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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).
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.
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:
- [Herb Name]
- [Plant Name]
- [Your Name]’s Garden
- Backyard Garden
- Be a pineapple: Stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside.
- Bee Blessed
- Bee Crossing
- Bee Happy
- Bee Kind
- Bee Thankful
- Bee yourself
- Bee’s Welcome
- Beets Growing
- Believe
- Believe in Them
- Best Thyme
- Beware of Gnomes
- Beware the Bunnies
- Beware the Rabbits
- Beware the Snapdragons
- Big Bloomers
- Bird Café
- Bird Garden
- Birds Bathing
- Birds Welcome
- Bless my Bloomers
- Bless my Garden
- Bloom where you are planted.
- Bloom!
- Bloomers
- Botanical Masterpiece
- Bunny Crossing
- Butterfly Café
- Butterfly Crossing
- Butterfly Diner
- Butterfly Garden
- Caution: Entering the zone of blooming happiness.
- Caution: Thyme flies when you’re having rum.
- Cheaper than Therapy
- Compost at Work
- Compost Happens
- Critters Paradise
- Cucumbers get more pickles than brussels sprouts.
- Dad’s Weeds
- Dads Garden
- Dead
- Dead Plant
- Did I plant that?
- Dig in
- Dig It
- Dill with it
- Dirty Garden Hoe
- Dirty Hoe
- DIY Garden
- Don’t Step on the Weeds
- Don’t be a stranger—just compost yourself.
- Don’t be afraid to take whisks in the garden.
- Don’t kale my vibe.
- Don’t tell secrets in the garden. Potatoes Have Eyes, the corn has ears, the Beanstalk
- Don’t Worry Bee Happy
- Everybirdy Welcome
- Exotic Garden
- Exotic Herbs
- Experimental Garden
- Faith →
- Flower Garden
- Flower Plower
- Food not Lawns
- Free Weeds!
- Free Weeds! Pull your own!
- Fresh Fruit
- Fresh Produce
- Fresh Vegetables
- Frog Parking
- Frog Parking, all others will be Toad
- Garden →
- Garden Dreams
- Garden Fresh
- Garden Gnomes
- Garden Hoe
- Garden of Eden
- Garden of Eve
- Garden of Gnomes
- Garden of Love
- Garden of Weedin
- Garden of Weeds
- Garden Rebels
- Garden Shed
- Garden Therapy
- Garden Thyme
- Garden Tools
- Garden Tours
- Gardeners dig it.
- Gardeners have a hoe lotta love to give.
- Gardeners have the best bloomin’ ideas.
- Gardeners have the best dirt
- Gardeners have the best dirt, literally.
- Gardeners have the best plants.
- Gardeners know all the dirt
- Gardeners make great compost.
- Gardeners make the best friends because they know how to turnip the beet.
- Gardeners Therapist
- Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
- Gardening is my therapy.
- Gardening: Cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
- Give it a Chance
- Go Away
- God made rainy days so gardeners could get housework done
- Grab a Hoe
- Grandma’s Garden
- Grandma’s Weeds
- Grandpa’s Garden
- Grandpa’s Weeds
- Grow a Garden
- Grow a pear
- Grow Later
- Grow Laughter
- Grow!
- Grow, Dammit
- Grow, Darn It
- Growing Weeds
- Happiness is planting your booty in the garden.
- Happy Hour
- Happy Place
- Harvest Love
- Heck if I know
- Herb Garden
- Herbs
- Home Grown
- Hope →
- Hopeless
- I don’t need therapy; I just need my garden.
- I like big buds, and I cannot lie.
- I like big pots, and I cannot lie.
- I Tried
- I tried, It Died
- I Wet My Plants
- I will Survive!
- I’ve Got Worms
- If you plant it, they will come… and eat your tomatoes.
- If you’ve never weeded, you don’t know what you’re missing.
- I’m in the Garden
- I’m just here for the compost and chill.
- I’m not a control freak; I’m a garden visionary.
- I’m not a gardener. I’m a plant therapist.
- I’m not a gardener; I’m a plant manager.
- I’m not a gardener; I’m a plant whisperer.
- I’m not a hoarder; I’m a collector of garden tools.
- I’m not a morning person, but I’m willing to give the early worm a second chance.
- I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.
- I’m not addicted to gardening. I can quit anytime I want. After one more plant.
- I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-garden.
- I’m not arguing; I’m just explaining why I’m right about gardening.
- I’m not drunk; I’m in plant hydration mode.
- I’m not lazy; I’m in hibernation.
- I’m not lazy; I’m just on snail time.
- I’m not short; I’m a garden gnome.
- I’m not short; I’m just down to earth.
- I’m so busy, I don’t have time for weeds
- It’s a Compost Thing
- It’s a Dirt Thing
- It’s a Loam Thing
- It’s a Manure Thing
- It’s a Soil Thing
- Kale yeah!
- Keep calm and carrot on
- Keep calm and put your gardening gloves on.
- Ladybug Lane
- Late Bloomers
- Let it Go
- Let it Grow
- Let’s avocuddle.
- Life Began in a Garden
- Life is Better In The Garden
- Life is better with fresh herbs.
- Life is gouda in the garden.
- Life’s a Garden
- Life’s a Garden, Dig It
- Locally Grown
- Love Grows Here
- Mint to Be
- Mojitos in training
- Mom’s Weeds
- Moms Garden
- My garden isn’t dead; it’s in a state of perennial hibernation.
- My Therapist
- My Therapy
- Never Enough Thyme
- No Fishing
- No Idea
- Not dead yet
- Oh! Grow Up!
- Our Big Bloomers
- Our Bloomers
- Our Garden
- Our Pretty Bloomers
- Plant Cemetery
- Plant kisses, grow love.
- Plant lady is the new cat lady.
- Plant smiles. Grow laughter. Harvest love.
- Plants
- Potting Shed
- Potting Thyme
- Pray For Rain
- Primitive Garden
- Probably Plants
- Rabbit Crossing
- Rise Up
- Romaine Calm
- Secret Garden
- Seedy characters abound
- Signs of Thyme
- Slug Crossing
- Snail Crossing
- Snail Trail
- Snapdragons on Duty
- So Little Thyme
- So Many Weeds
- Something Green
- Sometimes I Wet My Plants
- Sow good, reap good.
- Squirrel Crossing
- Staying Alive
- Still Alive
- Talk Dirt to Me
- The Blooming Idiots
- The Dirty Hoe
- The Happy Tillers
- The Idiot Garden
- The only thing growing here is my patience
- The Rebellious Garden
- The Therapist
- The Weeds are Winning
- The Weeds Win
- Therapy
- They are Trying
- Think Outside
- Thyme flies when you’re having fun in the garden
- Thyme to Grow
- Thyme to Party
- To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow and the power of sunscreen
- Toads Welcome
- Trespassers will be composted
- Tried and Died
- Veg Patch
- Warning! Gnome on Duty
- Warning! Snapdragons
- Warning! Snapdragons on Duty
- Water you looking at?
- Weeds 4 Sale
- Weeds for Sale
- Weeds! Pick Your Own
- Welcome
- Welcome to my Garden
- Welcome to our Garden
- Wild Buds
- Wine-ding down in the garden.
- Wits End →
- Worm Crossing
- You grow girl!
- You Grow Girls!
- You’re Next
- You’re radishing my patience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Your garden sayings are very clever. I came up with one after seeing the sign your son created…
Seedy characters abound.
Thank you. I will add that one to the list 🙂