Garden Decoration Ideas

Decorative Elements Add Interest To Your Garden


Decorating Your Garden
Not every item in your garden, combination garden container, or hanging basket, has to be a livingplant, shrub or tree. You have a lot of things depending on you ~ planted, or otherwise. Why not have a little something in the garden that’s just for you, that doesn’t require much maintenance while getting all of the attention?
Perhaps your hardest exertion is to decide where to place your garden delight. Blending into the surroundings naturally gives an easy style and creates a pleasant setting. Using available landscape and adapting to the area, just a few scattered accents are understated and effective.
Bathing in the Warm Sunshine
Add A Garden Focal Point
Front and Center
Front and center would be a commanding area suitable for more ornate decorations that are intended to be a focal point for the garden. Fountains are ideal for such spaces and can become a launch point for other plantings and ornamentation.

Don’t limit brightly colored items to the front row. A shady corner is perfect for a brightly colored accent to add pop to the spot ! Wild birds and song birds for instance, prefer to rest, roost, bathe and feed in the coolness of the shade if they are given the chance. The animals enjoy all of the amenities that you provide, and you enjoy the addition of the item to help brighten the shady place ~ a beacon of beauty that you all share!
Wild Baltimore Raven Flamingos

Focus On What Pleases You
If you have ventured to any garden center, you know that the choices for decorating your planter or garden, deck or patio are practically endless. Garden space, wallet and energy dictate my boundaries these days, and not necessarily in that exact order!
So for this article, I have decided to focus on what I enjoy and put into practice. I have always liked to add whimsical elements to my plantings, whether it be a lazy lizard lounging at the succulents pot, or a surprised bunny at attention keeping things in order in front of the entry way. Imitation animal sentries, garden gnomes, and gargoyles stand guard to protect and serve. They serve to make me smile when I happen upon them while puttering around fussing with stuff I have planted.
Count All Of The Different Elements

Be Good To Yourself, Too!
Satisfy Yourself . . . At Least In Your Garden
I enjoy the wildlife that my garden and planters attracts. I realize that I am super fortunate that I do not have any major invader problems to deal with. No deer, no squirrel, I don’t vegetable garden so no real insect problems, and people seem to keep their pets happy in their own yards!

Give A Little Back To Your Mother
I try to do a little giving back to Mother Earth by helping out the wild birds. If you’d like to attract wild birds to your landscape, know that they give as well as take. They will eagerly take your seed from a suitable feeder, but they also take away pesky insects and grubs. But what they give is immense pleasure to me. The sight of them happily chirping and socializing tickles me to no end.


Designing With The Hard Stuff
There are as many styles of bird feeders as there are bird species. Thistle feeders are slimmer and smaller and attract the singing birds, which are entertaining dinner guests. Winter doesn’t have to stop the suppers either. Suet hung in decorative cages for this purpose keeps Tweety going in the cold months when food is scarce.
You can create a small sanctuary with your space and enhance it with whimsical elements. Accentuate a wildlife habitat by punctuating areas with items to adorn that also perform a function. Birdhouses, birdbaths and feeders add function and decoration to that carefully chosen spot in your garden landscape.
Birds In The Bird Bath Video
Give The Birdies A Drink