How to decorate a garden (41 photos): do it yourself, decorate with flowers and improvised means, photos and videos

How to decorate your garden in winter

If you have thought about how to decorate your garden in winter, you already know that the term "off-season plant compositions" often used by gardeners, as a rule, excludes winter time by default. If you do not belong to summer residents who appear on their plots with the first rays of the April-May sun, then it is useful to take a closer look at the winter decoration of the garden.

Imagine exactly how the garden will look in winter, the easiest way is to consider site plan on a sheet of paper

... If a live picture is closer to you, then there is no better time than early spring. Most open for study in March-April
irregularities in the landscape, turns of paths, meadows and edges
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The garden, which is most immersed in summer greenery, after a long hibernation seems to be empty, because even cereals and perennials left behind in the fall are well crushed by melting snow.

In addition, all the unsightly aspects of economic activity are exposed, for example compost box, shelters on roses, inventory not cleaned since autumn

... In such conditions, it becomes clear what exactly needs to be hidden from views, and what, on the contrary, should be emphasized.

DIY garden figures: functional ideas

This includes elements that harmoniously combine aesthetics and useful functionality.

Garden swing made of car ramps

Magic ponds. If you have old metal / plastic bathtubs or other containers, create pacifying pools with them. Plant aquatic plants in your ponds. You can even acquire unpretentious fish. Decorating flower beds and ponds at a summer cottage can be entrusted to boulders, pebbles or tiles.

An interesting decorative fountain with your own hands

A garden pond made from a dug-in bath or other large capacity looks modern and stylish, if its boundaries are outlined with pebbles

Plant evergreen or semi-evergreen deciduous plants

Not only coniferous beauties remain green in winter. Some deciduous trees also have this luxury available.

Huge paws of badan leaves winter well without shelter. After all, the plant comes from Altai and has a good hardening. Periwinkle also retains the greenness of its shoots in winter.

Crafts for the garden from bottles and decorating the garden with flowers

Flower world. Original flower beds made of plastic bottles, old tires, unnecessary shoes, iron buckets. Here you can even beat an old bed, chairs, bicycle or chest of drawers. If there are large stumps in your area, do not rush to uproot them.From them you can make magnificent flowerpots for the garden with your own hands and plant flowers there.

Advice! For flowerpots made from stumps, additionally use clay pots (to plant flowers). You should not plant flowers directly in a tree - it will rot from water.

Magnificent mini garden in an artificial tree stump

Any stump or stone, when properly designed, can be an excellent decor element for the garden.

It's a pity to uproot centenary stumps - they can be given a second life as an exclusive garden flowerpot. You can also equip flowerpots for pots in cuts of logs and uprooted and peeled stumps.

Romantic buildings. Plastic bottles can be used (of which you can build a whole gazebo). How about cozy benches with a canopy in the spirit of French villages? For this, raw logs of various sizes are used. From old armchairs or chairs, you can build a cozy swing or unusual crafts to decorate the garden with your own hands.

A bench made of the roots of an old tree looks very impressive

Do-it-yourself swing, decorated with fresh flowers, will give romance to your garden

On the prosaic but necessary - toilets

These buildings sometimes appear before the fences, because without them it is a disaster. The builders will master all the nearby nooks, and who, I wonder, will like it. So, perhaps the most necessary building on the site is a toilet. And why are we talking about toilets, in relation to the decoration of the site? But because this building can be made so that it will not necessarily be hidden. Displaying is also not an option, but you don't need to mask it. For example, a standard birdhouse can be made from logs. You will get a mini-hut.

The costs are not much, it looks good ...

Plant it around the plant, make a nice path, and this corner of the garden will be attractive too. For example, such as but the photo below.

Cozy corner for reflection))

A few more options on the same topic. One and the same uncomplicated design can be designed in different ways. You choose the style depending on the one in which the dacha or the personal plot is decorated.

And only the roofs are made differently, but the windows are different

Well, if you need a stone toilet, why not decorate it in the style of a medieval castle. Only crowds of tourists will need to be driven away ...

Interesting embodiment in the style of the wall of the cross

Crafts from a tree for the garden and a decorative birdhouse for the garden with your own hands

Favorite birds. Our magical garden simply cannot do without bird play. To make the birds cozy, you can come up with original wooden birdhouses for them. Decorate them with decoupage, painting, decorative details. For the birdhouses themselves, you can use the remains of boards and wooden furniture. Birdhouses from old large boots look great. You can awaken your imagination and create a real miracle of nesting thoughts from corks or large porcelain teapots.

Advice! It is best to hang birdhouses on deciduous trees, with a slight slope. And make the roof removable for easier cleaning.

Birdhouses with bird feeders can be made multi-colored or even carved

If you live near a forest plantation or park, then make a fun, simple squirrel feeder. To do this, you need to rigidly fix on a tree, for example, a chair from a set of toy furniture, using a pair of self-tapping screws. With the help of a long self-tapping screw, a head of corn is screwed onto it and just as easy to replace

Plant plants with colored shoots

You can add bright colors to the garden in winter with the help of plants with colored stems.

The serrated cherry has rich maroon shoots with transverse stripes.

Derain white is a classic option for both summer and winter decoration.Its bright red twigs will bring dynamics to the asleep garden corner. In order for the plant to look magnificent and impressive in winter, you need to take care of this in early spring. Branching is stimulated by pruning a third of the old shoots flush with the ground.

The scion sod will add yellow colors. More precisely, its Flaviramea variety.

Different varieties of Vitellina willow will appear in the winter garden with orange, golden and red bark.

DIY garden sculptures: decor

The world of pure aesthetics reigns here, which pleases the eye and gives a special charm to the entire appearance of the garden. Various souvenirs, funny animal figurines, garden crafts - such a garden decoration with your own hands from scrap materials will become a real highlight of the yard design.

Smooth stones painted with drops of acrylic or other paint. You can also paint them with fluorescent paint.

Beautiful peacock made of forged elements

Sea pebbles can help create beautiful decorative elements for your garden.

Alpine slide

If there is a slight elevation in the garden area, irregularities in the landscape, you can use these features to build an alpine slide. Many people mistakenly believe that to create such a decor, it is enough to plant many flowers on a hill, decorate it with stones and other objects, but this is not always the case.

A well-built alpine slide is not just a dump of necessary and not quite necessary items, but an imitation of a mountain landscape, with the presence of original shrubs, paths lined with stones. There should be no extraneous structures, playgrounds, etc. near the slide. Alpine slide in size organically fits into the total area of the garden and is located in the immediate vicinity of an artificial reservoir or other source of moisture.

Crafts from stones for the garden

Fantasies made of stone or wood. You can make wonderful things out of stones or remnants of boards. Acrylic paints, beads, fragments of colored glass will help you. You can create funny gnomes, little people, or just wonderful animals or insects. And if you paint the surfaces of hemp or boulders with fluorescent paint, you have magical night lights.

Beautiful ladybugs made with mosaic

Gorgeous horses made from tree roots will become the main element of the decor of your landscape

Funny ants made from golf balls and wire

Advice! Involve your kids in exciting work with paints and appliques. You will have a wonderful time with them!

Autumn garden decor with painted pebbles

Bright sea pebble ladybugs

The renaissance of plastic. The use of plastic bottles of different sizes in the design is the most economical option for decorating the garden. What decoration for a garden from plastic bottles do you want?

Cute animals and birds: piglets, bunnies, kittens, elephants. Or maybe proud swans will raise their necks in your garden or perky sparrows will sit on the fences?
Little people: it has become very fashionable to create various colorful characters from plastic bottles - from cheerful village guys and girls to arrogant aristocrats.

Hanging garden decor: fisherman and fish from old spoons

Decorative mushroom hats for the garden can be made from many materials and old things: toys, dishes, disposable containers and others.

Garden watchman - stuffed animal from old clay pots

Flowers and Plants: Make your garden a tropical paradise. Plastic bottles make great palms and cacti. You can add a little tenderness - chamomile, bells, poppies, roses.

DIY flowers from plastic bottles

Advice! Place crafts from plastic bottles in the back of the garden or flower beds. Especially if you have children (so that they cannot reach them with their hands). The edges of plastic crafts can accidentally cut them.

Bright figures of birds from plastic lids

Unusual garden decor can be made from rusty metal: sheets, pipes, or old tools. For example, an ornament for a tree trunk - a woodpecker from a circular saw and a shovel

Magnificent daisies made of metal rods

Site planning

The first thing to do when getting a plot is to think about what and where you will have located. In spite of it, you decide where the house will stand - at the beginning of the site, in the middle, closer to its far edge. Then you "arrange" the rest of the planned buildings. If you are planning to build, determine a place for a bathhouse, then place outbuildings - a shed-utility block, a chicken coop, a woodshed, vegetable garden beds and greenhouses, decide where the garden will be. Resting places follow - these are awnings, gazebos.

There are main buildings on the plan, now paths are being laid between them. Straight paths are needed only in one case, if the section is long and narrow. In this case, an even path to its far end will visually make it closer. For all other objects, it is better to make them sinuous, with smooth curves.

Site plan - we place the house and the main buildings

Now it's time to think about placing decorations for the lot. First of all, these are flower beds and flower beds. They are built quickly, planted with annuals in the very first season will delight you, while everything else is still under construction and beauty is still far away. Longer business - the device of rock gardens and rockeries. Cooking and laying a couple of tons of stones is no joke, besides, they are planted mainly with perennials, they take the final look only after three or four years. And then, only on condition that you immediately chose all the plantings and planted correctly, that without experience - unprecedented luck.

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Want to surprise your friends and neighbors? Paint the flowerpots with luminescent paint. As darkness falls, they will glow, giving your lawn an unusual look.

Clay pots painted with luminescent paint in the evening shine no worse than lanterns

The second option for turning ordinary things into extraordinary is to use car paint with a chrome effect. Paint a few stones or the same pots, and you get mirror stones ...

Mirror balls are balls painted with chrome effect paint

Another traditional type of decoration is small or large bodies of water - ponds and ponds. Very small ones are built quickly - from a tire, so in general in a couple of hours. It can take a couple of days to arrange more voluminous ones. But it is not worth arranging reservoirs before the house is built and paths are laid. Save this decoration closer to the finish line. Also, after the main construction, it is time to put pergolas, arches, awnings. And already quite close to the curtain, they begin to play with lighting, although there are very simple and original 1526e ideas. For example, take a tin can, make holes in it, but not just like that, but according to the scheme, creating a pattern. You can bring an ordinary low-power lamp inside, and if there is no electricity yet, put a candle and put / hang it near the house.

A completely unsightly jar turns into a wondrously beautiful flashlight….

Put a candle inside

And hang on the veranda or in the gazebo

Such decoration of the site can be hung in the garden or on the veranda. It's not difficult to do, it looks great, however, only in the dark))

Crafts for the home with your own hands from scrap materials: master classes for making

How to make a DIY garden decoration? We offer several workshops on making creative masterpieces for the garden.

Iridescent small balls strung on metal rods give your garden a cosmic effect

Bright flowers will help decorate your decorative well.

Funny decoration "Bat"

DIY bats will be especially appropriate for Halloween

Our garden must acquire a protector. The bat "Batman" will perfectly cope with this role. It can be hung on a fence, tree or at the entrance to the house. We arm ourselves:

wire;
nylon threads;
double-sided tape;
elastic black fabric;
pieces of fur or feathers;
foam sponge (round or oval);
rubber tube (it is better to use a large tire);
acrylic paint white, black and pink (you can take any waterproof paint).

Interesting scorpion from car tires

A flower bed placed in an old umbrella looks very beautiful

Decorative flower bed made of tires in the form of a cup

Use interestingly shaped shrubs

In summer, the shrubs are eye-catching thanks to their lush crown, which can be shaped into any shape. In winter, branches begin to play, which in warm weather were hidden under abundant foliage, and in autumn they merged with the general grayness around.

In winter, under a layer of snow, branches and stems become more visible, their pattern is well traced. You can use this feature. Plant some shrubs with irregularly shaped branches. This is what the Kontorta hazel tree has. Its branches are twisted into a spiral. And at the willow of Matsuda they are completely curly.

Festive illumination

At the mention of the lighting of the winter garden, the first to come to mind are, of course, bright festive garlands. The choice of models suitable for outdoor decor is amazingly large, and such garlands are not necessarily expensive. But, in fact, you can play with light in different ways. Even the most modest candles, placed on a stump, bench or table, even if they were wrapped to protect them from dampness, will fill the garden with a lively glow in the evening.

Especially adorable are candles placed in pots, old utensils, tubs, closed-type lanterns and candlesticks, pendant lights that can be placed on trees and other objects when they create the effect of islands of light. Additional lamps or replacement of shades with colored ones for the winter will allow you to play with special effects. And everyone's favorite bonfires - both large and small - will brighten up any frosty day.

True, using open fire lighting to create a special festive atmosphere should be wisely, remembering the safety rules, and only when you yourself are in the garden.

If you want your conservatory lighting to turn into a magical sight, add additional decor to your lamps and candle groups. Even simple objects that will bounce off light will seem like very successful design tricks.