Fences and borders in garden design

A country house is a sweet place for the heart. Oh, how I want to surround it with a well-groomed territory and make it even more attractive!

Best of all, numerous flowers will cope with this task. They can be planted with great imagination. The site will certainly take on a charming look, but only if you manage to combine your roses and daisies into a single composition, and not just plant them in an impenetrable thicket. Decorative fences or borders for flower beds can help to ennoble flower beds and give compositions a complete look. About what they can be and how to make them yourself, we will talk today.

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Fencing for flower beds: species diversity

Selecting the type of border

Do not think that the fence for the flower bed is just a decorative element. In fact, he can be assigned a completely functional role. If the flower garden is laid out on a flat area and the purpose of its fencing is simply zoning the territory, then it is quite possible to get by with light, low-height structures.

It is a completely different matter when the "place of residence" of the flower bed is a mound or a hill of a different kind. Here the fences will have to work with much greater impact. They have to hold the soil, prevent it from crumbling and leaving with rainwater. You will have to forget about light fences that you need to strengthen yourself so that you don’t blow away with a gust of wind and give preference to borders for flower beds from:

1. Concrete.

2. Stones.

3. Brick.

Another task that gardeners often solve with fencing is to block the overgrowth of perennial roots. In this case, the protective system should be made of synthetic materials or metal. They can also become protective borders for garden paths and save them from destruction.

Fence height

“If the fence for the flower bed, in combination, serves as curbs for garden paths, then its height should be increased to at least 10 cm”

This fence parameter is also selected in accordance with the load placed on it. As an exclusively decorative element designed to outline the border of a flower garden, a design of 5-7 cm in height can be used.

If the fence for the flower bed, in combination, serves as curbs for garden paths, then its height should be increased to at least 10 cm.

If the flower bed is fenced for a protective purpose, so that animals or children cannot climb into the flower garden, then the height of the protective structure automatically increases to 40 centimeters.

In addition to the functional load, the choice of the height of the fence for the flower bed will also wag the varieties of flowers growing on it.Agree, a low border will simply be lost against the background of tall roses and sprawling dahlias. A similar solution will look ridiculous near mixborders. In general, they can be surrounded by a contour line laid out from a tiled mosaic, for example.

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Borders for flower beds and garden paths: materials for manufacturing

For the production of protective structures are:

1. Tree.

2. Metal.

3. Stone.

4. Plastic.

5. Handy materials.

Wooden options

Natural wood is a warm, comfort-bearing material. It naturally fits into the landscape of the site. Such a fence will not heat up under the sun's rays, and reflect their glare, which means it will not harm delicate flowers.

Working with wood is easy. Installing such a fence for garden paths or flower beds with your own hands does not require specific skills. All this is great, but a tree is a short-lived thing and will not last long without treatment with specific compounds.

In the decor of the garden, formed antique, it is worth using an unpainted fence of small height. They can enclose flower beds or divide lawns. On such a fence is often used:

1. Palisade.

2. Chumps.

3. Picket fence.

4. Mosaic from a cross cut.

5. Small logs.

6. Vine.

7. Branches.

Fencing structures can be bought ready-made or you can make borders for garden paths and flower beds with your own hands.

stone structures

They are formed from:

• bricks;
• paving slabs;
• stone of any origin.

Brick and stone are in demand in the arrangement of fences on uneven ground. From them, you can assemble a fence for a flower bed of arbitrary height, changed in accordance with the pattern of the landscape. In the desired composition, the elements are built in different ways. Sometimes they are laid out with dry masonry. In this case, they will be held together solely by gravity. You can also create a stone border using a cement or other type of bonding mortar.

The stone is good in combinations. Most often, a tree becomes his partner for fencing for flower beds and garden paths. The design is aesthetic, reliable and durable, but it is too expensive.

Stone garden borders are highly aesthetic and multifunctional. In addition to the decorative effect, they often become the so-called “dry stream”, which performs a drainage function and almost always serves as a retaining wall to hold the soil.

Metal Solutions

"To extend the service life, metal fences for garden paths or flower beds are treated with anti-corrosion compounds and painted with specific paints"

If you're looking for durable, stylish, expensive-looking flower bed fences and garden path borders, look no further than cast iron and iron models. Products of this series are made by methods:

1. Welding.

2. Forging.

3. Casting.

Interesting combined, created from forged and welded elements of the fence. Welded fences are not difficult to saddle with your own hands. They will be quite decorative, but there is no question about the sophistication of their forms. The problem is that a welded structure can only be given a simple geometric shape. Therefore, forged and combined analogues, which are characterized by complex configurations with ornamental elements, often become the priority of choice.

To extend the service life, metal fencing for garden paths or flower beds is treated with anti-corrosion compounds and painted with specific paints. The installation of metal fences can be done by fastening in concrete using anchors or fundamentally, fixing only the supporting posts in the solution.It is customary to make metal fences to order, as this allows you to choose a pattern and make a design according to the given dimensions.

Of the additional functions, the mission of metal fencing structures is to serve as a support for climbing growth.

A stylish flower garden can be created surrounded by rusty pipes. They are hammered into the ground, the inside is covered with rubble and succulents are planted in it, such as a stone rose or small cacti.

Plastic

A fencing option revered for its budget and excellent performance. Borders for flower beds made of such material are immune to moisture, do not lose their original shape, and are not afraid of temperature changes. The plastic fence is easy to mount and dismantle.

A big advantage of plastic fence models for garden paths and flower beds is the variety of color and size solutions, which allows you to choose options in stylistic accordance with the overall landscape design.

Plastic borders can imitate the texture of stone and wood. In the assortment range there is a variety of species.

Sectional types of structures

Usually these are fences of small height, assembled from separate sections. Each component element is equipped with cast legs, necessary for fixing the curb in the ground. To facilitate the assembly and installation process, each kit includes an explanatory instruction.

Roll tapes

These are solid plastic strips, almost to their entire height immersed in the ground. The material is suitable for decorating flower beds of non-standard intricate shapes. It is often used as a fence for garden paths.

The border tape has a smooth or textured surface. It can be decorated with corrugation or imitate masonry. A fence of this type will become both decoration and protection for the flower bed, protecting the site from the penetration of weeds and excessive moisture loss.

Finished flowerpots

In fact, these are not borders for a flower garden, but a ready-made flower bed where soil should be filled in and plants should be planted. The convenience of such solutions is that flowerpots can be easily moved around the territory, constantly changing and enlivening the environment.

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Do-it-yourself fencing for flower beds

If you are a creative person and are not averse to arranging the local area on your own, then the process of organizing space can be significantly reduced in price. Moreover, with this approach, you will surely create a unique design of the country landscape.

Ideas for arranging borders for garden paths and flower beds

There are probably simply no limits to human imagination in the arrangement of decorative fences. In the course are, it would seem, the most inappropriate materials. Today you can find dozens of successful designs of fences, one of which may appeal to you. Let's start with wooden solutions.

braided border

The option is highly decorative and natural material. It may not be very easy to create such a fence for flower beds with your own hands, but for your efforts, you will be adequately rewarded. The most important thing is that you do not have to buy anything to work. There is no shortage of material for sharpened pegs in a country house. Willow twigs in sufficient volume can be obtained on the shore of a nearby lake or other natural reservoir.

Harvesting of raw materials should be carried out in early spring. From the rods, in this case, it will be easier to remove the bark, and they will have a pleasant light color. The rods collected on the fence for the flower bed should be prepared for use by removing the bark from them and cutting them to a single length.

The process of creating a fence for flower beds and garden paths begins with the installation of pegs around the perimeter of the selected area. Do not try to set them aside a considerable distance. The more often they are stuffed to each other, the stronger the wattle will be.

It is necessary to braid the pegs according to the rules of basket weaving, that is, let the willow twigs pass in front of the supporting peg, then behind it. After weaving several rows, they need to be compacted by tapping the laid rods with a hammer. This must be done without fail, then your flower bed fence or borders for garden paths will not come loose after drying.

To make the fence more aesthetic, you can additionally fix the ends of the rods by nailing them to the pegs with small carnations.

Fencing from wooden chocks

This is a simpler solution for decorating flower beds with your own hands. To implement the idea, logs of approximately identical diameter will be required. The elements are buried in the ground to a depth of about 20 cm, so add them to the specified height of the fence for the flower bed initially.

The preparatory stage includes cleaning logs from the cortical layer and treating them with a protective antiseptic composition. If you want a hand-made fence for a flower bed to last as long as possible, do not be too lazy to additionally protect the tree by wrapping the bottom of each detail of the future border with a piece of roofing material.

The assembly process of the fence is simple. A narrow groove is dug along the contour of the flower bed, into which logs are placed in a dense row. Then the excavated soil is returned to its place with careful tamping of each layer.

snag border

Since wood is a natural material, it looks perfect in flowerbeds in any form, even in the form of raw snags. Of particular interest is this solution for decorating flower beds and fencing for garden paths in those areas where wooden benches, village household items, and carvings were used in landscape design.

Implementation of the idea is as simple as possible. Along the perimeter of the flower garden, twisted tree trunks or thick branches of a bizarre configuration are laid out, previously cleaned from the remnants of the bark and impregnated with a protective antiseptic. Having decided to use driftwood as borders for flower beds and fences for garden paths, keep in mind that in this option the fence itself should appear first, and only then what will be inside it will be formed.

Stone work

Do-it-yourself stone fences for flower beds are not too difficult to make. They look noble and really transform the local area. The border can be made of any shape and used for its assembly of stones of various sizes. If you decide to ennoble a flower garden broken on a hill, be sure to fasten the masonry with a cement solution, then the pebbles will not be sprayed under the pressure of the soil.

How to do it right? Large stones must be pressed into a pre-made concrete pad, and smaller fragments should be fixed separately to the concrete solution. For greater viscosity, glue can be added to the latter. Thus, volumetric borders are created for flower beds with a convex, rounded wall.

High flower beds can be lined with flat stones. It will look no less original. A brick is quite suitable for work. It also resists moisture and frost quite well. The most attractive will look like a fence for a flower bed made of facing bricks. Red brick is more in demand in a country-style landscape. For laying a brick border with your own hands, you can not use the wet method. Even brick edges already provide adhesion strength.The design will easily withstand both its weight and the impact of the soil.

The latest design feature was luminous stones in the design of fences for garden paths and flower beds. You will be surprised how easy it is to make them yourself. All you need for this is to stock up on luminescent paint. The curbs covered with it will accumulate the energy of the sun during the day, and give it back in the evening, gently highlighting the contours of paths and flower beds. Discreet subdued light will create a certain mystery in the garden and fill it with an atmosphere of expectation of a miracle.

Borders from improvised materials

What can be used as a raw material for a flower bed fence or garden path borders? Yes, whatever comes to hand!

old tires

A great way to get rid of a warehouse of used tires without the hassle. One tire can become a curb. In this case, the flower garden is organized inside it. If you are planning to break a solid and dimensional flower bed, then you will need much more tires to create a fence for it. Tires are dug into the ground in a chain or at a certain angle. For greater decorativeness, their surfaces can be painted with paints.

In the same spirit, you can arrange borders for garden paths. In this case, the tires can be dug a little deeper. On a fence made of tires, if necessary, you can sit. He's pretty tough for that.

The most talented gardeners cut magnificent flowerbed figures from tires in the form of all kinds of animals, swans, funny cartoon Smeshariki, elephants and funny snails. You can also try your hand at working on a fence for flower beds, creating something hitherto unseen with your own hands. Show a little imagination, and your site will turn into a luxurious well-groomed garden.

Work with plastic

You can protect flower beds and garden paths with purchased plastic fences of various configurations. To do this, you just need to dig them into the ground. To make an already not too difficult task easier for yourself, assemble or deploy a plastic structure and leave it to lie in the sun. It will become softer and more pliable. It will be easier to install.

While the fence for the flower bed is warming up, start digging a groove around the area to be isolated. Now unfold the tape and fasten the ends with a stapler. So you get a uniform canvas. Immerse the curb tape into the prepared recess and sprinkle with earth. Tamp the surface well. The fence for the flower bed is ready!

Decorating the edge of the curb with small pebbles, gravel, sliced ​​​​bark or other natural materials will help make the landscape more natural.

Not ready to spend money on factory models of curbs for garden paths and flower beds - use the plastic that always accumulates in abundance in the barn. We are talking about bottles made of this modern material. A fence of this type does not cost anything to give an arbitrary shape and choose a color scheme for it to your liking. A multi-colored fence will help create a joyful mood on the site.

To get the coveted border, you need to dig plastic bottles of the same size upside down and paint them with any paints available. To design a fence for small flower beds, an average of 15-25 containers are required, ideally of the same shape. To give the structure greater strength, it is worth pouring fine gravel, sand, shells, just soil into the bottles. If there is no desire to paint the bottles, fill them with decorative glass or plastic balls.

A plastic bottle is not a very durable product.It is really easy to damage or deform it, but it is no less easy to replace it, so this disadvantage can be ignored. By the way, glass bottles are often used, so if you wish, you can try them as borders.

It is very easy to mount a fence for a flower bed and a fence for garden paths with your own hands from vinyl records or DVD discs. In almost every house you can find a lot of unusable items of this series. If, however, children are also involved in the collection of raw materials for the future decor of the dacha, then they will certainly drag mountains of such rubbish.

Work with them in the following way. The design of the fence for the flower bed is assembled from disks connected in a chain. In each such knitting there should be 6 elements. If you try to make the chain longer, it will just sag. Finished sections are attached to pegs driven in advance around the flower garden or along the path. How many such rows to make - decide for yourself.

Disc fencing is a real treat. It sparkles and shimmers, attracting the attention of passers-by. Your well-groomed flower beds and creative approach to landscaping will not go unnoticed.

With gramophone records, everything is much easier. A fence of them can be made very quickly. Structural elements are dug in one row to a suitable depth. A worthy alternative to records will be porcelain plates that have survived from dismantled sets.

green border

If you are a big fan of garden design, know a lot about plants and know how to follow them, then you should not look for a better solution than green borders for garden paths. Beginners in the country business can also try to grow a fence for a flower bed with their own hands. To do this, you will need to purchase undersized shrubs, for example: boxwood, barberry, cotoneaster. They form a living fence along a clear contour. Seedlings are planted with an interval of at least 20 cm. As they grow, the shrubs are sheared, giving them the intended shape.

mosaic fence

Highly aesthetic borders for flower beds can be made from pieces of ceramic tiles left over from repairs, fragments of porcelain dishes and broken colored glass. Shells and pebbles are suitable for implementing the idea. Usually, these are fences of a very small height. The components are placed in random order. The bearing base is freshly poured into pre-assembled formwork, cement or concrete.

Rope fence

An unusual fence for flower beds and garden paths from the most standard materials will help you make a decorative rope or clothesline. It is made without the use of heavy tools. The most responsible in the process is the markup stage. You will need to calculate the required number of support pegs and drive them into the ground with a reasonable stepping distance. Then it remains only to pull the rope between them. The latter should not ring like a string. A fence with slightly sagging loops will look more decorative.

Bamboo in the fence for flower beds

Bamboo fences will be a great addition to the landscape in the Japanese-Chinese design. To make such a fence for a flower bed with your own hands, it is better to use bamboo in the form of a finished rolled bundle. It is slightly dug and rested on wooden pegs.

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Conclusion

As you can see, a fence for a flower bed, as well as borders for garden paths, can be made in any shape and from the most unexpected materials. The main thing here is to approach the issue seriously and with enthusiasm, then the fences you have created will really please the eye and will last for many years.

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