These creative projects for the garden are made from rocks and stones. Ideas include birdhouses, plant markers, and signs.
If you want to create a walkway, also see Garden Stepping Stones & Pathways.
Creative Garden Stone Art & Craft Ideas
Rocks and stones make wonderful garden art as you’ll see with the examples below.
While what you choose to do with your own garden is fair game, we should never place these projects in natural, wild areas. Just let nature be the art!
1Paint Rocks and Stones
Transform rocks into animals, insects, flowers, houses, or whatever you can dream up.
The Art of Stone Painting – Birds
The Art of Stone Painting – Owls
2Stone Circle
3Painted Garden Tags and Markers
Paint flat stones with images of vegetables to use as plant markers.
The paints are the same ones used for any stone painting.
4Paint Bricks
Paint pictures of veggies on bricks and use them as garden markers. You can create these with simple craft paints.
Another fun idea you can find online is to paint bricks to look like favorite book covers.
Turn bricks into plant markers | Flower Patch Farmhouse
5Stone Birdhouse
Attach small stones to transform a wooden birdhouse into a creative work of art.
How to make a stone birdhouse | Empress of Dirt
6Word Art
Word art on stone or concrete
DIY stepping stones and How to make hypertufa pots
Paint or engrave favorite words or phrases onto stepping stones or rocks. I’m not sure what tools would work on stone, but you can certainly put messages onto concrete items before they have completely hardened.
There’s also lots you can buy, of course.
Or, make your own:
Make a Fossil Imprint Stepping Stone | Courtesy of Lovely Greens
This next one requires drilling through stone—so it’s not for everyone—but it’s sure beautiful:
7Stone Spiral
If you’re able to drill through stones, this is a fabulous piece of garden art.
Otherwise, create a spiral on the ground:
Arranging stones in spirals or circles turns the ordinary into something rather extraordinary.
8Stone Animals
This next one would take some professional skills but it’s a fun idea.
What makes a garden wonderful?
- Great plants. Non-invasive, zone-appropriate flowers, veggies, shrubs, trees, and other lovelies that support local wildlife including pollinators.
- Assortment of textures: metal, wood, stone, water. Aim to have some of each.
- A pond and a private, shady seating/napping area.
- Classic structures: sheds, arbors, trellis, obelisk, pergolas. Whatever fits your style and space.
~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛
