DIY Kitchen Dish and Cutlery Garden Art Flowers

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Using old plates and dishes and some kitchen utensils, you can create these garden art flowers for your backyard.

For more, also see DIY Garden Art Flower Tutorials with a bunch more projects.

This project uses garden art flowers made from old plates and dishes, kitchen utensils, and a few other supplies.


Repurposed Garden Art Flowers

The first step is to create dish flowers using this tutorial. Once you have your flowers ready, it’s time to add stems and leaves.

I had the dish flowers displayed in the garden but, due to the sandy soil, I found it hard to keep them in place. Everything falls over in sandy soil! Time to mount them on the wall, I say.DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers On Patio Wall

I hung mine on a patio wall. You can see my collection of blue glass through the window.

Related: DIY garden art hose guards

Supplies

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers - supplies

  • Garden art dish flowers
  • Kitchen utensils (for leaves): whisks, spoons, forks, beaters from electric mixer, measuring spoons…
  • Pre-twisted seagrass rush or similar thick twine (for stems). You could also use old garden hose or twine.
  • Poultry staples (to attach twine)
  • Deck screws (to hang flowers and some utensils)
  • Tools: hammer, screw driver, wire cutters to cut twine
  • If you need to glue anything, see The Glue Resource Guide for Garden Art Projects for more options.

Steps

1. Plan flower arrangements choosing which utensils to use for each flower.

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers

Related: 12 Creative Weekend Garden Projects

2. Attach flower to wall, then add stem (rush seating twine) with poultry tacks.

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers

3. Add leaves (whisks, spoons, forks, beaters from electric mixer, measuring spoons…) with screws or poultry tacks.

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers

At last: the unwanted electric mixer beaters of the world have a purpose!

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers

Here’s a closeup look at some of the finished flowers. The (bottom left) one is made from a metal basket-type thing I found (and have no idea what it’s supposed to be used for).

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers

Here’s the entire wall of flowers. I still want to add little, half flower pots to the base of the stems (if I can find some):

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers

In case you’re curious, those are my surplus tomatoes growing there (planted very late-we’ll see if we get a summer long enough for them to ripen before the frosts set in).

I’m sure I’ll be adding more to the wall but for now I like how it adds some art to the entrance to the garden.

Garden art dishes from the kitchen

Garden art dishes from the kitchen

Garden art dishes from the kitchen

No water required.

~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛

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Comments

  2. ive looked at lots of adhesives, which one besides the two apoxys mix that will dry clear, with stand all weather elements, and strong enough to hold several plates and a hook. I wanted to put some inside my home as well and didn’t want to screw them in.

  3. I’m in love with your blog! It may be summer and the almost end to gardening, but it will give me a lot of time to make your fun ideas. Love the flowers on the building! Oh, and by the way, I think the unidentified object, is the cover to a fan!? Keep up the great work!

  4. Wow! I love this. Got a moment to stop by my blog hop and share? It is live right now! Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop on Ducks ‘n a Row. 🙂

  5. I love your wall of flowers. Mine are in the garden, and I keep asking everyone who makes them , what do you do about the water spotting? We have irrigation water and all of them plus my blue jars are just coated with water spotting. I don’t have anywhere out of range of sprinklers to put them. Thanks for your blog, I love what you do. And as far as being empty nesters soon, you will be so busy you won’t know how you did everything before !

  7. just joined your web site.Love it especialy your gardening tips.I am writing from Ireland and we have much the same climate.So keep up the tips —-Noel(retired)

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