Weekend Quickies: 20 Summer Garden Crafts

Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart with Summer Garden Crafts:

Pyramidal Pots Water Fountain Project By marthastewart.com

Twenty surprising ways to show off the season’s prettiest plants and blooms.

Some really lovely projects, most are very simple to make and can easily be done on a weekend afternoon. Here are a few of my favorite ideas:

• Chalkboard Pots: Organize plants and seedlings, and identify homegrown kitchen herbs, by painting the collars of clay pots with stripes of chalkboard paint.
• Sake-Box Planters: Wooden sake boxes topped with plastic wrap can be used as miniature greenhouses for a gift of cuttings.
• Pebble Pots: A layer of small, round pebbles arranged over the soil’s surface looks as neat and tidy as a Japanese garden.
• Pots of All Stripes: Give new life to old terra-cotta pots by painting them to create coordinating stripes.
• Natural Plant Markers: Unsightly sticks and flags look like trespassers in your herbs. Instead, make tags out of flat, smooth stones that appear as though they belong in your landscape.
• Pyramidal Pots Water Fountain: (As seen in picture above) You don’t need a lakefront property to enjoy the benefits of backyard water. Stacked pots filled with a pump and filled to the brim produce sounds reminiscent of lapping waves.

You can view the project gallery by visiting the site listed above, then you’ll see a link for each project beside its picture in the gallery–click that and you have all the How-To instructions for that particular project. Nice collection!

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