DIY Outdoor Garden Ideas

Are you new to the world of gardening? There's so much to learn and consider that you just don't know where to start? Relax, we've got you covered. You can learn from the collective knowledge of the Hometalk community on our discussion boards, slide shows, DIY video tutorials, and lots of innovative projects. Happy gardening!

20 DIY Garden Ideas to Redefine Your Outdoor Space on a Budget

Easily Transform Your Garden

Create DIY planters: Not all planters have to be store bought. Remove the drawers from a filing cabinet, spray, and set on its back for a unique garden planter.
Light a garden with small touches: Glue colored marbles to a battery-powered bulb and set inside a terracotta pot for a glowing garden globe.
Decorate vertically: Give the illusion of space by building a vertical planter. Create an N-frame and add crossbeams. Add hooks and guttering for a layered look.
The 10-minute pallet planter: For a quick and easy planter, staple landscape fabric to a pallet. Stand on its side, fill with soil, and add plants in between the slats.
Make your mark with spoons: Gardens should be fun, which is why wooden spoons make fantastic markers. Decorate and add labels to give your vegetable patch a neat look.

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Top DIY Garden Projects

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The 20 Most Creative Fairy Garden Ideas

Creating a unique fairy garden is not only an extremely popular trend but also one of the most fun and easy to personalize projects you can do!

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13 Easy DIY Backyard Landscaping Ideas

If you’re looking to add some pizzazz to your yard, these 13 DIY backyard landscaping ideas have something for everyone. From easy ideas to build a raised garden bed to building retaining walls, fish ponds, and greenhouses, there’s something for everyone among these great makeover ideas.

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The Most Ingenious Vertical Garden Ideas For Small Spaces

When you’ve got the urge to grow flowers or veggies, but don’t have the space, vertical gardens are the perfect solution. Whether you live in an apartment, have a small yard or want to bring the outdoors inside, by going up instead of out, you can have the lush flower or food garden you’ve always craved.

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15 Quirky, Fun DIY Garden Ideas

These quirky, fun, colorful DIY garden ideas use recycled and upcycled finds to transform the average or blah yard into a blaze of color and creativity. An old ladder? Make it an herb garden or a flower garden focal point. Tires? Fill them with soil, hang them on the barn, and you’ve got flower garden ideas.

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The Best Outdoor Fall Decor and Fall Decorating Ideas For Every Home

The brilliant red, yellow, and orange decor makes fall decorating one of the most vibrant ways to style your home each year. As tempting as store aisles full of fall decor is after the heat of the summer ends, it really is just as easy to create fall style for your home yourself.

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6 Front Yard Landscaping Ideas That Add Curb Appeal

Homeownership comes with a unique set of challenges, and one of those is creating or maintaining a well-manicured front yard. No doubt that curb appeal makes a good impression, but not all front yards are created equal.

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How to Grow Grass for a Lawn the Neighbors Will Envy

Is there anything better than the feeling of lush green grass under your bare feet on a warm summer day? Whether you are looking to grow a lawn that rivals a putting green or just need to fix some bare patches in your yard, growing grass doesn’t have to be complicated. Learn how to grow the right grass for your location quickly and easily so that you’ll have the best lawn on the block.

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12 Gorgeously Easy DIY Planter Boxes for Spring

Nothing kicks off the warm weather season like plunging one’s hand into a bag of potting soil. Once those winter snows melt away, getting outside with a gardening shovel and some new potted plants is an excellent way to celebrate the start of spring. But what if you’re short on gardening space or your soil is not conducive to successfully growing anything?

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The 20 Most Creative Fairy Garden Ideas

Creating a unique fairy garden is not only an extremely popular trend but also one of the most fun and easy to personalize projects you can do!

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13 Easy DIY Backyard Landscaping Ideas

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The Most Ingenious Vertical Garden Ideas For Small Spaces

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15 Quirky, Fun DIY Garden Ideas

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The Best Outdoor Fall Decor and Fall Decorating Ideas For Every Home

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6 Front Yard Landscaping Ideas That Add Curb Appeal

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How to Grow Grass for a Lawn the Neighbors Will Envy

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12 Gorgeously Easy DIY Planter Boxes for Spring

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Outdoor Garden Videos

Need some video tutorials on how to get started creating the perfect garden? Enjoy.

Gardeners: Copy These 30 Stunning Ways To Display Your Plants

Spruce up your home with these fun stands for your plant friends.

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He Wanted Privacy at Home, So He Built a Wall

On my last post, "Modern Patio DIY Inspiration" I created a solution for my problem...nosy neighbors! I also made my patio area into a usable space. In this post, I build a similar 'in style' privacy wall in the back of the house. This might give you some ideas of your own. Check it out....

Escagedo Woodworking

Tire Rim Water Hose Holder

If you're looking for a quick project to brighten up your yard this summer, here's something to consider, especially if your water hose is just coiled up on the ground. I've seen similar ideas so I thought I'd try my hand at it and I love how this upcycle turned out!

Rob & Courtney M, Hometalk Team

Giant Leaf Stepping Stones

These decorative garden stepping stones add the perfect amount of whimsy to my side garden. You won't believe how simple they are to make using a giant plant leaf of your choice. Give it a try for yourself!

Julien K., Hometalk Team

Hometalkers' Favorite DIY Outdoor Garden Projects

Here you'll find our best DIY garden projects. Go ahead and browse.

Frogs Strumming Bass Up Cycle

I have had these two frog for a few years....they were in sad shape! I was a bit bored and thought this would be a fun project that was easy, and adds whimsy to the garden!!

Linda kelley

Easy Dish Flowers

Inexpensive and easy dish flowers for your garden! You can see more of my crazy creations here

Chas' Crazy Creations

Simple Sconces From Teacups & Plates

One of the Facebook pages I follow always posts pictures of Cardinals eating from feeders made from a cup, saucer/small plates & chain. I decided I wanted to make my own. I went to Goodwill & found a couple cups, but got bread plates instead of saucers, as they gave more space for the bird seed. I made my feeder, but while I was in the process of it, I decided that I liked the way it would look on a wall, then thought I'd put one of my battery-powered tea lightset in it. I loved it. I have 2 different patterned ones, and went back to get more plates & cups today.

Lisa Myers

Macrame Privacy Wall

Earlier this year I asked for suggestion for creating a separating wall between neighbors.

Arekaybee

Making a Hummingbird Water and Bathing Tray Out of a Cookie Sheet

I saw a video of Hummingbirds flying though a spray of water that was made out of a large oil pan. I knew immediately that I wanted to make one for the hummingbirds that take up residence in the tree in my front yard. I wanted the bathing tray to be located very close to where the hummingbird feeders hang. I asked my hubby if he would help me on this project. I wanted the bathing tray to be mounted on the tree instead of a table. I wanted it out of the way of the lawn mower. So my husband sat down and sketched out how he wanted to build it.

Sarah M

Garden Globes

As many of you know from reading my previous posts, I am not a garden girl. I love the idea of growing things and making my yard beautiful with tons of flowers, shrubbery and the like, but I've just never been good at maintaining plant life. I'm still trying to keep my few plants and herbs alive (so far, so good!) but in the meantime, I'll work on beautifying my yard with stuff I know I can do--decor! These garden globes were pretty easy to make once I got a technique down and I was pleased with the outcome.

Rob & Courtney M, Hometalk Team

Frogs Strumming Bass Up Cycle

I have had these two frog for a few years....they were in sad shape! I was a bit bored and thought this would be a fun project that was easy, and adds whimsy to the garden!!

Linda kelley

Easy Dish Flowers

Inexpensive and easy dish flowers for your garden! You can see more of my crazy creations here

Chas' Crazy Creations

Simple Sconces From Teacups & Plates

Lisa Myers

Macrame Privacy Wall

Earlier this year I asked for suggestion for creating a separating wall between neighbors.

Arekaybee

Making a Hummingbird Water and Bathing Tray Out of a Cookie Sheet

Sarah M

Garden Globes

Rob & Courtney M, Hometalk Team

Popular Outdoor Garden Discussions

Join our discussion board on gardens and plan an oasis you can make yourself.

What can I do with this ugly garden tub?

/> Dianne Kurtz

We moved in to our first home, and this ugly garden tub is in our master bathroom. I hate it as it is way to big for the bathroom. It sits at an odd angle.

What can I do with this ugly garden tub?

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How can I revive a barely alive gardenia bush?

/> Colleen Sturma Reynolds

I have a gardenia bush that is in a planter, it was one of my mothers prized plants. It's barely hanging in there...any suggestions?

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Can you give me ideas for making a DIY pool cage?

/> Robyn Walters

Looking for ideas for the white metal areas under the screen on inclosed pool area.

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How do I make a mushroom house out of clay pots?

/> Car43150607

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New Outdoor Gardening Projects

We have tons of new DIY garden projects to get you started here.

Thrift Store Finds for Planters!

I love thrift stores, garage sales, flea markets, and repurposing what I have. I recently went digging in my stuff as well as on an adventure to these places to find items I could repurpose into planters for the summer! You can see more of my crazy creations here

Chas' Crazy Creations

Ladder Planter --The TUTORIAL

It all began on a sunny day while chatting with my neighbor. We were in her garage and I said to her ” why do you still have that old wooden ladder? It looks dangerous.” She replied, “I don’t know. It works.” I say to her why don’t you let me make an herb garden out of that old ladder so we can really get some use out of it, ie. grow mint for Mojitos and basil for pizza. She then looks at the ladder then turns to me and nods in agreement. “OK, you can take the ladder,” she says. And thus began the final Cent-sational Salvage Challenge of the summer. I set forth to make the most awesome of awesomest (did you know that And thus began the final Cent-sational Salvage Challenge of the summer. I set forth to make the most awesome of awesomest (did you know that was a word?) of herb ladder gardens.

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5 Easy Steps to a Small Garden

I chose to make a small container garden using worn out children's rubber boots. It's important to note that no children were deprived of rubber boots. I waited until they were sent to the Pound Store, then waited another week before purchasing any of these boots.

Jeanne Johnson Ortego

Quick and Easy Curb Appeal

What can you make with a $2 ladder, $6 worth of flowers, and purses by the pound? A very bright, eye-catching display to brighten the front of my home! This past winter has been so long and so cold, most of my plants froze to death, despite my taking precautions such as wrapping them in lights and putting cuttings in water in the house. I desperately needed some life and color to add to the curb appeal until the native plants grow back.

Jeanne Johnson Ortego

Repurposed Handy Dandy Bird Seed Scooper Duper

Good news: I am no longer a klutz when filling the bird feeders.This is a simple idea but it sure took me a long time to think of it! 1. Cut the bottom off a large plastic pop/soda bottle. Keep the lid on. 2. Use it as a scoop to gather bird seed from the bag. 3. When you remove the cap, it's like a funnel, easily filling a narrow tube feeder like the one you see here. And that's why it's now called the Handy Dandy Bird Seed Scooper Duper. http://www.empressofdirt.net/diy-bird-seed-scooper-duper/ PS: Do you say 'pop' or 'soda'?

Empress of Dirt - Melissa

Easy DIY Concrete Planter

Each month, a group of blog friends and I get together to make a project around one common ingredient from Home Depot. This month's item we had to incorporate was concrete. I had never really worked with concrete before and it was a great learning experience. I wanted to create something that was for concrete newbies like myself. I wanted it to be easy yet beautiful! Enter: DIY Concrete Planter. This planter is made from an old towel drenched in concrete and hung over a bucket to dry. Couldn't be easier!