How to make a flower bed out of tires
The easiest way is to put the old tire on the site, throw land there and plant seedlings. This, of course, is simple, but it does not pull on an exclusive decoration. Well, let's try to improve the situation. Let's take bright acrylic or oil paints, choose a few of them that match in color and paint several tires. Then we install them on top of each other and get a wonderful multi-level flower bed.
An original vertical bed of tires with your own hands is created from several tires of different diameters, stacked on top of each other like a pyramid. You can put a flower pot on top if there is no small tire on the farm. After painting and filling the inner space of the tires with earth, you can grow ampelous plants in the resulting flower bed, for example, petunias or strawberries.
Tire beds can also be suspended. Fasten a strong metal chain (thick cord, rope, etc.) to the tire and hang it on a tree. In order to be able to fill the flower bed with earth, the bottom of the tire must be covered. For example, fix inside a planter with a diameter slightly larger than the inner circumference of the tire. Or put a dense piece of rubber inside - think for yourself, for sure there is a material suitable for overlapping on the farm.
A snow-white hanging flower bed made from a car tire is a spectacular "highlight" of modern style
And if you dream up a little, then you can build a composition from tires on the theme of ... well, for example, home tea drinking. A few tires will perfectly play the role of a teapot and a cup - it is enough to supplement them with simple details - cutting a pipe and bent pieces of metal tape.
Teapot and cup - original composition from old tires
Red cup with white polka dots - exclusive for flower tea drinking
Turtle flowerbed - fun creative
From a tire and a tread cut into equal 4 parts, you can make a flower bed in the form of a turtle. We make cuts on the sides of the tire and insert the tread trim there - these will be the paws of the turtle. We fix them with wire staples. The tail is cut out of a piece of rubber and also fixed with staples. For the turtle's neck, we take a piece of plastic pipe, on which we fix the head from crumpled newspapers with tape. You can wear a straw or plastic panama hat on your head.
Tire turtle - an entertaining flowerbed for a playground
This do-it-yourself flower bed of tires must be painted according to all the "turtle" rules, otherwise it will not be clear what you wanted to portray. Draw eyes, a mouth on the head, paint the torso and paws in a bright color.
A flower bed from an inverted tire
Flowerbeds of inverted tires resemble pot-bellied flowerpots of a rounded shape, to create which you will need:
1. Cut out the design of the petals of the flower bed on the top of the tire
Petals can be rectangular, triangular, rounded and even wavy. First, they should be drawn with chalk or soap, and then cut with a sharp knife, hacksaw or electric jigsaw. If you decide to use a knife, we recommend that you moisten it with soapy water during work - it will be easier to overcome the resistance of dense rubber.
Carefully cut out the petals with any sharp cutting tool
2. Turn the tire inside out
Many are interested in how to turn the tire inside out for a flower bed, because this is not an easy task and requires considerable effort. To do this, turn the tire upside down with the side on which we did not cut anything, take hold of the cuts from the bottom with your hands and, pressing on the tread, carefully turn it out. After you've done about half of the tire, flatten it into an oval and easily turn the rest out.
3. Paint the flower bed in a spectacular color
We paint the resulting flower bed in any color that will be in harmony with the rest of the landscape objects of your site. You can stop at a monochromatic color, but multicolored colors will look more impressive, for example, in the form of stripes or a bright pattern.
Flowerpots on a leg - a more difficult option
Let's look at how to make a flower bed out of a wheel. It means that to create a flower bed, we will use a tire with a metal disk in the middle. To do this, put the wheel on a flat surface and cut out the pattern of the petals, reaching the tread with a knife (or other cutting tool).
Then we turn out both the upper and lower parts of the tire without removing the disc. As a result, you will get a kind of flowerpot in the form of a flower on a stem, into which soil is poured and plants are planted.
After that, you need to take care of how to color the flower bed from the wheel. The upper part can be painted in a bright "floral" shade, and the lower part in green. Then a huge rubber flower with living plants in the middle will bloom on your site.
Master level - a flower bed in the form of a swan?
A swan flowerbed is made similarly to a tire flowerbed, the difference is only in a more complex carved pattern. If for a flowerpot-vase it was necessary to form the same type of petals, then here - the wings, tail, neck and head of a swan. We transfer the scheme to the surface of the tire and begin to cut out the figure of a swan. The head and neck are cut out along the black contours, the tail along the red ones, and the wings along the blue ones. After that, the tire turns out in the same way as in the previous two cases.
We make a beak from a piece of rubber (wood, plastic or other material) and paint it with red paint. We put the two halves of the head together, insert the beak between them and fix all parts of the head together with self-tapping screws. We screw the screws on both sides of the head in the places of the future eyes of our swan. Then, so that the screws are not visible, they are closed with two circles cut out of black electrical tape - these will be the eyes. We raise our head straight and up, slightly pressing it into the tire. In this case, a fold is formed, which also needs to be fixed with self-tapping screws.
At the last stage of work, the swan is painted - here you can show your imagination and come up with any color for the plumage of the bird.
