The birdhouse my husband made for me is a favorite of mine:

And I love my bottle tree, but I’m only finding a pic showing the top of it:

My very favorite is just a big rock with a story behind it that I will spare you. It is special because of the way it came to me, so I don’t plant anything around it that might block it from view. I do decorate it for each season. Here’s a picture of it with a headless horseman I made to sit on top for Halloween. For Christmas, Santa sits on it with lighted reindeer in front, and so on...

My welcoming gardening dwarf at the entrance of my garden:



Fairy statue next to "The Fairy". (I have a couple more little fairies and a small dwarf, but no pics of them.)



Another gardening fairy inspecting the purple pansies:



Stone bench--on which I do rest and contemplate my flowers. I also have a park bench on the other side of the garden--but no pic.



This picture is several years old--the Home Run hedge is much bigger and fuller now--but I still use that left-over birdbath as a plant holder.



Here's my solar-operating fountain.



Buff Beauty with a gargoyle guard dog at its feet--except someone stole the gargoyle last summer! Now there is a cute turtle at its feet (no pic). So far no one has stolen the guard turtle.



Petunia in painted concrete planter--I stick a few annuals in these small planters and scatter them around the gardens--just for some variety of textures.



Sandstone rock to right of Memoire--I have several of those scattered around the gardens.



Now if you want to go next door--my neighbor has tons of arts and crafts garden decorations in her gardens. I think she sometimes looks down on me for spending more time on growing plants and less on garden decorations. : )

Kate

It's funny, but I don't have a lot of pictures of my garden art. I'll have to rectify that this year!

Lesley, love the 'wine and roses' bed. Kate, those fairies are beautiful! They look perfect among the roses. Pat, I love the rock... Especially because it has a history.

Until I had a house, I really had no idea that I was so domestic, and one of the bigger surprises is that I love garden statuary!

Got the zebra at a warehouse sale. It spent its first year in my little girl's nursery. Now the kids pretend to ride it.

Sorry for the blurry picture and the mostly-empty hosta bed... for some reason, this is the only shot I have of the giraffe! It was a gift for my 40th last summer.

Damselfly

There's also a little ceramic mushroom bed with a few tiny gnomes among the stalks. Can't seem to find a picture. Nor can I find a picture of the lovely bright yellow ceramic birdbath my hubby gave me a few years ago. It has abstract red roses embedded in the design. As it happens, it's a terrible birdbath - unappealing to the birds while the yellow attracts wasps like there's no tomorrow! This year I'm going to get DH to mount it on the shed as pure decoration.

Oh, and the kids like to grab tree branches when available and follow me around, pretending to be garden statues whenever I turn around... :)

Karen

Everyone's garden art is so cheerful. Really fun to see on a cold, snowy winter day like today. I love the fairies! And Lesley, I have no gazing balls but they always stop me in my tracks when I see them in other people's yards. How could they not - they're so colourful and shiny! I wonder why I don't have any?

Karen

Here's our garden gargoyle with Geranium pyrenaicum 'Bill Wallis' and an un-named cymbidium. It's been very windy lately so apologies for the blurry pic.

Jo

Edited to correct the spelling: pyrenaicum not pyrenacium

Diane - Cymbidiums are easy-peasy here because the climactic conditions suit them very well. Foggy springs, cool (and often foggy) summers and mild winters. They are even more outstanding up in San Francisco. Unfortunately, I have heard that they can be a challenge to grow in other places.

This yellow is the only hybrid I have; the others are species and the colors are a very pale pink and white-green. They flower in March/April but it looks like the warm January we have had may cause them to bloom earlier this year.

The gargoyle's name is "Gog" - I was too embarrassed to mention this earlier :-)

Lesley - The Phalanopsis are really easy - if you can give them bright light (early morning sun is great), as high in humidity as you can go and lower day time temperatures in winter than what they received in summer, you should see them bloom quite well. Key is the medium you grow them in. You may need to experiment to determine what works best - bark or moss or a combination of the two. You will have fun - orchids can be addicting so watch out !! :-)

Bill Wallis is a real trooper but I do have to note that he is a prolific reseeder so keep an eye out if you do get him.

Jo

Close-up of yellow cymbidium