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zondie -> Yard ornaments & decor (4/15/2008 10:11:49 PM)

I just received an old time 'hand pump' and barrel for my flower garden! It's an early birthday gift, and I love it! I have an old wagon wheel and a small (wooden) antique wagon also. I still wanna get a plow and maybe an old wash-board and tub; some day. (I like the 'old timey' stuff!)

Do any of you care to share some ideas of your yard decor or ornaments? Maybe how you display them and what type of items you have? I love bird houses and bird feeders & baths too.



Liveloved -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/15/2008 11:07:43 PM)

I just use them in the midst of my flower gardens to add interest. The wooden wagon wheels I keep on my porches so that they don't weather too much as I don't want them to deteriorate. I have an old reel type lawnmower that sits at the edge of our gardening shed too. I also use
old garden tools on my porch in the summer and a collection of old metal rakes in the fall as well as old boxes with leather handles that hold smaller garden tools.

The plows and cultivators I use in the midst of the beds for vertical height and interest. I actually had an old hand pump that I stuck in the ground and it would frequently pump water!!!

I have more of a natural, country look so try to use them in ways that 'look authentic'---as if they were meant to be there. Have fun![:)]



Harvie -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 3:58:15 AM)

We have a flock of over 100 neon pink flamingoes .... not to mention 16 gazillion windchimes.

(Yep, our neighbors LOVE us!)

heh heh heh ... not really ... but we do have lots of yard stuff.



meg4 -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 10:50:10 AM)

Harvie, your post reminds me of a picture I saw. It was titled "Bird flu hits south Florida." Here is a link to the picture:

http://outhouserag.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/bird_flu.jpg



doinkdom -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 11:36:17 AM)

Well, I really do use flamingos in my yard, so there.[sm=nosestuckup.gif]

Of course, I don't use the ones in that picture - that's just tacky[;)][:D]

I have a flamingo welcome sign on the door - a wind-spinner on the front porch/stoop. A flamingo with a lantern around it's neck on my back patio and a pair in my garden in the back.

that reminds...I need to change my avatar.[8D]



meg4 -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 11:50:26 AM)

I think flamingos are very pretty birds, but they don't really go with my area--I live in the mountains of north Georgia. I have flower beds, but I don't have any other yard ornaments. Maybe someday when I retire I will have time to do more decorating and stuff like that.



doinkdom -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 12:02:19 PM)

shoot...flamingos go EVERYWHERE doncha know that? [:D][:D][:D]



meg4 -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 12:32:37 PM)

I don't think I've ever seen a flamingo, real or plastic, except in pictures. I've never seen any for sale around here.

I think fountains and waterfalls are pretty. I would like to have one of those someday.

I planted two climbing roses (New Dawn, pink) about four years ago with plans to build an arched trellis between them and put a swing under the trellis. The roses are growing well, but the trellis and swing are yet to be accomplished. I guess I need to find a handyman who can work cheap, or make myself figure out how to do it and just build it however I can.



doinkdom -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 12:38:04 PM)

finally...stupid avatar size thingy [8|]

My avatar now is a picture of the welcome sign on my front door.[:)]

I think I have some climbing something-or-others - it has little teeny clusters of yellow flowers - they only bloom in the spring and th rest of the year, it's just a pretty vine with green leaves. I just got a wooden arbor like thing for them to grow across.

If anyone happens to know what they are...please tell me.



2shaye -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 12:53:38 PM)

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ORIGINAL: zondie
Do any of you care to share some ideas of your yard decor or ornaments? Maybe how you display them and what type of items you have? I love bird houses and bird feeders & baths too.

We don't have much of a yard, but I have a bird house my dd made on a window ledge. Other than that, nothing. I honestly think it looks really tacky, especially in our city.



doinkdom -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 12:57:28 PM)

I'm in yard mode - so y'all have to forgive all the posts...

I'm picking up some hibiscus (sp) and a few other colorful plants to arrange in my front yard - it has a lot of green but not much else so it needs something to liven it up.

We get a good amount of shade so I have to get different plants for certain areas. I also use some larger sized rocks in the beds for drainage and that red mulch that looks so pretty against the brick of our house.

A lot of people around here use pine straw, but we don't



zondie -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/16/2008 10:52:01 PM)

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meg4 wrote:
The roses are growing well, but the trellis and swing are yet to be accomplished. I guess I need to find a handyman who can work cheap, or make myself figure out how to do it and just build it however I can.


Meg, even a small bench would be pretty between your rose bushes. Sometimes you can find benches, swings and trellises pretty cheap at yard sales or flea-markets.


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doinkdom wrote:
We get a good amount of shade so I have to get different plants for certain areas. I also use some larger sized rocks in the beds for drainage and that red mulch that looks so pretty against the brick of our house.


I use large rocks for drainage too. Do you ever use large dried roots in your garden? And the red mulch you mention. Are you talking about lava rock?

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Harvie wrote:
...not to mention 16 gazillion windchimes. (Yep, our neighbors LOVE us!)


This neighbor wouldn't complain. I absolutely love the sound of wind chimes! But I've never heard 16 gazillion chiming at once either![:D]

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Liveloved wrote:
The plows and cultivators I use in the midst of the beds for vertical height and interest. I actually had an old hand pump that I stuck in the ground and it would frequently pump water!!!


They've hooked my pump up to work by hand, or either to use the electric pump (inside the barrel) for continual water flow.



rayofson -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/17/2008 11:58:20 AM)

My wife collects cow-themed items. We have a collection of cow windchimes. Also I have a couple gnomes here and there.

One of our neighbors has a very large anchor in his front yard. I'd be tempted to steal it, but I think the bulldozer tracks and the anchor in the front yard would give me away. [8D]



doinkdom -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/17/2008 12:00:27 PM)

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ORIGINAL: zondie
I use large rocks for drainage too. Do you ever use large dried roots in your garden? And the red mulch you mention. Are you talking about lava rock?


Large dried roots? I need an example cause I'm not sure[&:]

The red mulch is well, it's mulch that's red - not sure how it gets to be red, but it is.

I forgot about the lava rock, that might a good addition...great suggestion!



zondie -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/17/2008 10:32:52 PM)

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rayofson wrote:
One of our neighbors has a very large anchor in his front yard.



I've never seen an anchor in someone's yard (yet). But we did see a cannon and my hubby wants one!


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doinkdom wrote:
Large dried roots? I need an example cause I'm not sure.


Well, what I've got is actually a big dried out piece of a tree root. Some people around here use what is called 'drift wood'. It's huge pieces of tree roots that have been washed up on the side of a river or lake. They're dried out and used for decor. It's really counted as a 'good find' if you can get one that is unusually twisted or bent, and looks like sculptured art. I like it cause it's light weight (usually) and don't attract bugs. It's really pretty among brightly colored blooms!



stellaluna -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/18/2008 10:20:27 AM)

We don't have anything in the yard per se, but we do have a statue of a very wise-looking Chinese man on our porch. That's what I call him: "My Chinese Guy." He was a gift from a neighbor about ten years ago and he's been on my various porches ever since.



doinkdom -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/18/2008 10:30:22 AM)

drfitwood!

I don't have any, but I can get some easily off the local beaches around here...good idea!



stellaluna -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/18/2008 11:34:34 AM)

I think some of you need to join a flamingo 12-step program.

[:D]



doinkdom -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/18/2008 11:41:13 AM)

I think step one is admitting you have a problem

and I'm in total denial in the summertime[;)]



zondie -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/19/2008 2:12:03 PM)

I got an old time milk can! I think it's made out of galvanized steel.[sm=icon_smile_question.gif] It's about 2 1/2 ft. tall and has two handles and a lid on it. It's so cute. I set it on my porch (for now). Anybody have any suggestions on how to display it? I thought that, I could put a pot of flowers on top of it and use it for a flower stand. But then I'm not sure if you could even tell what it is if I do that.



peculiar_lady2 -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/19/2008 2:15:10 PM)

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ORIGINAL: zondie

I got an old time milk can! I think it's made out of galvanized steel.[sm=icon_smile_question.gif] It's about 2 1/2 ft. tall and has two handles and a lid on it. It's so cute. I set it on my porch (for now). Anybody have any suggestions on how to display it? I thought that, I could put a pot of flowers on top of it and use it for a flower stand. But then I'm not sure if you could even tell what it is if I do that.

depending on if you would need it, you could use it as an umbrella stand for wet umbrellas



zondie -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/19/2008 9:39:48 PM)

That's a great idea peculiar_lady2! Thanks.

BTW: Congratulations on your new little one coming in June! May God bless your whole little family. (Love your avatar.)



creationtalk -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/19/2008 11:10:00 PM)

My lawn ornaments also double as riding lawnmowers and automatic fertilizers...the only drawbacks are they are selective mowers...and sometimes mow things that I'd rather they didn't. Not to mention, that the big white one likes to pull plants out of ceramic pots then stomp on the pots because he likes the sound of breaking pottery....

I used to have many decorative birdfeeders up...but one of the cats thought they were CATfeeders, so had to take them all down to protect the birds.



peculiar_lady2 -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/20/2008 9:14:29 AM)


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ORIGINAL: zondie

That's a great idea peculiar_lady2! Thanks.

BTW: Congratulations on your new little one coming in June! May God bless your whole little family. (Love your avatar.)

thanks!![:D][:D]
if you want it to drain then you would need holes in the bottom....and if it's really too tall for the umbrella's then you can put rocks in the bottom for drainage and to lift up where the umbrella sits.



zondie -> RE: Yard ornaments & decor (4/21/2008 6:30:39 PM)

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creationtalk wrote:
My lawn ornaments also double as riding lawnmowers and automatic fertilizers...the only drawbacks are they are selective mowers...and sometimes mow things that I'd rather they didn't. Not to mention, that the big white one likes to pull plants out of ceramic pots then stomp on the pots because he likes the sound of breaking pottery....


Do you have goats or maybe horses?



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