Vertical bed of tires. What paint is better to paint the tires for the flower bed? Flowerpots on a leg - a more difficult option

There are few summer residents who are only interested in material interest - a house, outbuildings, crops. Most love and appreciate the beauty in their land, which does not promise commercial benefits. But the number of rich people who are able to pay for expensive materials and the work of professional gardeners for the sake of a spectacular open-air is also not calculated in gigantic numbers. From here, a simple conclusion: you can make excellent ones in your summer cottage from waste, in fact, material, such as old wheel tires, by doing all the work with your own hands.

Old tires - new design

Walk through the city courtyards and appreciate their design. Car tires have long been an almost indispensable component of modern design. They are dug halfway into the ground, laid out in the form of a lower frame of trees and other vegetation, children's paths are made of them, hung as a swing, painted in different colors.

Ask your friends - they will not only tell you how to make flowers out of tires with their own hands, but also show photos confirming the unconditional veracity of these stories.

If the urban environment, significantly limited by public interests and tastes, has adopted such design tricks, then God himself ordered summer residents who have a personal space for fantasy, as they say.

Tire selection

When choosing tires for a future flower garden, you need to take into account not only their size (weight, by the way, too - there are such giants that you can’t budge), but also other features, of which the most important, in terms of facilitating subsequent processing, are the following:

winter tires are preferable to summer ones;
foreign tires are softer and thinner than domestic ones.

Important! Another important point -the presence of a disc that will perfectly serve as the bottom of the "tire" flower vase. Without this element, we can only talk about tires taken off the wheels and equipped with our own hands.

Plant selection

Starting planning and, which will be done with our own hands in the country, we hope so that later we will not only admire them ourselves, but also show our friends photos of these spectacular structures made of tires, inviting guests to our place and satisfying our little vanity.
As for plants, the choice is rich:

flowers of different varieties, including those replacing each other in terms of flowering;
small (although this is optional) trees.

Important! There is only one general rule: the flower bed should be beautiful and correspond to the general style of your site. It is possible that the style itself can be built on the basis of the flower and plant layout.

Making a flower bed with your own hands: the easiest option

Now the most important thing is to create beautiful (if you decide that one is not enough) of tires with your own hands in the country: the result should be such that the photo is not ashamed to be shown to people, acquaintances and strangers.
The processing of the selected (this was the first step) tire begins with marking it for subsequent cuts (this will be the second step). There are unpretentious landowners who use tires without pre-treatment, but it is still recommended to combine the beauty of living plants with a purely technical aesthetic.
The intended cut should be like this:

the upper tire part is removed (not completely) and the lower part is left (completely);
having shown imagination and ingenuity, the cut line can be made wavy, broken, with teeth, with fringe, etc.

Finely apply our idea on the rubber and proceed to the third step.

They will be the cutting process itself:

1. The tire is divided into two parts along the drawn line.

Important! If the disk is available, then during the procedure it is not necessary to remove the tire from it.

2. The lower part is turned inside out - this part of the process is the most time consuming, since it requires physical stress. The mechanism is as follows: with a cut, this conditional half of the tire is placed on the ground (or on the coating), its edges are pressed with the legs (and, accordingly, with the whole body weight), and then turned inside out, starting from one place (this is the most difficult) and, gradually accelerating, making full circle.
It turned out either a vase (if there was a disk), or a future one.
The zealous owner will not disregard the upper part of the cut tire. He will cut it several times across from the inside (by 10 centimeters) and make another flower bed, digging the resulting cuts into the soil.

Finally, the fourth step in creating a country flower garden will be the transformation of a car tire, albeit already processed quite skillfully with a cutting tool, into a beautiful decoration for garden flora.
This final step involves:

Painting (who prefers enamel, and who prefers oil paints).
Adding additional decorative elements (glasses, pebbles, etc.).

Did you know? In African Kenya, local shoemakers got the hang of making excellent slippers from end-of-life tires, the demand for which spread throughout the continent.

To create an expressive appearance, a flower bed needs a border designed to clearly indicate the boundaries of the structure. An unusual solution in this situation is old car tires, which car owners throw into a landfill as unnecessary, simply polluting the environment. A product made by hand from a used tire will not only help in protecting the environment, but will also become a spectacular decoration of a flower bed in your garden.

Peculiarities

Flowerbeds from used tires have a lot of advantages:

Even a consumer with an average income can afford to build a flower bed in his summer cottage or under the windows of the house, because tires that have served their time are of no material value. The used material can certainly be found with car owner friends who dream of getting rid of old tires. For them, this is garbage, and for an amateur landscape designer, it is the basis of a future masterpiece.

Waste tires no longer have the original stiffness, so they are easily amenable to any treatment. When decorating, a small set of tools is used: chalk, a sharp knife or jigsaw, a can of paint. The simplest garden structure does not require any processing - the tire is placed on the ground and filled with soil.

The rubber garden accessory is known for its durability: it is not afraid of moisture, does not rot, bacteria and fungi are not afraid of it. The likelihood that it will crack from mechanical shock or severe frost is too small. But even in this case, the situation is solvable - the old tire is easily replaced with another one.

A waste tire bed is a compact mobile structure that is easy to transport and easily change location. Nothing prevents you from transporting it even to another city, you just have to remove the old soil.

Tires are characterized by the ability to transform. Even unique flower beds, created with love with your own hands, can get boring over time. An easy way to remedy the situation is to repaint the product. With the help of cans of paint, you can endlessly vary the color scheme, constantly changing the surroundings of the garden plot.

A used wheel flower bed is always a win-win option for landscape design. Such material allows you to show creativity, express yourself, show your artistic potential.

There are no significant deficiencies in the products. But adherents of classicism do not favor them: some require something more familiar and elegant, others do not want to spend time making decorative compositions.

The disadvantages include the combustibility of the material, but subject to fire safety, this fact is insignificant.

How can you do?

To create the simplest flower bed from an old wheel, step-by-step instructions are not required - just pour soil into the tire, and the flower bed is ready. But even such a trivial thing can be made beautiful, give it character and add some "zest".

To create an elegant flowerpot from tires, it is enough to make leaves or petals of different sizes along the edge:

To do this, the inner edge of the rubber wheel is cut out in the form of a zigzag or wave, then the product is turned inside out, sanded and coated with the desired paint.
But first, they mark out the future shape of the flower bed, applying the ornament with chalk. At this stage, you should give free rein to your imagination and draw any ornament you like.

What to cut?

After marking the pattern, it is required to cut the tire for the future flower bed. This is the hardest part of the job. To do this, you need a sharp knife, jigsaw or grinder. It takes a little longer to cut with a knife, but the grinder melts the rubber and adds an unpleasant odor.

To increase the slip of the knife blade, it can be lubricated with liquid soap during the cutting process. The use of a jigsaw will greatly facilitate the process, which allows you to cut out even the most complex shapes.

When cutting, you can be injured, so be sure to use special gloves and goggles. It is better to work on a solid wide surface: a stable table or a piece of plywood laid on the ground.

A respirator will save you from the abundance of rubber dust, which Chinese tires are famous for.

You need to cut the pattern strictly along the intended line, then the product will turn out to be smooth and beautiful. The cut out part is not thrown away, it can be used as a base for a stand or a border for a miniature flower garden.

How to turn out?

To turn the wheel out, you need to lay it with the cut side down, grab the cut edge and try to turn it inside out. It is important to at least start by manipulating a small part of the tire. Further, the process will go easier - each part will carry the next one after it. This work requires a certain physical strength, the girls will have a hard time here.

How to color?

The process of decorating a tire is the most pleasant stage in manufacturing, it requires preliminary preparation. The surface of the future form is carefully polished to smooth out roughness and other defects. Then the rubber blank is washed from fine dirt and dust stuck in the treads, and degreased with a solvent or white spirit. Only after that they start painting.

You can paint wheel tires:

brush;
spray gun;
from a balloon.

Using a brush allows you to paint even the most hard-to-reach areas on the surface, including the gaps between the treads. This method is effective, but takes a lot of time. With the help of a brush, they also create more subtle graceful patterns, emphasize the details and shapes of the product.

The atomizer guarantees uniform distribution of the coloring matter. The advantage of such staining is the absence of streaks and brush marks. The paint consumption in this case is slightly higher than in the previous version.

It is most convenient to do this with a can, but this method is the most expensive.

Enamel, oil or nitro paints are used as coloring solutions. The paint is applied not only to the outside, but also captures the upper 10-15 cm of the inner surface. As a primer, it is better to use a layer of white and only after that apply a colored layer: this way the finish color will be brighter and more even.

After painting for several days, you need to dry the workpiece in the sun.

When painting tires, you should follow a few rules:

when choosing light shades for the border of the flower bed, the soil inside it will not overheat along with the roots of the plants;
no need to apply a thick layer of paint, otherwise it may crack, especially in frosty winters or scorching summer heat;
too colorful flowerpot ornament can distract attention from the flower arrangements themselves.

The color palette is selected according to the design concept of the garden:

metallic silver turns a rubber tire into a glamorous steel vase;
green color will mask a decorative element on a green lawn;
bright spectacular shades will make accents on the garden plot.

The form can be left monophonic or applied with a stencil, decorated with a stripe or a pattern that imitates brickwork, a checkerboard pattern - a variety of ornaments provides great opportunities and space for the imagination of landscape designers to fly.

Where to place?

Regardless of the location of the structure, a flowerbed from an old wheel always looks impressive and attracts attention. Fancy figures from tires can be made to decorate the yard, placing them in the front garden at the entrance or on the playground, they look good in the yard of a private house or in the country.

Flowerbeds are installed directly on the ground or on special stands, hung on walls and trees as planters, they are used to make pyramids and other complex structures.

If there is a strong fence or a blank wall near the house, you can arrange a flower garden on them by hanging the tires on cables or chains. The space inside is filled with earth, suitable flowering plants are planted. Holes are made in the rubber so that there is where to drain excess water. The bottom of the flowerpot is covered with drainage - enough small pebbles and sand.

This version of the flower bed is relevant for verandas or walls of gazebos.

Design examples

There are a lot of original ideas on how to make your own flower bed from old tires. Everything that is enough for your creative imagination in creating a flower garden has the right to exist.

The main thing in the landscape design of a personal plot is to decorate everything in the same style:

Tires installed on top of each other in a checkerboard pattern can serve as a flower bed. Such a fence will not only become a wonderful decoration of the yard, but also allow you to zone the space near the house.

The composition in the form of a children's pyramid consists of several wheels of different diameters. The top is often a miniature decorative wheel or flower pot.

From the many old tires, a structure in the form of a “flower mountain” is well obtained. The composition does not require cutting and turning the tires, you just need to paint and assemble them in a certain order. At the base of the mountain there are 6 wheels, 5 on them, then 3 pieces, one small tire crowns the composition.

The tire from the car can be used in a vertical position. To do this, it is screwed with a screwdriver to a wooden wall like a mailbox. Climbing plants or flowering nasturtium and petunia will look spectacular in it.

Old tires are able to take the form of any animals and birds, insects and other representatives of the fauna. The theme can be dishes or household items, cartoon characters, architectural monuments, floral motifs.

A flower bed in the form of a ladybug or a cup of coffee, funny Minions or the Leaning Tower of Pisa - nothing is impossible for a flexible rubber material.

Chamomile flowerbed

If the space of the backyard allows, you can make a flower bed. The design requires 4 tires, of which 3 must be cut across into two parts - they will become the petals of the future chamomile. The whole tire will be the middle of the flower, around which you need to lay the petals.

Tires are dug into the ground by 5-6 cm. Previously, all blanks are painted in bright positive shades. Petals can be either in the same color scheme, or alternate with each other in 2-3 colors.

An extraordinary addition to the pattern can be glued glass pebbles; in a flower bed, such decorative elements will resemble frozen dew drops, which will greatly enliven the design.

decorative well

Even those who do not have special artistic skills and rich imagination will be able to design such a flower garden. A tire well does not require much time and special costs, but it will look spectacular in landscape design.

Such a decorative object will harmoniously complement the cozy atmosphere of the courtyard of a private house, and the bright design of the structure will emphasize the beauty of garden flowers.

For the construction, you will need three old tires of the same size. In each of them, cuts are made from opposite sides with a sharp knife in order to insert further support posts for the roof. The poles can also be installed on the outside of the tires, which greatly simplifies the work.

To make flower beds, you will need:

chalk or marker to mark the drawing;
a sharp knife with a thick blade;
electric jigsaw;
extension;
a set of files;
any, including used, machine oil.

Preparation for work

With the help of worn tires, you can make an original flower bed at no extra cost.

First of all, carefully inspect the side surface of the tire. Pay special attention to what is written in small print. You need to look for the word "steel" or make sure it's not there.

The presence of this word indicates that the tire is reinforced with steel wire, so you will need a fine-toothed metal file.

If there is no inscription, the tire is reinforced with nylon, and to work with it, it is necessary to insert a coarse-toothed file for soft wood into the jigsaw. A large-toothed file is easier to cut rubber, because you have to make less effort.

Most often, steel wire is used to reinforce truck tires, but you still need to check the tire so as not to dull the file.

If you have not only a tire, but also a disk for it, you can make two types of flower beds - low and high.

The cutting technology is the same, the difference is in some marking nuances and the way the tire is “turned inside out”. Moreover, it is necessary to determine which particular flower bed you will make before marking.

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markup

When marking, try to draw even, symmetrical lines and do not make the wide part of the petals of the flower bed narrower than 7 centimeters. Smaller petals are much more difficult to cut because the hardness of the rubber is not enough for normal pressure with a jigsaw and file.

Regardless of whether you want to make a low flower bed, low or high, the markup must be divided into three stages:

marking a small (inner) circle;
marking a large (outer circle);
marking of teeth (petals).

A small circle is marked 3-5 cm from the edge of the rim, if it is not there, then 5-7 cm from the bead ring (a place to install the disc). This is necessary to avoid damage to the file on the disc and to remove thin and overly flexible sections of the tire.

To draw an even circle, take the chalk with your thumb and forefinger, press your little finger against the disk (if you are marking a tire without a disk, wrap your little finger around the bead ring of the wheel) and draw the chalk or marker along the wheel. This will allow you to use the disc or ring as a guide, so you can draw a neat and even inner circle.

We mark the tire like this

If the size of the petals is less than 7 cm, then the large circle is marked as described above. For higher petals, it is necessary to mark as above, but with the little finger to hold on to the top of the tire, or use a tape measure to mark the perimeter of the outer circle. The distance between the marks is 5–15 cm. After the marks have been made, draw a circle over them.

Petals can be marked both by eye and with a tape measure. The shape of the petals is only limited by your imagination. It can be triangles, waves, sine waves, oblique teeth, squares, slots, or anything else you can think of.

tire cutting

Before you start cutting, think again about what kind of flower bed you want to see. After you cut the tire, you will not be able to make changes to the design and appearance of the flower bed.

Using a sharp knife, cut through the side of the wheel along any line. Then insert the necessary file into the jigsaw and lubricate it with machine oil. Connect the jigsaw through the extension cord to the outlet, then insert the saw into the slot in the tire. Turn on the jigsaw and start cutting the wheel.

When cutting tires, follow safety rules

Please note that cutting a tire is a difficult and lengthy business, requiring compliance with safety rules:

Try not to hold the tire on the cutting line near the jigsaw with your hand. If the file breaks or pops out of the slot, you will injure your hand. While cutting, push the jigsaw forward strongly, but smoothly, without sharp jerks.
If you have enough strength, then instead of a jigsaw, you can cut tires with a sharp knife with a thick (at least 4 mm) blade. But this cutting method is not applicable for steel-reinforced tires.
Start each cut only after lowering the knife into the tire to a depth of 2-3 cm and cut only by moving the knife down. This will help you avoid cuts and more serious injuries.

tire eversion

After cutting through both sides of the wheel, it is necessary to unscrew the tire. This operation requires quite a lot of strength and skill, so the first time it may not work.

If it didn’t work out, don’t despair, after a while try again or ask someone stronger to turn it inside out.

It is better to ask someone strong enough to turn the tire out

When turning the tire, do not be afraid to damage it. A tire, even from a passenger car, is designed for such loads that cannot be created by hand.

As a result, we should get something like this:

An inverted tire is an almost finished flowerbed

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Flowerbed painting

If you have an airbrush (spray gun), then it is advisable to paint the inside-out tire before installation. After all, with the help of a spray gun, you will not only paint a new flower bed, but also hook on the adjacent soil.

If you only have brushes, then it makes no difference whether you paint before or after installation.

For painting, use nitro enamels or alkyd paints.

Wipe the surface of the inside-out tire with a dry, clean cloth to remove dust and remaining rubber chips. Then degrease with white spirit, 646 thinner or acetone. When the liquid dries, paint with a brush or spray gun.

If desired, the flower beds can not only be covered with paint of the same color, but also draw pictures or drawings.

The appearance of the flower bed can be anything, it all depends on your imagination and on the design of the site.

See the photo in the gallery for ideas for decorating a flower bed from a tire:

This site provides material on the manufacture of a car wheel. It turns out an original and beautiful product, but that's bad luck, the number of wheels at my disposal is limited. But there are much more waste tires in automotive history. It's time to dispose of them. Since there are a lot of tires, I decided to try to speed up the process of converting them into flower beds, cutting a dozen tires with a knife is still a laborious task. Then than to cut car tire? For cutting, a manual jigsaw was used. I want to say right away that working with two different units, the best result was shown by a jigsaw with a power of 800 watts, the more powerful, the better. So below is the answer to the question of how to make a flower bed out of a tire quickly.

The procedure for making flower beds from tires

1. Choosing a tire Of course, if there is a choice. The recommendations are simple. We choose the lightest and with maximum tread wear - this will greatly facilitate subsequent eversion.

2. We prepare the tire. If the tire is heavily polluted with sand and earth, we clean it. Files on dirty tires dull faster.

3. Marking up felt-tip pen cut places, such as petals. Here it is convenient to use ready-made sector markings on some domestic tires. Petals should not be more than 12-15 centimeters, otherwise the flower bed will not turn out to be round, in these places the rubber will not bend.

4. We cut through in the place of cutting with a knife, a tire for inserting a jigsaw file.

5. We fix the file in the jigsaw As mentioned above, the jigsaw for cutting must be taken to the maximum available power. When cutting, I used various files. All work pretty much the same. It is convenient to cut with a figured sawing file, but they often break when sawing errors. We clamp the file, insert it into the cut and start sawing.

6.sawing, in places of thickening of the rubber, the feed is very difficult, to speed up the work, you can round off the petal in the thin part of the side surface of the tire. Approaching the base of the petal, it is necessary to cut until it bends, and preferably before reaching the tread plane - this will facilitate eversion. After sawing one petal, you can rearrange the jigsaw for sawing in the opposite direction, or if you have a figured file, you can also make a rounding at the base of the petal. So sequentially according to the markup, we cut out all the petals.

7. We cut out back side, you can also cut out the petals or cut off part of the side wall and make radial cuts on the remaining part of the side surface, reducing your work. Important, cuts to the protector from the side of the petals, should correspond to the cuts on the reverse side, if this is not observed, then when turning out in these places there will be an unevenness. Experience has shown that even a very rigid tire can be turned out if you completely cut off the side wall of the tire opposite the petals.

Original frames for garden plants can be created even from waste material: both the yard is decorated and the environment benefits. Learn how to make flower beds out of flower tires with your own hands in the country or in the yard. Evaluate the feasibility of such work, get acquainted with the methods of cutting, turning and painting car tires, with the nuances of their competent choice. Compare photos of finished products and choose a master class for making an unusual flower garden that is suitable for the degree of labor intensity.

The feasibility of making flower beds from tires

Used tires are a material in which any landscape designer who imagines how to make flowerbeds from tires with his own hands opens up new possibilities. It is the tire, and not just a sheet of rubber, that has certain advantages that make it easier to work with it:

Rough cost. Surely among the neighbors there are car owners who dream of parting with old tires. For them, this is rubbish, but for the artist, it is a future work of art that can only be rolled to the site or brought in the trunk.
Ease and speed of processing. Chalk, a sharp knife or a jigsaw, a grinder and a spray can of paint - these are all the tools needed for such creativity. And the simplest flowerbed of cylinders is built in half an hour: the tire is placed on the ground and “stuffed” with soil.
Durability. A rubber bed does not attract bacteria and fungi, does not rot, is not afraid of accidental impact and does not collapse under the influence of precipitation. If it cracks after especially severe frosts, it is easy to replace it.
Mobility. A flowerbed from an old tire is a one-piece structure, which, if necessary, can be easily moved to another place. To do this, you just need to remove the soil from it.
Possibility of transformation. Even DIY tire flower beds can get boring over time. The easiest way to avoid this is to repaint the outside and plant other types of plants.

Figured flower bed from an old tire

Doubts about the advisability of decorating the garden with flower beds from tires are usually associated with the dimensions of the cylinders specified by the manufacturer. In a very modest area, they really can look foreign, and in a large area they can get lost. The problem is solved by combining tires with paths, benches, lighting elements, as well as building flower beds from several tires and multi-tiered compositions.

Lazy Option: Potted Plants Placed on a Stand

How to cut tires and how to do it right

When looking at the wheel, so huge and hard, capable of withstanding the weight of a loaded Gazelle or a powerful SUV, the question arises of how to cut a car tire for a flower bed. In fact, rubber is even easier to deal with than plywood if you choose the right tool for each step of the job, of which there are three:

Ripping of rubber. The best tool for the first cut is a shoe knife. It can be made independently from the blade of a mechanical saw or a planer blade. The handle of such a knife is wrapped with several layers of electrical tape, which allows the knife to sit firmly in the palm of your hand. This is important as the rubber will resist the blade. The knife is inserted into the incision and moves upwards with the other hand, bending the rubber layer to the side with the other hand.
Side processing. You can cut the tires for the flower bed evenly or in waves. In the first case, a shoe or other sharp knife with a thin butt is sufficient; in the second, it is better to use a jigsaw, the saw blade of which is periodically lubricated with grease or a solution of laundry soap. Some craftsmen use a grinder with a small disc, but high speed entails strong heating and even burning of rubber with smoke and an unpleasant odor.
Cord cutting. Steel cord reinforcement (breaker), which serves as the basis of the tire carcass, is cut with a grinder, less often with metal scissors. You can recognize the presence of steel in the breaker by marking Steel. The absence of such a marking indicates a nylon cord, which is cut with a strong sharp knife.

A car tire is more complex than it looks

Electric jigsaw - the perfect tool for cutting old wheels

To cut a tire for a flower bed and not injure yourself, be sure to use tight gloves and goggles. Especially carefully should be handled with sharp metal cord threads - splinters from them are very painful. You need to work on a wide solid surface: a table or a piece of plywood laid on the ground. With a large amount of rubber dust, which distinguishes Chinese tires, a respirator will be useful.

How to choose and prepare a tire

Working tool for steel cord - angle grinder

If it is possible to choose the material for the flower bed, you can greatly simplify the work of processing rubber with your own hands. To do this, you need to use the data:

origin of tires: imported ones cut better;
seasonal appointment: winter more plastic;
service life: the more worn out, the more pliable;
cord material: metal will require more effort than polymer.

Well-preserved and brightly colored tread

The degree of wear of the tread should also be taken into account. A clear pattern of checkers will give additional expressiveness to the finished flower bed. But if you plan to turn the tire inside out, you need the tread as "bald" as possible.

In any case, the first operation to turn a tire into a small sculptural form is the cleansing of dirt. The tire is washed under a powerful jet of water from a hose. This will not only add aesthetics, but also protect cutting tools from rapid blunting.

Variants of flower beds from tires and master classes

The fantasy of home craftsmen knows no bounds - lovers of equipping personal plots with their own hands have come up with dozens of options for decorating flower beds from tires.

Classification by shape and method of manufacture

Flowerbeds from old tires are conventionally divided into several groups:

horizontal single-tier - the most simple and unpretentious;
horizontal multi-tiered - the first floor of such a flower bed consists of 5-7 tires, three more on top of them and the last one crowns the composition;
vertical - a tower is made of tires, flowers are planted in the top and in pockets cut out on the sides;
in the form of agricultural items: teapots, carts;
in the form of various animals.

Another interesting variety of flower beds made of waste rubber is hanging planters, with which you can diversify the wall of an outbuilding.

A dull brick is simply unrecognizable

How to mark rubber

To make a flowerbed of tires even, before cutting, you need to outline a line along which the knife or jigsaw will move. It is convenient to do this with chalk or a bright marker that will stand out against the graphite background of rubber.

The brighter the markup, the more convenient it is to work

The first line should be in the shape of a ring. It is carried out in two ways:

Measure with a tape measure equal distances from the outer or inner edge of the tire, apply strokes (about every 10-15 cm) and connect them.
Holding the chalk with the thumb or forefinger, they cling to the protector (or bead ring) with the little finger and draw a line.

To mark the petals, you will need an inner and outer line. Marks are applied to each, then they are connected with a wavy line of any style. At this stage, it is important to consider that petals less than 7 cm wide do not hold their shape well.

Four wheels and some paint - the result is a bright flower garden

Flower - quickly and reliably

The options presented in the photo in this section are among the easiest to manufacture, but quite spectacular due to competent floral decor. The following step-by-step instructions will help a novice landscape designer to make a flower bed out of tires.

Take four identical tires and rinse them thoroughly under running water.
Set aside one for the time being, and on three, draw a line with chalk dividing each exactly in half.
Cut the three marked tires with a cobbler's knife or a jigsaw.
Paint all tires using a paint brush or spray can. Choose a color that matches well with the plants you plan to plant.
Lay the tire halves in the form of petals, fill the flower garden with prepared fertile soil.
Place the whole tire in the center of the composition and also complete with primer.

Flowers can also be cut from tires

Turtle - feel like you're in the Galapagos

To make a flower bed out of car tires with your own hands turned into genuine creativity, try making a turtle figurine:

Prepare two tires for the flower bed. Leave one intact, and cut the protector from the other.
Divide the protector into four equal parts, which will become the legs of the turtle.
Make a short triangular tail from a piece of tread.
For the head, take a flat bottle of household chemicals, for example, from Mister Muscle. Its neck will become the turtle's neck.
Make cuts in the whole tire and insert paws, tail and bottle into them. Fasten with screws.
Color the turtle, draw her face.

On a turtle bed in the garden, low bright flowers look good: tagetes, nasturtium, ornamental cabbage.

Frog - from princess to traveler

If the garden has a pond, plant a cute frog figurine on its shore. This idea is good in that the frog can be made without the laborious cutting of the steel cord. The main thing is not to regret the rich green paint.

Eyes from plastic bowls, paws from a hose and a rubber mat

The body of the animal is laid out from three solid tires in the form of a two-tiered flower bed. For the eyes, take tires of a smaller diameter and install them vertically.

Depending on the desired degree of glamor, they glue with rubber glue or fasten long or short eyelashes with self-tapping screws, paint “bow lips” or a simple smile with red paint. You can complement the image with an arrow, a crown or a pair of ceramic ducks.

Flowers in such a flower bed are placed behind the eyes and in the lower tier. Grasses and sedges are appropriate around the figurine, hinting at marsh vegetation.

Video: One hundred DIY garden frogs

Swan - white grace on a green lawn

If you have learned how to cut flower beds from tires with your own hands to decorate the garden, you can try to make a swan. This work requires some skill, since the part of the tire in such a figure must be cut, turned inside out and reinforced in a certain way. Consider the step-by-step process of the birth of a beautiful bird from rubber scrap.

Cutting tires - the most crucial moment

Choose a tire with the most worn out tread for the flower bed, since curly cuts will have to be made on it.
Using the pattern in the photo, apply the lines of the head, neck, wings and tail to the protector. Pay attention to the shape of the beak - this is the most difficult area. Some craftsmen make the beak in the form of an ordinary triangle, which makes cutting easier, but the bird loses its realism.
At the nodal marking points, drill holes with a diameter of about 10 mm.
Cut the rubber along the markings with a shoe knife or electric jigsaw. Start work from the base of the neck of the figure, leading the cut line to the head. To prevent the rubber from vibrating, it is recommended to cut both sides in parallel, 5-10 cm from each alternately.
Finish the edges of the parts: clean the rubber and the ends of the cords. Flowerbeds-swans from tires attract children - you should take care of their safety.
Turn the wings inside out.
Strengthen the neck with a steel bar. To do this, drill two rows of holes in it and further through the entire body to the base of the tail at a distance of about 15 cm from each other. Pass the wire staples through the pairs of holes.
Attach a steel bar to the base of the tail and fix the chest and neck of the figure on it, twisting the ends of the wires with pliers. Cut off the excess and give the swan neck a regal twist.
Color the finished figure, emphasizing the beak and eyes. It will look especially impressive if it is planted (and attached with screws) in a lake from a tire painted blue.

Instructions in the photo:

Swans on stands, as if on waves

Vase - build a small Peterhof in the garden

The aerobatics of the transformation of tires is considered to be the manufacture of flowerpots with legs from them. It is worth turning the unsightly wheel inside out and painting it - in front of you is a masterpiece of gardening art, in which it is difficult to recognize the source material.

Elegant flower pot

To create flowerbeds in the form of flowerpots, “bald” winter car tires of foreign production are taken - they are the softest. Serrated or rounded-wavy petals are marked on the sidewall, along which rubber is cut. At this stage, it is important to try to keep both sides of the cut neat, since one of them will become the edge of the vase, and the second - the edge of the stem.

Stages of turning a tire into a flowerpot

Turning the wheel is better with two people. It is placed with the cut down, for emphasis, they step on the disk with their foot, take the edge of the cut with both hands and pull it towards themselves. Gradually move in a circle, pressing down the protector in its most convex part. If there is a chamber inside the wheel, it is cut off at the end of the eversion. Due to the laboriousness of the process, it is recommended to watch a video on how to unscrew the tire for a flower bed with your own hands.

Video: How to turn out a car wheel

The tire flower vase is almost ready, but it looks like it was taken from the seabed. The rubber walls and the disk are cleaned, degreased and painted, and from the inside, also about a quarter of the height, since the ground level will be below the petals.

Geotextiles are placed at the bottom of the flowerpot so that the earth does not wake up in the holes of the disk. Drainage, soil are poured over the fabric and flowers are planted in a flower bed.

Gift for the Mistress of the Copper Mountain

Painting flowerbeds from car tires

Now about how the wheels for the flower bed are painted and how to turn a boring tire into an interesting flower garden. The main requirement for paint is resistance to weathering.

Paint selection and technical points

They paint tires with enamels, oil, acrylic and car paints, nitro paints. To beautifully paint tires for a flower bed, you need to follow a few rules:

select light colors so that the soil inside does not overheat along with the roots of plants;
do not apply too thick a layer of paint, otherwise it may crack, especially in harsh winters or in the heat;
remember the primacy of plants and not let the pattern dominate the flowers.

Bright colors set a festive backdrop for the yard

The design of flowerbeds from tires begins with their degreasing with acetone, white spirit or special liquids for rubber. When the used product has completely evaporated, the surface is cleaned with a very fine sandpaper. Then, as a primer, a thin, but continuous layer of white is placed - this will allow any shade to play in full force.

It is better to apply the paint with an aerosol can, then it will penetrate into all the relief areas of the tread, but there is a high risk of staining the grass around. Therefore, the tire is painted with a spray can, laying thick polyethylene under it. Each layer is given time to dry for at least a day.

You can decorate a bed of tires with your own hands with a brush. This is longer, but you can work by first installing the product in a permanent place. With the help of a brush, they also create more subtle patterns and drawings, emphasizing details and shapes.

Folk painting: bright, original, spectacular

Taking into account the general concept of garden decor will allow you to properly paint the tires for the flower bed, while they can:

leave monotonous;
decorate with stripes;
cover with a pattern using a stencil;
paint on the checkered tread;
turn into an ethnic flower garden.

Do not rush to throw away unusable tires. They will be burned, adding pollution to the air. Try to turn them into a unique man-made flower garden, which will decorate the garden and warm the soul. Bright, solid and almost eternal flowerbeds of used tires are a wonderful use for the creative impulses of a person living on their own land.

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