Find out how to buy vintage and recycled garden. They give your garden charm and individuality. And they can save you money. Second-hand shopping is also better for the environment than buying new.
But if you can never find the second-hand or vintage items you like, then this video has professional tips on how and where to thrift shop for your gardening furniture, landscaping and pots.
00:00 Welcome to finding great thrifted, vintage and second-hand garden items
00:40 Otto Trading: https://www.ottotrading.co.uk/
01:04 Fleamarket Chic: https://amzn.to/41xgVi8 (affiliate link)
01:25 First steps in buying vintage and thrifted garden items
02:20 Get to know salvage yards, thrift shops and markets
03:53 Get ‘your eye in’ – look for vintage and upcycled gardens regularly
04:38 Rustic Cottage Garden video with Kathy Pickering: https://youtu.be/MD-lG98HwZ8
04:46 Landscaping with recycled materials.
04:57 Video on eco-friendly landscaping with Walworth Garden: https://youtu.be/5TyIR09Pgmo
05:15 Rubble ‘mulch’
06:00 It costs money to have landscaping materials taken away – look for bargains on free and exchange sites
06:35 Can you re-use what you already have?
07:20 Recycled garden edging
07:35 Recycled and vintage pots and planters
08:43 Recycled plumbing materials and tanks!
09:04 Great Comp Garden:
09:27 Garden ruins and follies video:
🌿❄️ Discover how to create a beautiful cottage garden on a budget using thrifted decor and vintage decor pieces that add character and charm! From rustic decor elements to unique garden finds, learn how to source and style second-hand treasures to enhance your outdoor space. Whether you’re decorating a patio or entire garden, these money-saving tips will help you create a personalized look. 👉 Subscribe for more gardening tips! 🌿💚
I’ve co-written several books on vintage, upcycling and thrift decorating with stylist Liz Bauwens of Otto Trading. One of them, Fleamarket Chic, has just been re-released. You can buy Fleamarket Chic here:
USA: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/flea-market-chic-liz-bauwens/1144787737?ean=9781800653849
UK and Europe:
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https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/flea-market-chic-treasure-hunting-for-stylish-homes-liz-bauwens/7642222?ean=9781800653849
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32 Comments
Excellent video, lots of inspiation! Thank you 😊
Man, slow shoping is so intimidating… But well, gardening is a slow process
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I had no idea idea you were also a writer! 😊 must get your book! Love thrifting
Looking through this video with a fine tooth comb yields a mass of ideas! So very appreciate you putting this together! Thank you ❤ Love seeing you and your beautiful dog out and about!
Thank you Alexandra💐💚. Once again a extraordinary Video with a lot of good Tips🌹🐝🦋
Thank you.
Were from England now live in Florida ,we renovated our house with recycled items and our garden too, weve used pieces of concrete pavers and built little walls around garden beds with them.Ive used pots and pans for planters ,done all youve suggested and it looks great .x
And you write books too! You are an impressive woman. Thanks for these cheery videos.
Such a great video! We are big recyclers! Last year when my neighbor built a new house, my husband got enough lumber from their dumpster to build a chicken coop. It’s a win/win; reducing their cost for dumping and ours for building. Also got some tin for the roof from another neighbor. We basically just had to buy the wire. As an aside, another neighbor throws away perfectly good plants at the end of the year, but she’s learned now to bring them to me! My greenhouse (also built from recycled lumber and windows!) is full of beautiful plants that would have been in the trash otherwise!!!
Amazing tips for the garden. thanks for inspiring us
Years ago when I was having a cement driveway removed a plantswoman friend suggested that I have it broken into boulder-sized pieces to use as edging in my yard. The workers were so pleased with the idea that they jackhammered the pieces into usable sizes with no additional charge. When turned upside down, only the base aggregate shows and absolutely no one has recognized them as driveway chops!
I buy mostly secend hand everything. I mix modern with antiques
Inspirational! Thanks.
So many great ideas! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Greetings from germany ❤
Thank you for ideas and inspiration!
Thank you for another amazing video… Such great inspiration to mimic in my small garden. ❤
Great video as always! We’re redoing our deck this year and all of the boards that are in good condition will be going to my son so that he can build a small deck at his house. What he doesn’t use will be given away. I can’t fathom the thought of throwing perfectly good lumber away. I have an old coal pail and some ceramic crocks (the kind that people used to make beans or pickles in) that I use as planters. I also have a couple of teapots that were chipped or had crooked spouts and I plant them with herbs or pansies! Have a lovely weekend!🇨🇦
I once scored a beautiful arched wooden headboard at a garage sale for $5 . I made a lovely garden bench and painted it white which was the finishing touch! I absolutely love scavenging for potential garden decor. 😍 The freer the better.
so many great ideas in the photos, thanks
I really want your book! It looks so charming! 😊
As a plant addict, I used to think that it was all about landscape, trees and plants – little sculptures and artefacts didn’t matter! How wrong I was!!! The more gardens I visited that featured little quirky things, the more I realised they enhanced the plants and the space! Now I have loads of crazy things, some perhaps not everyone’s taste (giant metal spiders, skulls, angels for example) but you have to treat shopping for unique items as fun in the hunting itself. You can go a long time and not find anything then suddenly you spot an amazing gem. I’ve also repurposed some of my grandfather’s old farm tools as plant supports – things like scythes, old pitchforks etc.
I’ve lots of old stone from the rebuilding of my garden wall that collapsed last year. I’m thinking of doing a folly, but it would have to be quite small, I need to find a reclaimed little Gothic window from somewhere I think🤔
When you cannot find what you want , maybe try and find inspiration in what IS on offer. Think of what you could do with an object you have or see.
Dear Alexandra i couldnt help noticing the wall behind you has a rather bad crack in it. I hope its safe because i wouldnt like anything to happen to you. Xx
Thanks so much! You got my gardening juices flowing even though we are still waist-deep in the white stuff with more falling from the sky in 60kmh winds. Blessings to all from Quebec, Canada. 🙂
I love thrift stores ,my whole house is full of used items from thrift stores, including many garden items, that way I have more money to spend on plants!
Lots of great ideas! I absolutely love repurposing household items and tucking them around my garden. My husband does not always see this in the same way and needs "gentle" convincing that I indeed meant to plant my geraniums in an old magazine stand! ☺
Thanks Alexandra for another informative video. We had a very rusty old metal garden swing seat and I saved the sprung seat base. I shall use it as a climbing support attached to our fence for a clematis.
i lie this ideas so much. nice video. thank you. i have a garden, but i am so unhappy with it. I miss a concept in my garden, but I do not know how to do.
I'm excited to learn about your collaborative books, Alexandra! You are always so practical, so this makes loads of sense. I've found bits of tile and old dishes in my soil, and set them aside for a future project. I've collected bricks and pink cement pavers from friends and neighbors. The odd plant hook or stand sometimes pops up on trash day. The two most interesting containers I have are what I believe is the ceramic bottom of a dumbek drum, and the other, the 7.5 gallon tank from my house's original 1931 toilet (1.5 gallon is now standard here in Southern California after decades of drought). Years ago a friend and I were out for a walk (about a mile from my house), and we found a curved solid redwood bench sticking out of a dumpster. We carried it back to my house, though it got heavier with each block, lol.
Great ideas,!
Such generous distillation. And global.
Bravo! That looks like such a great book. So impressed with your site.