Do-it-yourself outdoor flowerpots - it's so easy!

Vases, or flower pots of various sizes, are classified as small architectural forms. The materials from which they are made can be very different: ceramics, plaster, wood, concrete.

On sale there are also elite options - marble and natural stone. Forms with planted plants are installed directly in the open air: on terraces, in courtyards. Outdoor flowerpots differ from indoor flowerpots in size and location: they are not for indoor use. Such flowerpots on the territory of the theater, restaurant, bank, near the administrative building, as well as in the garden and park area will not only decorate the street, but also present the plants in a favorable light.

It should be noted that garden flowerpots should be one with the summer cottage, so you can safely choose an instance with strict geometric shapes, with unusual, extravagant and even flashy notes.. Let's say right away that small flowerpots are not suitable for large areas, they look ridiculous; and vice versa: if you want to use large flowerpots in a small area, then this should be done in exceptional cases and very carefully.

Now about the fashion for colors. Flowerpot landscape fashion also dictates its own rules. Here it is worth adhering to the main one: the “colorfulness” of the pot should not be brighter than the plant itself, planted in it; otherwise, the plant will be "lost" against its background. And in general, it is better to take plain flowerpots for garden flowers: then these will highlight the plant and emphasize the style. The main and win-win shades are white, terracotta, brown, gray.

Benefits of outdoor flowerpots

The benefits of using flowerpots are:

• Mobility. If the plant is planted in an outdoor flowerpot, then there is a possibility that it can be moved around the garden. If you don't like a plant, you can always transplant or reseed it, i.e. a new flower arrangement can appear at any time. Under adverse natural conditions, a flowerpot for a summer residence is always easily transferred under a roof or a canopy.
  

  in the warm season, you can decorate your site with indoor plants

• Decorative. Having plants is always a winning option. Even a small courtyard will look different if you place flowerpots on its territory.

• Practicality. Not only flower growers appreciated the declared type of flowerpots for the garden. With the help of these decorative vases, you can separate the area that is intended for recreation from the household. In addition, a single mobile vase will help create conditions for some too “capricious” plant (for a reason, for example, if the soil does not suit it).
  

  using flowerpots, you can create original compositions on the veranda or gazebo

• The economic side of the issue. The cost of outdoor flowerpots (especially if products are made from inexpensive materials) is low. You can make flowerpots with your own hands. Those who have already tried this option argue that such a product can safely claim to be an object of well-deserved pride.

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What material to prefer?

“Despite the high cost of flowerpots made of natural stone, they have become one from trends and highlight of landscape design "

The taste and color of a comrade ... is. Everything will depend on your preferences, pocket and, of course, on the variety of materials from which the flowerpots are “sculpted”. Judge for yourself:

• A rock. Stone processing is a complex technological process. But, despite the high cost of flowerpots made of natural stone, they have become one of the trends and highlights of landscape design. They can represent any style: European, oriental, avant-garde, modern and strict classicism. Excellent indicators of strength and durability.
  

  stone vase in oriental style

• Concrete. The material is relatively cheap, but if you decorate it with taste (for example, use broken porcelain), concrete flowerpots will immediately acquire status. The material is durable, does not burn and is resistant to high humidity and temperature extremes. These are its performance characteristics.
  

  concrete flowerpot decorated with small stones

using a metal sheet to create a stationary flowerpot

The solution will easily take the forms for flowerpots that you want, quickly grab. They prefer to make outdoor flowerpots from this material (a big plus ─ their weight) and install them in places with high traffic. They last a long time, the price is affordable. Many gardeners are satisfied with flowerpots made of concrete, including those they made with their own hands.

You can try too.

• Tree. When arranging the territory of a personal plot, remember that wooden flower girls will definitely come into contact with high humidity, so additional protection against decay will be needed, otherwise the outdoor flowerpot for giving will not live for more than a year. As flowerpots, some craftsmen use tree stumps / saw cut. The inner part is hollowed out, drainage holes are made, the product is treated with an antiseptic ─ and the original outdoor flowerpot is ready. To avoid rotting the tree, it is not the stump itself that is filled with earth, but a pot, which is then placed in a recess.
  

  wooden flowerpots periodically need to be treated with an antiseptic

• Plastic. Plastic flowerpots and flowerpots, despite their fragility, differ in shape, size, texture, color, therefore they fit into any style without any problems. Low price (compared to flowerpots made of natural stone or artificial analogue) is another advantage.
  

  the use of small multi-colored flowerpots for decorating a concrete alley

• Handy materials. Any items that are out of order for any reason can be given the opportunity to gain a second life, using them as outdoor flowerpots. So, a car tire, an old cart, a leaky barrel and bucket, a basket and even an old bicycle will be used by a thrifty owner.

The fact that from any material (be it wood or concrete) it is possible to make such flowerpots for the garden that there will be no limit to admiration has already been mentioned in passing above. Let's dwell on this in more detail.

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Master class on making outdoor flowerpots for flowers with your own hands

How to make a flowerpot from cut trees or a stump

Some believe that the stump is already used material and is an unnecessary part of a dead tree. They are half right, because it is the stump that can become that very precious “highlight” of the landscape, since its potential is still quite high. Please note: it can be a beautiful container for plants. How to do it? Birch is good in processing.

To work, you will need a chisel, a drill, and then the course of your actions is as follows:

1. drill holes on the surface of the stump (try to place them close to each other; the ease of further processing of the tree depends on this);
2. remove the wood from the inside with a chisel (hollow out until it is determined that the future flowerpot is deep enough);
3. fill the container with earth (but it is better if you place the earth in a separate pot, as mentioned above);
4. treat the tree with a protective solution (in case water gets past the pot).

The simplest version of the flowerpot ─ wooden flower girl

“Armed with a hacksaw and a hammer, you can make beautiful garden flowerpots for a summer residence of any configuration and shape from wood”

Wood is actually considered a unique material because it is easy to process. Armed with a hacksaw and a hammer, you can make beautiful garden flowerpots for a summer residence of any configuration and shape from it. It's easy to do. Here is the order of your actions:

1. If it's a board.

Conventional shield technology and classic: you take individual planks and hammer them together. Since the flowerpot will be outdoors, you should not make it small. Products will come out in a rectangular geometric shape. Having made 4 shields, they are connected. It turns out narrowed down or rectangular (it's up to you) box. You can make a garden flowerpot of an even more complex design, but then you will have to study the technology of their manufacture.

Often, wood is used only as a frame for a pot, which is served by an old, broken bucket (it is “sheathed” with wood so that it is not visible that this is a bucket). The shape of the skin is also different: rectangular, hexagonal and even round.

2. From a bar.

The design of the street flowerpot is created according to the principle of assembling a log cabin. Having cut the bars of the required sizes, having cut half the thickness of the bar on both sides, you can assemble a flowerpot like a designer using self-tapping screws and nails. The final stage of work will be sanding and wood staining. Everything, the flowerpot is ready.

Natural stone

Flowerpots are made of sandstone, onyx, travertine - rocks that are similar in quality to marble. Despite the uniformity (as it seems at first glance), two identical drawings made by nature itself cannot be found on the stone. Therefore, know: your flowerpot will be unique if you buy them in stores or order them. In order to save money, such flowerpots can be made by hand.

Manufacturing technology is as follows:

• The use of stone and mortar.

This technology for making outdoor flowerpots from natural stone is the simplest and cheapest, although the material (for example, flagstone or sandstone) will have to buy. By cutting the slabs into pieces of the shape you need, with the help of glue designed to work with tiles, you will create even the most wonderful configuration of the product.

• Gabions.

This is the name of a container of various configurations made of a durable metal mesh, which is filled with stones. The main advantage of this manufacturing method is the absence of cement. On the contrary, even though the main working material is the mesh, it does not spoil the aesthetic side at all.The main thing is to give the correct shape to the grid and choose the type of stone with which you will fill the frame.

A few words about the grid for the gabion. Suitable from stainless steel, well bending, rigid, but movable weaving with rectangular cells. You can take galvanized, but its minus is that over time it will become covered with rust. Do not take the chain-link either, it is tough.

To assemble a gabion, formwork is prepared from the grid, only it is filled not with concrete, as usual, but with stone. In order to save money, you can fill the middle of the gabion with crushed stone.

What stone is suitable for gabion? The answer is this: stones of weakly weathered waterproof rocks, the dimensions of which are much larger than the dimensions of the cells. Quarry stone, cobblestone, but or chip are suitable here. Between the stones fall asleep fertile soil.

To achieve an even greater effect, the stones are laid like a mosaic (if you entrust the manufacture of the gabion to specialists, they can lay out the stone, even setting a certain pattern). If you will lay the stone yourself, then prepare several types of stone. Put them together, they will also look great.

Want to make natural stone glow? Treat it with fluorescent paints. So during the day it will be an ordinary flowerpot made of natural stone, and at night it will be backlit.

Flowerpots made of concrete

What is concrete, and what is its advantage, you already know. It remains the most responsible: to deal with the stages of creating such a pot. For work, prepare the necessary materials and tools:

• cement;
• 2 dishes of different sizes;
• spray;
• water;
• vegetable oil.

Do everything in order, namely:

• treat both containers with oil: from the inside - large and smaller - from the outside;
• cut the plastic tube into 4 pieces 5 cm long (for drainage);
• prepare a solution, add a dye (in a ratio of 3X2 sand and cement, as well as water);
• .fill a large container with cement mortar, spreading it with a layer of 2 cm;
• insert the tubes and wait for the solution to set;
• place a small container in a large one, fill the gap between them with the remaining solution;
• after 24 hours, remove the inner vessel, and sprinkle the cement with water.
• in a large container, the future flowerpot should be kept for about a week;
• shake the pot out of the mold, pour in the earth;
• plant a plant.

Tires for flowerpots

This is a quick, but rather original way of "sculpting" flower pots. You will have to work with a jigsaw and a knife, marking the boundaries with a pencil. Depending on what the flowerpots of tires will be, their size is also selected. Everything is done in order:

1. We do markup.

A cut is made with a knife ─ between the thicker rubber and the softer one. The metal cord located inside the tire serves as a natural boundary to which the incision will be made. In a circle of the tire, the tires are applied with an ornament, along which the rubber will be cut.

2. Making cuts.

With a sharpened knife or with the help of an electric jigsaw, a tire is cut with a depth of 5-10 cm. The width of the ornament is not less than 10 cm.

3. Reversing cuts.

Turn out cuts. Start to turn the tire from the center, at an angle of 25 °.

4. Decoration.

After completing the previous steps, the tire will take the form of a flowerpot. All incised areas can take any shape. It remains to paint the tire, fill it with soil, laying agrotextile material on the bottom.

Vases from plastic bottles

True, you will have to tinker with the most economical option, since a 2-liter bottle is unstable, but it should become a stationary, full-fledged flowerpot; it will be put on the street.

The order of your actions:

• cut off the top of the bottle;
• where you intend to place the finished product, dig in reinforcement;
• cut off the bottom, retreating 20 cm from the bottom (the bottom of the flowerpot will be the cut lower part);
• a hole the size of a bottle neck is drilled in the bottom;
• paint the entire surface (use water-based paint);
• after it dries, the structure is assembled (put a neck on the reinforcement, then “put on” the so-called “skirt” from the bottom on it);
• fill the flowerpot with earth and plant flowers.

Unnecessary things ─ also in business!

How many of them, things that have fallen into disrepair and are stored in the garage in case: you never know what! This is the case that came up. Jugs, bowls, buckets, vinyl records, old shoes can be of service to the improvement of your backyard, namely:

• Hold the vinyl record over the fire, and when it becomes flexible, you can give it the shape you want. Attach decor with tile glue: pebbles, glass, shells.
• Painted in the color you like, decorated with a padded pot, bowl, jug, mug can serve as a flowerpot for your favorite plant.
• A table from a non-working typewriter or a plywood box will give out an antique flowerpot, and paint in black, golden, silver shades will help you with this.

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Conclusion

It is possible to use the space of the garden as much as possible, to create new flower arrangements, using any material (from refined to the simplest and even unnecessary), without making any special efforts. Using the above recommendations, you will be able to create a real street masterpiece, whose name is a flower pot.

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