A raised bed is an upgrade for the garden for many reasons. Be it because the gardener would prefer to garden in a way that protects his back or because such a raised bed visually divides the garden into different areas, because the garden soil is not suitable for planting or because the garden area is on a steep slope. Raised beds can be made from many materials and can be beautifully spruced up with various tricks - for example with an attractive panel.
How to cover a concrete raised bed?
A concrete raised bed can be visually enhanced with various coverings: Use wooden slats, hazelnut branches, woven willow branches, natural stone dry walls, tiles, mosaic stones or surrounding plants to conceal the unsightly appearance of the concrete.
Concrete – versatile, cheap, durable and boring
The material concrete offers a whole range of advantages that make it seem ideal for building a raised bed. Concrete is often very cheap to purchase, and is also extremely robust, durable and versatile. In complete contrast to traditional raised beds made of wood, which often rot within a few years due to the high humidity. However, concrete also has a disadvantage: it can look extremely boring and unsightly, so a raised bed made from it is not necessarily a feast for the eyes. However, this can be easily avoided.
Beautify raised concrete beds with cladding
To do this, you simply have to cover the concrete raised bed with another, more visually appealing material. For example, a formwork made of wooden slats or planks is suitable for this, which means you can kill two birds with one stone: the unsightly concrete disappears behind the wood, whereas the wood is protected from moisture by the stone border and cannot rot so quickly. However, there are other ways to dress up a raised bed:
- instead of wooden slats, use hazelnut rods
- braided willow branches
- a dry stone wall made of natural stones
- gluing the concrete with tiles or mosaic stones
- a planting directly in front of the raised bed, for example with perennials or trees
If you want to make the raised bed border disappear by replanting, make sure that the plants do not grow higher than the raised bed itself - otherwise the plants growing on it could soon suffer from a lack of light.
Other options for visually enhancing raised beds
Instead of covering up the unsightly raised bed, you can also make it look more beautiful in other ways: All you have to do is grab a brush and a suitable paint and paint the bed. In this way, the light gray manhole ring becomes a colorful work of art in no time at all, whose colors compete with the garden flowers.
Tip
However, not only unsightly raised beds need to be clad on the outside, you also need cladding on the inside: foil or waterproof fleece protect wooden beds in particular from moisture penetration and thus from decay.
