I do! Sadly, I do not have a picture, yet. My husband and I rescued one of those old-fashioned metal and wood glider benches from a neighbor who was throwing it out. We had just bought our house and started gardening, and we happily carted it down the street to our yard. This spring, my daughter and I are going to replace all the wood and repaint it, and then ... Aaahhhhh!

Here is my concrete one - when the roses have leafed out and bloomed, it is in a bower (which hides the garage wall of the neighbors behind it).

Jackie

Here is my wooden one in a different part of the garden.

Jackie

Last one - this concrete mushroom garden stool was originally (it has been in our garden since 1905) painted white on the bottom, and red on the top with white polka dots (we have ancient pictures of it)!

I like it better in its weathered state. The kitties like to sit on it.

Jackie

Here's my favorite bench. It's sitting on the patio waiting for my gardens to be built so I can locate it somewhere that will have the best view of the flowers. :-)

Love the shroom, Jackie. I just have a ratty old wicker rocker, so I don't think I'll post any pics. I need to do some upgrading. All your benches and bowers are very inspiring. Diane

Hopefully by Sunday or Monday I will have photos of my new garden bench....because that is what I am working on now in the great patio raising project. I am looking forward to seeing it with my sdlm on it too

I'm embarrassed to admit I have a total of 6 benches and 3 gliders in my gardens. I don't know how to post multiple pictures, but here's my favorite (by my goldfish pond)
Molly

Another bench
Molly

This is my double glider. Can you tell I love sitting areas in my garden?

Molly

lovely seating areas

Take time to sit on your bench & admire your garden.

relax, read, dream - daydreams are free...

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I want to see pictures of the ones that you all are working on that are not sited yet - please do post them when they are ready. Molly, I love all of your benches, and that is a great picture of the hummingbirds!

Jackie

My garden is large and hilly so we have a lot of benches. Here's one

Garden benches in process?

This is a photo of where my covered garden bench (home for cl sdlm) will be next week. It will be to the left of our "Hoe House" and built in to the picket fence where the windmill is right now and about the same height as the roof on the little tool shed.

On the right and out of the photo is the side that I am going to put in a 14 foot long bench to use with a couple of 6 foot wooden tables. I figure that should seat a lot of people for lunch!

With a tiny house, nice SoCal weather, hillside garden and an 89 year old mom, I have chairs and places to sit scattered all over.

This chair gives a perfect view of 'Belinda's Dream'. Cuddles used to sneak on when no one was looking.

I have three, but this delicate butterfly shaped one is my favorite. The bench umbrella stand sits beside the bench, and I add the umbrella to it when the tree shade is inadequate. (note the fan aimed at the bench My roses are just across from the bench (hey, Alabama is hot too), and i love to sit there and enjoy the roses and the birds that visit my other flowers.

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This is my garden gazebo...it has a few rockers and a swing. Maybe not a bench, but a lovely place to sit and enjoy the roses! Lesley

This is my small concert bench...seldom used, but handy to put tools on!! Lesley

I can't overstate how much I am enjoying the gorgeous photos being shared here!
This green metal bench (in front of Rebecca) is very upright and uncomfortable, but I fell in love with it when I saw it at a junk shop and had to find a place in my garden for it.
Molly

I have a rope hammock chair that hangs from a sturdy hook. I am building a wood structure for my old felicia and I am going to hang it there. I love all your bench pictures. The bench I would love to have is the ones they sell at Northland Rosarium's store made from old tree stump-roots and carved out to be chairs and benches. I love that natural look. There is a huge old tree stump at the LA Arboretum with a place to sit. It is polished smooth by all the people who have sat there and kids who climbed it. I love that stump. It looks like the throne of an elf or a fairy queen.

I'm enjoying all these lovely sitting areas--they all look so inviting---
Florence

At the end of today

It is looking like a bench (minus the seat)

The pickets are for the back of a different llooooonnnnggg bench

How nice it is to see everyone's special spots. I have three benches, a swing, a hammock and one little kids bench, and surprisingly very few pictures of any of them! My Father in Law rescued a lovely old iron bench from a curb that I will replace the slats for this year. I spent the evening enjoying the lovely weather today on my favorite one contemplating what all i want to do this year in my garden.

Here is a picture of the Chicken's favorite bench......we don't sit on this one much :-)

grace e

Here is the only picture I could find of my hammock without someone in it......it is always occupied especially by me !! The log in the picture gets made into an impromptu seat a whole lot as well.

Grace e

My green bench under Chloris and a plum tree. The round iron table a neighbour made is very practical. You just stick it in the ground where you need it.

You all have such nice areas to put benches. I don't have anything like that here. Just my big patio.

i have a concrete bench and a redwood double adirondack chair but never ever sit down. We have a covered deck with a table and chairs - we eat there sometimes - occasionally I sit for a while after eating but usually I'm up and gardening without knowing what hit me. My husband says it's like spontaneous combustion - one minute I'm sitting down and then poof! I'm pulling a weed.
Anita

Anita, doesn't it seem like the second you get comfortable you notice the giant weed and can see nothing else...off to pull it.

We have several in different area of our garden. Here is the first, cast concrete with polished green pebbles imbedded in the top.

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This is the second, also cast concrete. The supports are shaped as stacks of books with a giant book forming the seat. So very me. Our house is filled with books and bookcases. Tom and I are book ardent readers.

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I keep imaging that I will actually sit on one of them some day. I do sometimes sit on the porch swing (not pictured). Finally there is a built-in L-shaped bench on the front patio, with a brick base and redwood top. It came with the house. At this time there is very little space to sit because it is currently the home of my pot ghetto. Once I get this crop of trees and roses planted, and maybe renew the stain on the wood, it will be back in service as a sitting area.

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Lots of places to sit and enjoy the garden, but I enjoy it best by working in it.

Rosefolly

More garden bench photos

Just needs a coat of stain (white) and then the seats painted. The bench is covered because of the fog that is rolling in over night.

The first picture features part of the pots I need to plant.

I am making a pair of long wooden tables and benches for the built in bench

Our new deck has two new benches.

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harryshoe, nice deck for a bbq

I'm surprised these pictures even posted. I tried four times to post yesterday. Each time I was interrupted by a Pantene pop-up which froze my screen.

That second picture shows my first bench with the hybrid musk Sweet Bouquet cascading over the back and Rose de Rescht on the right.

I think we must be lazy as we have six places for sitting, three big enough for seating 6 to 8 people. This white furniture is typically Swedish country style, made in 1909 and a gift from friends who moved to Norway. It badly needs painting. We sit here in the evening as it's too sunny by day.

shamefully, I have NO places for sitting in the garden (not wishing to encourage idle offspring and their pals) - although I do have a timber coping round my beds which was always meant to be used as possible bench seats (similar to Paula's)....but was filled, within days of construction, with dozens of pots, seed trays, tools and other garden equipment, leaving just enough space for an elderly collie to poke it's nose into the plantings - which have overflowed onto every remaining inch of space. If pressed, I can produce a couple of folding seats, once the pots on the floor have been kicked aside....oh yeah, I have a chair (for me) in the greenhouse.
At the allotment, the seating tends to be bits of timber balanced on breeze blocks or upturned pots ). I sometimes sit in the wheelbarrow too. The gardens are not places of rest but places of work. To relax, I go inside and loll on a sofa with a book.

I'm pretty shameful, too, campanula, with my beat up wicker rocker. I sit in it plenty, then go inside and loll in another rocker with a book. I do a lot of lolling. But, anyway, I want to comment on how inviting all these seating arrangements everyone has posted look, and what talented people some of you builders are. Harryshoe's photos belong in Fine Gardening--they are exquisite. Thanks for letting me into your gardens for a bit with the wonderful photos. Diane

We have tons of places to sit built in or chairs and tables scattered about.

But, that is cause mom gets tired and needs to sit down often. And since it is a gentle hillside, it helps to have places on both sides of the long lower garden and top, middle and bottom.

But the main reason is the house is small, old and dark. And being SoCal I can add "rooms" outside in the yard far cheaper than add to the house.

For decades the lower yard was hidden in junk, layers of trees, vines, etc. It is open now and visible, safer for mom should she fall. But having the places for her to sit seems to draw out neighbors to stop by and say hi.

That's wonderful, kippy. I've followed your projects all along--do you yourself build all these neat benches, fences, etc, ? And you do all the digging out, and planting at your mom's and your own house, too? I'm just amazed at all the things you have accomplished. Your mom is very lucky, and her yard must be very inviting. Diane

Thanks Diane. This week I learned how to cut stepping stones with a grinder (they are not perfect but better than dirt triangles.

I thought I would update the project.

It still needs a coat of paint or two and some dirt to raise the brick garden walk to the new level of the patio.

But I think we are closer to having space for the party (two weeks left and tons to do next week) I will need a vacation the day after the party!

It's wonderful, kippy. I am in awe of your skills (I have no building skills; the whole thing scares me). The little shed is so cute.
Your party should be a great success. Is it a wedding party that you talked about earlier? Post a few pics, and good luck with all your plans. Diane