Lawn Ornaments

	A garden bursting with plants is a beautiful sight. However, just as you would accessorize rooms in your home, you should decorate your flowerbeds with lawn ornaments for added interest and texture. Lawn Ornaments can be used as focal points, can provide height variations, or can express your personality. Before you buy a lawn ornament, you should take a look around your garden. Look for bare spots, spots where plants are struggling to survive, and spots that just need a little more life. Next, decide whether you want a large sculpture that will end up being a major focal point in your garden. A large sculpture can even become a destination for people walking through your garden, so be sure you want visitors to focus on the sculpture. A smaller sculpture can dress up bare spots and make those areas look more finished without drawing attention away from your flowerbeds. Are all the plants in your garden the same height? One quick way to vary the height in your garden beds is to use lawn ornaments. You can use a garden pillar to give your garden a higher focal point. You can leave the pillar with nothing on it, or you can put another sculpture, a sundial, or a potted plant on it. If your garden plants go from high to low with nothing in between, you can use a medium sized sculpture to provide the missing height variation. You should also look at the shape of your plants. If they are all round, choose sculptures that are pointed to vary the shape of your garden. If they are all pointed, choose a gazing ball or other round sculpture for the garden. One of the most interesting uses for ornaments in the garden is to express a gardener’s personality. Some gardeners tuck ornaments under plants and have them peering out so that people do not even realize they are there at first glance, making them a mysterious addition to their flowerbeds. To make them blend in even further, gardeners can paint them with yogurt so that moss will grow on their surface. Other gardeners position sculptures so that they are very visible and stand out from the plants around them. Statues that stand out are often painted a bold red, blue, or even purple to make them stand out even further. While many people think a single kitschy sculpture is tacky, others let their whimsical side have free reign in their gardens by grouping many of these pieces in their flowerbeds. It is especially fun to use these sculptures in gardens where children will see them peering from beneath bushes or peaking out from behind plants. Finally, with the popularity of water in gardens today, many ornaments are manufactured so that they can be used as water fountains. You can easily add a water element to your garden with one of these fountain sculptures. If you do not have a way to use a fountain in your garden, you can still use a sculpture to add a water element by choosing a sculpture that can hold a waterproof container. Choose a water garden plant for the container and add a mosquito fish to keep the water fresh.