Decorating gardens should be a haphazard affair. Things that bring back
memories, childrens or friends " artistic" efforts, make do items, your own
"eurecas" and the things you fell in love with in a thrift store and
"converted" . My garden decorations are made up of such things. Plastic
foxes and racoons that my deceased mother-in-law left ot my daughter;
painted rocks that look like bees, ladybugs and a T-Rex head that my ten
year old daughter made for me; an old wooden ladder that I painted to use as
a trellis; driftwood from trips to the river; old wooden ariondac chairs
that I rescued from my neighbours house after the fire that totalled it, and
painted to match the rest of my odds and ends patio furniture.
When I look around, it all has a certain charm and holds lots of memories to
ponder on warm summer evenings.
--
Jayel
"Shell91" wrote in message
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Recently I read on another bulletin board quite a lot of people were
derisive about people who put up gazing balls and other such decorations
in
their gardens. Any thoughts on things like gazing balls or those copper
garden stakes with beads or glass balls on them in gardens? How about
solar
powered gazing ball / light combinations or other lights in the garden?
Just wondering what the general feeling is about these things. I'm not
talking about plastic pink flamingos or plastic deer or even garden
gnomes.
I do think some of this stuff looks good and some of the deer and gnomes
are
cute.

I have put some copper garden stakes in my small garden and hung a solar
powered gazing ball light as well as put one of those solar powered path
lights in. Personally I think the path light is pretty neat since it has
settings for red, green, amber light and a setting for all three colors to
flash. And of course my pvc fence is there to keep the lawn guys from
mowing or weed whacking my plants.

Anyone else put stuff like this in their gardens?

Shell