Garden Decor and Creating Garden Accents

Gardening Ideas | Landscaping Ideas

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Decorating your lawn and garden area can be just as fun and fulfilling as decorating the inside of your house is. Like a house though, decorating outside works best with a little bit of forethought and planning. Because if you clutter up your yard and garden areas with too much decor, it can look at bit cluttered, unkempt, and unattractive in the end.

There are many different ways to use garden accents and decor, but like interior decorating, it’s best to choose your accents and accessories based on the particular garden area you’re decorating.

Arbors and arches for instance, usually give people the feeling they’re entering a special area of your yard or garden. So these work quite well as garden decor and accents for special areas such as a private garden space, or the entrance to your prized rose garden.

Statues and figurines can also create a welcoming feel, and these often work quite well as decorations at the end of the driveway or flanking the front porch steps. Alternatively you could place statues in locations that indicate you’re moving from one type of garden to another.

You can also use other types of garden decor for separating certain types of gardening spaces too. If you have a wildflower garden or butterfly garden for instance, you may want to put a pretty bird or butterfly house near the area where that garden starts. You could also use a bird house or bird bath if you’d prefer.

Outdoor lamps and lighting are excellent accents to use for garden decor, because they’re both functional and beautiful at the same time. You can put small solar yard lights along either side of your driveway or walkway for instance, and tall lamp posts look beautiful either at the front steps, flanking the walkway at the entrance, or flanking the entrance of the driveway.

Another way to decorate the driveway entrance a little more whimsically is to put gnome statues which has solar powered lights in them. If you don’t like garden gnomes though, there are plenty of other decorative statue style accents which use solar powered lights and work well for lighting up the entrance of your driveway. These can include birds and birdhouses, squirrels, frogs, different types of dogs, and cats too.

When choosing decorative lights for your garden, don’t forget the accent lights for your most beautiful trees and bushes. These lights are often buried into the ground slightly under trees and bushes, and they spotlight the tree or bush at night time when they’re turned on. This allows your yard to look just as beautiful at night as it does during the day.

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