The beauty of creating your own garden art is the ability to make it show your unique style, personality, and, perhaps, sense of humour.
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Creative Garden Art Ideas
Recently I was asked for easy garden art ideas that add personality and a bunch of favourites immediately came to mind. Most of them are very fast and frugal and definitely bring unique style to the garden.
There’s also more garden art ideas in the Idea Galleries.
Often, it’s just the addition of a focal point and/or introducing a stand-out colour that can make a garden come together. Read on to see what I mean.
1. Add a sign
If you look at this beautiful veggie garden, the sunflower welcome sign on the gate really brings the whole thing together. It’s sweet and quirky and so easy to make or buy one. There are lots more garden sign ideas here.
This collection of pots is part of an entire garden where cobalt blue is the unifying theme. You could pick one colour, a trio of colours, or go with all different bold colours all in the same value (intensity) and get the same effect.
Two things jump out here: the yellow birdhouse and the red geraniums. Those are fast, low cost ways to make a garden bed pop! There’s an entire gallery of birdhouse ideas here.
4. Copy Nature In A Big Way
I made this giant bird nest from an old grape vine wreath and added the fake eggs (with blue spray paint). You can see how I made mine here. Another fun idea is to make giant concrete leaf-imprinted stepping stones or decorative leaves (there are lots of free instructions online).
Anything that can endure the weather (or at least hold up a good long time) is fair game. Personally, I’m a blue and white plate fan and love how these dishes look on the fence. There are 25+ more creative fence art ideas here.
6. Go Cute and Corny
Ask me if I care what other people think of my garden? {crickets chirping} It’s your space—for goodness sake, do what you like! You might not find this example so far off the wall, but I go on a lot of garden tours and my jaw drops overhearing people criticize the simplest, sweetest things. Love frogs hugging in a birdbath? Go for it. You can see more frog birdbath ideas here on Amazon.com.
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7. Be Funny
There are so many things I wouldn’t really want in my house but like in the garden. One of the best parts of garden tours is seeing the humorous touches that people add. This sign immediately lets you know that the gardener has a playful spirit. Or you should run the other way. Fast. There are more garden signs here.
You can find many versions of this on Amazon.com including vinyl decals, mugs, and signs.
8. Go Vertical
If you don’t have tall plants, bring in a substitute like this old wooden ladder. Add flower pots, birdhouses, or other repurposed garden art and you have instant interest in a plain old garden bed. There’s lots more ideas for adding vertical interest here.
9. Be Quirky
What if you forbid yourself from buying things and instead had to make do with stuff you already have? That’s how garden art is born. This idea of planting boots has been done a million times over and I still love it. You can see a whole bunch of creative container ideas here.
10. If You Have To Paint It Anyways…
My old lawnmower and wheelbarrow were rusting but still had some life in them. I could have just gone with plain colour but flower power called me and I had to answer. See the details here.
11. Turn What You Have Into Art
Deep shade areas where nothing but evergreens grow are a great place to have some fun. Here the gardener made a maze out of stones. It’s ideal because there won’t ever be a weed problem popping up.
12. White Is The Brightest Colour
…in a garden. I love white flowers. They punctuate an outdoor space like nothing else. Here the gardener used a black, white, grey (and green plants) theme with flowers and furnishings. Love it.
13. Frame It
Nature provides the greatest art on earth. I love how this rustic easel frames it perfectly.
~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛
Original article and pictures take empressofdirt.net site
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