Pretty Vintage Garden Vignette Ideas

How to style a pretty garden vignette with vintage finds in 5 easy steps. Tips to guide your decorating for vintage garden style.

5 Steps to a Pretty Garden Vignette pin.

Spring gardening season is my favorite time of year! After a long winter’s nap, I’m ready to embrace everything garden-themed and get planting; give me all the flowers! Our frost date isn’t until May 15, so this Pretty Vintage Garden Vignette Ideas post was a great way to get started while I’m waiting.

Today I’ve joined my Design Challenge friends, organized by Cindy at County Road 407. Cindy chooses an inspirational pic and we all design around it; one photo, lots of ideas! If you’re visiting from French Ethereal, I’m sure you enjoyed Barb’s Spring Porch refresh. I’ll have the rest of the inspirational posts at the end; enjoy!

Inspiration Image

Today’s inspiration image comes from our friend Debra at Common Ground. Our theme this month is “Decorating with Plants” and Debra styled a pretty vignette on her porch. I always love to see how Debra decorates with her amazing collection of vintage finds! If you’re a vintage lover like me, be sure to check out her blog!

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Pink flowers and ivy on scrolly white iron chair garden vignette.

Design Cues:

Scrolly white anchor piece
Painted tray in background-gold and white
Pink themed flowers
Trailing ivy
Numerous planted pots
Board and batten backdrop

This was a fun one to design around! Think you’ll definitely see many of these elements designed and styled with my own vintage vibe. Here are 5 steps to a pretty garden vignette.

Pretty Vintage Garden Vignette Ideas

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Pattern Play: Choose a Decorative Backdrop

I love the idea of using a decorated tray outside on the porch. It’s like artwork that anchors and inspires your vignette. Last year I styled my porch cabinet with floral tins, and it was like a garden bursting with colors (“Tips for Styling a Stunning Vintage Floral Tins Display”.

I recently picked up a pretty gold with white flowers vintage tray at the antique store where I now have a booth. Yep-very dangerous for me to be there often;) Kind of like when you drop things off at the thrift…and then rationalize to go in and “just check”?

Upcycled vintage stove shelf garden vignette.

This gold tray with the trailing white flowers and decorative edge was the perfect foundation and backdrop for my vignette. I placed it on my upcycled vintage stove shelf with the fencing edge. It hangs on our porch, which happens to have board and batten siding; perfect!

Shop vintage floral trays HERE.

Gather a Variety of Garden Accessories

Next you’ll want to gather a variety of garden-themed accessories. I happily had just picked up this scrolly metal planter when I was curbside junking (“Curbside Junking Finds”). I also grabbed an old watering can and a couple of clay pots.

Scrolly white iron planter with lavender.

Lavender topiary, old watering can as vintage garden shelf display.

As you’re styling, be sure to place the heavier/larger items at the base of your vignette. You’ll notice the pyramid shape my display creates, with the larger pieces on the bottom and smaller items up top.

Include a Wide Variety of Textures

I’m a texture girl and think the wider variety of textures you add, the more interesting your vignette will be. Notice the shelves are wood, there are different metal elements, and clay pots add even more interest. Chippy painted pots and chippy shutters add that vintage vibe I love.

When you’re creating your vignette, think through all the textures you’re using and what more you could add.

Vintage garden shelf display with rosemary topiary.

Create a Color Scheme

Your vignette will look more cohesive if you choose a color scheme. Here in the north, lavender is the perfect color of Spring-think lilacs;) I picked up these charming lavender topiaries at Trader Joe’s. Love the English cottage vibe of topiaries. Pansies are a great cold-weather flower to start out the season. And the fragrance of the alyssum is so sweet!

I’ll be planting them in pots for the porch, but for now, I just plunked them here and there; this is a getting started in the garden vignette;)

Upcycled vintage stove shelf with gardening theme display.

Add Vintage Garden Tools as Decor

Vintage garden tools are the final cherry on top of this cute vignette. I tuck old sprinklers here and there (“Repurposed Junk: Sprinkler Art”). Old shovels, weed pullers and cultivators can stick out of the dirt. See “10 Easy Ways to Decorate with Vintage Garden Tools” for more ideas.

Shop vintage garden tools HERE.

Vintage garden vignette with purple flowers and old watering can.

Creating a garden vignette on your porch or somewhere in your yard is a fun way to decorate with flowers and your favorite vintage finds. You can easily pull it together with these 5 tips.

Continue this month’s Design Challenge by visiting A Life Unfolding. You’ll love Libby’s creative ideas for decorating with flowers.

Enjoy more of our Design Challenge series through the seasons HERE.

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