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Vintage flowers from Grandma’s garden

Old-Fashioned Plants and Flowers You Need in Your Garden Easy to grow vintage flowers that your Grandma may have planted years ago. These long time favorites our grandparents knew…

Garden Inspiration and ideas, Plant profiles
 11

The welcoming Wickline garden

Wandering at the Wickline's Jeanie Merritt first discovered this unique garden during a community tour, then after more visits, she was delighted to receive a…

Garden design ideas, Garden Junk
 10

July Project Challenge 2017 begins!

Let's pick a project and do it! In July! Many of us have a file full of garden ideas or have wanted to do a project they've…

Garden Junk fun!
 10

Constance’s sun garden gate

Garden Gate Original Constance McAlpin and 'her farmer' live on a farm near Franklin, Indiana, raise corn and soybeans and live in the house that was built…

Garden design ideas, Rusty Garden
 18

Totally terrific tool box planters

Antique Metal Tool Boxes Upcycled! We love tool boxes for planters because they last! They last in all weather out in the garden and usually rust…

Creative Containers, Garden Junk
 20

Glittering, beaded garden sparklers

How ideas spread and develop on Flea Market Gardening page. An astounding reminder! Linda Gladman posted her garden vignette and our eyes went right to…

Garden Art ideas, Garden Color
 27

Fabulous February Project Challenge

It’s February!!! Remember our January Challenge last year?  Well, it was such a huge success that we’re doing it again, this time in the month…

Garden Junk fun!, How to: Easy project ideas
 14

Marie’s sparkly tree, steampunk style!

~~ A Flea Market Gardening ‘My Big Garden Project’~~ Marie makes a merry masterpiece... Have you ever seen a Steampunk Christmas Tree?  Made from a…

My Big Garden Project, Recycled garden art
 18

50 Gorgeous garden gates and doorways: A gallery

A Flea Market Gardening Gallery Do you like rustic doors and gates? We do! Here are some GREAT examples of DIY Flea Market gates, doorways…

Old doors and windows
 18

50 Flea Market Style Benches: A gallery

A Flea Market Gardening gallery "We sit in Other People’s Gardens, Why not our own?" --Mirabel Osler Beautiful Benches!  Where do you sit in the…

Benches and chairs
 12

The witty, wondrous Wickline’s garden

Visiting the Wickline garden... "Touring Dick and Joni Wickline’s Ohio gardens every summer is never the same tour twice." Jeanie Merritt says of this whimsical Ohio…

Creative Containers, Garden Art ideas
 24

A garden to explore, Inside Out!

Come Flea with Us! While the girls and I, from Flea Market Gardening, visited the Black Hills this last August, we noticed a new sign…

Flea Markets and Junk Shops, Garden Junk
 11

Planting a dramatic moon garden

Get Bright with White!  Gardens are typically packed with color, but get this, you can fill a garden with a whole lot of drama by…

Garden Art ideas, Garden Color
 7

Vintage pumps in the garden: A gallery

A Flea Market Gardening Gallery Pump it up,...in the garden! Everyone likes an old pump in the garden, but not all know what to do with…

Garden Art ideas, Garden Junk
 17

Post a mailbox in the garden

Planting a 'mailbox' garden... Garden mailboxes you will love!  Finding a mailbox, made from durable metal and with a nostalgic shape and a handy door…

Garden Vignettes, How to: Easy project ideas
 26

A DIY vertical flower garden for Roxanne

The family that creates together... Our own Nancy K Meyer’s daughter, Roxanne Sorgenfrey saw this idea at a botanical garden and asked her dad, Ron Meyer,…

Creative Containers, How to: Easy project ideas
 23

Antique Motel chairs in the garden

Flea Market collecting: Motel chairs Whether you keep the crusty patina, or sandblast and paint, collecting 'Motel chairs' from the 1930s and 1940s to use…

Benches and chairs, Garden Color
 14

Amazing FMG Befores and Afters!

Befores and Afters,...our favorite! Everyone loves a good before and after — including us! We love getting inspired by garden makeovers like the ones below. At FMG we…

Garden Inspiration and ideas, Garden Junk
 24

Becky’s artsy craftsy garden

Becky's pink and green garden Since joining the Flea Market gardening gang, Becky's garden has gone through many changes.  In spite of many challenges, Becky…

Garden Art ideas, Garden Tours!
 21

Annie’s terrific tall trellis

Build a tall trellis, just like Annie's! We really like the design Annie Grossart-Steen created for this trellis, going vertically in the garden, too.  Two inch…

Garden Junk, How to: Easy project ideas
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