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Add a DIY touch to your garden this year with one of our favorite projects.

Now,grab your glovesand get started.

Living Wreath

Water lilies are a popular choice for ponds.

Concrete Table

Not only are concrete tables stylish, but they’re also well-suited to the elements.

Miniature Succulent Garden

Bring the desert to your garden in miniature form.

Tool-Cleaning Station

Pack away dirtygardening tools, and you may discover rusted spades and shovels come spring.

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Water lilies are a popular choice for ponds.

This DIY tool-cleaning station requires just three materials and ensures clean tools without much scrubbing.

Miniature Evergreen Garden

Mini conifers and perennials make for a perpetually green and adorably petite landscape.

A dwarfHeucherabrings perennial chartreuse color.

Miniature Succulent Garden

Once finished, cover the soil with gravel and sheet moss to keep moisture from evaporating too quickly.

Concrete Paver Planter

Casting concrete can be tedious.

So why not skip that step and use pavers for a DIY garden project instead?

Tool cleaning station

Our easy tutorial teaches you how to makeinexpensive concrete plantersthat bring clean lines and modern style to your garden.

Decorate flat surfaces with pretty tiles of your choice.

Bottle Bird Feeder

Bottle-feed your favorite winged friends.

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Fill it with safflower seeds or black-oil sunflower seeds.

Living Succulent Picture

Bring living art to your interior with aframed succulent installation.

Hanging Wooden Basket Container Garden

Love the look of ahanging plantbut don’t know where to start?

Mini Evergreen Garden

A layer of moss keeps the soil from falling through the bottom.

These easy natural garden ornaments make beautiful decorations and require minimal supplies.

Our orbs were built with red twig and yellow twig dogwood branches.

planters

Chalkboard Plant Markers

As the seasons change, so do our plants.

Pond Box

Enjoy all the benefits of an in-ground water feature with apond box.

This DIY garden project fits in smallerspaces like balconies, patios, and decks.

Rolled front cubby storing pots and seeds

Once you’re finished making your pond box, decorate it with ornaments and water-loving plants.

Miniature Herb Garden

you’re able to make thisminiature herb gardenin under an hour.

Making your own rain barrel means saving water and money.

Recycled-bottle Bird Feeder

OurDIY rain barrel(made from a garbage can!)

Once they’re dry, dab on a bit of paint to create a mossy look.

Terra-Cotta Pot Makeovers

Tired of the same old orange terra-cotta pots?

succulent picture painted frame

Borrow somemakeover tipsfrom Stephanie Rose ofGarden Therapyto upgrade your garden containers.

Your pots will look like pieces of art rather than boring basics.

Potting Bench

Turn recycled wood pallets into a functional outdoor workstation.

DIY Magazine/Stepping Stones projects, Chicago, IL. CMR#4827697

Pallet Garden Organizer

Upcycle acast-off palletinto a garden tool organizer to hang in your garage or shed.

Compost Bin

Helping the environment has never been simpler.

The holes let air in to enable your compost to break down quickly.

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Kate Richards ofDrinking with Chickensdesigned nine eye-pleasingand space-savingways togrow your herbs upright.

Make one of these for indoor or outdoor use.

tune up your Outdoor Space with These DIY Projects

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chalkboard paint

reflecting pool

Water lilies are a popular choice for ponds.

Mini Herb Garden

Rain Barrel

Concrete spheres

Gold Painted Terra Cotta Pots

Potting Bench How-To

Pallet Garden Organizer

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flower pots

vertical planter with pallets and fence pickets

Above Ground Vegetable Bed