2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
No matter how refined city dwellers we consider ourselves, arriving at the dacha, we immediately transform into country style lovers. This is quite natural, because nature is part of our everyday life. And to emphasize this style, we can create additional art objects on the site using rustic utensils
What can be used
In order to create a unique spirit of the village courtyard, you can use various items of rural life when decorating the site. An old ceramic pot (can be cracked or with a broken edge), a wooden tub that no one has been using for a long time, or an old leaky barrel, or a worn out hive can also come in handy here.
An unusual accent can be a do-it-yourself stuffed straw, or a wicker hung with clay pots. But the most interesting object may be a cart filled with flowers or fruits from your garden, which seems to have stopped on the lawn waiting for a trip to the market. This decorative element will not only serve as an unusual bright spot against the background of a green lawn, but also has mobility, which means, if necessary, can safely move to another place.
Wood preparation
Now shops for summer residents offer a large selection of various decorative elements in the country style, but it is much more interesting to try to make such a cart yourself.
This will require logs or planks and long poles. Any kind of deciduous tree will do. But the most durable will be oak or larch, because the wood of these trees is most resistant to decay processes.
Before starting work, the source material must be well dried, cleaned and treated with an antiseptic. If the wood is not processed, then after a while it will begin to be damaged by insects and will serve as a source of various diseases of other plants in your area. If you buy lumber from a store, be sure to ask when and how it was processed.
If you do the antiseptic treatment yourself, strictly follow the precautions. Processing must be carried out with gloves, try not to get on nearby plants and keep the impregnation away from possible fire. The rustic style does not imply a very smooth surface of the future product. On the contrary, some rudeness and negligence are welcomed. Eyes, cracks and, as if by accident, forgotten knots will look spectacular.
Metal wheelbarrow
For our purposes, not only a wooden cart can be suitable, but also an old, rusty, outdated, working wheelbarrow. If you are a fan of antiquity, then you can not get rid of rust and create a whole ensemble where, in the company of a wheelbarrow, an old kettle, an ancient iron or a cast-iron pot will be added, acting as additional flower pots or a metal barrel in which a decorative pumpkin or strawberry grows.
But if you do not like the "old", the metal wheelbarrow can be updated using modern coatings, which are a primer-impregnation for rust. The same tool will also paint it in the color of your choice.
Flower filling
Your mobile flower garden will be an original decoration of the site if you carefully think over its filling. Such objects are usually filled with bright annuals so that the composition can be changed annually. But you should consider the flower neighborhood and choose plants that have approximately the same watering regime. Otherwise, some of your plantings will die and ruin the whole view.
In order not to be mistaken, it is most competent to plant one type of flowers, choosing them according to the color scheme. If you want to bring liveliness and brightness to the site, choose contrasting colors. A calm and sophisticated style involves the use of shades of the same color.
Any ampelous plants will look very good here, especially petunias or nasturtium, which will hang with bright flower tassels from the edges of your cart. But the choice is yours and your imagination.
And when the flowering period has passed, such a cart can be filled with decorative pumpkins or other fruits from your garden. And it will again serve as a decoration of the site even on boring autumn days, when the flower brightness is so lacking.
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