I’m just wondering how many of my readers have garden ornaments peeking out amongst their plants?
I have a few very nice pieces of metalwork ornaments created by local metal artists – one is a chameleon climbing on a plant and headed towards a leaf, and another is a lovely bird sitting on a perch. I have a few mass produced ornaments like a butterfly on a stick, a wobbly metal bee on a pole etc.
Then there’s the little figurines that I have placed here and there. When my parents passed away I took their little pigs, and an over-sized cricket that they always had placed in their garden beds. I also have a foot and a half long crocodile – somehow he blends in. LOL
When my mother passed away I knew I wouldn’t be getting back to my home town very often and I just love the area. It’s where my love of nature began. As I traveled back and forth from Toronto to Ottawa- my home town – I’d stop in some of the rocky area’s in the Ottawa valley and I collected large stones- most of them flat. With those stones I made my own stone man. I cannot think of the proper name for this stone figure that means welcome at this moment. He’s about two feet wide and two feet high and I love this ornament more than any other in my garden.
What kind of garden ornaments do you have in your garden? Have you done anything creative? Tell me about it.