Beds of tire covers are often used for registration of front gardens, yards, lawns. That the design looked beautifully, tires need to be prepared and put correctly in them suitable annual or perennial plants. The key to success – the unpretentious flowers of interesting forms complemented with magnificent greens.
Automobile tire covers: the ideas for garden design
Old car tires – popular replacement to traditional beds. It is convenient to place them in the small yards without lawns, along roads, in places with highly lying underground waters. It is easy to move flowerpot from the tire to any place of the site, if desired it can be established on legs. One more popular garden form – the wheels laid in the form of pyramid.
For creation of beds it is better to use products from winter rubber, it is much easier to cut them. Old tire covers carefully clean from crushed stone and other foreign inclusions, wash and dry. Then they can be painted the necessary shade, to paint with original pattern. One more popular option - flowerpots in the form of volume bowls. For their production on upper part of tire do zigzag cuts by sharp knife or the electrofret saw. It is difficult to turn out product, the significant physical force for this purpose will be required.
That plants well developed, fertile soil with large amount of compost is necessary. During the landing season in tires periodically feed up complex fertilizer for flowers. It is important to watch that the soil did not dry up, it is necessary to water landings in limited capacity daily.
What flowers can be planted in tires
Most often for disembarkation in klumbyiz tires use annual plants. Seeds sprout several weeks therefore it is more convenient to use the bred seedling. At disembarkation consider requirements of each specific plant. For example, normal development of bush petunia requires not less than 5 l of soil, ampelous forms will demand to 7 l.
Ingates with beautiful form of buds and various coloring will be suitable for disembarkation in tires. Normal and terry petunias, bush or cascade are popular. It is the best of all to use modern hybrid forms, they form magnificent compact bushes with large number of buds.
Very effectively nasturtiums look: orange, red, yellow. The nasturtium badly transfers change therefore in tires plant seedling in peat glasses or sow the bulked-up seeds. In rubber beds it is possible to put decorative calendula and eshsholtion, these types form beautiful composition. One more example of successful color combination – silvery tsinerariya and bright red salviya.
Among suitable annual plants there are viol, verbena, marigold, awl-shaped phloxes, tseloziya. Interestingly higher plants – lupines, kosme, saffron, fragrant tobacco look. As maintenance it is possible to plant pochvopokrovny plants, for example, alissum with gentle honey aroma.
Some gardeners plant perennials in self-made cachepots. At division of bushes remains much planting stock, tire covers will become the great field for experiments. In tires it is possible to plant melkotsvetochny chrysanthemums, different types of carnation, primrose, daisy, daylilies, decorative onions. Krasivotsvetushchy plants should be added with fragrant herbs with elegant leaves – thyme, marjoram, melissa, crumpled. They not only beautifully look, but also frighten off insects wreckers.