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DIY Kitchen Dish and Cutlery Garden Art Flowers

July 20, 2014 ♛ By Melissa J. Will

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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.

Garden art flowers made from dishes and cutlery.

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.

DIY Kitchen Utensil Garden Art Flowers On Patio Wall

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.

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

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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