Garden Decorations

Outdoor statues are a great way to decorate your garden. Sometimes it can be hard to give things a fresh look without them. You can change the flowers, the layout, add a new path, or even apply a fresh coat of paint to the outside of your house, but sometimes none of this gives it just the right flare. Outdoor statues give your garden a focus. They can change the way everything looks very quickly and easily.

There are two approaches to choosing outdoor sculptures that I have seen. In some gardens, the focus is on a central outdoor statue. This is the same approach that is used in most public parks, and it seems to go well with many people's aesthetics. If you have a large bronze sculpture, for example, or a particularly artistic work that you are very proud of, you can set it up as the center of your yard. Everything else is sort of a frame for it.

The other approach to outdoor statues is much more playful. It involves using a lot of little hidden things instead of one central motif. In Portland Oregon, the city I live in, there is an outdoor venue beer garden that uses this approach very well. In amongst the plants on the patio, there are several small statues that are easy to miss at first. They are looking out at the customers, and as you sit there you sometimes get glimpses of them out of the corner of your eye. It gives the whole place a magical, playful appearance that is very appealing – particularly in the summer when it is warm enough to sit outside.

When you're picking out your statues, there's no reason to feel constrained by conventional motifs. Although outdoor angel statues are favored by many people, there are plenty of other ways to decorate your garden. You can find statues of wild animals, famous figures, or abstract forms. You can even make your own outdoor statue if you want to. You can use welding, clay, or some other material to make something that looks very nice. You can even combine little pieces of driftwood, using nails to hold it together and a saw or simple carving tools to sculpt it. Have fun with it and see what your imagination can come up with. The possibilities really are limitless. If you don't like the forms that you buy or create, you can always get others!