It can be good fun if well done - subtle or completely OTT - and doesn't include gnomes. No street lights here so we can see the stars at night so we won't be installing garden lighting but, once the pergola and seating/eating area are built there will be candles galore for outside dining.
OH keeps trying to get me to buy naked ladies of the Grecian statue variety but not having any of those either. I do have a collection of rusty guinea fowl from Zimbabwe and they will eventually be dotted discreetly about amongst plants and paths.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
There's a roughly full size reclining cow (fibreglass or plastic) at the vets' where I take the dog each month. He's got used to it now but the first couple of times he saw it he was very spooked. Always thought it would be fun to get something along those lines and put it at the far end of the garden and see how long it takes the farmer to work out it isn't one of his cows in our garden. And all bets are off at Christmas - I love fairy lights in the depths of winter. Other than that, no, not a fan of decoration in the garden. Possibly influenced by the fact anything less substantial than a Hepworth sculpture would be blown over and broken within a month, come the autumn
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Not a fan of garden decoration generally but do like some contemporary abstract sculpture in the right setting. The stonemason who rebuilt our house (long before we bought it) left the following souvenirs, the mother and child is his wife and son, we were told. The flat carving keeps us amused guessing what it is:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
The garden center near my work used to have a near life size resin gorilla for sale. I could never decude if having that in the undergrowth would be naff or amazing.
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OH keeps trying to get me to buy naked ladies of the Grecian statue variety but not having any of those either. I do have a collection of rusty guinea fowl from Zimbabwe and they will eventually be dotted discreetly about amongst plants and paths.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
There is nothing elitist about this forum.
Why do you want to stir up problems, with every post?
When you don't even know who's in the team
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