Garden designing with Heart Motifs
Love in the Garden! Or, we love hearts in the garden. If you have a fondness for anything heart or Valentine shaped, try these ideas in your garden, including two garden craft projects.
Laura Goines I make the hearts ❤ ❤ ❤ and wings out of old ceiling tin
Billie Hayman my heart fireplace screen ❤ with my knockout roses!
Jeanie Merritt’s tiny little heart ❤ house
How did a Valentine heart shape come to be?
Marguerite heart ❤
An early image showing a man depositing his heart in a marguerite flower, symbolizing his mistress, who was called Marguerite.
The first known depiction of a heart as a symbol of romantic love dates to the 1250s. It occurs in a miniature decorating a capital S in a manuscript. In the miniature, a kneeling lover offers his heart to a damsel. The heart shown resembles a pine-cone held “upside-down”, the point facing downward, which in medieval times was thought to be the shape of one’s heart.
Patty Hicks’s barrel hoop heart ❤ hung ion her fence
Two garden heart crafts
Jeanne Sammons has a heart ❤ for her birds
How to: Make a fun molded bird seed wreath
Marie Niemann’s Heart ❤ sun catcher, before
Marie’s now upcycled heart ❤ suncatcher
Nadine Gurto’s tin man with a heart ❤
Karen Wilson A friend of mine gave me this heart ❤ last year
How to create a heart shaped garden
- Choose a location for the heart-shaped flowerbed
- Lay out the overall heart shape and size for the flowerbed by outlining the
heart shape with garden hose or small-diameter rope - Use a shovel to cut the edge cleanly,…use the shovel handle to measure
and even out the shape. - Loosen and amend with more soil and fertilizer
- Choose the flowering plants
- Plant flowers that will be tall in the center.
- Apply a 2-inch-deep layer of mulch.
Charming heart ❤ shape design using bedding begonias in the garden
Clever, clever!
Take a corrugated garden bed, cut it as shown and arrange like a heart ❤ .
Clever cuts make a heart from an oval
Concrete stepping stone with a basin molded from a heart ❤ shaped cake pan.
See also, “Heart-shaped in the garden”
4 Comments
Thanks for the heart garden ideas. No matter where or when the heart motif began, to me it is a universal symbol of love, hope, peace, etc. I use it often in my artwork and garden art. I believe if we use it often enough, maybe people will take the sentiments of love, peace, and friendship to heart and treat people better. I can only hope . . . .
Lots of great ideas …. love that stepping stone with the molded heart center! And Karen Wilson’s garden vignette just made me smile with the blooming geraniums, rustola and that heart standing in the chair back. Of course, I love birdhouses and using that little rusty heart for an entrance is a cool idea by Jeanie. So many great ideas! I think it’s cold enough tho that I can make another heart seed wreath! Welcome February!
Miss your art and pics Jeanne Sammons. Love the heart seeded wreath then and now ???❤️
I’ve always loved hearts, now I’m inspired to use them in my garden, as a collection and as an occasional surprise too. Thanks for the article and pictures!