We have a few of those spikes that have butterflies or dragonflies on em with the clear, colored beads, etc.....but my fav. is our cactus that we watched an artisan carve out of a tree with a chain saw. It's soooooo cool and it makes me think of that trip to Santa Fe every time I look at it. What decorates your garden?

Since we moved here, I haven't gotten anything put into our gardens yet. I want some old fashioned items, like an old chair, a water pump, rocks, those types of things. But I needed to get my flowerbeds established first as there weren't any here when we purchased this place.

I don't have too much yet, but I do have landscape lights, a heavy old cauldron for my annuals, and a decorative copper sprinkler. My list of garden decor items that I'd like is a mile long. lol

I really like the copper garden stakes. I'd love a nice sundial, garden bench, and birdbath too. I'll stop there. I could go on and on.

I pretty much give the flowers themselves center stage. Only real decorative thing I have is a grey concrete birdbath. Won't see pink flamingos, black sihouette thingies, wooden people bending over, or plastic figurine stuff in my garden.;)

I have an old push/horse plow with some vines growing on it....some rocks we have collected on road trips, I love the sand stone from the Southwest...
I have lots of old watering cans, a very old milk can and an old chair I need to cut a holein for a pot......

We have an old tree stump that we use to sit on. :) We also have bautifully colored glacier rock that we have used to make a pathway and some old driftwood that decorates the rose garden areas.

We have an old tree stump that we use to sit on. :) We also have bautifully colored glacier rock that we have used to make a pathway and some old driftwood that decorates the rose garden areas.
You reminded me Debbie that we have this huge tree trunk tipped in the side with its knarly roots exposed. In the roots I place a flower pot filled with trailing petunias that cascade over the roots. This tree art was courtesy of the flood of 96.:)

I have a farrie blowing into a sea shell, a little girl pulling a wagon, two girls playing ring-around-the rosey, a Turtle planter, a farrie with a trellis skirt, a mexican painted terra cotta planter, two childern looking into a gazing ball, an old bowlingball I converted into an ornament, many hand painted stepping stones. I plan on turning a bowling ball into a water bubbler for the porch this spring.

~2 old wagon wheels (with the wooden spokes) propped up on either side of one of my flower beds
~2 wooden/iron benches
~wooden wishing well with shingled roof
~and old weathered chair with a grapevine wreath hanging off
~large black iron pot
~a little wooden stool/bench my son made with a birdhouse sitting on it
~rooster weather vane in one of my gardens

That's all I can think of now. :)

I have lots of garden decor ..

an old washing machine tub converted to a planter
old pots, frypans, teapots and mugs that are planters
an old wicker bookshelf that sits under the tree and has plant pots on it
2 old wheelbarrows converted into planters
an old seed spreader is now a planter
all kinds of garden stakes, little flags, danglers, wind twirlers
a couple of bowling balls that I want to paint as ladybugs
an old clay flowerpot made into a toad abode
an old bbq converted into a planter

and I'm sure there is much more :)

Sounds great, I especially love the "bowling ball lady bug" idea. So cute.

We have 3 1/2 acres of old English garden. !00yr old trees,lots of shade, windy paths,sdifferent sections etc. So by the streams and pond, a lovely garden seat made by a local sculptor,the back is almost like an offside spiders web, in grey metal,the seat is made from a plank of a tree we lost and had sliced. On the old pole that had the electricity cable on it many moons ago, there is a sculpture from our previous house. Tall and slim,almost looks like the Madonna. Down under the hazelnuts in a shade area is a brolga made out of corrugated iron, very Australian,under a large Abelia bush,an emu made from brush, we did that. In the succulent garden,a lovely blue and pink pottery chook,and down by the camellias,[there is a whole grove of them], there is a tall wooden statue. The locals call it the "upside down kangaroo' the sculptor "The Goddess" also made from wood off the property. Tucked inthe bottom bed in the formal rose garden is an equitorial sundail which keeps perfect time and doesn't need winding!!!.Finally and I think thats enough, there are 4 arches, about 7 feet at their highest point,a mixture of Victoriana and modern to go with the house,they are grey and there is a grey path under them, they lead either to the front gate or the house depending on which way the walker is going.
I am sorry I can't post photographs, have no idea how to do it. I can scan them in, but they don't take on these posts,only into e-mails. I am very new to this modern technology. Judie

Sounds so lovely, congrats on finding a bit of heaven on earth.