12 ideas for original and recycled garden borders.

Contents

1. Discover our ideas for original and 100% recycled garden borders.
   1. A decoration with wooden planks
   2. Separate his plants with tires
   3. Hijacking an everyday object
   4. Create a design decoration with cinder blocks
   5. A terracotta boundary
   6. Create your own vegetable garden with palettes
   7. Bringing transparency with glass bottles
   8. Fantasy with old tiles.
   9. A touch of iodine in your garden
   10. Logs of wood
   11. The pebbles of the little thumb
   12. Vintage plates

 Whether it is to separate your flowerbeds from your lawn, highlight your flowers and flowerbeds or delimit your vegetable garden, garden borders have a role to play in the finishing touches of your green space. 

Discover our ideas for original and 100% recycled garden borders.

It's not easy to stand out from the crowd when it comes to garden borders. 

For a change from the classic brick or steel borders and add a little personality to your garden, check out our ideas for easy-to-install garden borders with reclaimed elements. 

Work materials, glass bottles, wooden planks, misappropriated objects... 

you will be surprised to see what can be done with them for a garden that is out of the ordinary.

A decoration with wooden planks

Easy to retrieve the wooden plank can be useful to you in different ways.

Take the wood from a pallet and cut it to the size you need for your project.

For a beautiful colourful border, cut your wooden planks into small rectangles and paint them in the colours of your garden.

With longer or wider boards, you can use them to delimit your spaces by drawing a path. 

Both decorative and practical, this wooden path will avoid putting your feet in the mud on rainy days.

Separate his plants with tires

Re-use an old tire to delineate a flower patch. 

An original idea and recover!

Repainted with a trendy color, you will forget its original use.

You can also superimpose the tires in a pyramid or circle for an atypical restanque effect.

Hijacking an everyday object

A creative idea consists in diverting an object from its primary use. 

In the garden, nature sometimes takes it upon itself to colonize abandoned objects. 

Why not take inspiration from this? Any object that can hold a bit of soil is prone to misappropriation. 

A wheelbarrow, a basin, an old milk jug... 

imagination is your only limit. 

Enough to add a little extra soul to your garden!

Create a design decoration with cinder blocks

You've done some work on your house and you still have some cinder blocks? Why not use them for the garden? They will be an excellent support for a design and cubic decoration. 

Painted or raw, let your creativity speak for itself to build a cinder block border worthy of a tetris.

A terracotta boundary

Collect your broken terracotta pots for a terracotta garden border.

Create your own vegetable garden with palettes

The pallet is the material of choice for all DIY enthusiasts. 

There are a thousand and one ideas to divert its original use, especially in the garden.

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In particular, you can use it to delimit your plants in the layout of your vegetable garden.

Placed on the ground or high up, the pallets are extremely flexible. 

You can easily add labels to keep the name of your seedlings or use them to store your tools.

Bringing transparency with glass bottles

Rather than throwing your glass bottles in the trash, make a pretty garden border. 

Depending on their colour, they will bring transparency and light effects between your flower beds.

Fantasy with old tiles.

Have you renovated the roof of your house? Keep the old tiles to make original boundaries around a massif or plants.

If you like water points, get into the business of making a fountain. 

A good idea that will bring serenity and freshness to your green space.

A touch of iodine in your garden

To replace the classic stone border, think of the shells collected on the beach. 

They will give a dreamlike touch to your garden.

Logs of wood

After pruning your trees, keep the branches thick and cut them into logs. 

They will complete your boundaries. 

In logs or slices, the wooden log will give your greenery a touch of romantic enchantment.

The pebbles of the little thumb

To replace coarse stones, prefer the use of pebbles naturally polished by the sea. 

They will make a perfect delimitation for your lawn or terrace.

Vintage plates

One of the most original and recuperative ideas is the diversion of chipped plates. 

Planted in the ground to separate your lawn from your flowerbeds, they will bring a bit of fantasy to your garden.