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.
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.
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
- 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.
Related: 12 Creative Weekend Garden Projects
2. Attach flower to wall, then add stem (rush seating twine) with poultry tacks.
3. Add leaves (whisks, spoons, forks, beaters from electric mixer, measuring spoons…) with screws or poultry tacks.
At last: the unwanted electric mixer beaters of the world have a purpose!
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).
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):
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.
No water required.
~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛
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Shelly says
November 20, 2014 at 9:57 pmthese are great, how did you drill the holes in the glass plates? Thanks for the inspiration!
Melissa J. Will says
November 24, 2014 at 2:15 pmThis post shows a demonstration of how to attach the plates together including how to drill holes in glass. https://empressofdirt.net/makeglassflowers/
Jerilyn says
September 5, 2014 at 11:47 amive 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.
Melissa J. Will says
September 5, 2014 at 4:41 pmHi Jerilyn, This post shows what I use: https://empressofdirt.net/adhesive-garden-art-projects/
Missy says
September 3, 2014 at 8:48 pmI’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!
Sinea Pies says
August 19, 2014 at 10:24 pmWow! 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. 🙂
Bernice says
August 8, 2014 at 1:52 amI 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 !
Melissa J. Will says
August 8, 2014 at 9:24 amHi Bernice, You must have hard water? Thanks for the empty nester encouragement. 🙂
Linda Thompson says
August 7, 2014 at 10:40 pmI’m a newby with tools…would appreciate knowing how/what tools to use to attach glass bowls to each other/wall. Thank you
Melissa J. Will says
August 7, 2014 at 11:12 pmNo tools required. Just adhesive.
noel harri ngton says
July 30, 2014 at 3:57 pmjust 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)
Melissa J. Will says
August 1, 2014 at 1:19 pmHi Noel, and welcome!
Rebecca says
July 21, 2014 at 6:16 amI LIKE that extra “twist” — fastening the to a structure and THEN adding the “leaves”! How clever.