the bottle in a certain color - depending on the selected animal. Gray is suitable for a mouse or a bunny, pink for a pig, and brown for a hedgehog or bear. Don't forget about the paws and muzzle! Cork should be used as a spout, painted black. On both sides of the nose, you can draw funny eyes and a mustache, and in order for the animal to have ears, you need to make cuts on both sides and insert cardboard or paper products there.
One more important point: be sure to make holes in the bottom of the composition - three or four will suffice. 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 fence
In addition to the main structure itself, you can also make flowerbed fencingplastic bottles. To create such a fence, there are two methods - vertical and horizontal. The first is easier, the second is more original. When making a border of plastic bottles for flower beds in a vertical way, the bottles must be placed vertically in pre-dug holes and sprinkled tightly with earth, making sure that they are adjacent to each other and to the edges of the flower bed without any gaps. When placed horizontally, 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 it is also necessary to fasten them together (for example, with cement mortar) so that the fence does not collapse later.
Two-tier flower bed
One interesting type of flower bed made of plastic bottles is a flower bed with two tiers. It is constructed in almost the same way as the usual one: first, the first “floor” is made, the entire area of \u200b\u200bwhich, up to the very top of the bottles, is covered with drainage and earth. And already from above the "floor" number two is being erected. In principle, nothing is forbidden to organize more levels in the flowerbed - it will look extremely unusual. As a rule, such flower beds are best located in the local area and in a small area. While saving space, they will allow you to plant a sufficiently large number of plants.
Flower in a bottle
This is a completely different type of flower bed, it is also often called a mini-flower bed. Such flowerbeds will allow you to revive any corner of the house, garden, garage and in general any room, give it brightness and color.
How to make a flower bed out of plastic bottles in the bottle itself? For these purposes, you will need strong good scissors, an awl, a few washers, and a rope. In a horizontally located bottle, it is necessary to make a hole of the desired size and shape (rectangular, rounded, oval, and so on). Parallel to the length of the hole made, you need to pierce two holes - thread the rope through them, and fix the washers at the ends of the latter. Pour drainage with earth into the bottle and plant the plant. It is important not to forget to pierce the bottom of the bottle in several places to allow the soil to breathe.
Flower decoration
From plastic bottles you can make not only the flower beds themselves, but also all kinds of decorations 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 to be of various shades. You can also make a flower from several layers by putting one bottle into 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 bottle flower petals can be given with ordinary boiling water and tongs.
Which plants are suitable for bottles
In this matter, everything depends on the creativity and imagination of the creator of the flower bed. For example, in a two-tiered flower bed, you can plant climbing plants - on the sides, and in the center - any flowers that will be higher than others in the flower bed (for example, dahlias or irises).
Ba mini-flower bed can be placed not only flowers, but also greens - for example, dill and parsley. Flowers like petunias or begonias look good in tall bottles.
Helpful tips
- It is most convenient to mark the flower bed with twine.
- To make a flower bed of plastic bottles for the garden seem brighter, you can use painted bottles. In this case, it is best to paint from the inside - with an external processing method, the bottle will sooner or later lose its color.
- When using containers of different shapes and volumes, it is best to distribute them symmetrically around the perimeter of the future flower bed.
- In addition to the vertical arrangement, bottles can also be placed horizontally - in this case, some kind of base will be needed, on which it will be possible to fix the bottles with cement mortar.
- In order for the border of plastic containers to look appropriate, it needs to be looked after - wash off the dirt from 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!
