11 excellent examples of recycling to give a magical touch to your garden by furnishing it with antique objects

It is not always easy to put integrate some antique object in a harmonious way with the rest of the home's furnishings, but when it comes to the garden, it is much easier: many old items - even if rusty or marked by time - can come back to life with the help of plants and flowers, combined together in artistic ways and exuding an irresistible, rustic flavor.

Mirrors, buckets, watering cans and other metal objects - as well as old furniture that is no longer wanted in the home - , can be used to make the garden a wonderful and enchanted place. Take inspiration from the creative recycling ideas to decorate your garden that are listed below:

Old, rusty, heavy wheelbarrows are objects that are not worth restoring, but it would be a pity not to use them as planters: they are perfect for this purpose!

Galvanized metal basins and watering cans can create artistic compositions that can be used in any garden - perhaps to decorate boring, bland corners.

Here is a chain made up of a number of kettles in a casade, which conveys water into a large cup-shaped vase at the bottom: it is a real work of art, produced by creative recycling!

If you have walls which are protected from the rain (and other sources of humidity), you can hang up old door fittings on it and then attach dry bunches of flowers or aromatic herbs to the door fittings.

Any sturdy wooden box or crate can be equipped with hairpin, metal legs (which are very popular in contemporary design these days), and will become a unique planter.

Alternatively, old cast iron sewing machines can be recycled to serve as a base for tables (and many other pieces other garden furniture)!

Here, a large, metal wagon wheel is used as a pedestal on which to attach a tray for birds to bathe in: beautiful and useful.

An inverted lampshade frame supports an enameled metal bowl, and here you have a planter for succulent plants, or perhaps even bulbs.

An antique pulley (block and tackle) with two metal buckets: a unique hanging planter you can emulate.

Make your garden more magical and mysterious: surprise visitors with an antique mirror hidden in the foliage of some plant or shrub!

Old beds, cribs (cots), sofas and more: antique furniture, even if reduced to just their frames, can become pieces of garden furniture!

Would you like to decorate your garden with vintage / antique objects?