Do-it-yourself decorative fences and borders for flower beds from improvised means

A flower garden is the highlight of every suburban area and vegetable garden. With a bright and rich spot, it transforms the site, giving aesthetic pleasure. That is why many gardeners strive to decorate their flower beds in every possible way. And very often for this purpose decorative fences and borders are made, which harmoniously frame the garden with vegetation. Read about what kind of fences for flower beds are, what and how you can make them with your own hands in this material.

Benefits of creating fences and fences for flower beds

Many growers grow flowers and plants without any flower bed decoration. Flowers, of course, are beautiful in themselves, but using a fence has its own undeniable advantages:

• Decorates the garden.Thanks to the simple design, the flower garden looks well-groomed, neat and looks interesting.
• Protects from children... Restless kids love active games in the fresh air, so their vigorous activity is not excluded in their summer cottage or garden, where they can accidentally touch and damage plants by stepping on the garden, but thanks to the fence, this will be much more difficult.
• Protects against pets... Of course, the fence is not a 100% guarantee of protection from pets, but nevertheless it will become an obstacle from the unnecessary attention of pets.
• Helps to harmoniously divide the area into zones... Thanks to this function, you can conveniently distinguish between beds and flower beds, which makes it easier to care for different plants and crops.
• Prevents overgrowth of plants... If you grow plants that tend to grow rapidly, then the fence will become an obstacle and preserve the integrity of the garden.

How to make a fence for a flower garden with your own hands

There are many options for making decorative fences for a flower garden. To choose what to make a fence for a flower bed with your own hands, it is worth learning about the advantages and disadvantages of popular materials, as well as studying the instructions for the implementation of structures. All this will help you decide which fence will be easier and more convenient to make for you.

Wooden fences

Wood is a favorite material of summer residents and landscape designers. It makes wonderful decorative ornaments and buildings for summer cottages and gardens, for example, gazebos, benches, artificial bridges, mills and much more. Wooden fences for flower beds are no less popular.

It is worth giving preference to a tree for the following reasons:

• All designs with it turn out to be surprisingly cozy, stylish and attractive.
• This material is easy to work with. You can make a wonderful fence even if you don't have experience with this material.
• To make a fence from this material, you can use the most standard tools.
• If the material is damaged or deteriorated, you can easily replace the entire structure or some individual parts.
• The wood does not heat up and does not reflect the rays of the sun, so you do not have to worry about the plants getting burned or damaged.
• The material is environmentally friendly.

At the same time, the only drawback of using wood should be noted - it is short-lived. But such imperfection is not critical, because the material can be treated with special substances, and sometimes fresh paint can be applied.

Advice! Before introducing any wooden structure into the ground, it is recommended to treat the wood with an antiseptic, and wrap the part that will be in the ground with a small piece of roofing material.

Most often, the following decorative wooden fences are made with their own hands:

1. wattle;
2. a fence made of wooden blocks;
3. a hedge made of cross-cut wood;
4. fence.

Below you can read the instructions for making these wooden structures.

Wattle

The construction in the best village traditions will add coziness to even the most pragmatic garden. The height of the wattle fence can vary depending on your desires - from a tall hedge to mini garden fence.

Garden fences for flower beds and beds are made by hand according to the following scheme:

• First of all, you should install stakes along the border of the flower bed, you need to deepen so that they stand securely. They need to be fairly dense to support the rods. Please note that the smaller the distance between them, the stronger the structure will turn out.
• Then you should prepare the rods - just peel them from the bark and level them in length. For the manufacture of wattle, it is necessary to choose flexible rods (willow is ideal).
• Now you can start weaving: first, the twig is passed from the front of the peg, and then from the back.
• To secure the rods, you need to nail their ends to the pegs.
• Gently tap each row with a hammer to compact the structure.

Video: how to make a wattle fence for a flower bed.

As you can see in the pictures, cozy wicker fences perfectly frame the garden's vegetation.

Fence made of wooden blocks

It is an attractive structure made of wood logs buried in the ground (a palisade-like composition). It is very often used by gardeners when decorating flower beds.

You can make a wooden fence for a flower bed from logs with your own hands according to the following scheme:

• Take logs of the same length and width. You can leave them in their original form or peel them off. When choosing specimens with the required height, remember that you need to choose logs about 20-25 centimeters longer, since they need to be deepened into the ground.
• Dig a groove along the borders of the flower garden, its depth should be about 20-25 centimeters.
• Then the blocks should be buried in the groove, covered with earth and thoroughly compacted.

Video: demonstration of the manufacture of a wooden structure.

The fence is very interesting, looking at these photos it's hard to argue with that.

Fence made of cross-cut wood

The saw cut structure is a small and cozy decoration for flower beds and gardens. Making such a mini-fence with your own hands is not difficult:

• you need to buy or make your own wood cross-cuts;
• bury the cuts halfway into the ground around the perimeter of the garden bed (you can install them in one row or several);
• for more beauty of the decorative fence, you can lay the cuts horizontally next to the vertical row (in the photo below).

Fence

It's a good idea to make a mini-copy for a flower garden out of a classic wooden fence for fencing a plot. A fence made of a picket fence can be made very original, you will have the opportunity to choose an interesting color for color, different shape of material, height. That is, it can be a massive, high hedge, and a small, neat fence.

You can make a beautiful fence for a flower garden and garden bed using the following algorithm:

• First of all, you need to prepare the materials: you will need thin wooden bars or trim boards (they should not be very large in size), long and thin boards for the base, longer bars as support posts.
• Two long, thin planks that act as a base are nailed horizontally (one on top, one on the bottom) vertically to blocks or pieces of boards.
• Support posts must be nailed to the two ends of the horizontal board.
• Then the posts should be buried in the previously dug holes, covered with earth and tamped.

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Metal

A fence made of this material can be cast, welded, forged. Almost any metal flower bed fences will perfectly fit into the summer cottage and decorate it.

You can make some products yourself (if skills allow), buy in specialized stores, and can also be ordered from an organization that produces metal products. In addition, the product can be ordered according to an individual design.

The advantages of metal fences for flower beds are durability, attractive, solid and stylish look, protection of beds. The disadvantages of this design are the cost, which is often not very low, as well as corrosion.

It is recommended to install a metal fence for a flower bed on a foundation, so it will stand securely, despite bad weather. Such a garden fence based on stone or brick looks great.

The photographs show options for metal fences:

Stone

Stone is a great friend for a flower bed. Together with the vegetation in the garden, the stones look very organic and make the flower bed complete.Most often, limestone, basalt, tuff, shale, sandstone are used to create a stone fence.

It is very easy and profitable to make a decorative fence for flower beds with your own hands from stone.You can just as easily stack stones next to the garden in the formfencing, and make a cement foundation. The latter option is, of course, more reliable and durable.

Important! How to do a beautiful flower bed of stones, you can read in this material (and in the same article there is step by step instructions for creating a stone fence for a flower bed), but how to do an alpine slide made of stones, here. 

Photo gallery of stone fences for flower beds:

From scrap materials

Beautiful does not mean expensive and difficult. You can create a beautiful fence for a flower bed in your garden with your own hands from scrap materials, while saving money. So, you will not only decorate flower beds and flower beds, but also give a second life to forgotten and unnecessary things. For example, it is practical to use optical discs, slate, plastic and glass bottles, old car tires, ceramics. Let's consider the most popular options:

Glass bottle fence

To create a decorative fence from glass bottles, it is possible to use both transparent and colored containers, and you can also paint a glass container yourself.

Making a glass fence for a flower bed with your own hands can be very simple:

• Prepare the container: fill it with water for a while so that the labels come off, then take out the bottles, clean them from the remnants of dirt and labels, and let dry.
• Mark the lines along which you will place the bottles. The contour of the decorative fence can be either strict (rectangular, round, square) or ornate, non-standard.
• Dig a trench that is about 15 centimeters wide and 15 centimeters deep.
• Deepen the bottles with the neck down along the perimeter of the garden bed.
• Fill the trench with soil and tamp it well.

You can enjoy photos of simple flower bed fences from this improvised material:

From plastic bottles

Plastic bottles produce wonderful flower beds andlovely artificial flowers... Earlier in this article it has already been described how to build an ordinary fence, now it's time to tell how to make a fence for a flower bed with your own hands from this plastic material at hand. The technology is exactly the same as in the case of glass bottles, only for greater stability it is better to fill the bottles with sand. A little tip: to add bright accents, you can paint plastic bottles in your favorite color or in several colors at once.

From tires

Tires are a popular handy material for gardeners. Various compositions are excellent from it.For example, inthis article provides detailed information on how to do flowerbeds of tires, as well as various ideas on this topic.Old car tires also make great swans, you can read the detailed information on making swans. here.

Photo gallery of ideas for inspiration

Summer residents-entertainers have come up with many original fences for flower beds from purchased and scrap materials. Each of them has its own charm and uniqueness. To understand this, you can simply look at the photos of the original compositions:

A beautiful flower garden is not only about timely care of plants and flowers, fertilizing, watering, removing weeds, but also framing the flower bed. You don't need to be an experienced landscape designer or handyman to decorate flower gardens in an interesting and original way. You just need to be patient, show diligence and imagination.