Category Archives: Recycled and repurposed items as garden art

Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!

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  DIY Project ~ Hose Guides from Curtain Rods!

  Posted on June 16, 2013 by Barb in DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art

      Have you seen the price of decorative hose guards lately? Well, I have and it made my blood pressure rise! Since early spring I have been on the hunt for pretty hose guards to prepare for the inevitable dry spells of summer. My flower beds curve around the yard and gazebo.So pulling the [...]

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  Happy Mother’s Day ~ Garden Tour

  Posted on May 11, 2013 by Barb in Amazing flower pairings, Bird sanctuaries, baths, feeders and more, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

        Happy Mother’s Day to all my wonderful readers , I hope it is a lovely day for each and every one of you! This little garden tour is my tribute to mothers everywhere, who often put their own wants and needs aside for those they love. Thank you for rocking the babies [...]

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  Let the Gardening Begin!

  Posted on April 26, 2013 by Barb in Bird sanctuaries, baths, feeders and more, DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

    The potting sink is set up and ready for action, bird baths filled and the dogwoods blooming! Let the Gardening begin!    

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  DIY Project ~ Raised Beds for Free!

  Posted on April 14, 2013 by Barb in DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

  Who says you can’t get something for nothing? I just finished two raised beds made from my neighbor’s old shutters and odds and ends of  left over wood,  then painted them with surplus deck paint! ZERO COST!! For quite a while, I have admired all sorts of wonderful homemade and commercial raised beds seen on [...]

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  Spring is Busting Out all Over!

  Posted on April 2, 2013 by Barb in Amazing flower pairings, DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

  This spring weather has me hopping around in all directions, not knowing what to do first! After finishing the window boxes and cleaning up some flower beds, it was time for some spring decorating outside. First, I tucked Tete a Tete Narcissus bulbs into the twig wreath on the back gate. Then, off to our [...]

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  DIY Project ~ Welcome Spring! Time to change the window boxes!

  Posted on March 30, 2013 by Barb in Amazing flower pairings, DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

    After a surprise snow early in the week, it is suddenly spring. The trees are showing halos of green and red as buds prepare to unfurl and birdsong wakes me in the morning. Time to change out the front window boxes with the earliest spring blooms: bulbs. Gathered on the porch for protection for [...]

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  A Trip Down Memory Lane ~ My Former Garden

  Posted on February 22, 2013 by Barb in Amazing flower pairings, Bird sanctuaries, baths, feeders and more, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

    Today I’m taking you with me on a trip down memory lane to my former garden. Our brick split-level sat on a seventy-five by one hundred foot lot in a development established in the 1950s and looked pretty much like all the other homes around us. Over the course of thirteen years, using landscaping [...]

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  Winter Wonderland ~ It Finally Snowed!

  Posted on December 29, 2012 by Barb in Bird sanctuaries, baths, feeders and more, DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

      This morning we awoke to fat, fluffy snowflakes cascading down, and I was thrilled to see them! I just love the way that soft white blanket transforms our landscape. Although this first snow didn’t amount to much, just a couple of inches, I threw on my boots and winter woolies and did a [...]

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  Field Trip : See Over 36 Fairy Garden Homes at Gateway Garden Center’s Fairy Fest

  Posted on September 19, 2012 by Barb in DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

  Just for fun (which I have been having a lot of lately!), my good friend, Renee’ and I traveled over to Hockessin, DE  this weekend to Gateway Garden Center for their annual Fairy Garden Festival. What a great idea this was! Folks from all over the area built different fairy dwellings and placed them throughout [...]

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  DIY Project : Flower Baskets for a quick pop of color in the garden!

  Posted on September 13, 2012 by Barb in DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

  This is a tough transition time in the garden; not cool enough yet for the colorful mums, pumpkins, ornamental cabbage and gourds, yet you want to keep some garden interest going in the meantime. This weekend, I went to a garage sale and bought two baskets for $1.50 and decided to make flower baskets for my [...]

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