Congrats. The first garden I worked in had a lot of statues - they can really add some character!

In North America we certainly use very little statuary as compared European countries! I only have one somewhat similar statue and a three "faced" planter friends left with me as they moved from the region.

"Statues" might be too refined a term for my collection of yard art over the years. In my big garden I did have a FLW Sprite statue, as well as a bunny and a gargoyle, all cast concrete. I sold them all when I moved.

My garden now has smaller and more portable yard art - a metal goat family, a couple of iron and stone snails and a collection of rusted iron stakes topped with a butterfly, a bee and a pig with wings. I also have a bird bath support made of the same rusted iron that I now use as a clematis support since I broke the bird bath part.

My favorite garden statue is a charming lead "Dancing Girl with Scarf", about 3 1/2 ft tall and she dances on a matching plinth. And from the sublime to the semi-ridiculous - a three-ft gremlin who has a wicked grin. Also have a set of the four seasons in cherub form, with bases, but I have not hauled them out for display the past few years. A fabulous original antique staddle stone from England, and a stone table, also from England. A wonderful large plaque of Bacchus, another smaller one of a woman's face, and a head of a small female woodland sprite above the door to my garden shed. Love them all!!

Nice find! It looks like real marble, so pretty and timeless !

My garden art consists of mostly clutter, recently discovered my husband's stash of extra tires near my astilboides, so not the art I'm looking for , haha (and is on the way out!!)

We have constructed some copper trellises for kiwi vines and to protect rhododendrons from the moose, I appreciate that as garden art and I have a stainless steel octopus sculpture hanging amongst the kiwis .

LOL like gardengal says, statue might be too refined for me too. Now that I am thinking about it, I have quite a few pieces of "art" in the garden, but all fairly small.

I have a mushroom-like toad house, with a (separate) little toad sitting on a lily pad next to it, all small enough to fit under a hosta. I have a japanese lantern, a small armillary my mom bought for me, and a small fairy, about 8 inches tall, holding a leaf that serves as a tiny bowl for a few birdseeds or some water. I have a gazing ball on a short (12 inch?) stand, and some mushrooms from Kinsmen that I really like (see here). I haven't put it out in some years, but when my daughter was smaller I had a small fairy figure, lying on her stomach reading a book, which my daughter loved so I got it.

One of my favorites is just a small rounded upright rock, about 6 inches tall, with two designs like wheels-with-spokes carved into it, with eyes glued in the center. It's supposed to be a little owl. The garden center had several, all different - different sizes, different eyes, different kinds of rock - but all cute and all oddly individual lol. Hard to choose one!

Oh, and a birdbath.

L Clark, that's quite a find! Be sure to post pictures when she is in her home in your garden!

:)

Dee

The statue is concrete. My wife said our two sons (10,8) will look at her chest lmao.

Lol your wife is probably right! But I guess if you think about it, so much art and sculpture (and concrete garden art lol) depicts half naked (or more!) bodies, so there's that.

Looks like several of us posted at the same time above. roxanna I had to look up what a staddle stone is. What a great piece to have for your garden! Your table sounds intriguing too - can you describe it a bit more or show a picture?

lat62 I've always wanted to try to build my own copper trellises and obelisks, etc. Are yours simple or are they more decorative. You know, there ARE people who use old tires in their gardens, often as planters. Not my thing but I guess it's recycling on some level lol.

I have always wanted an old mill stone for my garden. I have seen them used to beautiful effect. Too bad they are so darn expensive!

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Dee

Impressed you managed to transport a staddle stone, Roxanna.

While big formal or heritage gardens may have a lot of statuary, domestic gardens here don't have a huge amount. Good quality stuff is expensive. I have no statuary in my tiny garden, although I do have the hackneyed garden table comprising a marble slab on an old treadle sewing machine base. The slab was found in the garden. It was from an old washstand.

My youngest is a welder/fabricator so I do have various items...although my inclination does not really run to garden art. I also have a marble topped garden table on an old treadle base (my worm composter sits on it). Maybe if I had a larger, grander garden...

Dee and floral_uk ~ I will try to figure out how to post photos as I have completely forgotten how I did it for my 25 years of gardening essay way back. The dancing girl, staddle stone and table all came from a sadly-now-out-of-business fabulous place that imported such things from Europe. (I decided to stop feeding my children so I could use the money for my own pleasure, lol. Kidding!)

Forgot my gazing ball on a low base -- it is an iridescent soap bubble, the size of a basketball, just so pretty, but I haven't hauled it out for display for a few years. The pond has a pretty little fountain and there have been a few birdhouses over the years. Just bought a bat house (not installed yet) as our pest control fellow said they had been living in one of my garden sheds!

Have no idea what to do with it all, as neither my sons nor my grandchildren will want any of it... =(

Photos are easy to post now. We used to have to put them on a picture hosting site like Photobucket. Now you just click the photo icon below the comment box. Providing, that is, your pix are on your device.

Mine:

debra

I also had to look up what a staddle stone is -- learned something today! What a cool thing to be in possession of.

I'm not big on garden art. I have a couple small things here and there but nothing too artsy -- turtles and rabbits. I didn't even put out the two concrete rabbits I have this year, they're an afterthought -- if I think of them I will put them out, but most years I forget about them, and they don't have a dedicated spot in the garden.

Nice! Love the mermaid