30+ Garden Projects using Sticks & Twigs
Creative garden features you can DIY for free
You can spend a fortune kitting out your garden with edging, artwork, plant supports, and other garden features. Fortunately, there’s a lot of projects that you can DIY. Better yet, you can do-it-yourself with free materials like sticks and branches.
When you’re next pruning your trees, bushes, grapevines, or raspberry canes, set the pieces aside for some of these projects. If you have willow growing on your land even better since it can be used to create all sorts of attractive and useful features for the garden.
Techniques
Each of the projects below has a link to their source and many include instructions on how to recreate them. If in doubt, consider making a project using your own method. Some common techniques for these garden projects include:
- Traditional Wattle weaving – here’s how including a video
- You can make many newly cut sticks more bendy by soaking them in water
- Binding with garden string
- Gluing together with wood glue
- Nailing or screwing pieces together. Make sure to use nails that won’t rust unless you want that effect.
- For even more garden ideas, check out the Gardening DIY & Upcycling Pinterest Board
susan albright lifestyle design
Obelisk made with Sticks & Branches
Instructables
Natural Wood Raised Garden Bed
Amazon
Empress of Dirt
Martha Stewart
Garden Photo Stream
Rambling Round
Nathalie Pasquel
Forgotten Way Farms
dengarden
Country Living
Grit
Isas Trädgård
Garden Gate Magazine
Apartment Therapy
Instructables
blomsterverkstad
Empress of Dirt
Better Homes & Gardens
Karma per Diem
Houzz
Hearth & Vine
A Garden by Design
Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement
Telegraph Gardening
This Old House
DIY Diamond Patterned Twig Lattice
Better Homes & Gardens
Indeed Decor
Question. I have some (many) Willow branches that I saved from a Willow I used to have. I know that these branches sometimes root when they are stuck in the ground. If my branches are 5 or 6 years old do you think I might be safe from “accidental propagation”?
You are safe! They might not be as bendy as they were when fresh but are excellent for supports and projects that they don’t need to be bent for.
This is one of the magical things I have ever seen!