Easy Garden Projects: 200+ Simple Ideas for Your Yard, Garden & Home

by Country Gardens

Overview

Everyone could use a little greenery in their lives! Easy Garden Projects features 200+ creative garden projects of all skill levels and styles to help you liven up your home and yard.


Country Gardens magazine celebrates the spirit and romance of gardening as a lifestyle, with an emphasis on a less formal, more personal aesthetic. With its simple tutorials that anyone can do to enhance their space, Easy Garden Projects appeals to a wide swath of gardeners. Whether it’s a homemade faux-stone planter filled with succulents or a potting bench made from reclaimed wood, each design features a finished-project photo and step-by-step instructions to guide you on your gardening path. The look and feel of the book reflects the breezy, rustic, and organic style of the Country Gardens brand. No matter where you live and garden, Easy Garden Projects features fun ways to spend a weekend or just a few hours making something beautiful.


Chapters Include:
Garden Accents & Decor: Beautify your outdoor space with these simple designs.
Hardscapes & Growing Accessories: Build structures that serve and enhance your garden.
Inviting Wildlife: Welcome birds, bees, and butterflies to your yard.
Mini Gardens & Terrariums: Bring the garden indoors with delightful small-scale projects.
Plants & Planters: Find or create your own containers and fill them with flora.

Projects include:
Craft a Barrel-Hoop Birdfeeder from Rustic antiques
Build a Raised Vegetable Garden
Hang an Air-Plant Chandelier
Light Your Garden with Romantic Votive Displays
Pack a Cool Kokedama
Plan a Bird-Lover’s Garden
Dig a Flagstone Fire Pit
Feed a Hummingbird by Hand
Decorate Stone Pavers for a Garden Path
Create a Tiny Terrarium World Under Glass
Plant a Succulent Wreath
Set Up a Cucumber Tower
Save the Monarchs and Host the Most Butterflies
Learn Bonsai Basics
Captivate the Senses with an Indoor Herb Garden

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681882871
Publisher:	Weldon Owen
Publication date:	01/09/2018
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Country Gardens is one of the family of Better Homes & Gardens and other special-interest magazines from Meredith Publications. Country Gardens celebrates the spirit and romance of gardening as a lifestyle. Whether you have 40 acres or live 40 stories high, we know that country style is more than just a trend, it’s part of our united gardening experience. Country Gardens embodies what today’s gardening enthusiasts are looking for—pretty, straightforward garden advice, casual decorating, old-fashioned garden favorites and tough-as-nails natives, the latest tools and gadgets, garden-fresh recipes, and personal stories that inspire readers to take action.

Read an Excerpt

Living Wreath
MATERIALS
1 pound (0.5 kg) sheet moss
16-inch (40-cm) wreath form
Potting soil
24 small plants (try a combination of plants in 4 inch [10-cm] pots and even smaller plants in four-packs)
Green floral wire
STEP 1: Soak the sheet moss in water; drain until it’s damp and pliable. Line the wreath form with the sheet moss, green mossy side facing out, like fitting dough in a pie pan. Overlap pieces of moss and patch as you go.  
STEP 2: Make sure the moss overlaps the upper edges of the form by about three fingers’ width. Fill the form about three-fourths full with potting soil.  
 
STEP 3: Arrange nursery pots on the soil. When happy with the design, take plants out of the pots one at a time and plant them. 
 
STEP 4: Give the wreath a full look by planting the sides too. Poke holes through the sheet moss in three or four places around the sides of the form and carefully insert a plant in each hole.  
 
STEP 5: Tuck overlapping edges of sheet moss around the crowns of plants. It holds plants in place until roots take hold and helps keep the soil from drying out. 
 
STEP 6: Secure one end of the floral wire to the back of the wreath form. Wrap wire all around in a spiral pattern. Cut the wire and twist the end onto the form. Attach a short length of doubled wire to the form as a hanger; attach several more lengths to provide options for hanging orientation.