Each owner of a country house seeks to decorate the territory of the site adjacent to it. Buying industrial flowerpots made of concrete or plastic modules quickly solves this problem, but is accompanied by serious costs. In order to save money, you can use a step-by-step guide to create such a simple product as a flower bed with your own hands: a photo of a flower bed made of wheel tires and practical recommendations will help you navigate this issue.
A flower bed made of car tires is a simple and inexpensive way to personalize the area around your home.
Choosing and preparing tires for making flower beds with your own hands
Old car tires will feel softer and easier to shape after long-term use. Tires can be asked from neighbors - motorists who do not need them. You can also pick up used car tires at service stations, as there they would otherwise simply be thrown into a landfill. And if there is an opportunity to choose between domestic and imported tires, then it is better to make flower beds from imported tires. Because foreign tires are much softer, so it is easier for them to be shaped, turned out, etc.
Dirty tires should be preliminarily cleaned from dirt and sand as much as possible. Indeed, it is more pleasant to work with clean material, and the blades of knives will become dull faster when working with tires soiled with dirt and sand.
Curbs for large flower beds
With the help of tires, you can create not only round small flower beds, but also large ones of any shape. In this case, the tires will serve as a curb.
Chamomile flower bed petals are created from tire halves
The flower garden will look much more expressive if the plants are arranged in three tiers.
A large flower bed consists of three tiers
The simplest curb: set the half of the tires vertically and whitewash.
Such a border clearly outlines the boundaries, the plants will not trample
The tire inversion technique is also useful for creating curbs.
A large flowerbed of several inverted tires
The oval-shaped flower garden also deserves attention.
Thanks to the preserved tread, the frame looks openwork
In the flower bed, it is even imperceptible how the parts are fastened.
The fastener will be invisible if the same pattern is applied to it as on the tire
Stages of creating a flower bed from tires
Before making a flowerpot or flower girl from an old tire, you should carefully consider its appearance: in the form of a bowl, which will have smooth edges, a flower bed, in which the edges will be cut by waves, or a flower-shaped vase with petals and fringes.
You can come up with any shape for the tires, but it is usually always in the form of a "pan - lid": the bottom of such a flower bed will be deep, and the top must be cut off. Cut contours can be easily applied with regular chalk.
If the owners decided to make a flower bed out of the old tire, then along the edge of the product, you should draw the contours of the petals with chalk, and then cut along the contour with a sharp knife. Each of the petals should not be more than 12 cm. If the petals are made larger, then the tire cannot be turned out, and the shape of the flower bed will be uneven.
When the tire is cut along the contour, then along the grooves it is necessary to cut the tires in the longitudinal direction (the distance between such cuts is up to 10 cm).
In order to create a flowerpot from a tire on a leg, the tire is first turned inside out. Many gardeners don't get it right the first time. In fact, turning a tire out this way is not easy.
The metal cord is usually cut with a grinder in several places. The rubber is cut smoothly with this saw. The cuts are made over the entire surface of the tire at an equal distance from each other (about 15 cm). And only then can the tire be turned inside out. It should be remembered that it is difficult to turn out only the first piece of the tire, then the product will turn out much easier.
How to make a flower bed out of tires with your own hands (video)
How to cut a tire for a flower bed: options and technology
Any tool used to cut car tires must be well sharpened. Old tires can be cut with a boot knife. To facilitate the cutting process, the blade of such a knife is lubricated with liquid soap.
It is great if you can use a jigsaw to cut surfaces. Using this tool, you can cut various shapes and crafts from the wheels.
To cut metal discs, you need to use a saw - a grinder.
You can cut tires in different ways, depending on the shape of the future flower bed. You can cut the tires in half, or only cut the top off.
How and what to paint the tires for the flower bed
However, it is not enough to give the old tire an unusual shape. After all, black or dirty - gray flowerpots look ugly against the general background of the garden plot. Therefore, it is necessary to paint the outer part of the flowerpots, which were made from wheel slopes.
To paint these rubber products, use any type of paints:
- oil;
- enamel;
- nitroenamel.
If the outer part of the tires is clean, then the paint will fall on it evenly, and it will last more than one season on the tires. You can use car paint to decorate flowerpots.
Craftsmen use spray paint cans for painting. In this case, it is possible to paint all prepared flower beds from car tires in a short period of time. It is better to use light shades of paints when painting tires - in this case, the soil inside the tires heats up less.
Most often, gardeners paint only the outer part of the tires. However, it is much more aesthetically pleasing to paint the tire from the inside (at least its upper part).
Decor options
There can be a great variety of design options for flower beds from car tires - it all depends on the imagination of the owners and the availability of various paint colors.
You can combine different colors as well as shades. Moreover, you can paint the lower part of the flower bed with a darker paint, and the upper one with a lighter paint. Ornament of a different shade can be applied to the main color. However, do not try too hard when painting the tires - when the flowers grow, they can completely cover the outside of the flower bed.
Some craftsmen do not stop only at coloring such flower beds - they can stick glass pebbles on the tire petals, creating a dew effect.
The correct combination of colors when painting flower beds made of car tires, which is "consonant" with the colors of the plants planted in such flower beds, will give the garden plot a unique flavor.
Creative flower beds
These flower beds can only be made by real masters with golden hands. It's not enough just to color and arrange in an interesting order. It will take dangerous tools and skills to use them. In other words, men will have to be connected.
The flowerbed on the leg looks stylish, it is done simply, but man's skill is needed
To make such a flower bed, you need a knife or jigsaw to cut out a curly edge, as well as male power to turn the tire inside out.
The scheme of making a flower bed on a leg
The flower bed is good, but with the painting it is even better.
Flowerbed-nostalgia, reminds grandmother's vase
But it is not necessary to be able to draw so beautifully, the combination of shades works wonders.
Thanks to the shades, a 3D effect is created, each petal looks three-dimensional
Sometimes it is difficult to figure out which is more beautiful: a flower bed or flowers in it.
What is more beautiful: a flower bed or flowers in it?
Enjoyed the contemplation of beauty? And now it's time to remember about our children, they want to see funny figures, preferably from the animal world.
Funny turtle, and it's easy to make
And such a flower bed will appeal to both children and adults, it has both style and fabulousness.
The flowerbed has a funny shape and a stylish design.
The green frog hides in the grass, merges with it, but it is impossible not to notice his eyes, as well as to pass by such beauty.
Instead of eyes - bowls, legs made of a hose and a rubber mat, nothing complicated, but so beautiful
Original ideas for decorating a flower garden from car tires
When decorating flower beds with car tires, you should not restrain your imagination. After all, from old tires you can build not only flower beds, flowerpots and bowls for flowers. The tires can be used in the manufacture of garden swings, armchairs and ottomans, various decorations for the garden, hedges and much more.
- The tires can be cut in half and dug in around the flower garden or along the path, separating the planting area from the garden path. These tires can be dyed in a variety of colors, as well as painted with flowers or ladybirds, for example.
- You can install the main tire with petals cut out in the upper part on a plinth of several tires, stacked on top of each other and painted in different colors.
- Vases made of tires, installed on legs, like stools, look original. You can install a smaller tire on the lower tire, filled with earth, and plant flowers in a circle in the lower tire, and in the upper tire, place flowers throughout the space of the flower bed.
- Craftsmen cut various birds or animals from the tires, planting flowering plants in the inner part of such flower beds.
- Tires look interesting - flower beds suspended or screwed to the wall of a house or utility room.
If the garden area is small, then it is more appropriate to arrange flower beds of car tires, carved in the form of a frog, a beautiful swan, a carriage from a fairy tale, a bright firebird or an exotic parrot. But on a large-sized lawn, flower beds made in several tiers or structures made vertically will look better.
Tips for working with tires
It is necessary to carefully prepare for work. In order for you to enjoy creating beautiful forms. Winter tires are considered to be the most malleable for creating a sophisticated element of landscape design and easy to work with.
An old, long-term tire will not require much physical effort to cut a patterned pattern. Worn out protectors, after painting it will not be visible at all. An even colored surface will not give out the material from which it is made.
A slide of car tires
Slides from waste tires look original. The height of such slides depends only on the imagination of the owners of the sites. Small slides of several tires look beautiful, staggered on top of each other. Moreover, in each of these tires, you can plant different varieties of flowers.
The size of such slides, both in width and length, and in height depends only on the imagination of flower growers and the size of the area allocated for such flower beds.
You can paint tires in such a flower garden both in the same way and by combining shades.
Master level - swan-shaped flower bed?
A swan flower bed is made in the same way as a flowerpot flower bed made of a tire, the only difference is in a more complex cut out pattern. If for a flowerpot flower bed it was necessary to form the same type of petals, then here - the wings, tail, neck and head of a swan. We transfer the scheme to the surface of the tire and start cutting out the shape of a swan. The head and neck are cut out along the black contours, the tail along the red ones, and the wings along the blue ones. After that, the tire is turned inside out in the same way as in the two previous cases.
The scheme along the lines of which the figure of a swan is cut
We make a beak from a piece of rubber (wood, plastic or other material) and paint it with red paint. We put the two halves of the head together, insert the beak between them and fix all the parts of the head together with the help of self-tapping screws. We screw in the self-tapping screws from both sides of the head in the places of the future eyes of our swan. Then, so that the screws are not visible, they are closed with two circles cut from black electrical tape - these will be the eyes. Raise your head straight and up, slightly pressing it into the tire. In this case, a fold is formed, which must also be fixed with self-tapping screws.
Flowers of any color can be planted in a white swan flower bed
At the last stage of the work, the swan is painted - here you can show your imagination and come up with any color for the bird's plumage.
How to choose flowers for planting in a flower garden from tires
It is better to plant flowers in flower beds from car tires, which will delight with their flowering all season. Flowers planted in a flower garden from tires are usually unpretentious.
Moreover, you can plant flowering plants of various heights and shades of flowers. Curly flowers can be used.
These can be such plants:
- fragrant tobacco;
- petunias;
- marigold;
- forget-me-nots;
- tuberous begonias;
- calendula;
- sunflower;
- Grenoble carnation;
- common lumbago;
- tradescantia;
- nasturtium;
- phlox subulate.
The free space between flowering plants can be supplemented with fir cones - such decoration looks interesting, but next year such cones have to be replaced with fresh ones.
Tire advantage
Old tires fully justify their popularity. You can find them anywhere, you do not need to pay for them, and in skilled hands, the finished product will have a stunning and sophisticated look. No less important is the durability of rubber, such a flower bed can serve for several years, over time it will only need tint and clean debris.
Separately, we can note the fact that the more the tire is worn out, the easier it is to cut, bend and turn it inside out. Thanks to this, the work on the creation of the flower bed will proceed faster and easier.
Tire products are not subject to destruction and deformation due to temperature changes. Neither summer heat nor severe frosts will be terrible for a flower bed of wheels.
What can be made from tires (video)
By combining different types and varieties of flowers, you can create extraordinary beauty compositions in flower beds from old car tires. It all depends only on what colors the florist wants to see on his site.
Old car tires can be great for improving the overall interior of your garden. Most often they are used precisely for decorating flower beds or flower beds. And here everything depends only on the imagination of the owners - and there are a great many options for flower beds from old tires.
How to choose the right tire and the right plant
There is no need to spend a lot of money to buy new car rubber for the flower bed. It is enough to take an old one, but suitable. What to look for when choosing?
- The tire should be liftable, standard passenger car tires are best. You can easily transfer it to the desired construction site.
- Dimensions. For a country flower bed, you should not choose a large tire. Do not forget that it will have to be filled with earth. And caring for a high and dimensional flower bed is many times more difficult.
- Better to choose winter tires.
- Take a tire where the tread is worn out as much as possible.
- Foreign rubber is soft and thin, unlike domestic one. Therefore, with the first option, it will be much easier for you to work and the turning process will take less effort.
- If there is a disc, then it will be a good basis for such a "vase". But you can do without it.
Also, you do not need to use wheel tires with obvious defects and damage. After all, a flowerbed with holes and protruding wire is unlikely to look aesthetically pleasing. Do-it-yourself tire flower bed options can be viewed in the photo on the Internet, as well as in the article. Such a product is especially good for a summer cottage or a country house, or you can install flower beds on a playground of a multi-storey building. Just make a mini-project of what should be the result in advance.
When it comes to plant selection, there are many options. You can make a flower bed with:
- flowers of different varieties. For variety, you can choose several species that have different flowering periods. Thus, you can enjoy beautiful flowering throughout the warm period;
- strawberries or strawberries;
- ornamental shrubs;
- trees (which grow to small sizes).
If you want to decorate the yard and make an original version of the flower bed, then stick to the style that is inherent in your summer cottage. Alternatively, you can make a flower bed and bring everything to her style.
How to decorate the most boring rubber?
The most popular way to get a bright and fun product is to paint it. However, before this operation, additional manipulations are required - degreasing, then priming. It will make it possible to get an evenly colored item that does not require a color update soon. Obvious defects on such rubber will not be visible either. The primer layer (s) must be completely dry. White coating can be a good substitute for the traditional method.
The assortment of paints for tire-flower beds is quite large, however, preference is given to those materials that are able to withstand moisture. In this case, the best choice is car paint, oil, acrylic enamel, diluted with water. The advantages of the latter are the ability to buy a composition in the form of an aerosol, cost effectiveness.
However, the desire to profit from the design of junk material can lead to an error. If you paint the border of a rubber product only on the outside, completely forgetting about the inside, then the flower bed will not look the best. Another prerequisite is a sufficient time allotted for drying the product. A freshly painted wheel should “bask” in the sun for several days.
Rules for "colorful" decor
Since there will be live plants inside the flower bed, some recommendations should be taken into account when choosing a material:
- light shades will not allow overheating of the root system of the "inhabitants" of handicrafts made from tires;
- an overly variegated pattern will divert attention to itself, and the flowers in the flowerbed will simply "get lost";
- too thick a layer of paint will lead to cracking in both hot summers and cold weather.
The beauty of such products is the ability to come up with a unique pattern, pattern, imitate other materials, for example, brickwork. However, owners often choose strict monochromatic decorative elements, sometimes they are not painted at all.
Flower garden pyramid
You can often find craftsmen who build whole pyramids of their tires at their dacha.It is very simple to do this, but you will need to find automotive rubber of different diameters. After installing the pyramid and filling it with soil, the flowers are planted along these very protruding edges of the tires. Starting with 2-3 tires from the ground, you can plant ampelous plants in the rest of the tires, which will gracefully hang down, beautifully complementing the overall picture. The coloring of such a flower bed can be any, but taking into account that the plants will hang and trail, you can not attach much importance to the coloring of the lower tires.
