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160+ Sayings for Garden Signs

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One of the fun things about gardens, other than the satisfaction of growing your own plants if you can get them to grow, is that you can decorate the heck out of them if you want. There are many different objects you can put in your garden to make it more entertaining, like bottle trees, solar lights, gnomes, mushrooms, various concrete statues, birdbaths, and so on.

But one thing that adds more character to the garden are signs. They express your personality, whether funny, crude, or if you are just someone normal (whatever normal is).

This is our daughters sign she has in her garden.

Signs are seen everywhere…in the house, garages and workshops, near the pool, game rooms…you name it, there is some kind of sign with a saying on it.

People like signs. Sometimes they make people chuckle. Sometimes it just gives people something to read and keep entertained for a short bit. They can be conversation starters.

This is an unfinished sign that I believe we still haven’t done anything with yet.

Sign Sayings

If you are wanting to make a garden sign but having a hard time coming up with what saying to put on it, maybe this list will help:

  1. [Herb Name]
  2. [Plant Name]
  3. [Your Name]’s Garden
  4. Backyard Garden
  5. Be a pineapple: Stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside.
  6. Bee Blessed
  7. Bee Crossing
  8. Bee Happy
  9. Bee Kind
  10. Bee Thankful
  11. Bee yourself
  12. Bee’s Welcome
  13. Beets Growing
  14. Believe
  15. Believe in Them
  16. Best Thyme
  17. Beware of Gnomes
  18. Beware the Bunnies
  19. Beware the Rabbits
  20. Beware the Snapdragons
  21. Big Bloomers
  22. Bird Café
  23. Bird Garden
  24. Birds Bathing
  25. Birds Welcome
  26. Bless my Bloomers
  27. Bless my Garden
  28. Bloom where you are planted.
  29. Bloom!
  30. Bloomers
  31. Botanical Masterpiece
  32. Bunny Crossing
  33. Butterfly Café
  34. Butterfly Crossing
  35. Butterfly Diner
  36. Butterfly Garden
  37. Caution: Entering the zone of blooming happiness.
  38. Caution: Thyme flies when you’re having rum.
  39. Cheaper than Therapy
  40. Compost at Work
  41. Compost Happens
  42. Critters Paradise
  43. Cucumbers get more pickles than brussels sprouts.
  44. Dad’s Weeds
  45. Dads Garden
  46. Dead
  47. Dead Plant
  48. Did I plant that?
  49. Dig in
  50. Dig It
  51. Dill with it
  52. Dirty Garden Hoe
  53. Dirty Hoe
  54. DIY Garden
  55. Don’t Step on the Weeds
  56. Don’t be a stranger—just compost yourself.
  57. Don’t be afraid to take whisks in the garden.
  58. Don’t kale my vibe.
  59. Don’t tell secrets in the garden. Potatoes Have Eyes, the corn has ears, the Beanstalk
  60. Don’t Worry Bee Happy
  61. Everybirdy Welcome
  62. Exotic Garden
  63. Exotic Herbs
  64. Experimental Garden
  65. Faith →
  66. Flower Garden
  67. Flower Plower
  68. Food not Lawns
  69. Free Weeds!
  70. Free Weeds! Pull your own!
  71. Fresh Fruit
  72. Fresh Produce
  73. Fresh Vegetables
  74. Frog Parking
  75. Frog Parking, all others will be Toad
  76. Garden →
  77. Garden Dreams
  78. Garden Fresh
  79. Garden Gnomes
  80. Garden Hoe
  81. Garden of Eden
  82. Garden of Eve
  83. Garden of Gnomes
  84. Garden of Love
  85. Garden of Weedin
  86. Garden of Weeds
  87. Garden Rebels
  88. Garden Shed
  89. Garden Therapy
  90. Garden Thyme
  91. Garden Tools
  92. Garden Tours
  93. Gardeners dig it.
  94. Gardeners have a hoe lotta love to give.
  95. Gardeners have the best bloomin’ ideas.
  96. Gardeners have the best dirt
  97. Gardeners have the best dirt, literally.
  98. Gardeners have the best plants.
  99. Gardeners know all the dirt
  100. Gardeners make great compost.
  101. Gardeners make the best friends because they know how to turnip the beet.
  102. Gardeners Therapist
  103. Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
  104. Gardening is my therapy.
  105. Gardening: Cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
  106. Give it a Chance
  107. Go Away
  108. God made rainy days so gardeners could get housework done
  109. Grab a Hoe
  110. Grandma’s Garden
  111. Grandma’s Weeds
  112. Grandpa’s Garden
  113. Grandpa’s Weeds
  114. Grow a Garden
  115. Grow a pear
  116. Grow Later
  117. Grow Laughter
  118. Grow!
  119. Grow, Dammit
  120. Grow, Darn It
  121. Growing Weeds
  122. Happiness is planting your booty in the garden.
  123. Happy Hour
  124. Happy Place
  125. Harvest Love
  126. Heck if I know
  127. Herb Garden
  128. Herbs
  129. Home Grown
  130. Hope →
  131. Hopeless
  132. I don’t need therapy; I just need my garden.
  133. I like big buds, and I cannot lie.
  134. I like big pots, and I cannot lie.
  135. I Tried
  136. I tried, It Died
  137. I Wet My Plants
  138. I will Survive!
  139. I’ve Got Worms
  140. If you plant it, they will come… and eat your tomatoes.
  141. If you’ve never weeded, you don’t know what you’re missing.
  142. I’m in the Garden
  143. I’m just here for the compost and chill.
  144. I’m not a control freak; I’m a garden visionary.
  145. I’m not a gardener. I’m a plant therapist.
  146. I’m not a gardener; I’m a plant manager.
  147. I’m not a gardener; I’m a plant whisperer.
  148. I’m not a hoarder; I’m a collector of garden tools.
  149. I’m not a morning person, but I’m willing to give the early worm a second chance.
  150. I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.
  151. I’m not addicted to gardening. I can quit anytime I want. After one more plant.
  152. I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-garden.
  153. I’m not arguing; I’m just explaining why I’m right about gardening.
  154. I’m not drunk; I’m in plant hydration mode.
  155. I’m not lazy; I’m in hibernation.
  156. I’m not lazy; I’m just on snail time.
  157. I’m not short; I’m a garden gnome.
  158. I’m not short; I’m just down to earth.
  159. I’m so busy, I don’t have time for weeds
  160. It’s a Compost Thing
  161. It’s a Dirt Thing
  162. It’s a Loam Thing
  163. It’s a Manure Thing
  164. It’s a Soil Thing
  165. Kale yeah!
  166. Keep calm and carrot on
  167. Keep calm and put your gardening gloves on.
  168. Ladybug Lane
  169. Late Bloomers
  170. Let it Go
  171. Let it Grow
  172. Let’s avocuddle.
  173. Life Began in a Garden
  174. Life is Better In The Garden
  175. Life is better with fresh herbs.
  176. Life is gouda in the garden.
  177. Life’s a Garden
  178. Life’s a Garden, Dig It
  179. Locally Grown
  180. Love Grows Here
  181. Mint to Be
  182. Mojitos in training
  183. Mom’s Weeds
  184. Moms Garden
  185. My garden isn’t dead; it’s in a state of perennial hibernation.
  186. My Therapist
  187. My Therapy
  188. Never Enough Thyme
  189. No Fishing
  190. No Idea
  191. Not dead yet
  192. Oh! Grow Up!
  193. Our Big Bloomers
  194. Our Bloomers
  195. Our Garden
  196. Our Pretty Bloomers
  197. Plant Cemetery
  198. Plant kisses, grow love.
  199. Plant lady is the new cat lady.
  200. Plant smiles. Grow laughter. Harvest love.
  201. Plants
  202. Plants make me happy
  203. Potting Shed
  204. Potting Thyme
  205. Pray For Rain
  206. Primitive Garden
  207. Probably Plants
  208. Rabbit Crossing
  209. Rise Up
  210. Romaine Calm
  211. Secret Garden
  212. Seedy characters abound
  213. Signs of Thyme
  214. Slug Crossing
  215. Snail Crossing
  216. Snail Trail
  217. Snapdragons on Duty
  218. So Little Thyme
  219. So Many Weeds
  220. Something Green
  221. Sometimes I Wet My Plants
  222. Sow good, reap good.
  223. Squirrel Crossing
  224. Staying Alive
  225. Still Alive
  226. Talk Dirt to Me
  227. The Blooming Idiots
  228. The Dirty Hoe
  229. The Happy Tillers
  230. The Idiot Garden
  231. The only thing growing here is my patience
  232. The Rebellious Garden
  233. The Therapist
  234. The Weeds are Winning
  235. The Weeds Win
  236. Therapy
  237. They are Trying
  238. Think Outside
  239. Thyme flies when you’re having fun in the garden
  240. Thyme to Grow
  241. Thyme to Party
  242. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow and the power of sunscreen
  243. Toads Welcome
  244. Trespassers will be composted
  245. Tried and Died
  246. Veg Patch
  247. Warning! Gnome on Duty
  248. Warning! Snapdragons
  249. Warning! Snapdragons on Duty
  250. Water you looking at?
  251. Weeds 4 Sale
  252. Weeds for Sale
  253. Weeds! Pick Your Own
  254. Welcome
  255. Welcome to my Garden
  256. Welcome to our Garden
  257. Wild Buds
  258. Wine-ding down in the garden.
  259. Wits End →
  260. Worm Crossing
  261. You grow girl!
  262. You Grow Girls!
  263. You’re Next
  264. You’re radishing my patience.
This is a sign our son came up with and painted after I routered it out for him.

If you know of other sign sayings that would be appropriate for the garden, put it in the comments in this post below. If it is a good one, I will add it to the list above for all to read.

Not necessarily a garden sign, but one our daughter painted a few years ago.

You can make signs yourself without any special tools. Find a wood board, or metal pan…anything…and paint the saying on it. I have seen sayings painted on old windows…just use your imagination.

Another unfinished sign that needs painted.

The signs pictured on this page were 1″x6″ pine boards I had left over from a recent project. I used a plunge router and free-handed the routing. You don’t have to use a router to make them look cool. A simple paint brush and some imagination can go a long way.

Our four 4 year old and eight year old kids painted the signs shown here. They used outdoor craft paint so they last a little longer outside.

A sign our son made.

So, add some character to your garden and start making yourself some signs!

Routered Signs with a Jig

If you want to make them a little fancier, you can use a router sign making kit. This really makes things easy and the signs clean. Sometimes the freehand work is a bit tough to make them look good if you don’t have a steady hand. Heck, look at mine on this page! Not quite the greatest, but they are fun to make!

The router kit I use is the Milescraft 1212 SignPro (paid link). It comes with letters and numbers in two different sizes. It is super easy to use and set up. I bought this kit probably ten years ago, maybe longer, and it is still a great kit to use. Today, I was curious if this kit was still available and I was surprised to see it was. You can get it on Amazon; what a surprise!

We have a few signs I made with this kit throughout the house. They aren’t garden related, so I did not include photos of them on this page.

This kit does not come with a router…you will need one to use with this kit. A plunge router would be your best option if you could choose. If not, you could manage with a standard router, just take extra precaution not to route the template and turn off the router before you lift it to go to the next letter.

Sign Making with a Laser Engraver

2024 Update…

At the end of 2023 we jumped into the laser cutting/engraving hobby. We bought the XTool D1 Pro with the rotary attachment and air assist. I am still learning how to use the thing but I like what it does so far (Keep an eye out for other projects made with the laser that are not garden signs).

Here are some basic designs I came up with. The images of the rose and plants came with the XTool Creative Space software and made for some quick test engravings.

This sign is mounted to our raised garden bed.
Engraved on oak.
I don’t know what this wood is, but it was some scrap wood I had laying around.
Some people say that engraving on bamboo is a challenge. Maybe it is, but this worked out on my first try. I used a preset setting in the XTool Creative Space and it worked out pretty good. I made this design in Inkscape, which is another software I am learning and it is free.

Conclusion

If you know of other sign sayings that would be appropriate for the garden, put it in the comments in this post below. If it is a good one, I will add it to the list above for all to read and enjoy. As you can see from the title and the long list, the list keeps growing as I find more sayings. The title probably should have been something more along the lines of “Many Sayings for Garden Signs” or “Garden Sign Ideas”. Oh well! It is what it is.

So, please help this list grow and comment below your ideas for new sayings!


Rick Simper has various hobbies, including woodworking, metalworking, composting, and gardening. He is an Architect full time and uses these hobbies to get away from the busy week of Architecture.


4 thoughts on “160+ Sayings for Garden Signs”

  1. After years of dreaming of my own potting shed, it’s finally a reality! Looking for sign ideas at your list it gave me the idea for mine. I think I’ll call it “ Potting Thyme”! Maybe you like it as well and add it to your list! Now I need to get creative & paint my sign!

    1. That’s a fantastic idea! “Potting Thyme” is a charming name for your potting shed. I’ll definitely add it to the list. I’m glad the list helped. Enjoy getting creative with your sign!

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