Antique garden tools & accessories such as urns and gazing globes can help add interest to your garden landscape!
I love to work vintage and antique items into my displays, even in my garden! Antique garden tools & accessories are the perfect item to help add interest! Both inside your home and outside in the landscape!
A few of my pieces actually either belonged to my paternal grandmother or were part of my Mom’s collection. My wicker flower box was something a friend of mine found on one of her “junking” journeys!
Let’s see how I use a few key pieces to bring “Kim Style” outdoors!
Antique Garden Tools & Accessories
Wicker Flower Box & Old Flower Pots
I may have a bit of a flower pot addiction! I am the one who always buys the boxes of flower pots at a garage or estate sale! Aren’t they adorable all stacked up on the primitive cart?
They even look cute worked into the dough bowl centerpiece! To see how I put this centerpiece together, please read this post! Early Spring Rustic Dough Bowl Centerpiece
I don’t think you can ever have too many flower pots!
I even used these little tiny pots as feet for a wooden tray!
Old Wicker
The wicker planter looked great on the porch of the farmhouse in Illinois. This is the house that I grew up in and spent over 1/2 my life living in. I have a lot of memories of the family homestead. I chronicled the journey of downsizing and ultimately selling the family homestead in a series of blog posts that started here: Thyme to Let Go How I Downsized the Family Homestead Part 1
and ended here: Thyme to Let Go How I Downsized the Family Homestead Part 7
Primitive Tools
This large grindstone in a rusty iron stand was part of my Mom’s garden for a number of years. I couldn’t bear to part with it so I brought it to Florida on one of the many trips between Illinois and Florida.
It makes a great plant stand, don’t you think?
Cold Tolerant Annuals For Spring!
I even like to decorate it with lights for the Holidays!
Watering Cans
Old metal watering cans are another of my favorite garden antiques. I currently only have one in my collection. I need to find a few more!
Iron Hearts
I love rusty objects! These awesome heart shaped iron stakes originally belonged to my paternal grandmother. When we were cleaning out the shed, my husband tried to put them in the metal recycling. Let’s just say it was a good thing I found them when I did!
I have them displayed in the front yard behind this old wooden wheelbarrow that also came to Florida from the farm in Illinois.
Vintage Wire Urns
This pair of vintage wire garden urns also belonged to my Dad’s mother. I absolutely love them! They have the perfect rusty patina that I love! They can hold a really large flower pot.
I have used them on the lanai in Florida to hold a pink geranium.
Now they are in the front of our house holding pots of angel vine and Diamond Frost.
Garden Treasures: From One Garden to Another
close up of the angel vine with a rustic wire heart accent
The View from The Farmhouse Upstairs’ Window
Of all the things that we/I moved from Illinois, this green gazing globe was definitely one of the ones I was really worried about. My grandmother gave the gazing globe and stand to my parents almost 45 years ago. It was in the garden next to the fish pond. It withstood the wind, the rain, sleet and snow for years.
My friend, Glo Ann, packed it for me. It was all swaddled in towels, bubble wrap and extra layers of cardboard. Then it was placed in an extra large garbage can on wheels. More swaddling was added before it was finally bungee corded in place in the moving pod.
It is now placed in the front yard between vintage plant stands that had belonged to my other grandmother.
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Where Can You Find Antique Garden Tools & Accessories?
Vintage garden tools and accessories can be found at estate sales, flea markets, garage sales and thrift stores. Searching for these treasures is one of my favorite past times.
You have so many wonderful ideas here Kim. I have always liked terra cotta pots for some reason, it reminds me of traipsing around in green houses during the summer with my mom in search of flowers for her beds. It’s funny the things you remember from childhood.
It is strange how certain memories stay with us, isn’t it? I don’t think I ever went to a greenhouse with my Mom but I do remember her forcing me to plant the onion sets….. oh how I hated that! It is funny that I ended up really loving to garden because I sure didn’t like it growing up!
I have my Grandpa’s watering can and little shovel. I’m addicted to terracotta pots!
I totally understand! I can’t resist a terra cotta pot!