Our local wild horse herds have stepped on and ruined my back portal pathway lights, and so we bought this set at Costco last weekend. I’m thinking that I’ll put these out off our front portal and move the ones there now to replace the broken back ones.

Oh, and my birdbath and bird statue out right off our front portal:

We have a Talavera pot on either side of the front steps on our front portal.

I'll be interested to see how those solar lights work for you Lynn. I had some one that absolutely never even worked. I would like something along my entrance path since it is dark even with the porch light on . . .

I love garden things, but haven't bought anything this season other than new plants to replace freeze-killed shrubs and mulch for the beds.

My favorite garden addition from last spring is Einar, my little elfin friend.

I’m such a bore. I’m lucky to get a few flowers planted. I do like things pretty “natural” though so that may have something do do with not having accoutrements. Crocs seem to last forever so no need for new shoes either.

I can't wear socks in the summer and my feet only got dirty in my old clogs because they had holes that went nowhere in the soles & dirt would collect in them and get my clean feet dirty. The ones I bought don't have holes. Clogs are great because you can just slip them off next to the door.

When my feet get sweaty or dirty I wet an old dishtowel and scrub my feet and legs. No need to shower ten times a day. :)

DLM, the stepping stones are great! It's been raining off and on and my feet didn't touch the dirt at all. When setting them on mulch you just use something to even the little area the square will sit on.

I watered the ground first, laid the stones, then stomped on them. Walking on them helps to push them in the ground a bit.

Lynn, you're garden decor is beautiful. Do the horses run or walk through your property? I love your birdhouses. I need a larger one for the trees.

Ida, I remember your little friend!

Fully, great idea!

2katz, your garden can still look natural with accoutrements. It's all about placement and what you buy. If I'm not mistaken and I hope she checks in, Arcy is the one who has a wild & beautiful garden and when she posted a picture of it a few years ago I spotted a little decorative birdhouse hanging on one of those pole thingys that you stick in the ground.

I copied her. :) One of my favorite pieces.

My garden clogs are closed, to keep my socks dry. I can’t wear any shoe without a sock, or a liner, or at least a “toe-cap”. I saw somewhere a liner that goes between the foot and a sandal, I have to find those again.

I have a cute birdhouse on a pole, and a couple of times a bird has actually had a nest and a family!

My favorite garden piece, though, is my wee Cosanti bell, which is so adorable and surprisingly sturdy, having survived heavy show drifts and plowed snow.

Thanks Oakley. The horses walk through our property unless, like this morning, when we walked into the kitchen and saw one entire herd of 7-9 milling around right next to our back portal, nibbling on my bird feeders and drinking out of our back birdbath! DH went out hollering and they all ran or trotted off. He followed them, yee-hawing and waving his arms, until they were well off our property (LOL). This close, but more of them this time and all right off our patio/portal:

My little garage-side garden just getting started. If you zoom in, you’ll see a handful of ceramic toadstools that are new. And the ceramic “totem” on the far right/bottom corner is also new.

Bpath, I've been searching for small bells to hang on the porch because I love the sound. I need to look at Consati bells on youtube to hear what they sound like.

I wear socks and liners but not when I'm working with soil & getting dirty. I can't wait until the only thing I need to do is just water the plants. I'm exhausted! When the hose water warms up I often times wash my feet before coming inside.

Lynn, I need to show the picture to my granddaughter. She is horse crazy and it all began with one of those stick horses when she was 2! She lived on that thing until she was 5.

I see a fence in the background, does it not keep the horses out?

We have a buffalo! Well, the farmer who owns the wheat field and pasture on the other side of our fence does.

Sue, where did you get that heart? I want one! Pretty flowerbed too.

I am trying to control the outdoor accoutrements in our new yard. There were already some things when we purchased the house - large "THE BEACH" metal letter sign and a wooden mermaid reclining on top of the fence. DH likes the beach sign. He removed a lot of the creeping vine from the mermaid when he was here alone.... she needs to be covered a bit. They left a huge iron cooking pot - would make a nice fire pit. Has a small hole in the bottom so it would also make a nice planter. There are two large fish pots with open mouths that the downspouts go into. Containers against house in the same blue, so I've gotten navy Sunbrella umbrellas for poolside and patio table.

I brought my collection of wooden and metal birdhouses that were hung on the fence two houses ago. Bird even used them. Here, I put on top of the laundry room cabinets. I may still put outside, but where they would need to go (shielded from the sun) I put a large marble piece.

There is a small wall mounted water fountain near the side gate. I need to clean and get it working.

Oakley, the heart on the ground? From PB a few years ago.

https://www.potterybarn.com/m/products/sweet-heart-planter-collection-fmp/?pkey=cheart

Fully, where did you find the wall panels And what size are they? The look great!

Sueb I have a similar "side of the house shade" garden. Mine needs attention!

Here are a couple from last year, both new additions to the back yard. The fountain was from our last house out east--we finally found time and space to get it set up in our new space. It's filled with Lake Michigan and Lake Superior beach rocks.

This is my little homage to one of my favorite children's books, "My Father's Dragon" by Ruth Stiles Gannett. I really wish I had time to do more, but there is SO MUCH that needs work in our yard . . . well, off to it!

I love it, Pink!

I realized I didn't respond to the request of the original post. And I don't really have anything that's purely decorative, but I do have some things for my veggies that are also kind of cool looking: tomato ladders and metal spirals for plant supports. I mainly use them for tomatoes.

Carol, those would look great with a Clematis!

Nothing new this year. I love Pan statues. I also love this cupola I got while on vacation in Maine years ago.

Young Pan holding a bunny

Fun thread!

Was going to pick some things up this week, but it’s supposed to be 95 degrees every day, so probably not going to happen.

Panko9

the panels are the side pieces from a iron garden trellis that I dismantled. I couldn’t find any panels affordable that were tall and wide enough and this was my solution. It was from one of those side of the road places that bring in garden things from Mexico etc.

Pan is so cute! I love bunnies and I have a Mama and baby bunny, and three bunnies as a set.

I totally forgot about the best garden accou. I had until it finally bit the dust last year. I've posted this picture before. Callieco and the wind spinner.

My daughter sent me photo of the fairy garden in her garden that she is excited about. The photo does not do it justice.

Happy, I love it! I gave DGD all the fairy garden things and we built it in her flowerbed. I was thinking of doing my own. I might have to. Your daughter did good!

Oakley, I will share your comments with my daughter. She was so excited to get the accessories that she facetimed me while she opened the boxes so we could ohh and aww together. She and her 11 year old son layed out the fairy garden. She loves giving tours of it. The pieces are beautiful.

I see the fairy garden is by a deck. I have similar plans for an area by my deck. May not happen this year, as we are redoing the deck and that is job one. I just love that fairy garden!! Thanks for sharing so I could enjoy a fairy garden vicariously!!

As a side note, when I was a little girl I kept trying to make a fairy garden, without much success. I was ahead of my time I guess. Now there are all kinds of books and web sites devoted to the hobby. There's even a garden shop nearby me devoted to it. I hope to visit there soon, but I probably shouldn't because I will get impatient and try to take on too much . . .

My favorite garden accoutrements, in no particular order:

a sign a dear friend just sent me:

The grotto next to my kitchen ( sorry for the dirty window with my Saint Francis statue:

And finally, my feathered friends. They’ve grown like crazy:

Back to the original post - IIRC, there used to be a forum called 'Garden Accoutrements', didn't there?

And it's pronounced ah-koo-truh-mahn, accent on the last syllable, I believe 🙂

But it's so fun to say "a koo tre ments." ;)

But also fun to say with the fancy French nasal accent, finally getting some use out of my three years of French!

Jo I have that same feeder with the metal leaf cage around it. The squirrels attack mine and knock it around relentlessly trying to shake seed out of it. It looks so good and sedate in your situation. My squirrels are just too roughneck.

Carol, yes there is but they don't really talk about garden decor very much. Decor is easier to pronounce and type. :)

Pink, you can make a fairy garden in a large flower pot.

Yeah, I had a wonderful Christmas fairy garden in a planter indoors, complete with gingerbread fairy house and sleds and all the rest. Also made some similar ones with the grands. I had to eventually dismantle mine since the plants outgrew the pot, and grands got destroyed in a house fire. We will regroup eventually, but meanwhile the fairies will just have to hunker down under my deck with the chipmunks!

Enjoying seeing everyone’s treasures. I’m enthralled with the fairy garden.

I have a lot of garden decor. It all means something. When it stops raining, I’ll get a few more pictures.

This is Daisy on the patio, right now surrounded by Mealy Sage petals. We initially found her headless at our fav Talavera/yard art place ... then found her head nearby. She was on the clearance table and we rescued her. DH glued her back together and we love her.

Whenever I've seen these horses, they were over $100. Luckily, it was a very clean break, and she’s good as new now.

Can’t help thinking of The Godfather.

Jinx, what a wonderful find! She has such a happy look to her. Your yard looks so lush and green. Yes, I know, your area has been getting a LOT of rain lately. Our DD lives in Dallas and has been complaining to me about it. Send any rain you don’t want back this way, please. We’re having just the opposite problem here!

Yikes! @ the Godfather reference 😬

Yours is most certainly not as grisly.

And @ I pink - you need an apostrophe in there - for a moment I thought you were saying your grandkids were lost in a house fire 😄

One more for now, and it’s an awful picture (so cloudy and nothing is blooming yet) ... anyway:

This wagon is so dear to my heart. My late husband and I were at the nursery and I spotted it as a plant display. I wanted it. But it was for display.

He went back after work the next day, convinced them to sell it, and surprised me with it. I used it for every holiday display, and regular plants in it the rest of the year. It has graced the yards of three houses so far. It was in our local newspaper one Fall.

Fast forward. I lost him to cancer/bone marrow transplant gone wrong.

My beloved wagon fell into disrepair. It was rotting and falling apart. (Like me.)

I met a widower and we fell in love. When he moved here, his first project was fixing Wagon. He took it apart and re-did what was needed. A labor of love, honor, and respect.

It still sits proudly. A dog-walking guy I always chat with walked by last week and said how much he likes Wagon. As he walked away, I smiled and nodded lovingly to my late DH and hugged my now DH when he got home.

That’s an Esperanza in the big pot, it’ll get big and sprawling and have beautiful gold/yellow/orange flowers. The small pot is a Cordyline that has major winter damage, but will come alive soon.

NOC likes Wagon, too. And I’m not kidding — if my late DH was a cat, he’d be this tabby. They have such similar personalities.

Lynn, this rain has been something! Wow! It’s a jungle here! I’m thankful for every drop, because I’m sure we’re in for a typical, dry, brutally hot summer.

My DD is in Dallas, too, we need to meet up! :)

Carol, ha! :D

Oh, Jinx, I love the story of the wagon. How lovely for you!

Jinx, I'm just cutting some onions over here. Really.

Love y’all ❤️

Oh, Jinx! That story! ❤

Pink, a fire? I'm so sorry! You just gave me an idea for Christmas, do a Christmas fairy garden! I remember spending hours looking at them on Pinterest.

Jinx, pretty Talevara!

Lynn, isn't the tile in your bathroom Talevara, or don't you have a lot of pieces?

Jinx, we've had rain and clouds for five days straight. The humidity made me sick one day because I had to tend to my seedlings & prune large branches. Go away!!

Your lovely story reminds me of an old Designing Women episode between Julia and Reese. Did you watch DW?

I was in HS when DW came out, so did watch some of the first season. I moved to Europe right after I graduated, so never got to see any more of it. :)

The only accoutrements I have are two planters on the front porch, which I finally got planted (and found the water feeder tubes for them from our irrigation system under a winter of mulch).

And our three dogs at the storm door!

Ok, I've been away and missed this thread! So many cute things!

Jinx, I am so totally jelly over your beautiful wagon! And what a sweet story.

I have a ton of garden accoutrements, many from the PO. In particular, I probably have 50 pots. They were stored in the stone house and one point but I need to get rid of them. No idea if they are salable or what.

In the meantime, I used some of the pots this year. This is in the garden outside my DR.

I have about a dozen of these. They have faces on the side. I think they are OTT but DH and my girlz gave them a thumbs up so I decided I will have them planted and put out this year.

This is how they will be planted. All of my plant material is green, white, and blue or purple (except a zinnia cutting garden in my potager).

Jinx ... <3

Tina, you do "do" garden accoutrements according to your last sentence.

I received my garden shoes yesterday. I like them but the soles aren't as thick as my other shoes. I have a lot of old Rose thorns left and that will be the test. It hurts thinking about it. lol

Here's the birdhouse next to the Clems. Below that if you look closely you can see two red roses on a rose bush that was supposed to be dead. :) I left the stump so the Clem could climb it.

Can you find mama and baby rabbit?

Here's one of the Christmas fairy gardens in a pot before it got burned up in a house fire. I have a photo of the other ones that I kept for a while at my house, but I haven't blocked out the faced on those. The theme of this fairy garden is, "Santa And Mrs. Claus Go On Vacation After Christmas Is Over." I used a lot of Christmas' tree ornaments for it . . .You can't see it too clearly, but Mrs. Claus in the corner outside the trailer is carrying a small tray of cookies . . . the fake candle represents a fake campfire. They are down in the FLA Keys . . . ;)

Edited to add that is some story Jinx. Sad but lovely. A lot of my gardening stuff is in honor of my late mother and also a way to connect with her. Your current DH obviously understands a lot about real and lasting love . . .

pink, I love the miniature Christmas garden in a pot. Santa on Christmas vacation is so clever.