VIDEO: Garden: painting stones

Paint the stones in the garden brightly and use them decoratively

On rivers you can often find beautiful, flat stones smoothed by the water without any corners or edges. Collect these on walks and stock up on them. Such a stone depot does not take up much space and you have the advantage that you can implement creative ideas when you have them.

• Flat stones with a diameter of at least 10 cm can be used as plant signs. At this size you have enough space to write the plant name on it in large, legible letters. Use a waterproof felt-tip pen for this after you have sketched the writing with a pencil.
• Label light stones with a clearly visible, dark pen. You can write on dark stones with a white paint pen or a white grout pen from the hardware store.
• A flat stone, regardless of whether it is dark or light, can be primed with a dark varnish. Dark blue is especially good if you want to paint sunflowers or poppies on it. You can integrate stones designed in this way into the table decoration at parties in your garden. B. Secure napkins against flying away. Use inexpensive acrylic paints for painting and seal them with a transparent synthetic resin varnish after they have dried.
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• You can buy cube-shaped sandstones at hardware stores and building materials stores. These are usually used to pave entrances, driveways, etc. used. If you buy enough of these and paint them in bright colors, you can put them in the limelight in your garden as colorful borders. For painting or You use synthetic resin varnishes for painting. You can get these in small containers quite inexpensively and can thus realize unusual decoration ideas for little money.


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With the exception of single-color painting of stones, painting and designing stones takes a lot of time and cannot just be done "just like that" on the side. Take your time to do this in autumn and winter and produce sufficient quantities of your decorative objects. Only a stone that is painted here and there and placed in the garden quickly looks like "wanted and not able".