Arch is an ornamental decoration of your garden, giving it a romantic and expressive. Most often, arches are used for framing tracks, both partial and along the entire length. And on the arch, climbing plants. A decorative arch is placed near a wall or a hedge and placed in it a bench or statue. You can draw an archway entrance to some part of the garden, or divide it into your area for recreation, for guests and farming.
How to make an arch in the garden?
Many gardeners are interested in the question: how to make an arch in the garden? To make such an arch for a garden with your own hands can be made of wood, metal or colored bricks. The arch should have an attractive look not only in summer, but at any other time of the year. In addition, decorative arches for the garden should have a certain strength and resist any gusts of wind. The simplest arch can be done by bending a metal wire into the arc and fixing it between the supports. With the help of such a device beautiful green alleys are formed. Decorative arches are more difficult to make of wood, plastic, stone or brick. Recently, metal and forged variants have become especially popular, which will last for a long time. But their lack - the corrosion of metal, so they must be regularly painted. In its shape, the arches for the garden are semicircular, straight, pointed and gothic. The height of the arch for the garden is from two to three meters.
Very often gardeners need to make an arch for climbing roses. If you want to create such an arch wooden, you have to remember that the tree is much more prone to precipitation than, for example, metal structures. Therefore, for such a garden decoration, one must choose the hardest varieties of trees, for example, cedar or larch. Before installing a wooden arch, it must be treated with an antiseptic and painted. Painting in this case will perform not only decorative function, but also protective.
Arches of trees
Unusually looking in the garden arches, built of trees. Most often they are made above the path, using a column-shaped oak, ashberry or birch. Sometimes the arch of limes serves as an original frame for the beautiful garden picture that opens behind it. For such arches are suitable breeds of trees with bending branches, good to be cut. Excellent looking green arches of juniper or thuja. You can make an arch of shrubs like lilac, chubushnik and others. But do not expect that the plants in this arch will bloom, because they will have to be cut constantly.
Create on your site an original arch with vertical gardening, and it will give your garden a beauty and a peculiar charm.
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