How to Make A Garden Art Dish Flower (2024)

It’s so easy to make a beautifulgarden dish flower for your garden.

The most difficult part is finding the pieces, andI find everything I useat thrift stores, garage sales etc.This way it’s also very inexpensive.

Once you have some pieces that you’d like putting your dish flower together is pretty straight forward.

My supplies included:

Miscellaneous thrift store dishes
Marine Goop Adhesive
Painter’s Tape
Stainless Steel spoon
Pipe

How to Make a Garden Art Dish Flower

For this dishflower I’m using a vintage 9″ silver plate tray bottom from a tiered stand, a large but low glass bowl, a blue decorative bowl, and a flower shaped candle holder.

I put it together insidebecause it was way too hot outside.

First the glass bowl gets glued on.

The reason I use a silver plate piece as the back is that it adds shimmer and it also helps keep the whole flower from breaking if it ever fallsover in the wind.

Plus I love the combo of glass and silver plate pieces. They seem to make each other sparkle.

Always apply the glue to the raised parts of the bottom ofeach piece or they won’t adherewell if at all.

Hopefullyyou can see in this pic that the glue is applied to the raised outside edge of the bottom.

Once each piece is down just wiggleit in place a bit to makesure there’s a good connection between the pieces.

The candle holder also had raised parts on its bottomso that is where the glue was applied.

And again wiggle a bit once put in place.

Here’s the glue I usedMarine GOOP adhesive. It’s used in boat repair and is UV and water resistant. I’ve heard that E6000 works well also, but I’ve never used it foroutdoor projects.

Once the dish flower is all togetherI head to my stash to see what I can add for the centre, which often makes the whole flower. This is one of my many storagecontainers of thrifted bling.

Who doesn’t love a little bling? 🙂

Tape all the pieces with painters tape for about 30 minutes so they don’t move. Believe me that can happen.

Remove the tape, and let your dish flowercure for about 24 hours in a cool place. This is important,the glue won’t cure properly in hot and/or humid conditions.

Stainless steel tablespoons work well for hanging.

I find themfor 10 cents each at my local thrift store. Thespoonshould be flattened with a regular hammer and then bentlike above.

Thenit’sglued to the back of the dishflower. Decide where the top of you dish flower will be at the front and gluethe spoon accordingly on the back.

Tape the spoon in place and let itcure for about 24 hours. It needs to be fully cured before you place it into the pipe to display in the garden.

Before you glue the spoon make sure the end is not too wide for whatever pipe you’re going to use.I use 1/2″ or 3/4″ copper pipe, but any pipe you have around will work. Just make sure your spoon handle will fit.

Once your dish flower is cured place the spoon into thepipe, which should beinserted into the ground about 10-12″ to give it strength on windy days.

For the centre I used a blue irredescent cufflink.

When picking pieces for your dish flowers take into account what it will look like from the sides.

Dish flowers make great gifts because if you’ve thrifted your items each flower is one of a kind, and theno watering required! 🙂

And just to show you that the possibilities are really endless, here are a few examples of others I’ve made.

Garden Art Plate and Dish Flowers

These flowers were made exactly the same way. It’s just the pieces used to create them that were different.

If you have cold and snowy winters dish flowers should be safely stored out of the elements to keep themlooking good. And please know that the silver plate pieces will age, but to me that just adds to the overall beauty of each flower.

Now that you see how easy it isI hope you’ll make one to decorate your own garden.

By making a smaller version you can create a garden plate flower wind chime like mine pictured above.

Also, check out how I made these steamer strainer flowers.

Don’t forget to pin it!

Here are some other garden art flower projects I think you might enjoy.

Thanks so much for reading, and until next time…

keep on keepin’ on!

XOX

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