Garden trugs are an ingenious invention for collecting and lugging garden flowers, vegetables and gardening tools around the yard throughout the busy spring and summer months. 

As a gardener and blogger who likes to share photos of her garden flowers and vegetables (displayed in pretty containers like trugs), I've become especially enamored of trugs over the past few years. I feel like not many people are familiar with trugs, so I'm excited to share my latest thrifted trug, along with some of my older trugs and some background information about trugs in general.

  

It's hard to believe, but I blogged about my first trug back in 2015 (you can see my blog's former name on the photo)!  

 

Then in early 2017 I shared this primitive handmade farmhouse wooden trug. 

 

It was followed one month later by this whitewashed woven farmhouse garden trug. At that time I shared some general background information on trugs -- a trug primer, of sorts.   

And it wasn't until 7 years later that I purchased this French "gathering basket" for $1.00 from a church basement sale where everything was $1.00! While technically not a trug, I consider it at the very least in the trug family since I use it for collecting flowers and vegetables from the garden. 

Last summer's hydrangeas did not disappoint. 

Nor did the zinnias.

It comes in extremely handy at vegetable harvest and flower-picking time. And like my various trugs, it makes for a lovely home decor display all on its own. 

I like to use it on the coffee table or as a centerpiece on the kitchen or dining room tables.  

Last but not least is the piece de resistance -- my recently thrifted wicker garden trug!  

 It's a great size and has such beautiful detailing! 

I love how it rests on two rustic wooden dowels as "feet." 

All my trugs come in super handy when it comes time to reap the benefits of both the flower and vegetable gardens.

Most summers I've been blessed with an abundance of flowers and produce just about every other day. Sometimes the trugs aren't even big enough to hold all the goodies!   

My pee wee hydrangeas also appear in large numbers each summer, and they don't disappoint as displayed in my thrifted wicker garden trug.

The pinks, greens and whites of these beautiful pee wee hydrangeas look gorgeous in the garden trug.

I save and dry pee wee hydrangeas every year. Look for a later post on the drying process I use to get fabulously long-lasting, dried hydrangeas for arranging and displaying around my home. Hint: It's super easy!

For the curious, be sure to visit my post that includes some history behind trugs: Easy Farmhouse Decor: Garden Trugs.