The summer season is the time for rest and creative self-expression on your plots. Every detail of the landscape should decorate it, make it unique and interesting. You can decorate your territory with hand-made items, for example, flowerpots.
Different materials are suitable for making them: pipes, wood, tires, stumps, plastic bottles, pumpkins, barrels, bags, baskets, cinder blocks, old shoes and even toilet bowls!
So, DIY flowerpot.
Look at the presented photos. You probably thought: "Vases with your own hands? This is not for me, I can't!" I can assure you: you can, you just have to start! To make a flowerpot with your own hands, first build a wooden formwork or use buckets, basins. You can take an old corrugated plastic slate or thick cardboard. Make a circle, square, triangle or oval out of it. Fix the details. Make exactly the same part, but smaller so that you can insert it into the first one. There should be a distance of 4-5 cm between the wallsfor pouring cement mortar. Put the solution on a cellophane film or on dry sand, distribute it according to the size of the intended bottom. Now put the first large mold on the solution, like a cookie cutter on the dough. Remove excess solution from below. The walls of the mold must be out of the solution. Next, insert the second form, but it is not necessary to press hard on the solution. Do not forget that there should be a distance of at least 4 cm between the walls. Pour the building mixture there (cement - 1, sand - 3). At the bottom, insert three oiled tubes or sticks. These will be holes for water to drain. After two or three days, until the bottom is very hard, carefully remove the tubes (sticks). The holes will be neat. The entire flowerpot should dry and consolidate. It will take a week, maybe a little more. Separate the forms from the finished flowerpot. Now you can decorate it. Glue on it
shells, pieces, ceramic tiles, plaster figurines, you can just paint and varnish. As you can see, it is not so difficult to make a flowerpot. Doing it with your own hands is a pleasure! Pour soil into the finished form and plant flowers there. Several of these flowerpots, well located throughout the garden, will look very nice. And if you make flower stands with your own hands from wooden blocks on wheels, then you can move this beauty around the garden wherever you like. Flower stands can be very different: such as a small table, bench, shelves, hanging structures, metal structures and even justan old decorated chair that will look great both in the garden and in the yard.
You can also make mobile flower stands. Saw 6 wooden blocks of the same size so that the base of the flowerpot fits freely. Fasten 4 bars with screws or nails to two bars. They will be at the bottom at an equal distance from each other. Install wheels on them in the corners. They can be bought at hardware and hardware stores. Treat with sandpaper and stain, varnish.
Go for it! Start making the easiest flowerpot, you can do wonders with your own hands!
