Turning Your Garden Decor into Art

Gardens may not appeal to us Americans, in the same way that they do to those from the United Kingdom or to people who live in other European cities. Nevertheless, we Americans do know how to tend to our gardens.

Though we don’t value these green places for the tea parties that we hold in them and though we do like a good, wide, and lush lawn for those barbecues that we love to have; there’s plenty to do to get a pretty garden. Now, there’s something that we sure do know how to do. We sure know how to make things pretty.

If your garden falls under the category of being small to modest in size; there are still a good number of things that you can do to make it more appealing. Why don’t you try to place it in a different light? You can do so with the help of garden decor. There’s absolutely no harm in trying and it comes with lots of fun.

For gardens which start from the porch and extend to a perimeter that’s just about where your lawn begins, why not plot out, on the grass, an array of flat stones painted over with a design? The design on the stones can be anything you’d like but here’s a suggestion.

You’re to use more than one stone for this example. Choose one of these thin stones, black or white in color, and begin working on it with the body of a bumblebee, in mind. Go on with painting this design until you’ve painted on enough stones to form a bee. After you’ve finished, arrange the stones in your garden like a lei of flowers. Begin at the right side of your garden’s grass until you’ve reached the left side.

The number of arrangements made of these painted stones depends on you. Keep in mind that they’re for your garden and not for your lawn or front yard. Use acrylic paints or spray dyes for this garden decor project. Remember to coat your stones over with varnish in order to seal the paint and protect it from rain.

Your stone decor arrangement can be patterned from this design or you can choose one from the seemingly endless list of choices out there. You can choose a pattern of flowers, or marble colored swirls, curvy waves or even polka dots.

Let’s give you another design idea. Want your garden decor stone to be really eye-catching? Dress them up with photo transfers. There are shops which specialize in this. Find one that’s near you and tell them that you’d like them to print famous oil paintings on your stones. If you’d like to be lots more creative, print the photos of celebrities. You can also simply choose to print your favorite album pictures on these stones. Again, it’s all up to you and the theme you’ve chosen. You can even use this idea without having a specific theme in mind.

While ordering photo transfers for your garden decor stone aren’t that expensive, they’re not cheap, either. If you’re willing to part with the extra cash for decorations that are really eye-catching, then go ahead. Spend, spend, spend, and keep your neighbors talking about your trendy garden.

Yard artcan be a quality add-on to your garden decor.