Every year, landscape designers develop many ideas designed to decorate our garden plots, making them more comfortable, without violating the natural harmony of the territory. If you have ever visited landscape design exhibitions, you probably noticed that, in addition to convenience and practicality, each master strives to emphasize the originality of his work, sometimes using for this not quite ordinary things. For example, your garden plot can turn into a prototype of a pond or a whole sea if its territory is decorated with a flower bed in a boat. About this method of garden design today will tell "House of Dreams", inviting his readers to see beautiful photos of flowers grown in old boats.
Ideas of flower beds with their own hands photo
How to make and decorate a flower bed in a boat
A boat is a symbol of freedom, conquest of the water element and development of new territories. But, unfortunately, as soon as it becomes unusable, it immediately turns into an unnecessary cargo, which, as a rule, lives out its life in littered attics, until it is sent for recycling.
However, if you belong to people who know the value of economical use of resources and who are trying to bring new colors to the environment of their garden plot, then you can give the old boat a new life, turning it into an original base for a flower bed or flowerbed.
In fact, an old ship, even if there are holes on its bottom, is already a ready-made flower bed, after all, it's enough just to fill the boat with soil and plant it with flowers and plants. But since each element of landscape design should harmoniously fit into the surrounding environment, this original object should first of all find a suitable place.
Using an old boat under a bed
The most harmoniously and conceptually, the flowerbed looks at sites that have access to an open reservoir, or in areas where decorative ponds or fountains are present. If you are the lucky owner of just such a site, set the boat closer to the water. When the old ship is filled with flowers and plants, it will become a kind of link between the water element and the flora.
Ideas for decorating a flower bed in a boat
A flower bed in a boat on the banks of the
River In addition, on sites with open water bodies, you can make a separate floating garden. Plant the boat with your favorite colors and let it conquer the water spaces, beforehand, of course, securing the ship to the shore with a rope or chains. In order to make it easier for you to take care of the floating flower garden, you can plant the plants not in the soil, but in pots, thereby turning the boat into a floating pot.
Ideas for a flower bed in a boat
However, do not abandon the original idea for a flower bed, if your site does not go to a river or lake, and there are no objects with water on its territory. After all, in this case the boat will be just that missing element, symbolizing the water element.
But note that the flower bed in the boat with its creativity will eclipse all the nearest objects, so install a flower garden in open and free territory.
To make the old ship a harmonious continuation of the surrounding nature, you can dig it a little in the ground, so it will seem that from now on the boat does not sail the waters, but the terrestrial expanses.
A flowerbed in an old boat photo
A flowerbed boat photo of
If you do not want to dig a boat into the ground, fasten it with pebbles or cobblestones.
Flowers planted in the boat photo
The old flower boat Photo
Also interesting is the idea for the design of the flower bed, in which the boat is installed near the free wall. But in this case it is better to use a small boat. Moreover, it is not at all necessary to create a flower garden in a real ship, as the basis for the future flowerbed-boat can be made from improvised means: wooden planks, plastic, etc. That the idea with the decoration of the flower garden in the form of a boat looked complete, decorate the wall with suitable accessories in the marine theme - fishing net, old oars, ship steering, etc.
Ideas for flower beds with their own hands
Decorative flowerbed in the boat
Boat - the idea of creating a flowerbed in the yard
As for the choice of the zone of the site for the location of the boat, then this object looks harmonious in the recreation area. To comfortably enjoy the beauty of the original flower bed, install it near the gazebo, bench or dining table.
A flower bed in an inverted boat
What plants to choose for a flower bed in the form of a boat
From a standard flower bed, the boat differs only in its original appearance, so it is possible to plant absolutely any plants, having first become acquainted with their compatibility and care requirements. But since this object will be on the site all year round, it is best to plant in it plants suitable for a flower bed of continuous flowering. If you compose a list of the inhabitants of the flowerbed-boat competently, this decoration will delight you with bright colors from early spring to late autumn.
A flower bed in an old wooden boat
When choosing plants for a future flowerbed, consider the fact that the boat is a separate container, so in the spring the land warms up earlier than in the open ground. Accordingly, primroses and bulbous flowers in the boat will bloom much earlier than in the garden plot.
Flower garden in the boat photo
In addition to spring and summer flowers, do not forget to plant in the flower garden plants that blossom in the autumn period. The most popular spring visitors of flower beds are chrysanthemums and asters, whose beauty will be the best decoration of the object. In addition, in advance, think about how your flowerbed will look in winter. To the boat under the cover of snow does not resemble a ship that has lost its course, plant it with evergreen coniferous plants and rose bushes.
Flower in the boat photo
In such beds you can also grow and climbing plants, but for this they need to come up with suitable support. For example, as a support, you can use fishing nets, fixed with the help of wooden sticks. When plants adorn the surface of the nets, it will seem that a live fragrant sail rises above the boat.
In addition, it looks very interesting flowerbed-boat, planted with water lilies.
Interesting ideas for flower beds
As you can see from the photo, the flowerbed in the boat is not only an original, but also a practical solution for beautifying the flower garden. If desired, near such a flowerbed, you can arrange other suitable accessories, reminiscent of the marine style. For example, you can decorate the garden area with accessories of landscape design in the form of gulls, shells, sea stars, etc. These objects in conjunction with a flower bed in a boat will give your garden a finish and expressiveness.
