Throughout history, people have recycled building materials instead of throwing away old materials and starting from the beginning. Recycling is not a new idea, just a bit recycled. Garbage itself in this modern age is also a relatively unknown garden necessity. You can create compost made mostly of food waste that makes a great, natural fertilizer for your garden or yard. Therefore, in addition to "penny-pinchers" and people who really don't have the money for elaborate landscaping - environmentalists may be very interested in this kind of gardening.
As I said before, recycling has had to evolve along with the kinds of things we decide to throw away. We have discovered ways of recycling new materials such as technological waste and even harnessing solar energy. However, some simple, long-known recycling methods are still with us today. For example: the recycling of glass. Which is the first type of garden I will discuss: artistic gardens designed with glass pebbles. Much like actual, traditional pebble gardens, you can use small pebbles of glass to create a distinctive garden design. They can be in flat pieces, round shapes or other shapes, depending on what you want. In multiple vivid colors like a stained glass window on the ground, to translucent shades, to prism-like shapes creating streaks of colored light, or a single color to serve as part of a sort of garden motif.
Japanese gardens are beautiful, too and often use pebbles as part of the same decorative concept. Of course, the Japanese pebble garden is not, in itself unimpressive, as a matter of fact, it is quite a nice look. The pebbles are just as inexpensive, perhaps, but the allure of a Japanese garden is often enhanced by the presence of other flowers and plants. These are plants such as small bonsai trees, gardenias, and more - which are not only more expensive but also much more difficult to keep alive and healthy.
From tossed-out gnomes and religious statuettes and everything statue-like in between, people discover perfect garden accessories at low costs that require virtually no maintenance all the time! Sometimes, you don't even have to go looking for them. You can get really innovative when you re-use items from your own home! For example: let's say you are re-decorating your bathroom or kitchen and you have pieces of removed tile from the floor. You can break and piece the tiles together as a sort-of walkway, a barrier to contain a small flower bed, and more. In addition a replaced glass window may be a great idea for an outdoor or patio coffee table. Or perhaps there are even better ways . . . if you are installing a waterfall or a fountain spitter you can sometimes re-use old piping or a replaced kitchen spout to save some cash.
You can take weatherproof "art" of any kind and perhaps add an alluring, luxurious, modern or abstract (but certainly distinctive) look to your garden. Many people find the perfect accessory to best suit his or her personal taste to add to a garden in progress. People bump into these treasures everywhere, often garage sales, antique stores, or sometimes the perfect garden accessory is something he or she will design him or her self. Such gardens as these may be, despite that they are interesting, not as pleasing to the eye in the opinion of some people as they are in the opinion of others. Nonetheless, (be it your objective) it does increase the likeness of your garden to a sort of art gallery.
