What to make a fence for flower beds

Even the most practical people, who grow exclusively edible crops on their plots, strive to decorate the territory adjacent to the house with flowers and ornamental plants, make fencing for flower beds with their own hands.

Such borders and low fences give the flower garden a neat appearance, indicate its borders, become a harmonious detail of landscape design.

Brick flower bed

In this article we will try to collect and show all types of fencing for flowerbeds and lawns: ready-made forms available in all garden stores, custom-made fences, and those that you can do with your own hands from scrap materials.

Ready Forms

The modern market of materials for decorating and decorating personal land plots offers a huge range of finished products. They are made of the most different materials and possess various forms, appearance.

Plastic products

Fences for flower beds made of plastic are presented on the market in the following forms:

• Sectional small fence height of various configurations and colors. They are supplied with cast pegs along the edges of each section, with the help of which they are kept in the ground.

Plastic fence for flower beds

• Plastic border, which is a continuous flexible ribbon in a roll, with which you can create a flower bed of any shape or enclose a curving path along the lawn.

Fencing flower beds with plastic curb

To install the ribbon curb around the perimeter of the flower bed a narrow shallow groove is dug out. In places of bends, as well as on long straight sections, the tape is fixed with pegs on both sides.

After that, the groove is covered with earth and well compacted. On the outer edge, you can decorate the border with pebbles, fine gravel or other bulk material.

Council Before installation, expand the curb and lay out under the sun. It will be easier to give the desired configuration.

The described products have the same advantages as plastic nets for fencing sports fields. They are resistant to moisture, do not rot, do not fade from exposure to sunlight, easily repeat the shape of a walkway, flower bed or lawn. Another important advantage is the low price.

However, only fences in the form of fences differ in durability, whereas curb tape does not tolerate low temperatures, becomes brittle and can break. But it prevents the penetration of weeds inside the enclosed area.

Concrete products

Ready-made concrete designs of fences for decoration of flower beds are available in two types:

• In the form of decorative borders of different lengths, heights and shapes. They are installed on a sand cushion or on the solution. Such fencing lawns and flower beds are often used in urban parks and squares, but it is also used on personal sites, especially when they need to be zoned.

Decorative concrete border

• Forms in the form of a flowerpot, bowl, cast ring or polyhedron, separate sections to create curly beds. They can be located on the surface of the ground, a lawn, a paved area, or buried in the ground.

Photo flower beds of complex shape of concrete elements

Concrete products are resistant to moisture, aggressive media, withstand significant temperature drops. If desired, they can be painted in any color.

For reference. For framing small flower beds with low plants, you can use ordinary paving slabs. Fencing for flowerbeds, due to the variety of its shapes, sizes and colors, can be very beautiful and quite elegant for a delicate flower arrangement.

Hardware

Forged, welded or cast metal fences for flower beds look very attractive and harmonious in the corresponding landscape. They are rarely available for sale - more often such products are made to order by specialized firms.

The design of the fence is chosen by the customer from the manufacturer’s catalog or is compiled by him, indicating the desired length and height of one section and the number of sections.

Pig-iron fence for flower beds

Metal curbs are durable, they look stylish and expensive, directly indicating the consistency and good taste of the site owner. They can be painted, and in the case of pollution - wash. The only obstacles to the installation of such fences can only be their high cost and inconsistency with the general style of landscape design.

Use of scrap materials

What only gardeners do not invent when they decide how to fence a flower bed with their own hands! What materials only do not go in the course - from brick and natural stone to old car tires and plastic bottles. And the result sometimes causes real admiration for its beauty and originality, as well as the author’s wit and imagination.

They are simply necessary if you want to make your garden unique in one style, unique. This is not a rental of fencing for construction sites, where you do not need to think about how the fence will behave after several seasons of use and how it will look. Here such characteristics as durability, aesthetic appearance, harmonious combination with the architecture of the house and other garden forms are important.

Fences made of stone, brick, concrete

Natural stone and brick are universal materials suitable for both construction and decoration. With their help, you can make a very interesting fence for the flower beds with your own hands.

There may be several options:

• Dry laying when stones are held in place by their own weight. It is good because the fence can at any time be disassembled and redone, or moved to another place.

Stone decorative fence

• Laying on cement, clay or lime mortar. This is an option for stationary beds, garden tree fences, framing paths.

Attention! Laying on the solution will have to be periodically repaired, lubricating seams and cracks after hibernation.

• From small stones, pebbles, pieces of bat tiles and glass, very interesting flat borders are obtained. They can be simply poured around the perimeter of the flower garden, but the mosaic laid out on the cement mortar looks much more effective.

Pebble mosaic

If you need to fence a permanent flower garden with perennials, designate the boundaries of the lawn or arrange a garden path, the concrete fence is best suited for this purpose. For its manufacture it is necessary to make a formwork and pour it with cement mortar.

Concrete fence for the beds with your own hands can be decorated with broken tiles or ceramic dishes, shells, pebbles

Fences made of wood and wicker

Wooden borders are the most eco-friendly and the most "pleasant" for plants. This material does not freeze and does not heat up on the sun; it releases useful microorganisms into the earth. Their only drawback is relative fragility. But the processing of special compounds will extend the life of wooden fences.

It is difficult to list all the ways to use wood to create such fences. This is a typesetting picket fence, and a border of vertically installed circular saw cuts, and a picket fence of pegs, and a flower bed, hollowed out in a thick log.

It looks very interesting laid on the edge of the flower garden snags and homemade wattle made of thin branches or twigs.

Wicker flower bed basket

Fences from other materials

When deciding how to make a fencing for a flower bed with your own hands, many amateur gardeners often use old tire covers for this. In skilled hands, they sometimes turn into real masterpieces. But it should be remembered that under the action of hot sunlight they emit harmful toxic substances into the air.

Wheel from the wheel

The same can be said about the strips of slate, which often enclose flower beds. In order to save, instead of these materials, it is better to use glass and plastic bottles for the small fence, trimming of a profiled sheet metal, and old tile.

Conclusion

It is up to you to decide whether you will use ready-made plastic fencing for flowerbeds, lay them out of bricks or weave them from willow vines. The main thing is that you like the result. In the presented video in this article you will find additional information on this topic.