Halloween decorations can be a lot more exciting than the standard sight of a carved-out pumpkin. Here are ten tips on how to decorate your garden and turn it into the ultimate Halloween space.
Make a ghastly ghost
One of the easiest ways to get your garden ready for Halloween is to decorate your trees and bushes with spooky spectres.
All you’ll need are some old sheets, some black marker pens and some flexible garden hoops. You could also use our 30g Garden Fleece, meaning that you don’t have to throw them away and can reuse them for gardening.
Decorate the sheets with a pair of eyes and a mouth and place them over the hoops, so they keep their shape. Once Halloween is over you can use the hoops to protect your crops from birds by adding some netting.
Decorate your garden with terrifying tombstones
Take some old cardboard and turn them into some Halloween Tombstones. You can shape the carboard and decorate them to add to the realism. Dig them into the soil in your garden to make sure they stay up right.
For an additional frightening touch decorate the tombstones with some solar lampposts in front of the Tombstones. Watch out for the Zombies this Halloween!
Grow some scary flowers
Certain flowers in your garden can look particularly spooky at Halloween.
A good example of this is the Dracula Orchid. Decorate your garden this Halloween with some Dracula Orchids that will turn your garden into a chilling experience.
Other plants to decorate your garden with this Halloween are the Devils Claw plant, or how about some haunting Black Delight Violas with their spooky yellow eyes.
Decorate with some eery floating eyes
No Halloween Garden is complete without a set of spooky floating eyes.
To decorate your garden with some floating eyes. All you’ll need are, some empty toilet rolls, some scissors, and some glow sticks.
Get creative and cut some eye shapes into the toilet rolls, then place the glow sticks inside to decorate. Such an easy way to add a frightening character to your garden this Halloween.
Get creative with how you decorate your pumpkins
While some fangs and eyes are a perfectly good way to decorate your pumpkin this Halloween, why not spice up your garden with a creative design.
Add a hairline or a famous pattern from your favourite movie to really spice up your pumpkin this Halloween.