All it takes is a bit of imagination and a knack for looking at ordinary objects in a new different way. Will a commode planted with flowers overflowing the bowl sound downright fanciful? Imagine a weathered wooden chair missing its seat as a focal point in the garden to prop up droopy plants. Your colorful cracked ceramic teapot may have outlived its usefulness in your kitchen, but will have a rewarding second life in your patio planter for herbs.

 

Bowling Balls

Paint them to look like garden creatures. One gardener painted it  like an oversized ladybugs and were really cute.

Old Chairs

Turn your seat into something neat and bring garden whimsy to your yard with an easy-to-make, unique planter. Remake the old seat into a unique container – a flower chair.  Replace the missing cushion with a small garden.

Old baths or Basins

Use as flower and vegetable planters. You can plant some white flowers to make it look like soap bubbles and have a head of a manniquin or doll  on one end and have shoes at the other end to make it appear like a person is having a bubble bath.

Small basins can be used as a bird bath, too.

Old Decorative, Mesh Wire, Gate

Hang horizontally to let your vine plants  grow with its flowers either under or on top of it. You can also use it for drying for favorite herbs, vegetables or flowers by hanging it horizontally from the ceiling of your potting, storage or tool shed.

Broken Tiles and Ceramics

These items can also be decorative. Broken tiles and ceramics can make interesting and unusual garden mosaics.  These will also look good for mulching.

Old railway sleepers

It can be used for sturdy and effective garden bench or table.

Car/Truck Tires

Use for flower and vegetable beds. It will be nice to have colorful flowers  planted on it.  You can paint them with different attractive colors.

Old Bed Frame

You can paint it with bright or pastel colors.  You  may cut its leg to have it sit closer to the ground or you may opt not to cut the legs. Then fill where the mattress would be with gardening soil and plant with abundance of flowers.  The flower blooms will make the bed appear dressed in its best spread. An antique iron headboard can be used to plant petunias.  A “bed” of flowers can be a focal point in the garden.