While wild flowers are blooming outside, is your home furnished in a rustic country style? This form of furnishing complements a cottage garden perfectly. However, beautiful decorative items do not have to be limited to the interior alone. On this page you will find creative ideas and helpful tips on how to build your own country-style garden decoration. There is bound to be something suitable for you.
Old kitchen items create country style
Garden decoration from the kitchen
cutlery
Bend old silver cutlery and attach it to the garden gate or wooden fence as a doorknob.
colanders
Hang old kitchen strainers on a cord in the tree and place a flowering plant inside. However, there should not be a seat underneath, as soil or dripping water could trickle out of the sieve. You can also make impressive hanging baskets from kitchen sieves.
everyday objects
Beautiful climbing aid
- Separate the frame of an umbrella from the fabric.
- Stick the umbrella in a flower bed.
- Let climbing plants such as clematis climb up the frame.
Disused things
Old paint or tin cans find new uses as lanterns.
- Cut small holes in the sheet metal just above the bottom of the can.
- With a little skill you can also cut out flowers or other motifs.
- Drill two small holes further up in the can.
- Thread a string through.
- Put a tea light in the tin.
- Hang the lantern in a tree or use the handicraft as a table decoration.
natural material
small wall
By stacking natural stones, you build a small partition for the garden. You could use this to separate the lawn from the vegetable garden, for example. Incidentally, insects often use small gaps between the stones as a shelter.
pasture fences
Willow fits into every cottage garden. The young branches are easy to bend. In this way you create impressive wickerwork that serves as a bed border or privacy screen.
tree roots
Under no circumstances should you dispose of tree roots. Even rotten wood looks beautiful if you simply integrate it into the bed. Leave it overgrown with moss.