Do you have budget garden decorating ideas you could share?

It’s an idea, another jelly posted a picture of one on Facebook and loved it. I found one in the back hoard of a house I bought and it creeped me out.
Take an old metal bed and bury it partly in tbe ground and plant flowers in it.

On pinterest I saw a stand up garden with sawhorses a plank and bags of fertilizer just the plastic cut open on the top.

Also storebought lattice used to help peas and grapes etc to climb. I do all my herbs in pots that way when I move I can carry them with me. that’s not much but all I got

Plant herbs, like low-growing thyme and mint between the flagstones here. and here, No weeding plus an aromatic smell when you walk on them.

I have an old red wheel barrow I am going to fill with small pots of basil, dill, peppermint, and tarragon and a few nasturtiums and put on my deck. This flowering cherry will be in bloom in 15 days.

I put a few ideas on my blog last year, but I haven’t done much with it yet. I did clear the spot for the cinder block bench, but I need to do a proper job of it this year. http://nidelvasoap.blogspot.no/2013/06/a-few-more-ideas.html

I collect large rocks when I hike, go on vacation or boating and now have some eye pleasing rock piles throughout my yard. I have a bird feeder and humming bird feeder and flower baskets scattered throughout the yard on Sheppard’s Hooks. I have potted plants on my deck and Tiki Torches around the garden. I collect yard statues I usually find at garage sales. I also want to make these bottle lanterns using this string method to cut the bottles.

You can also join a local gardening club and most have bulb exchanges where you can quickly build up quite a variety of plants almost free.

Plant flowers and bushes in odd numbers. Groups of three or five. In one front yard landscape I had two pots, one stood up and one lay on its side next to each other (the “side” actually was flat so it was easy to use for display). It was right in the center and then plants in a half circle around it. I could see turning the pots into a water feature, but that would be too complex for me probably, even though from what I understand it isn’t difficult to do. They have simple kits you can put together with a pump.

It seems that all the rage here in the Midwest is still to glue a bunch of worthless dished together and call it ‘yard art’. Please, avoid that. Currently it’s mushrooms: turn a florist’s vase upside down, glue an upside down serving bowl to it. Yard art mushroom.

Over the years, I have done a lot of poaching on the side of the road. It is a rural area, of course, and condusive to having interesting plants jump ship and grow in the ditches or the shoulders of the dirt roads. Now I have so much of this stuff that I give shovelfuls to friends and neighbors for their gardens.

Myrtle…enough to carpet huge amounts of rough spots…all you need are a few roots and they will grow forever.
Blood root…blooming this week
Wild red and yellow Canada columbines
Spear and pepper mint.
Wild phlox
Orange June day lilies.
March marigolds
Wild buttercups
Purple asters
Magenta violets
Red trillium
Annual forgetmenots that reseed.
Wild low-growing thyme.

Before my knees gave out, i kept a lady spade, Wellingtons and gardening gloves in the car.