Original Garden Illustrations — the Funny Gardening Art of TangleWicket

A 3D render of a gang of mean-looking bugs carrying baseball bats and knives facing off against a gang of nice-looking bugs in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart

The original digital garden illustrations behind TangleWicket live here. From Wicket watching a Terminator weed hold up an “I’ll Grow Back” sign to Hercules doing battle with a dandelion Hydra, these are gardening illustrations created post by post for one of the internet’s friendlier gardening blogs. Original garden art, humorous gardening illustrations, and characters that make Tom Brownthumb’s world a more entertaining place to visit.

Browse the gallery below, and if something makes you laugh, that was the idea.

  • A 3D render of a group of grumpy weeds carrying suitcases turning away from a group of smiling, nice looking plants gathered around a sign that reads "Sorry. This plot's taken" in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    These are not the ground-cover plants we’re recommending.
  • A 3D render of a scene from an alien-invasion movie in which a group of big, terrified-looking weeds run towards us as a shovelful of dark mulch thunders to ground behind them in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    You don’t mulch sprouted weeds…
  • A 3D render of a sneering dandelion that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger wearing a black leather jacket in Terminator with a sign that says "I'll be back" in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    The sign should say “I’ll grow back…”
  • A 3D render of Hercules battling a giant hydra, except the three heads look like Dandelion buds in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Maybe a little too dramatic…
  • A 3D render of a pair of old weeds in rocking chairs on the porch of a house watching a pair of young weeds sitting in front of a tent in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    This is just so wrong…
  • A 3D render of a grinning dandelion carrying a sign that says "VICTORY IS OURS!" in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    That thing is just creepy…
  • A 3D render of a battered and badly dented garden trowel in the middle of the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    At least the blade is a one-piece…
  • A 3D render of big pile of garden tools of all kinds heaped in the middle of the the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    This might be overstating it a little…
  • A 3D render of a group of mean-looking aphids wearing eye masks sawing through a broad-leafed plant in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    That guy on the right looks kinda sleepy
  • A 3D render of an open bottle of pesticide with a skull-and-crossbones label alongside a dead bug with its legs in the air and Xs over the eyes in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
  • A 3D render of a ladybug wearing a white cowboy hat and a six-gun holster, gun drawn and pointing at a bunch of black-hatted, angry looking aphids in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    How does the ladybug fly if he’s wearing that gun belt?
  • A 3D render of a cockroach in a garden holding a sign that reads "No Squishing Please" in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    This image doesn’t make much sense…
  • A 3D render of a gang of mean-looking bugs carrying baseball bats and knives facing off against a gang of nice-looking bugs in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Is that a cricket bat?
  • A 3D render of a a happy Japanese beetle looking longingly at a fearful plant planted in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    I’m not sure Japanese beetles are supposed to look that cute…
  • A 3D render of a little planted in the ground completely surrounded by and looking with concern at the tubes and fittings of an operating garden irrigation system, holding out a leaf to check for rain in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    The drip system leaks just fine, but lacks emitters
  • A 3D render of an umbrella-toting potted plant checking for rain in the TangleWicket garden while an exasperated Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
  • A 3D render of a desperately dry plant bearing the sign "Water Please" in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Wicket whispers “better thee than me!”
  • A 3D render of a soaker hose watering three smiling plants in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    That smile is kinda creepy…
  • A 3D render of a sunglass-wearing plant getting watered in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Sunglasses, morning water, right?
  • A 3D render of a severely wilted plant in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Maybe you should have planted that in the ground…
  • A 3D render of a wooden planter on automotive jack stands in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    A raised bed is not quite like that…
  • A 3D render of water cascading of the leaves of a plant sitting in dry soil in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Why is the water blue, and where does it go?
  • A 3D render of a waterlogged flower wearing a scuba mask in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    He doesn’t look that unhappy…
  • A 3D render of a very deep hole with a tiny plant growing in it in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    The hole wasn’t supposed to look like a sewer pipe…
  • A 3D render of an aromatic pile of compost in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Compost shouldn’t do that, should it?
  • A 3D render of a sepia-toned melting snowman in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    The snowman kinda looks like a peanut…
  • A 3D render of a horrified seedling trying to escape from a pot in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on in dismay, by John D Reinhart
    The plant may actually be a little shocking…
  • A 3D render of a smiling small flower planted in the ground giving us a thumbs-up from the shade of a colorful sun umbrella while the ground around the umbrella's shadow is scorched by sunlight in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    It looks more like a bomb crater than a garden…
  • A 3D render of a smiling marigold holding a clipboard while sitting behind a desk in front of a colorful banner that says "Now Hiring Pollinators" in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Does that pot seem to be hovering?
  • A 3D render of a severely overcrowded little flowerbed full of angry-looking flowers that are engaged in a massive fistfight in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
  • A 3D render of an obnoxiously cheerful flower bulb in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on in dismay, by John D Reinhart
    Not sure I’d want that thing in my garden…
  • A 3D render of a flower looking in horror at an approaching pair of scissors in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    Surely it must feel this way…
  • A 3D render of a family of smiling flowers dressed for traveling, the dad flower wearing a fedora hat and carrying suitcases in the garden in the TangleWicket garden while Wicket looks on, by John D Reinhart
    I don’t think it works like this…

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