How to make outdoor flower pots with your own hands

Every owner wants, leaving the house, to admire his plot, be it a private house or a summer cottage. One of the techniques for decorating and diversifying the site is to arrange interesting outdoor flowerpots in some places. They may contain flowers, bonsai and so on.

Below we will talk about what kind of flowerpots are, where it is better to arrange them, how and from what you can make containers yourself.

What are the vases

Previously, such containers, tubs and flowerpots were used only for growing capricious plants. They contained specialized soil, different in composition from ordinary soil in a flower bed.

Now, different and beautiful containers are used for ordinary flowers to diversify ordinary gardens and verandas.

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Conditionally, you can divide street flowerpots into several categories:

• by form;
• by material of manufacture.

As for the shape, containers can be anything. There are both standard (round, square, rectangular) and unusual (irregular). Everything here is limited only by the imagination of the owner of the house or dacha. Various materials can also be chosen - natural (for example, stumps or logs), concrete, fabrics, metal, wood.

It is necessary to select material for the flowerpot focusing on the general style of the zone of its location.

Each raw material has its pros and cons, care features.

Materials

Let's take a closer look at common materials for making outdoor flowerpots and caring for them:

1. Natural materials. Old tree stumps or logs can be used to decorate the garden. In order for such a flowerpot to serve for a long time and not to lose its appearance, it is necessary to process it with special means. Here impregnation from mold, from decay and insects can be useful.
2. Concrete. Flexible and durable material that allows you to make flowerpots of various shapes. It does not need additional processing, you can simply paint it for an aesthetic look.
3. Fabrics... It uses special materials that are resistant to natural phenomena.
4. Metal... This means beautiful wrought iron flowerpots. It is very important that all patterns are treated with special paint, otherwise rust will appear and the appearance will be damaged.
5. Wood. The bars must be treated with the same impregnation as natural materials, otherwise they will change color over time and become unusable.

How to choose a place for flowerpots

The arrangement of flowerpots largely depends on the wishes of the owner of the garden. But still, do not forget that you need to put them in an appropriate and convenient way.

Vases installed on the sides of the porch will enliven the entrance to the house. It is also good to place them near gazebos or summer kitchen.

If you have a wide enough blind area, outdoor flowerpots will be appropriate along the wall of the house - flowers will bring a lively touch against the background of stone walls.

Bulky flowerpots are not appropriate in small gardens. Just like the miniature ones will get lost in the vastness of the large garden.

In addition, it is important to calculate in advance what exactly will grow in the container. If you do not take into account the "wishes" of the plant, it will die and, as a result, the flowerpot will be empty.

A permanent place for flowerpots must be chosen carefully. These are quite heavy products, and it is not recommended to disturb the plant once again.

It is good to highlight the entrance to the zones of the garden, buildings with flowerpots with flowers.Do not forget about style - if you have a gazebo made of wood, then concrete flowerpots will not work.

We decorate the site with our own hands

The easiest and fastest way is to purchase ready-made flowerpots in the desired style or order production according to your own sketch. But this will be an order of magnitude more expensive than making flowerpots for a summer residence with your own hands. This, of course, takes time, effort and imagination, but it's worth it. Here are some examples.

Concrete

Even the fair sex can cope with such a seemingly difficult task. The simplest do-it-yourself concrete flowerpot is made from any fabric, concrete mix and a bucket. You can use the remains of the mortar after construction work.

Place the fabric in the liquid mixture and soak it well. When the whole rag is saturated with the solution, we take it out and hang it to dry on any bucket.

Position the rag as the upside-down flowerpot should look like.

After the cement hardens, the resulting flowerpot must be removed from the bucket. Now you can start decorating - paint in any or any color. Here the flight of imagination is not limited.

To make it easier to remove the flowerpot from the bucket, it is better to lubricate the latter first. Working out or any oil will do.

There is a more expensive option - manufacturing using a special form for flowerpots. You have to buy it. For that, the result will please you - you get a beautiful neat flowerpot. And there is nothing difficult in manufacturing - knead the solution, pour it into the mold and wait for solidification.

By the way, you can even make the forms yourself. For this, cardboard and tape are suitable. Cut out the outer parts of the future shape, fasten them with high-quality durable tape. Then you install the inner part (where the soil for the plant will be filled up) and fill everything with a solution.

The most time-consuming method of making outdoor concrete flowerpots is modeling. Here you will already need a frame and some (at least minimal) sculpting skills. For that, the shape of the flowerpot does not depend on anything. It will be necessary to work in stages and use additional additives and primers.

As you can see, making cement flowerpots with your own hands is not difficult.

Tires

Not the most difficult, but not so easy option. To work, you need an old tire with a disc, chalk and a hacksaw.

So, first you need to draw the outline of the edge of the flowerpot (it is the cutting line) with chalk. This is done not in the middle of the tire, but closer to the disc on one side.

Non-studded tires are suitable for making flowerpots - they are easier to cut.

After basting, you need to make a cut. Be prepared for tricky cutting.

When the tire is cut, it must be turned out. So the vase will be made of rubber, and the disk will play the role of its legs.

Flowerbeds of tireshand-made can be covered with suitable paint or painted.

A rock

An interesting solution is offered by designers - the manufacture of flowerpots and garden furniture from mesh and boulders. They look very interesting and unusual, the work does not require special skills, and most importantly, such outdoor flowerpots can be made by hand.

For work, you will need a special metal mesh, geotextiles and boulders.

We collect a hollow frame from the mesh. We pour stones into the emptiness of the walls. In conclusion, we fix geotextiles to the walls from the inside - it will not allow the soil to seep between the stones and will allow water to pass through.

It is better to pour drainage on the bottom - a layer of sand or expanded clay. A beautiful do-it-yourself flowerpot is ready!

It will not be possible to move such a structure, so choose a permanent place for it at once.

Wood

Do-it-yourself flowerpots for the garden can be made of wood. Even pallets left over from construction will do.

For work you will need:

• boards;
• sandpaper or grinder;
• saw or jigsaw;
• nails or screws;
• roulette;
• pencil;
• impregnation.

To make such flowerpots, you need a little carpentry skills. First you need to think over the dimensions of the future product.This is best done on paper.

Next, we cut the boards to size.

At the corners, you can attach narrow bars or cut locks.

After all the boards are prepared, you need to process them with sandpaper and apply a special impregnation. The latter will prevent wood from rotting in all weather conditions.

When the coating is dry, you can fasten the parts. In the end, it remains only to decorate the resulting flowerpots.

Different

We have described the most affordable and popular manufacturing options. Also, barrels, an old wheelbarrow, a bicycle with a basket, a few old pots, a prepared stump, and so on are suitable as outdoor flowerpots. In fact, fantasy is where to roam.

You can diversify and decorate the garden without large investments. You just need to find the time and give free rein to your imagination. Finally, look at the photos of street forged flowerpots - they are very inspiring:

Original outdoor flowerpots with their own hands - video