A flowerbed with an interesting border will look much better and more beautiful. Therefore, summer residents try to identify their flower beds with them. Borders can be invented and done a lot, it all depends on your imagination.
How to make various borders in summer cottages
Consider some of the possible options.
The simplest border is an ordinary groove dug up with a shovel. Usually make a V-shaped grooves. Such borders separate lawns from flower beds. From the side of the flower garden, the wall is made inclined, and the other is almost at a right angle. The depth of the groove depends on the soil and the root system of colors.Such a border will need to be renewed during the summer, removing the penetrated grass and roots.
Brotes made of concrete and stone are also used very often. Concrete blocks use those that laid out paths. They replaced, who had gone almost into the past, bricks. You can lay out blocks in different ways, but under them a crushed stone-sand base should be poured under them. It will play the role of drainage, which will allow you to dry faster blocks and leave rain water.
How to make various borders in summer cottages
Use plastic blocks that mimic bricks or stones. They are very harmoniously combined with rectangular and square flower beds, flower beds. They look very beautiful in flower beds located near the recreation areas.Valuns, stones, and sandstone are traditionally popular. They are also often used as borders. Granite and marble are also used.Such borders are convenient for weeding and protect against the penetration of lawn grass into the flower garden. But between stones and blocks in the cracks, weeds constantly germinate. It is quite difficult to delete them. To free yourself from this time -consuming work, spanbond or geotextiles should be laid under add -ons.
Metal ribbon curves are ideal for flower beds of rectangular shape. Often the ribbons are used to separate the crushed stone track from the lawn. Ribbons can be copper, aluminum or stainless steel.Plastic corrugated tapes are also sold, they are cheaper and often used for borders.
Wooden borders are not used often, as they quickly rot. They are suitable in places with height drops and as an installation of a decorative fence. Now on sale there are special sets of blocks with antiseptic impregnation.For the border, pieces of branches are also used, but thick. Or a wicker is made from the branches. The flower garden will be in such an interesting basket.
Make borders even from plants. It turns out a living border from small plants. As this, they use low -growing daisies, primrose, cineria, core or spirea (decorative small shrubs). The width of living borders should be up to 50 centimeters width and not higher than 40 centimeters. They should always be attractive, since constantly in sight.
How to make various borders in summer cottages
You should strive to choose such material for the curbs that it harmoniously fits into your country site. The site looks very good when the curbs are made of the same material as the building (house or country house).
In addition, it is necessary to take into account the shape, the style of the flower garden, the range of colors growing in it.
For example, a steel tape may assume a strict style. The dynamism of the composition will give a slightly curved long border. For creeping plants, a vertical border made of juniper or kizilnik, with flat stones laid in a flower garden, is perfect. Such a border will be a great background.
Old pieces of brick and limestone laid in the curb are quickly covered with moss. This will give your garden. So that moss grew up faster to pour on bricks and limestone beer.
Bright flowers will be very good in the tape border.
What borders to make to decide anyway only to you.