{"id":19492,"date":"2018-10-10T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19492"},"modified":"2018-10-10T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T12:40:00","slug":"garden-ornaments-outdoor-art-and-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/garden-ornaments-outdoor-art-and-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Ornaments, Outdoor Art and Statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19494\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-005-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-005-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-005-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-005-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nYou can trim your hedges and shrubs and \/ or trim up your garden with ornaments. No two gardens will ever be the same and your &#8216;trimming&#8217; will help create your own unique style. I for one want more humour including Sherlock Gnomes and fertilising leaks and peas among my cabbages.<\/p>\n<p>But remember loam wasn&#8217;t built in a day<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19496\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-006-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-006-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sun-006-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Commonsense Garden Decoration<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep objects in proportion to the areas where they are on show &#8211; too small and you can&#8217;t see them properly &#8211; too large and they dominate<\/li>\n<li>Chose a style and stick too it &#8211; contemporary, classical, cottage, trad or what ever, a mix of styles is hard to pull off decoratively. Give an eleborate object a plain backdrop so it stands out.<\/li>\n<li>In a busy border opt for simple shapes to contrast with densely packed vegetation.<\/li>\n<li>Spheres, spirals, chimney pots, classic statues, tall oblique poles can all help create a focal point or focus of interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Lighting and Illumination<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Spot lights can be softer than floodlighting<\/li>\n<li>Floodlights show off good decorative features but think about how shadows will fall<\/li>\n<li>Down-lighters can show a path<\/li>\n<li>Up-lighters on structures like pergolas can be effective.<\/li>\n<li>solar lights are improving but need charging in low light conditions<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy and use your creative instincts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14986\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Guardians-of-the-Mint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"877\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Guardians-of-the-Mint.jpg 877w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Guardians-of-the-Mint-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><strong>Gnomeo Book and Gardening Club<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can trim your hedges and shrubs and \/ or trim up your garden with ornaments. No two gardens will ever be the same and your &#8216;trimming&#8217; will help create your own unique style. I for one want more humour including Sherlock Gnomes and fertilising leaks and peas among my cabbages. But remember loam wasn&#8217;t built in a day Commonsense Garden Decoration Keep objects in proportion to the areas where they are on show &#8211; too small and you can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/garden-ornaments-outdoor-art-and-statues\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19504,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions\/19504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}