After cutting of the old or dried-up trees in garden on their place there are big stubs. If roots and the bases look healthy, do not collapse in dust, it is simple to present to such ""remains"" new life. The equal or clumsy stump can be turned by efforts of the gardener into unusual and very stylish bed. Only a little imagination will be required to make of stub at the dacha or at the house smart flower bed.
At the gardener with rich imagination in the presence of tools, paint or seedling of flowers will not arise thoughts that it is possible to make of stubs at the dacha. Alteration options set. It is possible to make by means of the fret saw or saw of nice lesovichk or the gnome, having painted it cap with beard normal enamel. Even more simply - to build peculiar flowerpot in cavity, having filled it with the earth and having set with the blossoming annual plants. There are also other ideas - to give to snag type of chair, wide bench, to cut peculiar table for sit-round gathering with samovar in the open air.
Bed of the foozle
Ways how to make bed of stump, it is possible to think up much. The main thing to approach business with all diligence, to think over exterior of unusual flower bed, to pick up flowers and green plants for landing. It is important that the stump which has changed after work organically has fitted into landscaping of garden or the seasonal dacha, it was combined with other compositions and hand-made articles.
Process of creation of bed of stub in garden consists of several stages.
- Survey of the place of saw cut. It is necessary to check, whether not rotten stub whether strongly it costs on the earth, whether is not present in bugs and ants.
- Clearing of the place for bed. Around stump it is necessary to mow grass, to remove old branches, leaves, to powder with the earth the sticking-out roots.
- Work on deepening of opening. It is possible to cut hole in wood the chainsaw or electric file, the fret saw, helping business by chisel, the small axe. It is possible even to burn out opening, having kindled small fire on the center of snag. Also the short scrow-bar, mattock will not prevent in work.
- Preparation of drainage. That water in opening of the improvised bed did not stand, causing rotting, it is necessary to provide drainage layer. Sideways holes it is worth drilling long drill several openings, and to fill up bottom with haydite, small stones, pebble.
- Filling of hole with the earth. It is worth paving fertile soil for cultivation of ornamental plants, having mixed humus, peat, the garden earth in equal parts.
- Planting of seedling. At will it is possible to set stub with daylilies, bulbous, annual plants, mix of cultivated undersized flowers or green herbs.
Having performed all these operations, it will be necessary only to water periodically flowers, to loosen and weed the earth, to delete deflowered buds for maintenance of decorative effect of flower bed on hemp. Examples of such creative beds stubs are given on photo below.
Plants, suitable for landing, and flowers
Choosing plants and seedling for landing in stub, it is necessary to consider the extent of future colors, to combine coloring, blossoming time. It is better to plant undersized annual plants that roots have not frozen in small deepening in the winter. The most suitable for disembarkation in bed of snag are considered:
- daisies;
- pansies (viol);
- petunias of one or different color;
- geraniums;
- bushy, undersized marigold;
- cornflowers and forget-me-nots;
- tiny hosts;
- periwinkle;
- kamnelomk;
Examples of blossoming are given on photo below.
Several interesting ideas for garden
If desired at the dacha it is possible to diversify beds stubs, having set the territory around them with undersized bindweeds, flowers, having added garden figures. Simply and the hands to make for stump of gnomes, to cut from threefold snag of Zmey Gorynych, athletes. The main thing to include on - full the imagination, not to be afraid of result.
Especially will like beds on stumps summer residents and gardeners with small sites. Such composition can be placed in half-shade, shadow, having picked up the corresponding plants.