18 Unbelievable Old Car Garden Art Ideas

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Don’t let cars from junkyard go to waste and use them in creative ways using these Old Car Garden Art ideas and transform your space!

You can pick retro cars from the junkyard and use them in creative ways! We have some exclusive Old Car Garden Art ideas that’ll help you enhance the curb appeal of your yard!


1. A Retro Car Bouquet

Old Car Garden Art

Get an old station wagon from a salvage yard and utilize it in your garden by placing painted stones around it. You can also grow flowering plants like marigold to complete the look!

2. Blossoms on Wheels

An old pickup truck used to hold flower pots. A great focal point idea!

Check out our article on colorful houseplants here

3. Retro Flower Car Cart

Can you come up with something like this? A retro flower car cart?

4. A Flower-Full Mercedes

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You can easily get aged and worn out Mercedes at a throwaway price that you can use to decorate with colorful flowers like in this image!

5. Vintage Car Garden Art

Restoring a vintage car into a green bed, it’s a ridiculous and unique idea, making it one of the most interesting Old Car Garden Art!

6. A ‘Trucking Abode’

Get a truck from a junkyard and fix a wooden bench and plastic umbrella over it. Add some wired sculptures to make one of the best sitting places in your garden.

7. A Flowery Beetle

Whether it’s discontinued classic beetle car or any other vintage gem that’s of no use and without the engine, you can use it to grow flowers on it.

8. A Car in Fairyland

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If they’ve got a car in fairyland, it would definitely look like this!

9. Cargo Flower Bed

Utilize the cargo bed of an old pickup to grow flowers. Trailing plants are best for this purpose!

10. A Car Vase

Paint abstract art on the bodywork of a roof-less car and fill it with annuals to have a car that looks more like a car-vase!

11. Rustic Mini Forest

Classic Old Car Garden Art you can useOne of the most artistic ways to repurpose your rustic truck is by growing vibrant and cheerful flowering and foliage plants around it. This sure is one amazing Old Car Garden Art!

12. A Spilling Flower Pickup

Do you know our viral spilling flower pot idea? This time it’s different–Spilling Flower Pickup.

13. Man’s Vegetable Garden

Turn your old Chevrolet into a kitchen garden like no one ever did to grow your vegetables and herbs in a manly way.

14. Sloping Truck Flower BedSome of the best Old Car Garden Art for your yard

Salvaged a mini truck and wonder how to put it to good use? Use its wooden bed in a sloping way to grow colorful flowers.

15. Raised Garden Bed Truck

How about using a wrecked truck as a raised garden bed to grow your favorite plants!

16. Antique Car Waterfall

Install a water pump into the cabin of a junk truck and transform it into a mini waterfall from the window. Grow plants that suit the look.

17. Canary Yellow Truckbed

Don’t forget about the combination, grow flowers of contrasting colors for the bold look.

18. Vines by the Hood

Amazing and interesting Old Car Garden Art ideas

To copy this idea, grow vines in the engine bay and raise the hood. Plants cascading down will look great.

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