Preparatory work
No need to be sad when next to a brand new well you will see a mountain of clay. Yes, at first glance, this pile of dirt, but the second is an excellent material for landscaping.
Before workers begin digging the well, tell me that they postponed the topsoil layer to the side. Let the lower rises in the form of still slides unsightly clay.
Wear rubber gloves, pour a bucket of water and place it next. If clay left over from digging the well, lay a few days under the hot sun and the top is dry, then dampen the top layer with water.
If you immediately got down to business, clay is soft and plastic, because the top layer consists of the bottom water layers, which work removed from the bottom of the well.
Three-tiered flower bed or Alpine slide
Now you can start sculpting. Take the small shovel. With this tool it is easy to make a clay mountain the desired shape.
If you decide to make it a three-tiered flower bed, then give the material a round shape. Mentally divide the structure into 3 rings. Now make them uneven. The lowest will be the outer ring, and the highest internal.
Reinforce the edges with a shovel, making the boards with the height of 10-15 cm Pour on every level fertile land, which also remained after the digging of a well. Bumpers will not allow her to sleep outside.
If you want to make the Alpine slide, do not attach a lump of clay to the correct shape. Let one side it is rounded, and a little concave. Alpine slide below the bed.
Decoration man-made creatures
Where to get the stones to design a roller coaster? Can you get them from the same clay. Very often in this deep layer, there are different rocks.
Remove the stones from the clay, rinse in water and lay them almost randomly on the Alpine slide. For beds, they also come in handy. Make the edging of this free natural material.
The Alpine slide also backfill the remainder of the digging of a well fertile land and decorate it low flowers. That the bed and the Alpine slide all summer feast for the eyes, put them pansies (viola), Daisy. Latest will multiply by self-seeding and will soon create a colorful carpet.
In the middle will look beautiful groundcover rose. Low purple iris, tulips, daffodils color the man-made structure out of clay in late spring in bright, cheerful colors.
You can find more prosaic application of the clay. This material cover the outer walls of houses from blocks, limestone, bricks, plaster the surface of the brick kilns.
Children can make figurines from this material, dried in the sun and paint at their discretion.
Indeed, clay is a unique material for building, design, creativity.