Decorate rotten stump. The use of stumps in garden design

Often, when arranging the territory of a dacha, it is necessary to cut down trees that are either dried up or for some reason do not look good on the site: they close the light in the windows of the house, drown out neighboring trees, etc. But even after the tree is removed, the problem does not disappear completely. After all, a stump remains from it, which is the more difficult to uproot, the larger the diameter it has and the more developed it was root system. However, there is a way out: any stump in the country easily turns into a masterpiece of decorative art.

Ways to decorate a stump

Like any creation of nature, a stump can have a very different appearance, and this, in turn, opens up unlimited scope for imagination. The most popular ways to disguise a stump as a decor element include:

• Stump painting.
• Decorating the stump with moss or flowers.

• Turning it into a flower pot stand, table leg, armchair, vase and sculpture plinth, fairytale castle.
• Making a full-fledged table from a stump.
• Stump decoration with figurines or ready-made decorations.

Consider how to decorate a stump in more detail.

Stump painting combined with woodcarving

Before you start working on an already uprooted stump, you need to stock up on the following tools and materials:

• Saw.
• Sandpaper.
• Texture or other paint.
• Brush.

Now let's get ready to decorate:

• We clean the stump from perennial layers of dirt and remove the bark from it. Then we clean from loose wood and those areas that have already begun to rot and collapse.

• We give the stump any shape that is attractive to us with a saw and leave it to dry for fresh air. However, the future craft should not be under the influence of direct sun rays, otherwise the wood is very likely to crack (at least 5-6 days).
• At the end of drying, we again clean the workpiece from loose wood and fibers.
• We choose paint for processing the stump and varnish to protect it from negative atmospheric influences. If you want the surface of the stump to be shiny and smooth, do not immediately use texture paint (for example, Aquatex or Penotex). But, on the other hand, the composition of such paints includes not only a coloring pigment, but also a varnish with an antiseptic, which significantly slows down the processes of wood decay. Those who are attracted by the natural woody shade cover the stump on garden plot with ordinary varnish, but after soaking it with linseed oil.
• When the workpiece, which in the future is destined to become a decorative element on a personal plot, dries well, it should be carefully sanded. Sandpaper is often used for these functions, starting with a coarse grit sandpaper, gradually moving to a finer grit to ensure a smooth surface. The use of a grinder will significantly reduce labor and time costs, but it is of little use for grinding hard-to-reach places on a stump.
• Then we paint or impregnate the workpiece (the latter - if it has a shade of natural wood).
• For several days we transfer the workpiece to a warm and dry place, avoiding, however, direct exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
• Let's start varnishing the stump. There should be at least two layers of varnish, and even more is better, so that the surface looks glossy and shiny. When the varnish dries, we set the workpiece in a permanent place.

Stump like a flower bed

Since wood is a natural material, stump decor will look especially great if such a residue big tree turn into a flower bed. To do this, take a hammer, chisel, earth and flowers.

This is one of the simplest and effective ways stump disguise:

• First you need to place the earth in a hollow stump. If the core of the stump is still intact, you will need a hammer and a chisel, with the help of which a hole is made inside the future flower bed in the form of a flower pot. A more radical method to make a wide depression in the stump is to burn it with kerosene. The option is valid only if the thickness of the side wall of the stump exceeds 5-7 cm. In another case, it will simply not be possible to save the stump after removing the core: it will crumble in the hands. Kerosene is poured into a hollowed out wide hole and waited for about 12 hours until it is well absorbed. Then they add more kerosene, close it very tightly and wait 1-2 weeks. After that, the lid is removed, and the kerosene is set on fire, thus freeing the stump from the core.
• So that the flowers do not die from waterlogging, they provide water drainage from the stump by making a small hole on the side in its lower part.
• Now it is advisable to pick flowers for planting in a stump. Against the background of brown bark, plants of bright colors will look spectacular. When planting them, it is recommended not to forget about the sufficient amount of water and fertilizers. If you want to completely hide the stump from prying eyes, it is advisable to plant plants not in it, but around it.

A good addition to the stump-bed will be multi-colored pebbles laid out around it with intricate patterns.

Stump with moss decoration

Will not require a large number time and serious material costs stylization of the stump "antique" - with the help of moss.

However, it should be remembered that this is possible only if the stump is in the shade and in a sufficiently damp and humid place.

When planting moss:

• Water the plant with a cup of buttermilk, then it will take root wonderfully on the stump.
• Constantly moisten the moss with water so that it grows more intensively.
• Since moss tends to creep, it is advisable to plant next to it. climbing plants.

Decorative design of the stump in a fairy-tale style

Not everyone knows how to decorate a stump in such a way that it becomes a gathering place for all the kids in the area. To do this, you need to show a little ingenuity and arrange a stump (or rather a few stumps) as a fabulous corner. From tools and materials, you should take a hammer, chisel, sandpaper, crayons, an antiseptic, wooden boards, tow, chestnuts, white corks from plastic bottles, glue, cones.

• First, we clean the stump from the bark, using a hammer and chisel. We insert the chisel between the bark and the wood itself and gently tap on it with a hammer.
• After removing the bark, we grind the stumps using sandpaper with a medium grain. We take a damp cloth and remove the wood dust that has arisen. We treat the wood with an antiseptic.
• Then we paint the stump brown paint. After drying, we glue tow and cones on top, which will be impromptu hair of our "goblin", and chestnuts imitating eyes to the side of the stump. Under them, horizontally, we also glue a knot - the “mouth”, which we then paint with red paint. “The whites of the eyes” should also be glued to the chestnuts - caps from plastic bottles, and a little lower between them should be inserted into the “nose” knot previously made in the stump. Now the fairy-tale character is ready.

Another fabulous option is Baba Yaga's house. To do this, we take only a hammer, chisel, wooden boards and nails. Then:

• We outline in small places where the door and windows will be located.
• From pieces wooden board we make shutters and a door of a size corresponding to the size of the stump and paint them.
• After drying, we nail the door and windows to the stump with nails (the hats of the latter are bitten off).
• An additional magical atmosphere will be created by branches and snags, which are placed in a picturesque mess around the resulting house.

If desired, any stump easily becomes the hero of your favorite fairy tale. Most well, various brownies, foresters, kikimors, mushrooms are obtained from it. The stumps turned into fly agarics look very bright and beautiful. This does not require special qualifications: just take an old small basin, paint it with paint in the appropriate red and white colors and put it on a stump.

Easily made from stumps and, for example, highchairs. They are made in this way: they take the seat from old furniture, open it with varnish and attach it to the top of the stump with nails.

Stump in the form of a fairytale castle will be a great decoration personal plot. To do this, it does not even need to be cleaned of bark. The materials and tools used here are conventional cutting board a bizarre shape or a piece of chipboard, a piece of a peeled tree trunk, moss or tow, a set for woodcarving. The work is done in the following way:

• A board or piece of chipboard is covered protective varnish and are nailed or screwed with self-tapping screws to the saw cut of the stump.
• A pre-cut from solid wood is screwed onto this base. wooden house. Its roof is decorated by gluing moss or tow on it, and patterns are applied to the walls with a wood carving tool. After that, the structure is varnished or painted in any color you like. Then the first inhabitants are settled in the house: figures of fairy-tale characters or animals (for example, for the visual embodiment of the fairy tale "Teremok").

The simplest ways to decorate a stump

How to decorate a stump in the country if there is no time for complex work such as woodcarving? For example, we cut upper layer bark, we clean it with sandpaper and paint it in cheerful red, orange, yellow colors. After that, we cut out flowers from plastic bottles.

Then we cover them with a layer of paint and glue them to the saw cut and on the sides of the stump. Plants are planted around it so that such a composition looks like a real magical forest. Another interesting option- run a cable through the section, which is passed through a groove specially hollowed out in the stump (you should take care of good insulation), after which a light bulb is installed on the stump cut. This allows you to make a kind of lantern out of it. The same goal is achieved by painting the stump with luminous paint.

Stump table

A table made from an uprooted stump will turn out to be not only a decorative element, but also a completely functional piece of furniture for a warm family dinner in the fresh air. In the process of creativity, we need a chisel, a chisel or a mount, a building level, a planer, a grinder or coarse sandpaper, a chisel, furniture stands or wheels, varnish, a soft abrasive cloth. Now about the actual process:

• Make sure that the stump is dry and the bark is well moving away from it, after which, using a pry bar, chisel or chisel, completely remove the top layer of bark from the stump.
• Now let's start leveling the future table. We check with the help of the level how even the lower surface of the stump is. If distortions are observed, the protruding edges are ground with a planer.
• The surface of the stump should be smooth, so it is processed sandpaper with coarse grit or grinder. When the cut becomes smooth and pleasant to the touch, the stump is placed on its side and also polished from all sides.
• We clean the cracks in the stump from dirt and dust with a small knife, but at the same time we try not to damage the texture of the tree, since knots and small cracks give it an original look.
• After that, we process the recesses in the stump from the inside with sandpaper and finally remove the dust with a vacuum cleaner.

• We fasten furniture legs or wheels to the bottom surface of the stump, which are easy to purchase at any store. This is necessary not only for aesthetic reasons, but also in order to ensure good air circulation under the trunk: then it will be less susceptible to decay.
• Then we varnish the almost finished table. After the first coat has been applied, wait half an hour and sand the surface with fine-grained sandpaper (preferably a grit size of 320). To make the table last as long as possible, it is recommended to apply at least 4 layers of varnish on it, after each leaving the stump to dry for the period of time recommended by the varnish manufacturer.
• At the final stage, the table does not require grinding, but to get rid of the strong shine, a soft abrasive cloth is used, which is passed over the entire surface of the stump. Our table is ready for tea!

A simpler version of a stump table does not require such procedures and removing the stump from the ground. It remains in the same place where it stood, but a countertop of any shape, made independently or bought in a store, is screwed on top of it. A pair of old wooden stools or lacquered chairs will create a unique atmosphere. home comfort while relaxing in the country.

Instead of a countertop, a bird drinker or feeder is sometimes installed, for which the stump serves as a stand.

Cutting down trees in the garden leads to the appearance of rough and not very pretty stumps. There are two ways to solve the issue - to study the uprooting of stumps and get down to business, or to decorate the stumps after sawing and revive a quiet garden a little.

We decided that summer residents, always busy hard work, it will be interesting to be distracted in order to tidy up the garden without spending physical strength on it. Today we will analyze the problem of stumps in the garden without uprooting. We will simply decorate the stumps with improvised items and tools, ennoble the site and give it an even more interesting and fun look.

Decorating and decorating stumps is great way rid yourself of the worries of uprooting, especially if there are no opportunities for this.

So, we forget about working with an expensive chainsaw, we exclude cutting down roots and physical fatigue, and just consider the most interesting ideasthat will help transform the stumps of old tree cuts.

Decorating a saw cut tree with homemade figurines

We have great idea which absolutely everyone can implement. In the photo below, you can see an interesting picture - small fairy-tale lumberjacks are operating over a tree trunk. You can make such babies from plastic or tin, or you can just buy figurines in a toy and souvenir store.

You can place the figurines and their accessories on the trunk using self-tapping screws, nails, wire or clamps. As a result, you get no longer a bare tree trunk, but a really soulful picture.

We decorate the stump with pots of plants

Surely, many of us grow flowers not only in the front garden or specially equipped flower beds, but also in pots, on vertical beds. Our next proposal will be decorating the stump with just such flowers, in pots. You can place some nice clay or plastic pots around the stump with already grown flowers, or you can plant them again. In addition, there is always the opportunity to decorate the stump with moss, beat it in a fabulous way, for example, by adding ferns, bright flowers, animal figures around, turning a small space into a real forest.

Finished stump decorations

Landscape designers, garden shop vendors, and ordinary entrepreneurs who want to make some money have long come up with garden figures. They are intended for partial or widespread decoration of the garden, lawn, plot as a whole. It is these colorful and funny products that are perfect for decorating a stump.

How to make a mushroom from a stump?

The classic form of transforming an old stump in a garden is a mushroom. It could be porcini or fly agaric - you choose, but we start from a more cheerful mood.

A little lower the simplest option, which is great for summer residents who do not have the desire to spend money on such fun. Yes, it is an old and dilapidated basin that no longer holds water and cannot be used for household chores that becomes a mushroom hat. The stump itself forms the leg.

The inverted basin is fixed with a couple of nails to the saw cut, painted in the color of the mushroom that you have chosen, and the stump is tinted in the color corresponding to the name of the mushroom or your mood. You can add decor, plant flowers nearby or herbaceous plants, but you can leave the mushroom in this form.

DIY stump chair

Here we digress a little from fun and fun, and move on to serious, and even adult things. The example presented by us is only possible for real professionals with a certain amount of time and the availability of a tool.

We propose to convert the stump into a chair that can be used in the garden for relaxation. How to do it, read now!!!

Correct cut of the stump

If there is an old and thick tree in the garden that should be cut down, it is great for our undertaking. Immediately you remove the upper branches, then the thicker ones below, and so on, according to all the rules of the cut big trees. But as soon as you get to the main stem, you should stop and work a little with the dimensions.

Comfortable height for sitting there will be a height of 40 to 60 cm, but do not forget that each chair has a back. Therefore, the seat is at a height of, say, 50 cm from the ground, and the back and cut are at a height of 100 cm. It is at this mark that the chainsaw cuts.

Now a vertical cut, all the way to a horizontal one, to remove a piece of the trunk from the place where the seat of the chair is formed.

Naturally, all such work takes place with preliminary marking and compliance with all safety regulations.

Decorative trim, seat formation

Now the chair is subject to decorative finishing, since we have only a rough version in front of us. Finishing occurs with the help of special tools - chisels, mallets, hammers, hacksaws, grinders, and possibly with the use of professional tools. The result depends on your efforts, desire and time, but we got such an interesting option.

Fairytale stump castle

How to make it, decide for yourself - with your own hands or purchased. But the installation of a castle (or maybe an ordinary house or a forest hut) is simple. You need to nail or screw the base under the structure with screws. It can be a figured board or a piece of chipboard impregnated with a protective varnish.. After, on glue or on screws, we install all parts of our structure, slowly and confidently moving towards the result. At the end of the work, you can get something similar to our example!

Decorating stumps with live plants

Agree, it is much more pleasant to observe on the territory suburban area living pictures, from plants, and not forms and compositions that cause more surprise and misunderstanding than joy and delight. Therefore, we propose to try the option of decorating a cut tree with living plants. These can be herbaceous plants, small annual flowers, or even some ornamental plants. It is them that we will land in a stump.

On the saw cut of the stump, we make a hole, which, according to agricultural technology, is enough for the root system of the selected plant. It could be a hole the size of flower pot. Next, pour a little inside nutrient substrate or garden soil with fertilizers, and plant the plant inside. How it will look after a while, see below!

Garden figure from a stump

Making garden figures, sculpting or carving is very interesting, but today our task is less creative. We just need to come up with an image for a stump that will match the design of the garden or flower bed. Often colorful characters, famous cartoon characters and so on come to mind, but doing this yourself is quite difficult. And this means only one thing - we will simplify everything as much as possible, paint the stump, create an elementary image that does not require investments.

The result is a wonderful depiction of a face on one half of the stump, as well as a saw cut decoration.

The simplest decor of a saw cut and a stump trunk

If there is no time or money for grandiose ideas, you can do it as shown in the photo below - just paint the stump in cheerful colors, install flowers from plastic bottles on the cut plane, plant plants nearby.

Today we have considered a way to spend time pleasantly and profitably in the country, but there is still more to come. more ideas, interesting ideas and implementation of plans for decorating and decorating a summer house with your own hands !!! Bookmark the site and stay tuned for new posts!

We decorate stumps and cuts in the garden (photo)

When decorating a summer cottage, women often have a question, how to decorate a stump in the garden with their own hands? The dacha is a place for creativity, where the hostess's fantasy can roam, so many are in no hurry to destroy the creation of nature, but try to breathe a second life into it. Thanks to the emerging park art, you can make landscape design in the garden with your own hands, without spending a lot of time and effort. Having an artistic taste and connecting ingenuity, the stump easily turns into a decoration and highlight of the garden.

Old stumps can become a decoration of the territory.

flower decoration

To get distracted in the country, without spending a lot of time and effort, you need to show imagination and make a work of art out of your site. Creating a flower meadow on a stump is not difficult. An interesting option is to decorate the cut with flower pots, in which not only flowers, but also ferns are planted, placing them in such a way as to create the impression of a fairy-tale house, and decorating with moss will complement this picture.

A tall stump looks interesting, on which many flowerpots are attached, climbing plants will give an attractive look to the withered wood, and multi-colored buds allow you to admire the garden at a wonderful time of the year.

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Making funny figurines in the garden

Good stumps make excellent garden furniture.

The simplest option that allows you to beautifully decorate the stumps in the country is to buy decorative figurines in the store. These elements are fastened with nails, decorative wire or fasteners, creating a unique creation. A frog, a gnome or a dragonfly, peacefully resting on a stump, looks harmonious. Such plaster figures are durable, and the ability to move them around the country house to different corners allows you to constantly change the atmosphere of the garden from home to fabulous and experiment in design.

Children will be happy to appreciate and help bring to life the idea of ​​​​creating a mushroom, the most popular among gardeners is the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bdecorating the garden with fly agaric, the color scheme of which can cheer you up on a gloomy and cloudy day and bring a touch of positive to life. A clearing of bright mushrooms created from stumps will enliven any area and dispel sadness in winter or autumn.

To make such a creation, you need an old bowl that will not be useful on the farm. It is covered with red paint, then white dots are applied with a sponge or brush. To the taste of the owners, the stump can be painted and decorated with stones and plants, or left in its natural form. To create fairytale house or a castle, you need a little imagination and unnecessary material in the household.

If the stump is empty inside, it is covered with earth and annual flowers and plants are planted, mixed with each other, to create a natural picture. In other cases, male assistance is needed to create a hole of the required diameter with the help of tools.

Flowers can be both inside and around the stump.

With the help of pieces of chipboard or thin boards, a roof is made, which is mounted on a stump. Each detail must be coated with a specialized mixture to prevent the destruction of wood and fixed with varnish. Ladders are attached to the holes in the cuts or decorative elements. On top of the roof, designers are advised to create a semblance of tiles from wood waste or shavings. A similar house looks original, painted in brown and grey colour. Having planted several types of wild flowers and bushes near the stump, it is easy to transform it into a cozy corner for relaxation. The path decorated with cut wooden plates leading deep into the garden also looks interesting. Many housewives dream of having alpine slide, which will decorate the cottage, the old stump will serve as an excellent foundation for such a creation. To create such beauty you will need:

• old tiles or tiles;
• seedlings of necessary flowers or plants;
• a small number of decorative stones;
• if desired, the alpine slide can be decorated decorative vases or figures of birds, frogs, butterflies or fabulous elves, gnomes and fairies.

You need to supplement the landscape with additional sand and a small amount of earth, which is distributed evenly in front and behind the stump, this soil is fertilized with compost and plants and flowers are planted at a short distance from each other. It is better to separate the gaps with tiles or decorative stones; such beauty requires careful care, which will allow the creation of human hands to be preserved for a long time.

Easy and simple to do is to paint the stump in different colors, creating a funny and fabulous character who settled in the garden, complementing the picture with old shoes painted in bright colors.

In the garden leads to the appearance of rough and not very pretty stumps. There are two ways to solve the issue - to study uprooting and get down to business, or to decorate the stumps after sawing and revive a quiet garden a little.

We decided that it would be interesting for summer residents who are always busy with difficult work to be distracted in order to put the garden in order without spending physical strength on it. Today we will analyze the problem of stumps in the garden without uprooting and organizing rutaria, which we have already talked about earlier. We will simply decorate the stumps with improvised items and tools, ennoble the site and give it an even more interesting and fun look.

Decorating and decorating stumps is a great way to save yourself the trouble of uprooting, especially if there are no opportunities for this.

So, we forget about working with an expensive chainsaw, we exclude cutting down roots and physical fatigue, and just consider the most interesting ideas that will help transform the stumps and saw cuts of old trees.

Decorating a saw cut tree with homemade figurines

We have a great idea that absolutely everyone can bring to life. In the photo below, you can see an interesting picture - small fairy-tale lumberjacks are operating over a tree trunk. You can make such babies from plastic or tin, or you can just buy figurines in a toy and souvenir store.

You can place the figurines and their accessories on the trunk using self-tapping screws, nails, wire or clamps. As a result, you get no longer a bare tree trunk, but a really soulful picture.

We decorate the stump with pots of plants

Surely, many of us grow flowers not only in the palisade or specially equipped flower beds, but also in pots, on vertical beds. Our next proposal will be decorating the stump with just such flowers, in pots. You can place some nice clay or plastic pots around the stump with already grown flowers, or you can plant them again. In addition, there is always the opportunity to decorate the stump with moss, beat it in a fabulous way, for example, by adding ferns, bright flowers, animal figures around, turning a small space into a real forest.

Finished jewelry

Landscape designers, sellers of shops for the garden and garden, as well as ordinary entrepreneurs who want to earn some money, have long come up with. They are intended for partial or widespread decoration of the garden, lawn, plot as a whole. It is these colorful and funny products that are perfect for decorating a stump.

In the image below, a cheerful plaster frog, which majestically “conquered” a stump and remained on it forever. In addition, the stump of an old tree is decorated with improvised items, ordinary country garbage, and painted in cheerful colors. To tell the truth, this is for only two hours of free time and for the amount that could be spent on just a few chocolates.

How to make a mushroom from a stump

The classic form of transforming an old stump in a garden is a mushroom. It can be a white mushroom or a fly agaric - you choose, but we are starting from a more cheerful mood.

A little lower is the simplest option, which is great for summer residents who do not have the desire to spend money on such fun. Yes, it is an old and dilapidated basin that no longer holds water and cannot be used for household chores that becomes a mushroom hat. The stump itself forms the leg.

The inverted bowl is fixed with a couple of nails to the saw cut, painted in the color of the mushroom that you have chosen, and the stump is tinted in the color corresponding to the name of the mushroom or your mood. You can add decor, plant flowers or herbaceous plants nearby, but you can leave the mushroom in this form.

DIY stump chair

Here we digress a little from fun and fun, and move on to serious, and even adult things. The example presented by us is only possible for real professionals with a certain amount of time and the availability of a tool.

We propose to convert the stump into a chair that can be used in the garden for relaxation. How to do it, read now!!!

Correct cut

If there is an old and thick tree in the garden that should be cut down, it is great for our undertaking. Immediately you remove the upper branches, then the thicker ones below, and so on, according to all the rules for cutting down large trees. But as soon as you get to the main stem, you should stop and work a little with the dimensions.

A comfortable seating height will be from 40 to 60 cm, but do not forget that each chair has a back. Therefore, the seat is at a height of, say, 50 cm from the ground, and the back and cut are at a height of 100 cm. It is at this mark that the chainsaw cuts.

Now a vertical cut, all the way to a horizontal one, to remove a piece of the trunk from the place where the seat of the chair is formed.

Naturally, all such work takes place with preliminary marking and compliance with all safety regulations.

Decorative trim, seat formation

Now the chair is subject to decorative finishing, since we have only a rough version in front of us. Finishing occurs with the help of special tools - chisels, mallets, hammers, hacksaws, grinders, and possibly with the use of professional tools. The result depends on your efforts, desire and time, but we got such an interesting option.

Fairytale stump castle

One of these already exists in our previous article on the design of a summer cottage, but today we decided to install the castle a little higher. How to make it, decide for yourself - with your own hands or purchased. But the installation of a castle (or maybe an ordinary house or a forest hut) is simple. You need to nail or screw the base under the structure with screws. It can be a figured board or a piece of chipboard impregnated with a protective varnish.

After, on glue or on screws, we install all parts of our structure, slowly and confidently moving towards the result. At the end of the work, you can get something similar to our example!

Decoration with living plants

Agree, it is much more pleasant to observe on the territory of a summer cottage, from plants, and not forms and compositions that cause more surprise and misunderstanding than joy and delight. Therefore, we propose to try the option of decorating a cut tree with living plants. These can be herbaceous plants, small annual flowers, or even some ornamental plants. It is them that we will land in a stump.

On the saw cut of the stump, we make a hole, which, according to agricultural technology, is enough for the root system of the selected plant. It can be a recess the size of a flower pot. Next, pour some nutrient substrate or garden soil with fertilizers inside, and plant the plant inside. How it will look after a while, see below!

Garden figure from a stump

Making garden figures, sculpting or carving is very interesting, but today our task is less creative. We just need to come up with an image for a stump that will match the design of the garden or flower bed. Often colorful characters, famous cartoon characters and so on come to mind, but doing this yourself is quite difficult. And this means only one thing - we will simplify everything as much as possible, paint the stump, create an elementary image that does not require investments.

The result is a wonderful image of a face on one half of the stump, as well as a saw cut decoration.

The simplest decor of a saw cut and a stump trunk

If there is no time or money for grandiose ideas, you can do it as shown in the photo below - just paint the stump in cheerful colors, install flowers from plastic bottles on the cut plane (we studied products from plastic bottles not so long ago), plant plants nearby.

Funny stump figure, garden scarecrow

Here is such a completely fearless scarecrow that can be made from the trunk of an old tree. The stump is not suitable for this, but when sawing, you can make the cut a little higher, then everything will work out for sure. To form the image, we use fantasy, old clothes and accessories, perhaps some additions. As a result of pleasant work, we get a wonderful creation that will amuse your guests and relatives.

If you have similar ideas or are ready to surprise us with something more exclusive and even exotic, please leave your thoughts in the comments, for which we will be very grateful.

Cache-pot from wooden cuts (video)

Today we have considered another way to spend time pleasantly and profitably in the country, but there are even more ideas, interesting ideas and implementation of decoration plans with our own hands ahead!!!

We decorate stumps and cuts in the garden (20 photos)

Reviews and comments

(4 ratings, average: 4,62 out of 5)

02/18/2014

Ahah) Looks very nice! Of course, I didn't think of that. In my yard, I just painted all such stumps in bright color and drew all sorts of faces. Well, in order to get at least some benefit from them :) Now I want to do it, as in the second photo, i.e. put on a stump beautiful flower and pierce it with branches with berries, etc. Looks really nice!

Vershinin Nikolay. 26.06.2014

A large and very ugly gnarled birch grew in my dacha, and at the very bottom a growth very similar to a nose. I cut down a birch, and near this nose I made eyes from DVD discs, a mouth and even a protruding tongue from a piece of red plastic. A decorated basin was also put on the head. It turned out to be a very funny pop-eye, which is laughed at by everyone passing by, especially the kids.

Olga 03.03.2015

I also planted flowers in stumps :) I really like how they look there, they only need to be watered more often. And so, very nice, I love to build all sorts of compositions around the stumps, I immediately want to plant some residents next to each other :)

Marina 03.03.2015

I really liked the idea of ​​decorating the stump with flowers. And the chair is good. But a mushroom made of hemp and a basin looks miserable, some people in our yards do such things. You can experiment with fun options, but I think that such a creation will quickly get bored

Irena 14.03.2015

Amanitas from an inverted basin are annoying. Some kind of treasury carries. But I like the chairs - in the country a couple of stumps formed, so they made chairs for children from them and built a small table. Well, the flower garden of their huge maple stump - planted curly flowers along the edges, and “sticking out” in the middle.

Sasha 09.12.2015

And when we sawed down a tree, we made a table out of a stump, nailed a board, and put chairs made of logs around. When it's cool, put pillows on the seats and enjoy tea drinking. In the summer, a barbecue is also here, next to a grill made of bricks - a nice thing.

Sergey 07/14/2016

And I went a little further and on the Internet I saw how a sculpture of a deer was made from a cut down trunk. I had just such a tree that, at a distance from the ground, leaned to the side. Here is the finished neck for you, and I made the head out of plaster, as I used to make figurines for the garden. I fastened the whole thing with the help of metal rods and painted it together with the tree. It came out as one piece. Horns can also be made by gluing branches or wire with plaster or other material.

Natalie 02.08.2016

creative, interesting solution problems with stumps. .

Svetlana-Karpova-vkontakte 11/23/2016

We have two stumps on the site in the village. One is from an apple tree, there is a small trunk. Therefore, we simply decorated it with flowers, when everything blooms it is practically invisible. One stump is just standing. We do not have the ability to make, for example, the figure of a deer, as in the previous comment. It's a pity, some animal would look very nice. The stump chair is interesting, but the stump does not always stand in a convenient place so that the chair looks harmonious with nature.

For me, the coolest option for using old stumps in the garden is when the stump is cut down evenly and ennobled only with fresh flowers, adding artificial materials Or the color is just not right.

Owners of household plots begin to think about how to decorate a stump in the garden with their own hands after cutting down old unnecessary trees. The presence of stumps in the front garden, ugly stumps is an eyesore. But instead of uprooting it, you can connect your imagination, and the old dry stump will become real. original decoration in any garden.

Decorating with flowers will help give an old dry stump a second life. Many will be surprised: is it possible to plant flowers in a stump? The trick is that ornamental plants are grown in a pot and immersed in wood with it. To do this, you need to make a hole in the center of the stump, the dimensions of which will be slightly larger than the parameters of the pot so that it is not visible.

For such purposes, you need to choose flowering houseplants who are not afraid to be outdoors in the summer months. It is recommended to pay attention to such flowers:

• geranium;
• petunia;
• primrose.

An additional decor for such a decoration of the stump are: ordinary grass, moss, lined along the edge of the hole for the pot. This technique will help to hide the sides of the container, and also give the flowers, as if growing from a stump, a more natural look.

Plot decor with garden figurines

Stumps can be an excellent basis for decorative garden figurines. There are many ideas. For example, a stump decorated with flowers can be transformed into a forest man, a gnome:

1. 1 Lush greenery at the top will replace the hair.
2. 2 On the side of a stump of painted White color saw cuts are made by the eyes. They are easy to nail to the bark.
3. 3 Pupils and nose can replace plastic bottle caps.
4. 4 Boots are attached to the base of the stump in a vertical position. This is done so that the heel rests on the ground. Now a gnome will sit in the garden.

In the presence of unnecessary, failed basins and bowls, it is easy to turn the stump into a decorative fungus:

1. 1 The stump itself in this case will act as a leg.
2. 2 You need to sew a short skirt on it, which is attached to the bark in the middle of the height.
3. 3 A pelvis painted red with white specks is put on top.

That's all it takes to make a giant fly agaric appear in the garden.

If you have small children, they will definitely be pleased with the fabulous house of forest dwellers in the garden. Such a structure is easier to make than it might seem at first glance:

1. 1 A plank is attached to the cut, which will become the basis for the attic.
2. 2 A support for the crossbar is installed in the center of the plank, and pieces of slate are attached to it at an angle.
3. 3 Instead of slate, you can use plywood, and you can make a tile cover on top.
4. 4 From thin straight sticks they make a small staircase and put it at an angle to the attic.
5. 5 Sides of hemp can be decorated with miniature nailed to the bark window frames from twigs, board doors, toy mailboxes.

An interesting solution: garden furniture

Sometimes stumps with their very appearance give an idea, as with most useful apply them in your area. Remember how, walking for a long time in the forest, we willy-nilly begin to look closely to see if we will meet a stump on the way to sit on it and rest. Why not use this in your garden?

If the stump is quite high and wide, with a little effort, you can cut out an impromptu chair with a back and armrests from it. The surface should be thoroughly sanded so as not to drive yourself a splinter while relaxing on such furniture. In addition, scratch and decorative trim such a chair will serve as a blanket or blanket thrown over it.

It does not matter if there are no wide stumps on the site from which you can make a chair.

Small stumps will completely pass for stools.

From above on such a seat you can put decorative pillow or a thick cape with tassels, and your new garden furniture will immediately become much more comfortable and attractive.

The tall stumps can also be used as a stable table leg. In this case, using building level it is necessary to achieve an ideal horizontal cut, so that after installing the tabletop, during tea drinking, cups and saucers do not heel and do not move off the table surface.

It is easy to make sure that you can find a lot of answers to the question that is relevant for summer residents, how to decorate stumps in the garden with your own hands. Look at them fresh eyes and remember what old unnecessary things are lying around in your house - they will serve as an excellent decor. Connect your imagination and your garden will be transformed!