Inconspicuously incorporate the water barrel into the garden design
With a water barrel you can collect rainwater as a "gift from heaven". The common rain barrels are made of blue or green plastic and are therefore not particularly nice to look at. However, you can remedy this with cladding and plants.
What you need:
- Privacy screen material
- plants
Dressing up a water barrel in the garden
- The easiest way to visually hide a water barrel is to use a Privacy screen made of bamboo mats or standard wooden screens for shielding rubbish bins.
- There are double-walled wire mats that can be placed around the rain barrel and filled with stones.
- It is very popular to pull up a small semicircular wall in front of the barrel to hide it.
- If you dig the water barrel halfway into the ground, you can create a well with a wall around it that is higher than the edge of the water barrel. Above the wall, even a wooden structure with a roof and wooden winch could make the optical illusion perfect.
- Some gardeners bury their rain barrel completely to make it invisible. In principle, this is not a bad idea. However, if you have children in your household, you should do without them. The risk of your child falling into the barrel and drowning is far too great.
Rain butt - really collect water in the garden
Water is, in the truest sense of the word, a gift from heaven and a rain barrel ...
Conceal the rain barrel with plants
Be sure to buy a green water barrel for this variant. The shrill blue rain barrels usually shine through in the bare areas of the vegetation.
- You can grow tall in front of the barrel Perennials, medium-high shrubs or small ones Conifers plants. As an alternative, there are plants in flower pots, which can be quickly set aside for better access to the water barrel.
- Half-buried rain barrels can also be equipped with a Garden bench can be concealed, which is simply placed over the barrel.
- When you attach mesh wire around or in front of the barrel and Climbing plants how Clematis Plant directly in front of it, the rain barrel will soon be covered by the leaves of the plants.
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