Flowers from plastic bottles for the garden: ideas and step-by-step instructions

Flowers will decorate any territory - from a summer cottage to a home windowsill. But not only living specimens are able to do this! Flowers from plastic bottles will also cope with this task. Making them is not so difficult, but they will serve you for many years. Read on to learn how to make this garden decoration with your own hands.

Benefits of bottle decoration

This type of decoration is very popular with many summer residents and gardeners. You shouldn't be surprised at all, because there are good reasons for this:

• Beauty and originality... With the help of ordinary bottles and paint, you can create compositions of various shapes, colors and brightness, which will add attractiveness to any garden and vegetable garden.
• Convenience... Making compositions from this material is completely simple, as well as placing the finished decoration on the site. The material is simple and flexible to use.
• Practicality... In case of breakage or deformation, you can easily replace the defective structural elements or restore them.
• Benefit... You don't have to spend money on special garden figurines and figurines, which are often expensive. Together they are able to make flowers with their own hands from plastic bottles using "penny" material.
• Sustainability... By constructing flower structures from this material, you not only save money, but also usefully reuse material that would end up in a landfill.

Step-by-step instructions for creating flowers from plastic bottles

All and sundry can take part in the improvement of the backyard space, because there are a great many ideas for creating stunning flowers from such material, starting with an amazing lily of the valley and ending with a magic lotus.

Lily of the valley

Very often, gardens and summer cottages are decorated with products made of this material in the form of a lily of the valley. The construction is very picturesque and interesting. Even a beginner can make a lily of the valley out of plastic bottles with his own hands, you just need to follow the step-by-step instructions.

For the manufacture of the structure, you will need the following materials:

• 8-12 bottles;
• acrylic paints (green, white, or whatever you like);
• flexible wire;
• awl;
• scissors.

Step-by-step instructions for making a lily of the valley from plastic bottles with your own hands:

1. Take 8-12 bottles, shorten them about ten centimeters from the neck, set aside the bottom of the container. The cover should remain on top.
2. Then make cutouts on the top of the bottle that simulate lily of the valley petals.
3. Heat the resulting petals slightly with a candle and slightly bend their edges so that the product looks as much like a lily of the valley as possible.
4. Then poke 2 holes in the lids with an awl.
5. Pass a little wire through the hole in the lid, twist it tightly to create a small loop. With its help, it will be possible to fix the flowers to the stem.
6. The stem can be made from a variety of materials, such as hard and durable wire, garden hose. The loop should match the diameter of the stem material you choose.
7. Use paint to paint the stem green, and lilies of the valley can be painted in any other color, but in the classic version they should be white.
8. Attach the lilies of the valley to the base, and fix the base in the ground.

In the photos below you can see several options for making a lily of the valley for the garden and vegetable garden:

Lotus

The lotus is a flower that cannot but arouse admiration. A refined and exquisite plant is able to win the heart of any person. Of course, it is hardly possible to grow a living lotus in the country, but for a garden and a vegetable garden it is quite possible to make a beautiful copy of it from a bottle.

To make a lotus from a plastic bottle with your own hands, you should first prepare:

• several bottles;
• acrylic paint (yellow, green, pink, white);
• strong glue;
• scissors.

You can make a flower from plastic bottles as follows:

1. The first step is to make the core of the lotus - the stamens. Cut off the top and bottom of the bottle, make the resulting plastic ring. Then cut the material from one side into small strips to make a kind of a brush. Roll into a tube and secure with glue. Then you need to slightly melt the stamens over the candle and slightly straighten them so that they take a more natural look. Paint it yellow.
2. Cut the bottles in half. Use the part with the lid for the base of the flower. Cut the plastic with scissors to make the petals. You can also melt them a little over the candles for a more natural look. Paint the base white or pink (or whatever color you want).
3. To make the lotus look more solemn, you need to attach more petals to it. Cut them out from other bottles. They should correspond in size to the base, the petals should decrease towards the center. Paint the petals the same color as the base. Connect them with glue.
4. Attach the stamens to the middle with glue.

You can simply stick lotuses from plastic bottles into any flowerbed in the garden or attach flowers to car tire structures, to flowerbed of stonesYou can also place the lotus in an artificial pond.

Video: how to make a lotus from a plastic bottle.

Chamomile

You can make daisies as small or large. Also choose the colors based on your own taste. According to the classics, this flower should be white with a yellow core, but you can paint the petals in bright colors or even make a seven-flowered flower by painting each petal in a different color.

To make chamomile from plastic bottles, you will need the following items:

• 3 bottles of the same size;
• yellow cover;
• awl;
• wire;
• paint - green, white or any other at your discretion.

Step-by-step instructions on how to make a camomile from plastic bottles with your own hands for a garden and vegetable garden:

1. Take a bottle and cut it in half. You will need the part with the lid.
2. With the other two, do the same (you need to shorten the same length as the first container), and also cut the necks.
3. Cut out the petals on all bottles, fold them for a natural look.
4. On a container that has a neck, put on two other bottles, spread the petals.
5. Next to the neck, make a hole with an awl and secure the structure with fishing line.
6. Also make a hole in the lid and insert thick wire there as a stem, secure it.
7. Now you should paint the chamomile - the stem green, and the chamomile petals white or any other shade.

Photo of one of the options for making a flower for garden decoration:

Video: DIY master classes on making chamomile from plastic bottles.

Photo gallery of plastic flower ideas for inspiration

You can decorate a summer cottage, a vegetable garden, a garden with a variety of designs. But flowers are always popular. We invite you to look at photos of various flower arrangements for new ideas and inspiration:

Whatever flowers you make from plastic bottles for the garden, they will organically fit into your summer cottage possessions. The advantage is also the fact that you can make decorative items both according to ready-made instructions and come up with your own design and construction. And how to arrange flower beds with other designs from plastic bottles, read in this article.