What to do with a big stump. We decorate the stumps and saw cuts of trees in the country

On the plot you can find a lot of stumps from dried or fallen trees from the wind. It takes a lot of effort to uproot the stump and free up space, but do not rush to get rid of the driftwood. The dacha is open space for creativity, so many amateur gardeners have already found use for stumps sticking out of the ground. In this article, we decided to offer a few ideas on what you can do with your own hands from stumps. Photos of wooden ones will inspire you to create creative products that will decorate the landscape.

Furniture from stumps and snags

In addition to plants and a garden path, there is a place to relax on the plot. Garden furniture must be durable, stable and withstand aggressive environmental influences. Wooden garden furniture has a fairly high cost, so it is best to do it yourself.

If you have a large tree stump in your garden, try carving a comfortable chair out of it. Depending on the size of the hemp, the chair will turn out either for an adult or for a child. With a chainsaw, it's easy to cut out the seat, backrest, and even armrests. You can also use the stumps themselves as a place to relax. If necessary, they should be treated with sealants and painted.

A snag from an ugly and curved piece of wood will turn into an original decor. A large driftwood can be used as a table leg and to decorate chairs.

The sanded and varnished driftwood will add zest to any room.

Here is another photo of the original furniture made of snags and stumps:

If you have wood carving skills, the stump will become a beautiful flower stand in minutes.

Carvings with pyrographic effects will decorate any area. To make a flower pot from a stump, you need to cut out the middle completely from it and fill it with earth.

Depending on the size of the stump, you can plant a different number of plants and make an original flower bed with your own hands.

Do you want your garden to be decorated with beautiful decorative figurines? Take an iron bowl, paint it with enamel - this will be a mushroom cap.

Now put a hat on a stump and it will turn out. The stump will be a good basis for sculpture, the main thing is to show imagination.

A small selection of photos of crafts from a stump and snags

Such houses will not only decorate your garden or summer cottage, but can also be an excellent home for birds if you place them a little higher.

These crafts can scare away unexpected birds from renting and attract the attention of guests with their originality and beauty!

It’s better not to joke with these formidable stumps ....

And this one just lay down and rests for himself ... you can say it opens the beach season.

Watch a useful video: crafts from stumps and snags
Wood is a valuable material for decoration, so do not rush to uproot stumps, try to give them a second life.

Having a large orchard or planting ornamental trees, you need to be prepared that over time the plants grow old, the moment comes when the tree needs to be cut. In its place, an unattractive stump remains, which visually spoils the impression of the garden. Of course, the stump can be uprooted, a new, young seedling can be planted in its place. This is a rather laborious process that requires not only physical strength, but also the involvement of special equipment. In this article, we will talk about how to create crafts from stumps with your own hands for the garden.

Some creative ideas how to decorate a stump in the garden with your own hands

If there is no desire to uproot an old stump, it can be turned into a design element that adorns the garden.

There are many options for transforming the remains of a tree, the main thing is to use imagination. We offer some original ideas for decorating the garden.

pot with flowers on a stump with their own hands

By decorating an old driftwood with flowering plants, you can get a natural vase full of various flowers. To do this is quite simple. In the center of the hemp, you need to carve a space that is suitable in volume for a flower pot. If the wood is rotten, it will not be difficult to make a recess.

With the help of a chisel, a hammer, the core is removed.

The walls of the resulting container are treated with an antiseptic. Garden soil mixed with fertilizers is poured into the prepared recess. Seedlings of plants are planted. Water the flower bed should be carefully, avoiding excessive moisture. Several holes can be made in the hemp body, which will serve as a drainage system and prevent excessive accumulation of moisture in the soil. If the stump wood is dense, the recess can be made by burning. For this purpose, in the center of the cut, with the help of a drill, a recess is made into which kerosene is poured. The hole is closed with a plug. This manipulation is performed several times. A week later, after the wood has been sufficiently saturated with combustible material, the center of the tree is set on fire. After the core burns out, a natural depression is formed, which will serve as a future flowerpot. The inner walls of the flowerpot are treated with an antiseptic, plants are planted.

Vegetation can be varied:

flowering annuals;
weaving greens.

The edges of the stump, if its location allows, can be ennobled with moss, and the center can be filled with lush bushes, such as ferns.
Here the fantasy is limitless, the main thing is to choose the right plant varieties.

Street lamp

According to the principle of a flowerpot, you can make a wooden candlestick. If the stump is located near the recreation area, additional lighting will come in handy.
A solar-powered garden lamp placed in the recess of a driftwood will look unusual and have a functional application.

Another option is to make an element of garden furniture out of it. The easiest way is to make an impromptu chair for outdoor recreation. If the size of the sawn tree allows, a wonderful chair will come out.
This option is easier to implement when the tree is only planned to be cut down. This will make it possible to calculate the optimal saw cut height suitable for creating a comfortable seat. After sawing off the main part of the wood, the remaining snag is processed, the edges are removed from excess bark, polished. The prepared wood is varnished. A ready-made impromptu chair can be decorated with a colorful fabric seat.

By the same principle, a stump can be used to make a garden table for relaxing. The tabletop is made from knocked down boards, a single piece of wood. The structure is fastened with planks, screwed with screws to the center of the driftwood. If the tree was large with voluminous convex roots, this will add even more uniqueness to the table.

Decorative compositions

Having decorated with small figurines of gnomes, grasshoppers or other characters, the old stump can be turned into a fabulous island, pleasant for contemplation. Using a chisel in the trunk of a driftwood, you can cut out impromptu windows, a door, lay out a small path of small stones next to it. The resulting do-it-yourself stump houses for the garden decorate with a makeshift mini-garden by planting a few low-growing, flowering plants.

Such a fabulous dwelling of the gnomes will pleasantly surprise and delight children.

If it’s difficult to work with a chisel, but you really like the idea of how to decorate a stump in the garden with the help of fairy-tale characters, turn the stump into a fly agaric, and put small figures of gnomes next to it. Making fly agaric is easy. We cover the old iron, plastic bowl with paint, draw characteristic white circles. We paint the polished stump in white, tear it with a lid.

Using a stump as a stand for a flower pot and more

The simplest use case. There is no need to burn anything, saw. By simply sanding the wood, covering it with special anti-rotting products, the stump can be used as a stand for flower pots.
Putting a few more other pots next to it, a good longline flower bed will come out. Also, an old tree can be used as a stand for various small decorative fountains, bird feeders, etc.

Original garden stump figures

The sixth option is how to decorate a stump in the garden with your own hands - creating a sculpture or figurine. This idea is easy to implement for people with woodcarving skills. Fantasy plus skill work wonders. The choice of character depends on the height, width of the remains of the tree. It can be a small bird or a large deer wandering into the garden out of curiosity.

However, less pretentious sculptures can be made. You can make a goblin with the help of improvised means. By attaching eyes made from a plastic bottle, hands - small twigs, decorating the composition with cones, moss - a wonderful goblin will come out.

If the stump is located in a damp, semi-shaded area of the garden, it will make a beautiful island of a moss garden. Having planted moss on wood, you need to take care of the planting for some time, moisten it so that the moss spores take root. The plant will then do its thing on its own. A stump covered with a thick layer of moss looks mysterious, attractive, fashionable.

Finally, I would like to recommend to all novice garden designers, thinking over the idea of how to create DIY crafts from stumps for the garden, pay attention to the general concept of the garden plot. The made jewelry should organically complement the existing image, become part of it.

A dacha is a space for creativity, creation and contemplation, where a person can relax and work for his own pleasure.

It is also a great opportunity to show imagination, and we will help you with inspiration. Today we will tell you how to make beautiful crafts from stumps for the garden, what materials and techniques to use.

This is a great opportunity to decorate the landscape, spending very little money, and in some cases, all costs will consist only of the time and effort spent.

As a result, you will get a wonderful decoration, original and bringing joy.

What can be done with old stumps?

Human fantasy is truly endless! Sometimes you wonder yourself - where do ideas come from. Moreover, even the most ancient thing, if desired, can be used. So it is with an old stump or snag, which not very enterprising people will most likely throw out or burn. But do not rush, because he can be given a second life. You ask how? And we will answer - very simply!

An old stump can become furniture, which is so necessary in the garden, or part of it, for example, a high chair for children and adults, which depends on the size of the stump. If it is high, then you can use a chainsaw to cut out a part so that you get a back, and if the stump is also very large in girth, then you can make armrests and you will get a large chair.

Small low stumps are perfect for a playground. The upper cut must be cleaned and sanded, a colored pattern can be applied on top with paints.

It immediately suggests itself to make a table for the chair, at which it is so pleasant to have a cup of tea under a sprawling apple tree in the shade. Our stump can become both a support for the tabletop and the table itself, if dimensions allow. In the first case, you must first level the surface of the stump, treat it with special impregnations that will not allow it to rot.

Then on the sides, parallel opposite each other, we nail two strips, and we fill two more perpendicularly on them. After that, we knock down a countertop of any shape that you like from the boards and fasten it with nails to the planks from below. This is one of the many options. For the product to serve you for a long time, cover it with varnish.

You can also make other crafts from stumps with your own hands. which can be used as garden sculptures. For example, a bright fly agaric will become an accent on a green lawn or under a spreading bush.

The stump will be a foot fungus, and make a hat from an old bowl, which must be covered with red spray paint, and when it dries, draw white spots. You can also paint the leg and even draw a face on it and thereby revive the fly agaric. Thus, you can make not only fly agaric, but also other mushrooms.

With a little imagination, you will have a one-of-a-kind stump sculpture.

Also, the stump can become a pedestal for any sculpture, a plant in a tub, and even for a barrel of water for watering the garden.

And what beautiful containers for plants are obtained from stumps! To get a flower pot, you just need to remove part of the core, pour drainage (expanded clay), fertile soil there and plant the plants. It will look very beautiful young, for which about 4 cm of earth is enough.

And if the stump is large, then it can be used as a planter and insert a flower pot there. Or cut the middle to a depth of 25-30 cm and arrange a real mini-flower bed.

To do this, again, make a drainage layer of 5-10 cm and pour about 20 cm of fertile soil. And then you plant different plants.

Curly species (ornamental strawberries, petunia, nasturtium, etc.) will look beautiful in combination with undersized annuals and annuals. Such a decorative element will be a great addition to larger landscape compositions.

How can you use a snag in the country?

Crafts from stumps and snags, which make up a single composition, look very unusual. After all, for sure, everyone in the country has a broken thick branch, a small fallen tree, etc. They can also be adapted for summer cottages, for example, as a stand with an unusual curved shape, on which you can attach a garden washbasin or hang a small planter made of the same hemp.

And if you come across a large branched branch with a base thickness of 6-10 cm, then you are very lucky. From such an instance, you can build a beautiful composition. First, the branch must be cleaned and treated with a protective compound. Then firmly fix it in the ground, for example, concrete or dig to a sufficient depth.

And then turn on the fantasy! On one branch you can hang a bird feeder, on the other - a stylized clock, a decorative nest or flower pots. Also, such a branch can become a country dryer for cups, jars and other utensils.

If you have an alpine slide, then a snag covered with moss and elongated in a horizontal direction will be a great addition to the composition. It can be planted with ground cover ornamental plants, which over time will partially cover the snag.

Or maybe you will come across a snag with various natural depressions. Then you can pour a little soil into them and plant stonecrops, rejuvenated and other plants. This thing looks very impressive and beautiful.

The V-shaped sprig can be used as a clothes hook. This is done as follows: fasten one end of a strong rope to a branch, and the other to the wall.

You can even assemble a bench from snags. It will have an unusual and very original look. The main thing is to choose strong branches that will surely be able to withstand the weight of a person.

Also, a thick branch can be cut into cylinders of different heights, cut a shallow hole in them and used as candlesticks. Just be very careful, wood is flammable.

It is worth remembering that wood is a rather fragile material., which, when exposed to moisture, collapses, rots. A stump is an old tree that is doubly subject to self-destruction. Therefore, it is imperative to carry out treatment with special chemicals and varnishes to prevent these destructive processes, especially if you want to make crafts from stumps and snags for more than one season. However, if you want to get the effect of moss, then there is no need for such events.

Get inspired, fantasize and boldly bring your ideas to life!

Even if you do not have your own dacha, then perhaps you were visiting friends or went out of town to visit relatives. And almost always in their garden you can find simple crafts made from stumps and snags.

Such crafts delicately attract our attention to ordinary things around us - if you know how to work with wood, you can make wonderful snowmen for the garden and your home from wood cuts.

All life in the country is centered around nature so that it is natural that we try to make the most of natural materials and textures, such as saw cuts from old trees or driftwood.

Funny winter crafts can be done with children. This snowman is made from birch logs with a bright addition from the remnants of an old sweater.

An old stump or thick log can become a magical Christmas candle if you add to it a "flame" made from a piece of metal and driven into the log with a sharp edge. You will get a completely functional lamp - you can put a thick candle behind the metal flame or, having made a recess in the log, install a small container with a small candle behind it.

The combination of natural wood color and bright Christmas decor gives a good result. To make such a cheerful Snow Maiden, you will not need much time and large material costs. You can make a whole family of such funny figures with pleasure with your children.

Beautiful decorative elements in the country house made of wood look like a natural continuation of the garden with its natural scents and harmonious colors.

A rustic Christmas tree made from saw cut pine branches will create a festive atmosphere all winter holidays when you spend more time at home.

The combination of the beautiful natural structure of wood and its skillful processing is able to create amazingly beautiful things.

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A country house with a plot for most people is not only a place where you can have a good rest, relax and relieve accumulated fatigue, but also room for creative inspiration. Each owner wants to transform and decorate his personal plot in any way possible for this. Some plant beautiful ones, others try to come up with an original one, others begin to make crafts or, fourth ones make crafts for the garden with their own hands. We will focus on the latter in detail in this article. We learn the latest news, novelties and the main trends of the summer season.

DIY garden crafts (photo)

To create an original art object for your garden, it is not necessary to run to the store to buy material. You can make your new creations without them. Take a look around. After all, for sure in your household there is something that you have not used for a long time for one reason or another.

It can be a broken bike, an old, leaky bucket, worn out tires and tires accumulated, leftovers, basins, barrels of unnecessary shoes and much more. Giving new life to all these used things is very simple, the main thing is not to be afraid of experiments.

A visual diagram of how to make a decorative well for a summer residence with your own hands

First you need to decide for yourself in what style you want to see the design of your garden. In Provence style, or Art Nouveau, or whatever you prefer. Taking into account the characteristic features of each direction, as well as your own preferences, you should proceed to its design and decoration.

DIY garden crafts can be not only an aesthetic addition to your garden, but also carry a functional component that can be useful in the household.

Natural materials will also help decorate your garden. Field boulders, river stones, tree trunks and their stumps, clay, glass, etc. All this will bring beauty and improve the habitat on your site.

The most important thing is the pursuit of perfection, it will help create a unique and beautiful decor for your site.

Stones for garden decor

flat stones- a real find, especially if they are large. You can draw anything on them. And most importantly, making crafts for the garden with your own hands from stones is exciting and fun, especially with children.

Large stones may just decorate the garden, and medium-sized stones will serve as excellent helpers in the garden. It is necessary to take pebbles in the shape of a certain fruit or vegetable, draw it on it and put it in the garden in accordance with the drawn one. The garden and garden will immediately be filled with bright colors.

Stone Ladybugs - Design Crafts by Amanda

Do-it-yourself figurines for the garden (photo)

If you decide to decorate your garden yourself, remember that here you need to feel the fine line between the stylistic direction of the garden and a sense of proportion. Since when decorating a garden, going too far with the number of figurines or choosing the wrong image of decorative figurines can easily spoil the aesthetic appearance of your site.

After all, you must admit that the figures of a red riding hood, a baba-yaga, a kolobok or other fairy-tale character in a Japanese garden will not look entirely appropriate. A green lawn decorated with a large number of artificial palm trees will look even more strange, under each of which there will be a gnome figurine.

Based on the requirements of landscape design, try to choose images of figurines in unison with the main direction of the style of your site.

Crafts for the garden from tires and tires (photo)

Using old car tires as a material for making garden decor has long been a common practice for many people. For this, absolutely all tires of any diameter are suitable.

Having a number of fresh and practical ideas in your head, as well as certain skills in stabbing and cutting tools and fixtures, you can turn a boring piece of rubber into a beautiful art object, thereby decorating your garden in an unusual way.

There is nothing complicated in this work, and as practice shows, it takes less than one hour to make crafts for a garden with your own hands from car tires, even for a novice master.

A little imagination and the old tire has found a new life in the form of a children's swing "overweight"

Tire products are just the case when you don’t need to spend too much time on DIY garden crafts and invest a lot of money to purchase expensive materials.

The scope of old car tires, where they can be used as a material for making crafts, is huge. Starting from the design of ordinary flower beds and flower beds, ending with full-fledged playgrounds for your children. Garden Tire Crafts- these are simple, cheap, well-proven products, the constructive forms of which know no boundaries.

Crafts for the garden from improvised materials (photo)

In order for the garden crafts you created with your own hands to retain their original appearance for as long as possible, try to choose the right source material for them. Also important is the thorough application of paints and varnishes.

For open air, modern synthetic acrylic paints are ideal, which are distinguished by reliable resistance to constant changes in air temperature and ultraviolet radiation.

In such a responsible matter as decorating a garden with your own hands, absolutely any little thing that has been gathering dust on your site for more than one year can come in handy. As experienced gardeners say, in the country there is nothing unnecessary and nothing superfluous!

To give a special chic to your creations, experienced designers recommend using various sequins, beads, beads, colored glass, etc. as a decor. With their help, you can create an original image of fairy-tale characters, gnomes, small figures of animals or insects. Well, if you add a little magic to the surface of the products, in the form of fluorescent paint, you can enjoy the beauty of your garden not only during the day, but also at night.

New ideas for the garden that will inspire you (photo)

Everyone wants their yard to look nice and cozy. It's so nice to admire this beauty during warm summer evenings. To do this, you need to spend a lot of time and money, because often purchased decor items are quite expensive and, unfortunately, not everyone can afford it. And yet, even from this situation, there is an excellent budget way out - to make crafts for the garden with your own hands.

First of all, of course, it is worth taking care of the improvement of the site:

Pay due attention to paths, paths, trees, flower beds and flower beds;
Also, do not forget about the recreation areas (, ), where you often like to relax on warm summer evenings. They must look perfect.

If we talk about more interesting projects, then we can aim at creating decorative mini-garden or other decoration. Best of all, the miniature will look surrounded by small figurines and various figurines.

A pond decorated with artificial lilies or swans will look no less beautiful. If doing waterproof DIY garden crafts difficult for you, then you can easily buy them in specialized stores. There you will surely be able to find suitable products that will harmoniously fit into landscaping your garden.

It is important to remember that some products (especially those made of cheap plastic) are afraid of strong temperature changes. Therefore, if necessary, in the winter, everything can be moved from the street to a more secluded place where it will not be threatened by the cold.

DIY master class - everything for the garden (photo)

Many decorate their garden using classic techniques for this - beautiful figurines of little gnomes, unusual birds, as well as funny and funny little animals. This style of design for the site is very popular, especially for those who have small children. It has been proven that the fabulous atmosphere created in this way in the garden has a beneficial effect on the development of the child.

If you supplement the garden with a drinker or bird feeder, then in addition to improving the aesthetic beauty of the site, you will make a significant contribution to saving starving birds in winter. Thus, you will teach your kids to love all life on earth from a very early age.

Garden decor - photos of the best DIY crafts

If recently there was a construction or repair on the site, then some building materials, such as cement, probably remained. You can create great DIY garden decor.

To do this, you need to find the largest leaf, a leaf of burdock or water lily is perfect;
Then a layer of cement should be applied to this sheet, not very thick, but not thin either. In order for the sheet to stand later, it must be even and smooth on top, otherwise the sheet will have to be dug into the ground;
After that, you need to wait about 5-6 hours, until the solution is completely dry, turn over, remove the sheet from the cement and now the decor is ready.

To manufactured DIY concrete crafts hands did not look too gloomy, you can glue colored pebbles in the middle or just paint the sheet in any color.

Wall decor with flower pots (photo)

Flowers are beautiful decor idea. If there is an empty boring wall on the site that needs to be decorated with something, then hanging flowers and photo frames will be a great option.

To do this, you need to find empty tin cans or unnecessary flower pots, preferably the same size;
Holes are made on the sides through which you need to pass a rope or chain. It will be a latch to hold crafts on a vertical wall;
If the wall is wooden, then you can simply drive a nail into it, if we are dealing with a brick or block wall, then we cannot do without a puncher and anchor dowels;
Around the pots, which can be painted as desired, you can hang frames with photos or children's drawings.

Also, clay products will look very beautiful and impressive on the wall, which will give an image reminiscent of a building from old Russian fairy tales.

Beautiful garden- this is not a dream, because today you can make any dreams come true. By decorating your site with original and beautiful crafts, you will not only transform its appearance, but also make it different from the rest.

In creating decor items, the main thing is fantasy and some skills that come with time. A little perseverance, and everything will definitely work out. Faithful helpers in this exciting process will be your own hand-made crafts for the garden with your own hands.