Floating flower beds: 4 ways to make a flower mini-island in your pond

Floating flower beds: 4 ways to make a flower mini-island in your pondFor all of a sudden arising in the field of landscape design ideas do not have enough money, time and place. However, this invention is likely to be much to the liking of many. Predominantly those who have for the site to eat at least a short pond. A floating flower bed like to diversify the serene water surface: it will play in a hurry. The drifting flower islet does not require special means even in this case, if you decide to buy ready-made work. Which is quick to express about the flower bed, which you freely make with your own hands. Time for this abundantly not useful. However, we first determine whether you need in principle such a structure.
Which we are going to do?
Man-made peninsula is arranged quite easily. It has an easy floating base in which the cells are made for the sake of different plants. Usually it is made of a porous material, which allows the roots of flowers to freely eat nutrient substances and moisture from the reservoir. However, in any base it is allowed to make special holes for the same purpose. This way of feeding is free to compare with hydroponics, if there is no earth and there is no need to restrain forces for watering and feeding. The floating flower bed is good for that it can organically fit in every design taste and not look pretty with an extraneous body
Between ready models it is allowed to meet those that are intentionally provided only for the sake of flowers in pots. They are arranged without cause, which dips pots into the water occurs slightly in part. The bottom is moistened, but it does not get wet. Such structures are also not bad in their own way. In most cases, they are used in swimming pools. The design of the islet is allowed to change quickly. For this, it is sufficient to pull out pots from the cells and interfere with others. Here, for no reason, the flowerbed for the pool. In fact, it is a stand near a plant in pots. It is permissible to change pots and your pond will be transformed
Why do we need a flowerbed in the reservoir?
Verily, what advantages does this floating flower island provide, apart from the fact that it is quite beautiful? Although, aesthetic pleasure itself is appropriate for itself is a value. However, it seems, it's not the only one far away.
Usefulness for the inhabitants of the reservoir and garden. If your pond is inhabited, then the news will be vividly appreciated. Climb will be visited by water bugs and frogs, the fish around it will be able to calm down through the summer heat, birds will also like the safest rafters.
Compact design. Your mini-garden will keep its shape perfectly, because the landing will not be able to grow uncontrollably, because there is nowhere.
Defense through pests. Moles, bears, ants and other underground inhabitants do not violate the inaction of flowers. Just right, you can put not only them, but also a short melon in the water.
Feeding without watering. Watering the moisture-loving plants, the roots of which are without cause in the water, there is no need. If an impromptu dam is planted with vegetation that does not like excess water, its bottom will have to be filled with a continuous one and watered like usual.
The presence of hygrophilous plants as water is good for the sake of the reservoir, since their roots will purify it through organic substances and will not allow to grow unwanted algae.
You see, there are plenty of reasons for creating a small, however beautiful building. Just right, such designs can be safely thrown into the pond for wintering, their inhabitants will not freeze. A short islet is a real bribe for the sake of the fishes that live in your pond: they will happily hide around him in the heat
Selecting suitable plants
For the sake of our purposes, they are suitable almost without a plant, it is allowed even to extract small shrubs.
Water lovers. Completely any water-lovers can exist to be applied.
Not water lovers. The selection should be made by the owners of the superficial root system.
For the sake of a water-lily, it is permissible, instead of the earth, to extract a hydrogel or pebbles that will be able to hold it in a suitable position. However, note that in the absence of land, plants must be fueled by substances from the water, hence in the pool it is better to use the construction with pots and soil in them. You see, plants for flower beds can exist very different. A pleasant neighborhood of the brightest flower islets with water lovers refreshes a reservoir
The abyss of the immersion depends on the type of future plants. If they are among the ones that usually grow for land, then the waterline should break no more than 7 cm through the plane of the bottom of the island. If there is a landing of marshy inhabitants and other water lovers, the sediment can be 10-12 cm. The abyss is freely regulated by gravel. The degree of immersion of a plant in water depends on how it likes this water. The higher the need for moisture, the lower is allowed to answer the flower bed
Making a floating flower bed without the help of others
We want to invite you to learn with a few very ordinary variations of the independent production of such a flower bed. For this, conventional and affordable tools and completely cheap materials are needed. All four variants presented to you are tested for practice and passed successful tests.
Variation #1 - a multi-layer building from a non-woven filter
For the sake of work we will use: a piece of cardboard, non-woven filter cloth, assembly foam, fishing line, mash peat and flower ground. Tools: a pole or pencil, scissors, a needle, a stationery knife. Do not forget about the flowers for the sake of landing. Let's get to work.
For a piece of cardboard draw an outline of the future construction, after which the custom should be cut. Using it, we cut out so many blanks from the filter so that they could provide a suitable height for the future flowerbed. We cut the line with the needle and sew the layers of the filter together without them. Do not need to flash according to the edge itself. It may very well exist that you have to trim the edge of the workpiece with a clerical knife. The main method of creating a floating island is completely not complicated. It is necessary to simply stock yourself with patience and act all neatly and without haste.
In the resulting platform, we cut out the furrow, leaving the perimeter of the border corresponding to it. Through a number of punctures, fill the workpiece with foam. In order to ensure a good buoyancy of the object can come in handy 10 and more punctures. Now, let's wait, while the foam is pretty tight. We will test the float for buoyancy. If the flowers have large roots, it is permissible to execute additional cuts or grooves in the filter or in the foam.
In the filter hole we rub the wet soil, fill the furrow with the consistency of flower soil and peat. Everything, it is allowed to put the finished island in a reservoir. Regardless of the fact that the tests of the dam were in some open reservoir, it is necessary to swim in a barrel in which a short pond is reproduced
Variation #2 - a simple structure from the furnace filter
This is a simple building for which you will need: two reusable oven filters, staples, elastic wire, scissors, mounting foam and a can of greenish paint.
For the first filter, map out, and later cut out the holes in the places where flowers will be planted. To apologize together two products and to fasten them with the help of staples in accordance with the perimeter. Between the layers formed, carefully insert the mounting foam, thereby ensuring buoyancy of the structure. Large amounts of foam can not be added, because it can break the view. Furnace filters were similar for ordinary pieces of not extremely thick foam, but much more stringent. It is permissible, while preserving the general meaning of the structure, to execute it from another material, who is easier to find out
If the foam dries, it is better to paint an islet in a young paint, so that it looks like it is allowed more naturally. The wire should be screwed to the side to fix a certain location of the dam in the pond. In the holes we plant plants and lower the finished work for water. The wire is fixed either for the shore or for the day.
Variation #3 - island of foam
Polyfoam is useful for the sake of cutting out the base around the future bed. Still necessary: ​​a coconut mat, a needle and a strong fiber, little soil. If something of the components is not, follow the advice on the substitution below. The third method is also not complicated. If we want to perform a huge flowerbed, we can either take a full piece of polystyrene foam or fairly thin, which will have to be combined together
Cut out a suitable shape from the foam with a furrow for the sake of seedling. We wrap the billet with a coconut mat and fix it with a strong thread for no reason, so that it holds tight for the base. It is allowed to sew it according to the lower, hidden through the eye, parts and even in 6-8 directions. In coconut fiber rub a little soil, then plant flowers. Release the finished work for water.
Variation #4 - noodle + coconut fiber
In order to perform a small but attractive design, plastic flower pots, noodle (elastic mace for the sake of aqua aerobics), coconut fiber will be useful. Nudle is better to choose a blue or greenish color. However, if you wish to perform a raft more noticeably, then it is permissible, in reverse, to give importance to contrasting colors. With the help of such simple and brightest details it is allowed to design a whole holiday for your water body. Let it be quite colorful, inimitable and very positive
Hanging elements from pots will have to be removed. Available in the lower part of the hole can be sealed with a sealant. Noodle should be tightly located near the edge of the container and secure it by dragging to the remaining holes in the pot through the hinged parts. Unreasonably the work is quite excellent to handle for afloat. Nudle, naturally, will have to answer according to the size.
A coconut fiber wrap the pot on 2 sides and moisten with water to make it swell. For the sake of fastening the seedling fiber should be stretched. Filling the tank, you can deliver it to the reservoir. For the sake of improving buoyancy, you should reduce the pot content or add another single noodle.
A lot of general tips end If you dare to decorate your own park and reservoir without reason, take pretty practical advice:
coconut fiber can be changed by moss
If you plan to run an island in a pond, then pretty filters for the sake of coffee near the roots of the seedling will help to feed water through unwanted impurities
it is better to fix the hope for the day of the pond than for the shore
the foam is allowed to be replaced with expanded polystyrene, styrofoam or other foam insulator.
Also it should be noted that if there are fish in your pond, the bottom of the plants will not come in handy: all that they need is obtained from the water. Naturally, the options described by us do not exhaust all the abundance of abilities. It's simply proud to realize the general principles of such structures and you are allowed to do something your own in no way worse
This popular idea can be implemented for its site often. Everything depends on the size of the aqua object. A fairly static or slow floating in the water dam will quite resurrect your view.

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