Garden Crafts and Decorating - Bringing Your Garden Indoors

Here's a quick, easy way to keep track of what you plant, where you plant it and how it's doing in a gardening journal that grows with your garden.

Decorative Bird Houses made from Bird House Gourds

Here are several suggestions for how you can use greens from your garden, garden center or nearby craft store to make lovely decorations this holiday season.

If you find yourself at the last minute, searching for a quick and lovely idea for the center of your Thanksgiving table, look no further than your own plants. Indoor, outdoor, fresh or dried - if they look beautiful in the yard or on a windowsill, they'll look just as good on the table. Here are several fall centerpiece ideas that are certainly turkey worthy.

Pressing flowers and foliage from your garden is a wonderful way to preserve its beauty. You don't need a lot of expensive tools to get started with pressed flowers. You might also be surprised at the variety of flowers, leaves and even weeds, that press well. Here are some tips from an expert at pressing flowers, to press your own flowers and use the pressed flowers to their best advantage.

Ornamental gourds can last for several seasons, if you dry, or cure them, in the fall. Curing is a very easy process, especially for the hard shell varieties. Just follow the steps here.

They don't call them birdhouse gourds for nothing. With little effort, turn your birdhouse gourd into an actual gourd bird house. These step-by-step instructions will walk you through how to make a gourd bird house of your own.

Hydrangeas are one of those flowers that almost dry themselves. Once dry, they can last and look beautiful for years. You can dry hydrangeas several ways, but IÂ’ve found the best way to dry hydrangea flowers is the water drying method. This drying method helps the hydrangea flowers retain their color and last longer. HereÂ’s how.

Hypertufa planters are a wonderful way to bring the look of stone into your garden, without the weight. Hypertufa is easy to make yourself at home. Although it can be messy, it’s also a lot of fun. Here are some basic recipes and some creative suggestions for hypertufa toughs and garden decorations.

Save your garden's beauty by drying and preserving your flowers. Methods include air drying, speeding the drying process with silica gel and even easier, microwaving flower buds. Drying flowers is an easy way to extend your garden season.

Fresh garden herbs can easily be air dried, to preserve their flavor and quality. Air drying herbs is not only the easiest and least expensive way to dry fresh herbs, but this slow drying process also doesn't deplete the herbs of their oils. Here are some simple steps for air drying herbs.

How to preserve fruits and vegetables by drying, canning, pickling and making jams and jellies. Keep the freshness of the harvest by preserving your own garden vegetables at home. There’s a method safe and easy enough for everyone, as well as tips for success and recipe suggestions.

Using flowers from the garden to decorate is a fast and easy routine during the summer. Fall lends itself to more sumptuous decorating. The richer colors, dried seed pods and grasses and ample harvest provide supplies for some wonderful centerpieces, swags, and crafts. Here are some ideas for fall decorating from the garden. Use them as is...

Creating quick and easy Thanksgiving centerpieces from your garden.

Cold weather used to mean moving all your delicate flower pots and garden ornaments into the garage for safe keeping. Why just store your garden accessories and have them take up space when you could put them to good use indoors. Here are some creative ideas for using garden items indoors during the winter.

Gardeners in cold climates can have an early breath of spring by forcing branches of spring flowering trees and shrubs into bloom. Forcing spring bloomers is an easy task. The hardest part is probably getting yourself outside in the cold, snowy weather.

Let them have fun pressing flowers, making mosaic garden stones and creating garden signs. Makes you curious to see the next 8 top crafts.

Gardeners love to show off their gardens. We also love to share them and there seems no end to the gifts we can create with our bounty. Here are 12 quick and easy gifts made from the garden that your friends will love to receive.

Gardeners are a proud lot. We love to show off our gardens. We also love to share them and there seems no end to the gifts we can create with our bounty. Herbs, flowers, leaves and even seeds can be turned into thoughtful gifts to give year round and they don't take much effort at all, since you were gardening anyway, right? Here are 12 quick...

Quick and easy ideas for saving your garden blooms by drying and pressing. Plus more ideas for using them in sachets and other crafts.

Save your prized summer blooms with a little ingenuity and help from our Family Crafts Guide.

Fall foliage is a highlight of the season. Colorful leaves may be even more attractive than flowers. However to make an indoor display of fall foliage, it helps if you dry or preserve the leaves first. Luckily this is easy to do and there are 4 basic methods for pressing and preserving colorful fall leaves below.

Pressing flowers and foliage from your garden is a wonderful way to preserve its beauty. You don't need a lot of expensive tools to get started with pressed flowers. You might also be surprised at the variety of flowers, leaves and even weeds, that press well. Here are some tips from an expert at pressing flowers, to press your own flowers and use the pressed flowers to their best advantage.

Tulips just don't seem to behave as cut flowers. They bend and bow and contort. How do you deal with tulips in a vase?

When you can't garden but you still want flowers, you can turn your love of flowers into an exquisite beaded garden with the help of "The Beaded Garden", by Diane Fitzgerald.

Here’s a selection of garden clip art, including gardens, flowers, vegetables, birds and insects, to spice up your garden writing. Even in this day of instant digital photos, clip art is still a fun way to make a quick point. Thanks to some wonderfully skilled people, garden clip art has gotten more abundant and more sophisticated every year.