If you are looking for unique things to decorate your garden with, but have a shoe-string budget, do what I do and hit all the thrift stores in your neighborhood. I find many cute little tables I can use outright, put mosaics on, or paint decoratively to use near seating.
I have been able to purchase chairs as well for $5 apiece. When I paint them decoratively, it adds some charm and extra seating in my garden.
And let’s not forget unique planter ideas. I have found metal ice buckets, large metal buckets, a colander, old watering cans. I poke holes in the bottom with a nail and hammer, and I have cool planters for the garden. If it can hold dirt, I’ll use it. When I see pots selling at home depot for $50 a pop, I just make a beeline for the thrift stores.
Another thing I like to find are linens and blankets for outdoor sitting and eating areas. This crochet blanket (above) had some damage to it, but I got it for 5 dollars and looks lovely over tables or under a beverage spread for outdoor entertaining. Getting old pillows are great too! Just get outdoor fabric from the craft store to recover them for outdoor seating, you’ll save a bundle.
It’s a lot of fun. You’ll never know what you will find. And it makes your garden pretty unique from anyone else’s.
Flora is an award-winning creative director in Chicago turned food and lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. She is also author to the popular BEE NATIVE! gardening book series and various children's books that celebrate the wonder and hard work of bees and butterflies. Her blog and social spaces inspire thousands to create, learn, cook, grow, and craft, making their world lovelier one pixel/petal/seed/bite/stitch/brushstroke at a time. Follow her on all the social spaces, YouTube, and Amazon, and get creative!
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