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- Tips and tricks for beautifying the raised bed
- Dress up the raised bed
- Decorate raised bed
- Paint the raised bed
- Cover the raised bed
- Tips
With stones can hide the border of a raised bed
Tips and tricks for beautifying the raised bed
A raised bed - whether built by itself or with the help of a prefabricated kit - beautifies every garden. In particular, if you use such a bed as a privacy screen for the terrace or to divide a large garden into different areas. However, not only does the raised bed embellish the garden, the bed itself can also be embellished with simple means. There are various possibilities.
Dress up the raised bed
A very simple trick, for example, to make an ugly concrete high bed disappear, is to disguise the bed border with another, more beautiful material. In this case, wood is often taken for granted, but you do not have to be afraid of premature rot - the stone border ensures effective protection against moisture, so you only need to protect the cladding against rain and outside weather conditions. Non-toxic weathering glazes are suitable for this purpose. But not only wooden slats and planks encase a raised bed, other materials are also suitable for hiding. These include:
If you decide to transplant the raised bed, think of a narrow path between the bed and the plants - otherwise you will not be able to get to the raised bed for care and harvesting.
Decorate raised bed
In addition to the simple hiding or disguising the raised bed there are other ways to beautify it. You can grab for example about the color or decorate the flower box with a beautiful mosaic pattern.
Paint the raised bed
For painting or painting are mainly raised beds made of wood or stone. Depending on your mood, you can either paint the whole raised bed or simply apply colorful ornaments. However, you should be careful to use as waterproof and non-toxic paint - otherwise it quickly gets into the bed or in the garden floor. Very well suited, for example, colors, as used for painting and painting of children's toys.
Cover the raised bed
In particular, stone high beds can be creatively embellished by putting pretty patterns from small mosaic stones and sticking them with a tile adhesive. This pase stones are available in many colors, shapes and sizes in every hardware store. Even commercial tiles can be used very well for this purpose.
Tips
Also to beautify the raised bed contributes to a recessed seating. This can be bricked in the side wall in stone raised beds or (on wood and stone raised beds) on the edge.