12 Original Flower Beds That Will Transform Your Summer Cottage

Old umbrella

A scattering of marigolds, phloxes or lobelias in an inverted old umbrella is a striking element of landscape design. The flowerbed does not require much expense or special skills. The umbrella is installed in a shallow hole and secured with a metal rod.

Several holes are made in the fabric for drainage. The only drawback of an umbrella flowerbed is its short life. The raincoat fades and falls apart by the end of the season. Craftsmen who do not want to re-upholster the fabric and repair the spokes every year, build the umbrella base from metal or plywood.

Cart, bicycle and other transport

A trip to the country is always a small journey. Why not play up the adventure theme by decorating the flowerbeds. A retro bicycle with flowers on the frame and luggage rack or a boat that has long returned from sailing will decorate the resting place and add coziness to the entire area. Additional attention will have to be paid to the fastening of such a structure.

Lovers of antiquity prefer to arrange flower beds in carts. It is difficult to find the original, but you can create a similar one with your own hands.

Old furniture and plumbing

Old beds, dressers, chairs on a summer cottage get a second life. They are sanded, painted, aged even more, covered with a moisture-proof layer or left in their original form.

Perennials and annuals of different flowering periods can be planted in the chest of drawers. Such a flowerbed will be fragrant from early spring until the first frost. The lattice of an old bed will be an excellent support for ampelous flowers with hanging and climbing shoots. Painted in a bright color or decorated with mosaics, a bathtub is an original element of a garden landscape.

Flower beds on the water

If there is a small pond, pool or old bathtub on your summer cottage, you can decorate it with floating flower beds. The base is made of non-sinking material.

A foam mold with a depression in the center, a raft made of boards and plastic bottles or a lifebuoy will do. A container with moisture-loving flowers and ornamental grasses is installed in the center of the structure.

Pots and pots

Ceramics always fit harmoniously into landscape design. A flowerbed can be laid out directly in a large clay vase or around it.

Cracked flowerpots, cans and watering cans, overturned on their sides and partially dug into the ground, are used to create a fabulous flower river. Small flowers, as if spilling out of a broken pot, look picturesque, but unobtrusive.

Ladder

A small country stepladder will come in handy for picking apples and for an original flower bed. Flower pots and boxes are placed on the steps or fixed on hooks and hangers.

The advantage of a stair flower bed is the ability to replace faded plants with new ones, preserving the fragrant appearance of the garden.

Old suitcase

Often, a completely inappropriate thing for a dacha becomes its harmonious and original decoration. Don’t rush to throw away worn-out leather goods. A suitcase casually open and drowning in flowers will become the highlight of your garden plot.

Flowerbed in an old log

If you want your flowerbed to blend harmoniously into the surrounding landscape, use natural decor. An old stump or a log with a niche in the middle will do for the base.

The bottom is lined with stones for drainage, and soil is poured on top for planting flowers. Such a flowerbed will easily decorate all the unsightly places on the garden plot, and trees fallen during a thunderstorm and dried snags will become an element of garden decor.

Figured flowerbeds

To create a picturesque picture right on the ground, it is enough to draw a sketch, mark the area according to it and choose suitable seedlings. The denser the planting, the more clearly the pattern is visible.

The ideal option is low and lushly blooming petunias, pansies. Gravel, pebbles, expanded clay or broken brick are suitable for framing the flowerbed.

Barrels and tubs

The style of a country cottage is supported by flowerbeds made of massive wooden barrels and decorative tubs. There are many different flowerbed options.

• A barrel lying on its side with a stream of flowers “pouring” out of it.
• Multi-level flower arrangements made from barrels cut vertically.
• A locomotive flowerbed made from containers connected in series.
• Tube flowerbeds with decorative elements (birdhouses, waterfalls, etc.)

Car tires and wheels

You can’t surprise anyone with tires painted in different colors. For the last ten years, this has been a classic of the genre of garden creativity. If you show ingenuity and a little persistence, you can create more original and modern flower arrangements.

Tires can be placed on the wall of a utility room or hung on brackets. Folk painting and mosaics make car rims into real works of art.

Vertical flowerbeds

If there is a problem with horizontal space for a flowerbed, you will have to look upward. A vertical flowerbed takes up little space, but is clearly visible from all sides. In addition, such flower beds have a number of other advantages:

• Weeding and watering are easier than usual, because you don’t have to bend over for every weed.
• The area occupied is several times smaller than that of a standard bed.
• Flowers and berries planted this way have less contact with the soil, so they stay fresh longer and are not afraid of rot.
• You can select an individual watering regime for each plant. Although they are all located next to each other in the same flowerbed, each has its own lump of earth.

A dacha is not only endless weeding, watering, thinning, but also a place for creativity and self-expression. The simplest and most unnecessary things can be turned into a unique landscape design object that pleases the eyes of the owners and neighbors.