Very often, owners of private houses want to decorate the porch, gazebo or the entire courtyard with the help of street vases with flowers. They are purchased in stores or make their own hands. For creative people with a limited budget, the last option is the most appropriate.

Color Vases, Street: Production Materials

The main materials of the manufacture are:

• stone;
• metal;
• clay;
• concrete;
• plastic.

Stone vases are quite expensive. This is explained by the fact that this material of roads and is complicated in the work. But the products of it look just gorgeous. In addition, they are qualitative and durable.

Metal vases are most often made of brass, steel and zinc. They are very elegant, and in quality is not inferior to stone. From the corrosion action, paintwork protects them. The disadvantage of such vases is that they quickly rake in the sun. Therefore, so as not to destroy the flowers planted in them, you should constantly monitor watering.

Clay is an environmentally friendly, porous material through which oxygen comes to the roots of plants. In addition, its plasticity allows you to create products of various shapes and configurations. True, thanks to, again, porosity, water after irrigation evaporates very quickly. In this regard, such vases on the sun should not be installed.

Concrete vases are an excellent budget option. Material keeps moisture and retains temperature. True, at the same time he is pretty heavy and rearrange him from one place to another quite problematic.

Plastic vases have low weight and cost. Their appearance can mimic stone, wood and other materials. Well retains the moisture of the soil, so the plants do not need to wipe too often.

Street vases do it yourself

An independent manufacture of a street vase is possible not from each of the above materials. Consider the options under which it is feasible:

1. Vasons Street concrete are very common and suitable for most buildings. To make them need:

• a pair of cardboard boxes, different in size;
• cement mortar.

From the domestic boxes, the square shape can be obtained. You just need to insert smaller in and get something like a formwork, which will be covered with a solution. After it freezes the product can be operated. If the ripple vase is needed, then instead of the boxes it is better to use two pots with a smooth surface of different sizes. Before falling down the soil should be done in the bottom of the hole of the hole for the outflow of excess moisture.

2. Tires not used for direct purpose often serve to make outdoor vases. This is a very simple option. The tire is simply fitted in the right place, the earth is filled, it is seeds seeds. From the outside, it is painted in a bright beautiful color or paint.

3. If a lone of small size is required, banks or plastic bottles are completely suitable. They are cheap and almost always available. For annual plants, their volume will be enough. In the bottom of the tank, it is necessary to do small holes, otherwise the water after watering will be stated, and the roots of the plants can be understood. The cans simply cut the top, and put a bottle on one side and cut the second. If you install or hang several such vases, it turns out a rather unusual look.

4. Vasely woven vines are very original look original. For their armature rods, reinforcement rods are driven into the ground, which will serve as a frame, and on top artistically decorated with a wicker.

5. Also very picturesque are wood vases. For their manufacture, use old stumps or small logs. It is enough to simply cut into them the recess and before planting to be treated with an antiseptic substance from the outer and inside. This measure is needed to prevent rot.

6. For planting plants in the courtyard, ready-made barrels made of wood and metal are perfectly suitable. If they are too large, then you should cut them across and fix the edge of the hoop. From the outside, it is better to apply any decorative coating.

7. Vases from older, who served their own items exceptionally originally. For example, made of plates or old aluminum teapots.

Types of colors perfect for maintenance in street vases

For life, a lot of colors are suitable for life. They can decorate any, even the most non-fulfilling courtyard. But there are several species that are considered a win-win classic:

• petunia;
• mimulyus;
• bidensen;
• boose

• dichondra;
• diace;
• balsam;
• snapdragon;
• koleus and others.

Tips for the choice of shape and color range of vases

1. Street vases, whose photos are presented in the article, must be combined with the yard design and correspond to its stylistic direction. For one, bright and pompous are suitable, and for the other - restrained with geometric shapes.
2. If a small courtyard, large vases will occupy a lot of space and look inappropriate. Accordingly, small on the spacious plot is simply lost.
3. The most common colors of street vases are white, gray, terracotta, brown.
4. The general view of the plot should not take a large number of different color spots.
5. Vazon should not get into the eyes more than flowers planted in it. He should not eclipse, but to emphasize the beauty of the flower beds.

It is best to place street vases, guided by the following advice:

• very beautiful when they are exhibited along the tracks or surround the platforms;

• they can act as edging Alley;
• if the yard has several levels, the vases will look original at the edges of the steps;
• sometimes they are placed on both edges of the porch and on the floor of the veranda.

Of course, street vases to buy is easier than to come up and do it yourself. But the creation of their own hands is completely different energy, it looks unusual and pleases much more than a soulless shopping stamping.