I love projects with garden rocks. I don’t know if it’s because they are such a natural element, or because they are all so different, or just because it’s like playing with adult legos… But I love them! So when I run across a great DIY project with rocks, all I want to do is start digging around in the garden for some great basalt and quartz! We ran across all these creative garden ideas with rocks that any of you can do. Use something from nature and create useful and artful accents for your garden!
First of all we have a wire and stone heart rock craft by ‘Country Woman‘… Have I mentioned, I use to be the home decor expert for “Country Woman’? Love this project!
‘Better Homes Australia‘ shows us how to make a water feature with rocks. I love this! Can you think of a better garden idea with rocks? Great tutorial with lots of photos.
‘Oh My Creative’ made a vegetable garden in a garden spiral, one of the most creative veggie gardens I have ever seen. Lot’s of photos!
Create a pebble mosaic with these instructions from ‘BHG‘. Make your walkway or patio something special with this garden idea with rocks!
‘This Old House‘ shows us how to make a stone sculpture for your garden with these easy instructions, They even tell you what kind of epoxy to use, which can be the hardest thing to figure out for these kind of outdoor projects.
Nancy at ‘Sugar Lump Studios‘ shared this great photo she took while on a girlfriend getaway in Michigan… These are rock gabions- just chicken wire forms filled with garden stones. Isn’t this the most charming front porch? Thanks for sharing Nancy!
From ‘Prairie Break‘, use this easy idea for all the stones you dig up planting your garden. Stones or rocks offer good drainage for a downspout area.
‘Fresh Ideen‘ brings us this photo from Pinterest (not sure about the original source)… Look for rebar forms or repurposed iron pieces to fill with stones.
This idea on making a stone gabion fence with wire and posts comes to us from ‘Green Landscapes to Envy‘. Just remember whatever posts/wire/cable set up you use, make sure it is strong enough to hold the weight of the rocks you fill it with.
‘Project Landscape‘ brings us these garden ideas with rocks for making wire towers. Use heavy duty wire fencing, join with wire ties, and fill with garden stones! Use pieces of rebar stuck through the tower and into the ground to stabilize.
So no need to haul away those garden rocks and stones anymore! Just use these DIY Garden Ideas with Rocks to make amazing garden projects! (And don’t forget to Pin your favs for later!) We think you will also love our posts on our own DIY Water Feature Under $30 and DIY Garden Trinkets!
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J’adore toutes vos idées, si je pouvais, je les ferais toutes……vous me faite rêver. Merci beaucoup ♡♡♡
I first saw the best idea for the garden, never imagined to arrange the stone as shown. :D
Hello There,
Thanks for your creative idea with stones.
By profession, i am local landscaping suppliers. Sometimes customer ask for creative idea or decoration tips with rocks.
I can forward your blogs for getting idea with stones crafting .
Bookmarked and highly appreciated!
Cheers
Nicolas
Love these ideas! Too bad I’m not still in the Northwest, where there were so many rocks, by the time you’d dug a hole for your garden and taken out all the rocks, you had to go *buy* dirt to put back in the hole! These towers and gabions (stone-filled wire structures) would’ve been all over my yard!
I think I’ll try my hand at the bird houses on the hardware-cloth stands, a la Michigan getaway above. What a creative idea!
Very nice work. Love the wire rock towers…the tower would be more stable if part of it were underground, rocks included. Love it.
Please tell me how do you make a hole in the stone, It is so great. I want to try it. I love your pictures
Well it isn’t our project, but depending on the stone, a masonry or diamond drill bit would be our guess!
I’ve used a hammer drill with a masonry bit. Depending on what you’re drilling through, you may need several bits – especially if you buy cheap ones.
Love these ideas. Cheers, from AK.
Love all these ideas but especially the bird houses on the rock pedestals! Will give that one a try. Thanks!
Wonderful and creative ideas! I am now looking at “stuff” around outside that I could use to make something similar. Thanks!
Very nice, will try to do it for my garden
Love all the awesome ideas here! Such inspiration! Thank you for sharing the “Petoskey” stones of Northern Michigan too! :-)
Thanks for such a great photo idea Nancy!
very nice……