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- To dress up a boring concrete raised bed
- Concrete - versatile, cheap, durable and boring
- Embellish concrete raised beds with fairing
- Further possibilities for the visual enhancement of raised beds
- Tips
Concrete is cheap and robust
To dress up a boring concrete raised bed
A raised bed is an appreciation for the garden for many reasons. It may be because the gardener prefers gardening backwards or because such a raised bed visually divides the garden into different areas, because the garden floor is not suitable for planting or the garden area is located on a steep slope. Raised beds can be created from many materials and can be wonderfully petted with various tricks - such as an attractive trim.
Concrete - versatile, cheap, durable and boring
The material concrete offers a whole range of advantages that make it ideal for the construction of a raised bed. Concrete is often very cheap to buy, moreover extremely robust and durable as well as versatile. In contrast to the traditional raised beds made of wood, which often rot within a few years due to the high humidity. However, concrete also has a drawback: It can look extremely boring and unattractive, so that a raised bed made of it does not necessarily mutate into a feast for the eyes. But that can easily be avoided.
Embellish concrete raised beds with fairing
All you have to do is cover the concrete raised bed with another, more visually appealing material. For example, a shuttering made of wooden slats or planks, which means you also kill two birds with one stone: The unsightly concrete disappears behind the wood, whereas this is protected by the stone border from moisture and can not rot so quickly. But there are other ways to dress a raised bed:
If you want to make the raised bed border disappear by transplanting, make sure that the plants do not grow higher than the raised bed itself - otherwise the plants that wake up might soon suffer from light deficiency.
Further possibilities for the visual enhancement of raised beds
Instead of disguising the ugly raised bed, you can also embellish it in other ways optically: All you have to do is pick a brush and a suitable color and paint the bed. In this way, the bright gray manhole ring in a jiffy, a colorful work of art whose colors shine with the garden flowers to the bet.
Tips
However, not only unsightly raised beds need to be clad on the outside, they also need a cladding on the inside: Foil or waterproof fleece in particular protect wooden beds from penetrating moisture and thus from deterioration.