Light garden structures - gazebo, openwork fence or border for a flower bed, - woven from the java vine will undoubtedly decorate your garden plot.
Willow is the perfect material for creating light garden structures that combine pleasant with useful. Arches, fences, chalashi, gazebos, curb borders and much more can be made of dry rods. However, using live IVI, you will achieve a better result: your product will be more durable and beautiful.
Fence '' woven ''
Fully completed wicker fence (regardless of its length) - a wonderful and sufficiently strong decoration of your garden.
For such a fence, IV branches are worth landing two: weaving will look better. So that the cells were even, the distance between them can be measured by the size of the shoe soles. The branches of crossing the branches should be fastened with soft wire (aluminum or copper).
The top can be simply fired by the secret; Spring shoots are collected by this little rough line. Under time, strengthen the fencing with the help of a wire stretched on the pegs until the Willow branches are rooted and will not be elastic.
To complete and strengthen the fence, you can arcuate the upper branches (as for the edge of the mat). It is advisable not to allow shoots to grow anywhere, except at the ends of the branches.
Alcove
The gazebo is made in the same technique as the fence, only for her longer willow branches were taken.
In the spirit of the Indians!
This portable "Vigvam", to the construction of which you will spend very little time, is made of dry-in-sized rods, interconnected by the rope of the so-called tambourous seam. Such "Wigwam" can and deliver the joy to children, and fencing gentle plants from the wind.
Border for a flower garden
Initially, around the flower bed perimeter, pull the cord for marking. Cool (cut the maternity) ends of several ventricts and stuck their centimeters for ten to the ground, focusing on the cord and placing them at an equal distance from each other. These rods must be somewhat thicker than the remaining weaving.
Between the rods, along the entire length of the fence, tweak the horizontal strips from branches folded four. In total, there should be six or seven such rows. To complete the top finish of the border, you must skip in the cells other ventilation branches. These curved branches form weave, fixing the lower rows. Starting ends are trimmed by a secateur.
If the land is loose, slightly sink her so that the vine is tightly held. Stick the rods exactly in a row, placing them from each other at a distance, approximately equal to the width of the soles of the adult shoes.
Alternately skip the stripes of four branches between the rods (the first row is located at the ground level). All rows should be laid smoothly and equally, lightening to each other.
Too thin ends cut off, and the row continue with new branches. Make sure that the branch docks are not on the same level, otherwise it can weaken the strength of the structure.
Bind the seven horizontal rows and compact them with the help of a queen.
Cut the vertical bars by the secateur, leaving several millimeters above the top nearby.
In between rows, insert other branches next to the vertical rods and bend them so that they go through the upper edge of the fencing screw and secured the entire design.
To secure the ends of the branches, tie them between themselves, and the remaining ends cut off the secateur.
IV branches are suitable not only for the framing of flower beds, but also to strengthen the soil, they are easy to care for them and they are perfectly combined with the surrounding vegetation. Willow starts the roots and forms the elastic barrier, while it does not lose its natural colors. Looking out IVI, that is, use it as a living fence, in our climatic strip you can immediately after melting of snow. Watht is the period of Willow branch filled with juice and quickly rooted. After landing, the branches will quickly fire in places of weave (contact) with each other, and you will only have a slightly cut into them with a secateur to support the desired outlines.
It is possible to make a fence from a dry yav vine at any time of the year, however, dry branches turn out to be more brittle, moreover, they must be pre-soaked. Father, as and when to harvest the vine, we told in detail on the pages of our magazine (N6 for 1998). Instead of willow for weaving the fence, you can take the branches of chestnut or nutrition, but only on condition that they will be quite thin and flexible.
Willow, depending on its species, it happens with the crust of various colors: brown, orange, yellow, red, no matter whether it is alive or dried. The average length of the branches is 150-180 cm.
