Dress Up Your Garden With Lawn Ornaments

Your yard is filled with plants and your lawn furniture is in place, but the gardens still seem to be missing something. What can you do to dress up your gardens? Try adding some lawn ornaments. You can find lawn ornaments to go with any garden style, from weird and wacky to elegant and Asian.

You can tell when someone with a sense of humor has been shopping for garden ornaments. Pink flamingos march across the lawn, while bunnies and other forest animals peek from the shrubbery. However, putting this many ornaments in the yard can be costly, right? Actually, with all of the choices available today, it doesn’t have to be. You don’t have to buy stone statuary when you can buy concrete, resin, or plastic pieces that look just as nice. Fun iron sculptures are also popular. Of course, not everyone wants a yard filled with whimsical animals. For the more sophisticated garden, reproductions of classical statues and Japanese lanterns are readily available. If you want to create an English cottage garden feel in your yard, don’t forget to look for a gazing ball.

Of course, no yard is complete without a water element. Water has a soothing sound and attracts wildlife to your gardens. To add water to your gardens, look for lawn ornaments like bird baths and water fountains. You can find bird baths that sit on a pedestal base, hanging bird baths, or basins that sit directly on the ground. If you prefer water fountains, you can find simple Asian inspired fountains, ornately molded resin fountains, or traditional fountains that seem to be a hybrid of a statue and a water feature.

Once you buy lawn ornaments for your gardens, you will need to decide where to position them. Choose one of your larger ornaments to create a focal point. Ornaments that do well as focal points are fountains, bird baths, and large statues. If you want to make a smaller ornament, such as a gazing ball, into a focal point, simply place it on a pedestal to make it feel more important than the other ornaments. Then, place most of your other ornaments so that they can be easily seen from pathways. However, you may want to hide one or two ornaments away so that people discover them under bushes or tucked into a little nook.

Finally, don’t forget to care for your lawn ornaments after you bring them home. Many ornaments, especially those made from iron, need to be sprayed with a protective coating once a year to help them last longer.