| What better to enhance your garden and accentuate | | | | noticed! |
| the beauty of your carefully chosen plants than | | | | You can also use inexpensive concrete cast stones |
| garden décor in the form of plaques, garden | | | | around your borders, that come in a wide variety of |
| sculptures, statues and tastefully designed bird baths | | | | designs, and finished so beautifully that cannot tell it |
| and bird feeders. Décor that would enhance | | | | from the real thing. And they are durable! Stones |
| any garden! | | | | come cast in the form of angels, fairies and a wide |
| Many people own front yards and gardens with | | | | variety of angels and birds. These would enhance any |
| fabulous potential, and then fill them with flowers and | | | | garden, and all are available online. You don't have to |
| shrubs of all sizes and colors. However, they can still | | | | go down to the garden center to get your hands on |
| tend to look bare. Why is that? Because there is | | | | these, just find a suitable online retail site and have |
| nothing to break up the vegetation, and provide | | | | them delivered. |
| something different for people to look at. Flowers | | | | Walls generally look a bit bare in the garden unless |
| are very beautiful, but a well designed garden needs | | | | you have some climbing plants. You can provide a bit |
| that extra something to set it aside from all the | | | | of decoration by means of stone plaques that are |
| other gardens in the neighborhood. | | | | available in a wide variety of designs. Many are in the |
| How about a bird feeder in form of St. Francis, or | | | | form of faces - the sun, for example, or a wide |
| even a dragonfly, that you can attach to a wall or a | | | | variety of leaves and vegetables with funny and |
| tree, and attract birds in the spring and summer while | | | | grumpy faces displayed on them. Just the thing to |
| feeding them in the winter. Many birds will come to | | | | keep the kids happy and amused. Cover them up |
| rely on you for their food source when they need | | | | with a few climbing plants, and watch them begin to |
| you most. Place a few stone stepping stones in the | | | | appear in the fall. |
| flowerbeds to allow you to enjoy them at their best | | | | Another great idea is to have wall plaque personalized |
| without getting dirty feet. You can use the stepping | | | | as you want it. You have your name put on it or |
| stones to reach the feeders on the wall in order to | | | | your address, and put it outside your backyard gate. |
| refill them. You will attract a wide variety of | | | | Have a memorable date inscribed, such as the date |
| songbirds to your garden that will provide you with | | | | or year you moved into your house, or the date of |
| tuneful pleasure all year round. | | | | your wedding. I am sure you can think of lots of |
| Does it rain a lot in your part of the country, or is it | | | | ways in which you can have your plaques |
| generally hot and sunny? In either case why not | | | | personalized. |
| have a thermometer and rain gauge in your garden, | | | | A few statues or stone animals placed in and around |
| tastefully sculpted in the form of a drinking frog or | | | | your fountain would make a change, or a large stone |
| sleepy owl. If it never rains, just have the | | | | planter would look great on the patio. There are so |
| thermometer in the form a fairy sitting contemplating | | | | many lovely garden ornaments available to transform |
| your flowers as she enjoys the sun. You can find out | | | | your garden into a work of art, and so many talking |
| how much it rained during the night, or just how hot | | | | points that you can place at strategic points around |
| it really is. | | | | the garden. All it takes is some imagination and the |
| Statues are always popular in gardens, and provide a | | | | will to start. |
| great focal point to break up a lawn or provide a | | | | Don't stare at the neighbor's garden with all its |
| conversation piece in winter and fall when the | | | | garden décor and garden sculptures that make |
| flowers have died down. Statues in the form of | | | | it look a more complete garden that yours. Do |
| frogs, angels, cats, dogs and even tortoises make a | | | | something about it, and design your own with garden |
| change from the ubiquitous gnome. Everybody has | | | | décor that will enhance your garden, no matter |
| gnomes, but how many have wish fairies or pixies? | | | | how large or small. Don't think about, just get up and |
| Be different and stand out from the crowd. Be | | | | do it. |