Watering Can Garden Art Ideas

Watering Can Garden Art Ideas

Here’s a bunch of ideas for using watering cans as garden art.

As you’ll see here, most of the ones in my garden have beads and lamp crystals hanging from them (to look like water droplets), but there’s plenty of others ways to use them including fountains, tipsy pots, and planters.

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Classic Watering Cans

My favourite watering cans are the older ones made from galvanized metal as well as newer ones painted in clear, bright colours.

If a watering can is really well designed, I’ll actually use it to water plants (crazy, I know), but any other odd ones are perfect for garden art projects. And don’t worry if they have holes in the bottom—those ones make great planters.

Watering Can Garden Art Ideas

Gallery of watering can garden art ideas

Always good to have an heir and a spare! Use lamp crystals (prisms, pendants) as well as marbles, copper wire, and beads to create faux water.

Is it possible to collect watering cans without ever paying more than $5 per can? So far, so good.

One single lamp prism makes a lovely, giant water drop.

Old kettles and water pitchers work just fine too. If you love rust, have a look at my

Rusty Garden Art Gallery.

Gallery of watering can garden art ideas - the larger the watering can, the bigger the bling

Here I wrapped copper wire around marbles and attached the lamp crystals to the wire ends.

This was the first watering can art I made (circa 2002, I think). If you vary the length of the wires, it gives a good spilling effect.

If you like a more detailed project, add mosaic tiles to your favourite watering can. Because art makes everything better.

Display Ideas

Watering can garden art gallery

Old wooden ladders have lots of uses in the garden from trellis to displaying favourite garden art. And the more paint splatters, the better!

Watering can garden art gallery - use leaky ones as planters

The way some watering cans are designed, it can be difficult to thread wire in the spouts for hanging faux water droplets. This white one could be painted, mosaic-ed, decoupaged, or simply used as a planter like you see here.

Watering can garden art gallery

This was at my old garden where I hung watering cans over window boxes along the fence.

Watering can over window box on fence

The great thing about garden art is you can change it up whenever you want and move things around.

Potting tables are one of my favourite garden art display areas.

You can see an entire gallery of potting table ideas here.

Don’t let those gnomes lounge around all day! Put them to work.

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Barb of Our Fairfield Home & Garden creates wonderful seasonal displays in her garden. This one showcases some rather fabulous watering cans.

~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛

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