With warmer weather approaching, we start to picture what our garden will look like in spring and summer. Do you want to give the garden a new look?
The easiest and cheapest way to update your garden is to add new garden decorations. You can buy some of them, but you can also make them yourself.
Let’s review 32 Creative Garden Decor Ideas to Elevate Your Outdoor Oasis.
1. A Scarecrow From Terra Cotta Pots
Creative gardeners have gone beyond the traditional scarecrow designs and started using any materials on hand to create garden security.
This scarecrow has been made from terra cotta pots in different diameters. The largest one is in the place of the head, holding an actual plant with spike-shaped leaves to mimic hair.
2. Recycled Flower Pots
Old milk bottles can be the perfect outdoor plant holders. Cut a hole in the top part of the bottle where you will insert the soil and the plant.
It is essential to keep the back side of the bottle solid to be able to screw it to the wall. Voila! Easy wall planters that will cheer up the garden!
3. Garden Art
This idea is gorgeous and will inspire people who have painting abilities.
A wall painting combines the natural beauty of a blooming tree crown to create unique art.
4. Tire Art
There are plenty of ideas for garden art with old tires. Usually, the tires get painted to resemble a favorite character or an animal.
They can be used as garden statues or as a border of plants.
5. Modern Flower Pots
These planters on legs are portable and can decorate the porch or the patio.
Combining a wooden box and metal legs gives them a modern look.
6. A Faux Pond
This garden bed idea is inspired by the dry creek design. In this case, the basis is a pond basin dipped in the ground. Instead of water or gravel, its inside is filled with soil and plants.
At the narrowest part of the basin, a pot is placed in an inclined position as if all the plants are flowing out of it. Add a rim of pea gravel to finish the small garden bed.
7. An Old Boat Garden
The upcycling trend is prevalent for garden projects. Check this inspiring idea where an old, useless boat turns into a unique flower garden.
You can leave the outer surface of the boat untreated and weathered or paint it a bright color that will match the cheerful atmosphere in summer.
8. Repurposed Pick-up Toy
Old trucks and pickups can be repurposed into succulent holders. Their size is perfect for creating a small garden.
Add the toy plant holders to a bigger arrangement with flowers or decorate flat surfaces such as shelves, window sills, and the railway.
9. Chair Flower Stands
Chair flower stands are a popular garden decoration that adds the warmth and beauty of the rustic style. If you have old wooden chairs, you can turn them into planters quickly.
Please remove the chair’s seat and add a chicken wire net to form a basket. When you are happy with the basket, line it up with sheet moss. Then, fill the basket with the desired plants.
10. Stone Garden
This planter looks like made of stone but actually, it was cast from concrete.
Find a mold of the desired shape of the future planter and items that will create holes for the plants while the concrete cures.
11. Old Tub Garden
Another amazing large container that can be repurposed into a garden bed is the old tub.
The vintage ones with legs are lovely because they can easily become the garden’s focal point.
12. Organized Veggie Garden
You can increase the space of the veggie garden with such lovely and practical planters. Maintaining them is far more accessible compared to growing plants in the ground.
You can dedicate any free space from the backyard to such a lovely vegetable garden.
13. Small Rock Garden Idea
Rock gardens look fantastic and are easy to maintain. If your garden is small, you can make a rock garden of a small scale consisting of a pea gravel layer, river rocks as a border of the rock garden and plants.
Succulents are perfect for this type of garden as their shallow roots require good drainage ensured by the gravel. Place a beautiful terra cotta pot inclined on the gravel and plant a cascading variety that will flow out of the pot.
14. Vertical Veggie Garden
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Tiny garden space is not an obstacle for a rich vegetable garden if you plan it vertically. This planter idea is of a tiny footstep but high enough to provide six tiers for planting.
15. Outdoor Aquarium
A garden aquarium is a lovely idea to make the outdoors more natural.
You can find a wide variety of raised ponds on the Internet so that you can choose the one that best fits the free space and the existing decor.
16. DIY Flower Stand
This lush shrub garden area was missing a pop of color. A creative way to add blooming flowers to the greenery is a plant stand made from a tree trunk and a bicycle frame.
The stand becomes high enough to display the flowers at the level of the shrubs.
17. Wheelbarrow Garden
This flower arrangement idea is perfect for country gardens. Old farmhouse pots are repurposed into pot holders.
They surround a wheelbarrow painted a bright, vivid color that has been transformed into a garden bed.
18. Sculpture Plant Holder
Garden planters made as sculptures have been very trendy for a few years.
They fit a minimalist or modern garden with more subtle and neutral decorations.
19. DIY Flower Pots From Towels And Cement
This is a fun project to do together with your kids and you can use it as a unique decoration for your garden.
Dissolve the cement with water and then soak the towel in the mixture. To stretch the cement towel on, prepare a bucket and turn it upside down. Let it dry, and then fill it with soil and your favorite plant.
20. A Vertical Succulent Garden
Another creative DIY garden project features a small vertical stand for succulents.
The stand was made from wood, but all the lumber was hidden with burlap pieces and wine corks. You can also use one of those plastic stands and decorate it with rustic materials.
21. A Fairy Garden From Broken Terra Cotta Pots
This tiered small garden is so whimsical. To make it, you need three terracotta pots in different sizes to create the tiers.
Break the front of the largest one and break the terra cotta piece into smaller ones that will be used as a staircase of the fairy garden.
The best plants for such a small garden are succulents and moss.
22. Set The Hanging Flowers Into A Door Frame
Create a unique flower stand with an old wooden door. Lean the door against the wall and screw hooks to the top part of the window pane sections. There you can hang flower pots with flowers you like.
Use paints in bright colors to give the vertical planter a unique look.
23. A Well From Tires
Old tires are perfect for making a small decorative well for the garden. Start with painting the tires first.
Then stack them and place a flower pot inside. Build a structure from lumber that will mimic the roof of the well. A corrugated sheet of metal painted red is the perfect finishing touch of the flower well.
24. Trash-to-treasure Flower Stand
Old pieces of furniture can be repurposed into unique flower stands.
Apply a coat of paint on the pieces to refresh their surface or leave them rusty and weathered in case you want a rustic look.
25. Wooden Wheelbarrow Garden
If you don’t have an old wheelbarrow to transform into a raised garden bed, you can build one with the desired size from leftover lumber.
Add a wheel to the front from an old cart or baby stroller to give the piece a more realistic look.
26. Garden Art From Old Teaset
This garden decoration is so cute! It features a tea set repurposed into flower pots stacked in height to achieve an interesting visual effect as if flowers are poured out from a teapot into cups.
27. Flower Boxes
These flower boxes are perfect for decorating a rustic porch. Once, they were toolboxes, but in time, the rust made them inappropriate for this application.
The weathered look, on the other hand, makes the boxes the perfect rustic planters.
28. A Concrete Boot Flower Pot
This flower pot was made from concrete poured into an old, useless boot.
The texture of the concrete gives this planter a modern look mixed with the boot decorations’ rustic flair.
29. Logs And Driftwood Pots
Another easy and free garden decoration takes us to the forest. Gather branches that have a weathered look and hollow them in the middle.
Now, you can plant your collection of succulents into the nature-inspired unique planter.
30. A Rusty Flower Stand Garden Decoration
If you have decided to change the flower stand for houseplants with a new one, don’t throw it away. Move it to the garden to a spot where there is a need for a pop of color.
Even if the stand is rusty, it is still an excellent opportunity to decorate your garden.
31. Matching Pots And Wheelbarrow Planters
Create an appealing look for the front yard by arranging symmetrically identical terra cotta pots on the stairs.
The rustic nature of the terra cotta material matches any farmhouse containers and items that can be repurposed into plant holders. So you can add wheelbarrows and ladders next to the terra cotta pots to enlarge the garden.
32. Upcycled Boots
Have you ever seen rain boots repurposed into planters? They are perfect for garden decoration and a free material to display your favorite seasonal flowers.
You can screw the boots on the fence or use arrange them free-standing on a flat surface.
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