Masking unsightly elements in the garden: tips to gardeners

  • Dec 24, 2019
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Mask off all the ugly elements of the garden - but in a way that they remain easily accessible. Raunchy dumpsters or rusty gutters spoil the view of even the most lovely home.

Gardening disguise
Gardening disguise

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Hedge as a screen

Garbage containers are usually placed in the garden, near the entrance to the house, and it was easier to throw them in the trash, and dispose in the future of their contents.

But these containers spoils the appearance of the garden, and therefore should not be evident.

Without much effort, you can turn them into a small front garden decoration. The simplest solution to the problem -Place trash area in front garden, densely overgrown coniferous plants (e.g., Tusi or cypress). They are easy to topiary and remain green throughout the year. The disadvantage of hardwood is that in winter camouflage of them unimportant. Overgrown corner of the garden should be large enough: in order to hide from those two garbage tank, require a minimum area of ​​5 square meters. m. If the garden is small and every square meter of it in the account, you will have to look for another solution.

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masking hatches
masking hatches

curly camouflage

The easiest way to hide the garbage cans with a lack of free space - planting vines supported by a metal wire stretched.

To do this, place the corners enclose hammer into the ground supports, between which stretch wire, using the tightening screws on the capabilities to adjust its tension. Let go of the wire climbing plants that will soon tighten its thick curtain of foliage, sometimes even decorated with flowers. Instead of pulling wire, can be mounted on a support ready grid blocks or wooden lattice for climbing plants, available for sale in all building markets. With such a pair of rails of the lattice to grow hops, ivy or maiden grapes easily make themselves.

curly camouflage
curly camouflage

For 30 minutes, you can:

  • Pour onto the roof of a small house suitable substrate garbage and land to plant.
  • Set between the supports grid block or wooden lattice for climbing plants and planted these plants.

Rubbish under the canopy of foliage

Garbage bins are often placed in a solid concrete or wooden buildings, as unattractive as the bins themselves. In order to improve their appearance, decorate a house green flowering roof.

To do this you need a special design of the roof. Fit for the lodge of the wooden frame bars. Since the roof typically has a slight slope, the bottom edge should be provided with a slit for draining rainwater. For planting, you can order a tin pan with holes to drain water and place it in the frame. Alternatively, use a piece of film for lining artificial ponds. Make a hole for water drainage and place it on a drainage layer of expanded clay. This layer is needed to cover a piece of nonwoven material which will prevent penetration of earth into the concrete block. Top pour substrate layer 5-10 cm thick, consisting of equal parts of garden soil, sand, expanded clay or pumice, or the layer of soil ready for planting roofs mixture.

Now to land on the roof of undemanding plants. Gaps between them pour fine gravel or pumice. If the weather is dry, carefully pour the landing, and then you can leave them alone.

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