How to make metal yard art

Have you ever thought that the patina is romantic, rustic, and soulful? In the list today, we will show you this. When it comes to creating interesting and attractive landscaping, most of you will choose plants, flowers, stone paths, wood, stone, and water. However, you shouldn’t ignore rusted metal decorations. Just with a little creativity and an artistic touch, you can turn any rusted metal objects into beautiful additions for your backyard and garden.

Make your garden your own! Drawing inspiration other gardens you like, take those creative garden ideas and add your own touches to reflect your style.

Today I am going to share a fun yard art project that I am calling screwball flowers. I had seen these floating around FB and no tutorial, but had to have some of my own. Really wasn’t sure what to call them, but these are made from a wood ball and screws. Hence the name screwball flowers. The ones that I had seen on FB may have been made using golf balls. Not having any golf balls but knowing that I could find some large wood balls at Hobby Lobby I decided to go with that.

If you've been reading my posts about Sorticulture, you know that I had a blast at this event, my only regret being that I only had 5 hours to take it all in. Instead of doing one post with a lot of pictures, I'm spreading them out a bit. We've all seen wind chimes made with flatware but the clever combination of glass vessels and silverware by Glassafras Creations was a first for me. Beth Wright Designs came up with these cool wire work baskets planted up with succulents and adorned with…

Have you ever thought about reusing your "junk" for a work of art? One way to turn junk into garden art is to repurpose the item.

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Have you ever seen giant, purple alliums in bloom in the spring? This is a quick and easy garden art project made from thrift shop items to mimic the look of those massive, globe-shaped flowers.

Learn how to “grow” flowers from metal wall art to plant a little whimsy with flower garden stakes! An easy DIY and way to add instant blooms and a whimsical addition to your garden. Ha…

I love the look of copper in the garden-so much so that I have made a few different pieces for my garden and also a rain chain. I like to use copper tubing because it is flexible and I can manipulate it any way that I want. The added bonus is that it is beautiful and elegant. I created this recently from a roll of copper tubing, some concrete and an old nursery pot: DIY copper garden art Here is another piece I made last year: DIY copper garden art Here is a picture of the first one I…