Are you looking for ways in which you can spice up your garden, while still remaining eco-friendly? Utilising recycled material in your garden can spice things up, give it a unique look, and allow you to remain environmentally friendly. A few fun, innovative, and interesting recycled decorations for your garden and landscaping include.
Wood for Decorations and Mulch
Instead of just throwing away your old furniture and wood, have you ever considered utilizing it in your garden as a decoration, or breaking it down along with other natural substances such as bark, plants and grass clippings to turn it into mulch?
Adding wood as decorations to various areas of your garden can give it a unique look, while keeping that natural feel. Furthermore, utilising the wood for mulch will certainly improve your garden, and act as a fertiliser. Next time, instead of throwing that old piece of wood away, consider what type of uses it may have in your garden.
Plastic Bottles For a Variety of Uses
Everyone knows that plastic material is about the least environmentally friendly thing currently on earth. It is not biodegradable, and can last hundreds of years before breaking down.
Instead of throwing plastic away, and having it end up in your local landfill, consider what other uses it may have. You could cut off the top of the 2 L bottle and use it as a planting pot, or utilize old Tupperware as a gardening tool.
Finding multiple uses for plastic items extends their life, and reduces the likelihood that they will not be properly recycled.
Dead Plants As Fertilizer
Instead of ripping dead plants out of the ground and throwing them into your yard waste bin, consider starting a compost pile and throwing dead plant material and grass clippings into that.
A compost pile only gets better with age as more plants decompose in a, providing you with a high-quality fertilizer that can be used in your garden and improve the growth rate and life of future plants in your garden.
Old Metal Items For Rustic Decorations
Instead of just throwing away your old metal items, consider what types of uses they could potentially have in your garden. Metal items might not seem like an ideal decoration for a garden, but over time as the items begin to rust, they can give your garden a rustic look and feel, which is a unique way to go about decorating the area.
Instead of throwing away your old metal bucket, utilise it as a planting pot. Old car parts that will rust and oxidise quickly are great decorations for a garden, and give it a rustic, unkempt look.
Pallets For Climbing Plants or Layered Gardening
Do you have some old pallets lying around your work after receiving a shipment? Instead of just allowing them to be thrown away, bring a few home and stand them up around the edges of your garden. Pallets make for an excellent service for climbing plants, or can even have plants planted on each plank of the pallet, creating a layered look.
