Garden Decor – How to Spruce Up your Garden
There are numerous ways to utilize garden art and garden décor to spice up your prized garden. There are infinite ways to add your own personal style to any garden or landscape. You can start by looking for items to use around the house, stuffed in a closet or simply abandoned in your storage shed.
Garden art is important in displaying one’s own personal taste and style. Choices of planting options — as well as design – are often obvious. How you choose garden art to really spice up your garden’s décor, and to accentuate your landscape?
Using works of art in your garden or landscape provides an open canvas for the imagination. Art in the garden puts emphasis on the differences between nature and composition, yet it also marries the two aspects.
Fitting Art into your Garden or landscape
Garden schemes reflect the gardener. Making a whimsical garden, especially when young children are around — enhances your dreams and playful spirit. For instance, a fairy garden makes the perfect place to fulfill dreams. For adults in the family, a favorite hobby might be reflected in a simple zen garden enhanced with artificial statues, such as the ever-popular pagoda, birdbath, angel or cherub. Art in the garden is personal and should suit your tastes by all means.
Read more about how art fits into gardens at https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/design/lideas/adding-art-in-the-garden.htm.
Purchase art to place in your garden
Bird feeders and houses can attract a variety of birds and hummingbirds into your garden. They will keep coming back as you are a consistent source of food.
You can also use a bird bath to bring flying friends into your yard.
Butterflies will also be attracted to bright colors and their favorite-smelling flowers. Garden centers, independent arts-and-crafts festivals and garden shows abound with examples. Yet simple, homemade art also stands center stage.
Some easy examples the whole family can create might be: bottle art, paving stones (embedded with colorful stones, marbles and seashells). Use colored cement. Have children draw in the cement before it hardens, or place little hands in the stuff to memorialize childhood. Either go freeform or stencil out the design prior to painting, which transforms an old fence and brightens dark garden spaces. Create a mosaic – use different materials, like bricks, stones, pavers, various types and colors of gravel or sand. Plant in unusual items, such as a discarded tea pot, an old watering can or a wheelbarrow. When painted and planted, even a toilet can be an unusual and whimsical art installation.
Consider who will view your garden art. Do you want it in front where everybody can appreciate it, or in the backyard for the enjoyment of friends and family? Consider using garden art as focal points to accentuate attractive areas. Consider placing lawn art in a forgotten spot. For example, a dark, moist area where nothing will grow may be an ideal site for a colorful mushroom or capricious frog.
Go and get creative.
Read more about how to use lawn ornaments effectively at https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/lawn-care/lgen/using-lawn-ornaments.htm.
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