like: love blooms here
share some of yours
thanks debby

Plant seeds of love (Make it cute with a heart on it)
Perch long~chirp much~sing often (Sort of for the birds)
Join us for a bucket of fun (Good for vegetable garden or orchard)
Peace & Plenty (Again for a garden or orchard)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Take time to smell the flowers
To everything there is a season
Make room in your garden for the angels to dance

That's all I can come up with for now.

Luvs

Annuals. Live fast die young!

Let's get potted.

Free Weeds. U-pull.

~~Mimi

I love the perch long,chirp much, sing often!

OOooooh nooooo... I feel another craft project calling me...

mj

--Zucchini’s terrific...
Like bunnies, prolific!

--Time began in a garden
--Nothing bugs me in my garden
--Welcome to my garden
--I'm in the garden
--Out back weedin'
--Kissed by the sun
--Fairies dance here
--Die weeds die
--Snail crossing
--Please grow!

hugs, Karen

Gardener wanted! Must look good bending over.
Gardening-just another day at the plant.
Never enough thyme
When heaven falls to Earth, it becomes a Garden.
Compost....because a rind is a terrible thing to waste
Between these weeds, flowers grow
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Born to garden-- forced to work.

"Roses are Red, Violets are blue,
This garden won't weed itself, So get to it...
...Okay, so I was never good at poetry"

Some others:
Grow Dammit!!
I tried but it died"
I make dirt look good
We're bloomin' crazy
A tomato in the hand is worth two on the bush

Flower
from the Latin flor- meaning "that which I cannot grow"

Now Entering The Seedy Part of Town (I claim credit for the last few lol)

Danielle

I have it all planned...how and where...just not when I'll get it done!

~Sandy~

Mimi, love the "annuals~live fast, die young!" Two Months, I can relate to the "the thing I grow most in my garden is TIRED" one. ;o) And Regine, your "between these weeds~flowers grow is one I have to do, it fits my flower beds perfectly.

Mojo, here's a pic of my sign. I think it would be good on a pole with a birdhouse too.

Glad you started this post Debby. ;o)

Luvs

~Sandy~

~Sandy~

How about:

This is your last chance to Bloom!
Birds Bathing (for by a birdbath).
Love Blooms Here.
Hand Over The Nuts (and a squirrel with acorns is painted on the sign).

I proudly have the last one in a pot by my front door. It's mostly for my family becasue we are all NUTS!

Love, Jules

Happy Stuffing Day!
Ms. Faith

Mary, Mary, quite contrary...how does your garden grow
"welcome to my garden...now bend over and pull a weed"

And I just found this good link with lots more....

One entry was:
Don't kiss by the garden gate. Love may be blind, but the neighbor's ain't !!

Ah ---to be so innocent in these days.

Gotta go check the site Adina found for us. This is fun.

Luvs

I Tried, It Died!

and

Planting a Garden Means You Believe in Tomorrow!

Cute shirt there Linda, made me laugh like heck!!!

Sal

This has been fun trying to think of something apropriate for a sign that hasn't already been mentioned. Sometimes just a simple "Welcome to my Garden" or "Secret Garden" or Garden of Earthly Delights" in another language can be fun.

Or, WHAT WEEDS?

And my house is STILL in need of a good clean! ;-)
Cait

"When in my garden time slows to a snails pace"
it is nailed to the post at an angle, she made a snail that is mounted on the top of sign (also at an angle)

When I first got into gardening , Mom painted me a sign that says "Garden of Weeden"

Stop and smell the roses

A garden is a friend you can visit anytime

I believe in miracles

Friends Welcome Relatives By Appointment Only

Miracles happen

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

I have but one sign in my yard and it reads:

Husband and dogs missing
Reward for dogs

In the house I have two that read:

No coffee
No workee

I only have a kitchen because
it came with the house

Edna

Goldenpond... um, it may mean (Or have meant?? The English language changes so quickly) that in the UK where the 'bugger' word originated but down in Ozzyland it does not have that meaning. You've been misinformed.

Remember that Johnny Depp movie, Donnie Brosco, where he explains all the uses for 'fugetaboutit' ('forget about it' to those who don't speak New York - incidently, I've used fugetaboutit in every way he explained!), bugger has several meanings - in the sign, 'Bugger the housework...' it basically saying 'Fugetaboutit!' You can also say 'bugger this', which would also mean forget about it or 'I'll deal with this later'.

Here's all the terms I could find for 'bugger':
bugger - general term for any person
bugger around - waste time
bugger me dead - exclamation of amazement
bugger off - go away!
bugger up - ruin; spoil
bugger all - nothing
buggered - broken; very tired
buggered if I know - haven't got a clue
buggered up - ruined; broken
buggerise around - waste time
buggerlugs - affectionate term used to mildly annoy somebody
buggery - a far away place

As you can see, not ONE refers to that word. I've never heard anyone substitute bugger for the 'F' word. Sorry if what I wrote is OT but I don't want anyone thinking I'd display anything with that connotation on this forum.
Cait

'Bugger off' means get lost
'What a bugger' means driving me crazy or what a nut

Well, you guys have certainly set my winter projects. Now I have to make a bunch of signs to put up throughout my garden. Since I have gotten into gardening for butterflies, I wonder if they can read the signs and appreciate the humor??????

Ms. Faith

When I started creating my Our Lady Gardyn I knew I would want some signs in it and will eventually get around to making some. I like these two passages from the Bible:

Isaiah 40:8 "The grass withereth; the flowers fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever."

and

Matt 6:28 "Consider the lilies of the field, how the grow; they toil not, niether do they spin."

And because this is also a medieval garden, I've been searching for something medievally that references flowers/gardens and there's this I've saved by Chaucer:
"Herkneth thise blisful briddes how they synge,
And se the fresshe floures how they sprynge"

In modern English it means, "Mark now these happy birds, hear how they sing, And see all the fresh flowers, how they spring."

I just think it'd be cool to have something written on a sign in English that isn't in the English we know today. ;-)

Cait

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons (or bears, mountain lions, etc.).....
For you are crunchy and good with ketchup!

If you can't stand the heat
Don't tickle the dragon.

In the pasture of life
Don't be a cowpie.

Don't make me come out there.
-Dog

Ask not for whom the dog barks.
It barks for thee.

Beware:
Dog can't hold its licker.

Larkspurlady, I definitely will have to make this one for my garden. It is just too good! (you can hear the frogs down in the slough behind my house in the summer time.)

The rest of you - what creative minds we have. And not a one of them is wasted but busy creating more fun than I have time to participate in.

Happy Holidays to each and everyone of you.

Ms. Faith

My all timefavorite was on a rock but you could do it on a board.

"Weather Predicting Rock(Board)"
If Rock is wet...it's raining
If Rock is dry...it's sunny
If rock is gone...someone stole it!

My friend would LOVE the "Frog Zone"

PP

Nancy

I have read that the West Nile Mosquito is allergic to the Catnip Plant.

I think a garden and cats' just naturally go-together. I sense they enjoy watching as I plant...They zig-zag thru the rows of flowers...as I tell them, "You just better not break my plants"...I could swear they are smiling at me...they never hurt anything, and if they ever did...plants can be replaced! Hurry up Spring!

"Life's a Garden.......Dig It."

On my garden gate:
How Does My Garden Grow?
1 part soil
2 parts water
3 parts wishful thinking!

On my potting table:
"Gardeners Know The Best Dirt"

In a big pot each Spring planted with pansies:
"Gardening is for Pansies"

I've also liked the little bird house plaque that reads "Everybirdy Welcome."

"be right back"- morning glories

beware of the dogrose

go ahead, make my daylillies.

rest in peas

fairies crossing

my other one's a chia

baby's breath on board

shh. germination in progress.

no japanese beetles beyond this point.

you're blocking my sun!

leaf me alone!

warning. untamed dandelions. do not feed.

pick me! Pick me!

If you have time to read this sign then you
have time to weed.

When life gives you crumbs--- feed the birds.

ooops a daisy

Beware the Snap Dragons

Critter Crossing

A garden filled with kindness brings a harvest of love.

Bee the best you can be.

a garden was not made by sitting in the shade saying
"oh how lovely"

Bless my Bloomers

Early t bed,early to rise, work like h*&& and fertilize.

Here lies the seeds that didn't make it.

One years seedings makes seven years weeding.

I also have a beautiful garden, altho here in the high Colorado Rockies it is currently sleeping under a beautiful bed of snow.

I have several signs in my garden, some are painted and hung on posts, some are painted on the two by four cross braces on my barnwood fence which encloses my garden area.

I tend toward the unusual in my gardens and love the dragon and fairy sayings - so thanks to all for the new ones I have seen posted here! Here are a few of my favorites that I've incorporated into my own gardens.

In a corner of my garden
where the wildflowers grow,
I sit and I ponder
how God has bless us so.
(This one is painted across four sections of the 2X4 cross fence - directly over my wildflower garden)

Meet me at the Garden Gate
(painted on a flat stone that sits in front of my old iron gate)

Beyond This Place There Be Dragons
(painted on an old piece of barnwood and hanging on a post at the exit of my garden)

Enter These Enchanted Woods - Ye Who Dare
(this is at the entrance to a tree covered and enclosed walkway that wanders behind my garden sheds, and is bordered by wildflower beds)

May You Always Hear The Whisper Of Wings.

Leave room in your garden for the Fairies to dance (or play)

It all began in a Garden

Thanks to everyone for a wonderful place to visit while I think about that garden I am so anxious to get back into!

Feel free to talk to these plants - they understand.

So, this is not a garden of Eden - adjust!

Gardening: the most fun you can have with your pants on.

Time spent in a garden is not deducted from one's life span.

If they don't have gardens in Heaven - then I am not going!

A garden is not a matter of life and death - it's much more important then that.

I got to say - last two are my favorites!

~Natalie

"One day I shall burst my bud of calm
and blossom into hysteria.

Makes me smile everytime I look at it........cheryl

"CONTENT TO BE IN A COTTAGE"

I must make one.

Susie

" Lots of Flakes Live Here" * * * *

" Welcome Frosty & Friends "
"Snowman ZONE" ~~~ "SNOWMAN CROSSING! ! !"
Guess
I've gotten
pretty flakey myself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TTFN
God Bless !
SusieSunshine
Lost in the Blizzard !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*** LOVE THIS GARDEN JUNK ~~~ SIGN POSTS ! ! !

"IF IT AINT A ROSE
IT'S A WEED!"

Susie

If you have time to read the sign you have time to pull the weeds.

I have only three homemade signs, all in my gnome garden. One is an old licence plate of a fish with legs and the word "evolve" on a stake with flowers painted on the back, another is a peace sign with flowers painted on an old large metal can top nailed to a spike, and the last is a white handcarved Victorian style spindle with the word "change" in blue down the side.

A friend of ours worked at a feed and garden store many years ago and he placed little humorous signs about the place. The only one I remember was "begonias become yas" in front of a bin of begonia seeds or bulbs.

I'm remembering the signs at the garden center last week. A couple of the other metal words on stakes were "peaceful" and "relax." I need to stop thinking about those signs or I will blow the budget and go buy one!

Weed em' and Reap

The More One Gardens
The More One Grows!

Has anyone else heard that one?

This is my practice sign. I tore apart a pallet, sanded it just a bit. (I think this is oak) Then I wrote on it with my scrapbooking markers because that's all I had. Then I went out and bought some paint markers and wrote over it. I'm going to varnish it and either hang it or attach a stake, I haven't decided yet.

My house may be a mess BUT you should see my garden!

I've spent most of my time in the garden....the rest I've wasted!

Don't piss off the fairies!

Take care of the earth. Someday you'll be part of it.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Do not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over. Linda

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose" Just attached this to my birdhouse.

"faith hope love" This is just sitting on the ladder. This was a freebie at a YS a few years ago.

My fav has already been mentioned: Weeds 4 Sale - U-Pick Must make one of those.

Other "weedy" sayings that I like - can you tell we struggle with weeds! LOL

~Bless My Weeds
~Give a Weed an Inch and it’ll Take A Yard
~Sure it's a Weed... but it has FLOWERS!
~Old weeds never die … they just go to seed
~May all your weeds be wildflowers

Others I also like:

~I garden, therefore I am
~If friends were flowers, I'd pick you
~All I need is my flower garden…and chocolate
~Plant the green end up
~Wildflowers grown by a wild woman

I'm inspired to make more signs! Thanks for starting this thread. :-)

Tickle mother Earth and she will giggle Flowers

A Flower is nothing more then a educated weed

And, one by my garden that says, "Pray for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing!"

Another by tubs of flowers "True gardeners cannot bear a glove between the sure touch and the tender root."

I've made many signs out of discarded slate roofing. My son is a commercial roofer and I get them from him. Very durable but easy to drill and break if necessary. Also, I have a greeting card software program that will make banners. I just enter my saying and select the font, size, etc. I want and print it out. I've got a ton of old carbon paper from friends and work I use to trace my sayings on. I just love doing them.

Our local garden shop had some great signs in recently, but they are a bit pricey. Here are my favorites:

On plant marker type signs:

Weedum invasium
Twigga mortis
Gardenitis uncontrollius
Plantus unknownus
Bloomis notimus (Duh, it took me several visits before I realized this one was funny)

On signs and rocks:

Tickle the Earth with a hoe, She laughs with a harvest

If friends were flowers, I'd pick you

This place is for the birds (decorate with bird or two and place it near the bird feeder or birdhouse)

To Weed or
Not to Weed
That is the Garden

Wishing you Butterfly Mornings
Wildflower Afternoons

How Lovely is the Silence of Growing Things

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow

A beautiful garden is a work of heart

Peace to all who enter here

Bless this garden

Angels help my garden grow

I hope to make a few of these into signs myself. I found a large flat bright yellow plastic platter at a thrift store that may be the "canvas" for my first attempt.

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.

I really like "I garden therefore I am". Might have a sign in my future!

kathy

Linda

Max