How to Style Your Garden with Antiques

A collection of everyday garden objects, from antique French watering cans to antique clay seedling pots brings the spirit of the garden to your gardens, and adds personality to your home. Collections tell a story, your story! As an antique dealer married to a true gardener {John, my Dutch husband has gardening in his blood, his father had amazing gardens in Holland} I love all things from the garden. Garden antiques are becoming more popular, and also more rare to find. I am sharing a few of my very favorites that I display on our potting bench in the back yard. Yesterday we had stylist Sunday Hendrickson in our garden for a magazine photo shoot. Together with photographer Mark Lohman they made magical things happen in our front and back garden. After they left, early this morning, I set up my potting bench again the way it is in "every day life" here. I rearrange a few of my favorite gardening antiques on a regular basis, it's so easy to style a potting bench, table, or shelf in the garden with antiques. You can create little environments in your garden, a little corner filled with history, one-of-a-kind pots, zinc pieces and tools to capture your imagination! Gardening antiques have personality, and are a little quirky. They bring that "not too serious" touch to liven up any environment! I love this antique cement swan, sometimes she is in the house, but in nice weather I think she is happiest with the flowers. Antique wood crates from France {or anywhere else} look wonderful in the garden. Use them for display, I keep my antique clay pots in ours. But they are great to display herb plants, tools, or to carry fruit and vegetables to the kitchen, too. This antique little shovel is one of our favorites, it has a "dibber" on the back, isn't that so handy? {dibber= a tool to make an indentation in the soil to plant a seed in} Come back next post, I'll share my personal "Best Seller" List of Gardening Antiques.. six garden collectables that are great to collect! Shop for the best in French Antiques, furniture with the patina of age, vintage accessories to delight you and your family & friends, and French Country utilitarian pieces. Treasures that make your home fresh, beautiful, inspirational and uniquely yours. Visit our shop FrenchGardenHouse.com.