Garden Design: How to Choose and Place Garden Art in Your
Backyard
Garden Design: How to Choose and Place Garden Art in Your
Backyard
Your backyard should relax and refresh you, but it should also
delight you! Choosing garden art that reflects your personality
and makes you feel good is an important key to creating the
ultimate backyard.
Art can mean many things to many people but basically there are
3 types:
1. Formal Art Think larger stately pieces that you see in more
traditional backyards, like a classic sculpture of a Greek
goddess or a stone angel. Heavy iron garden ornaments like
obelisks and sundials also work well with most backyard
landscape designs.
These pieces create an old-world feel and lend a sense of drama
to the yard. Others might include columns, carved fountains,
birdbaths, and classical architectural salvage.
2. Semi-formal This is the most popular type because it suits so
many styles of backyards. It's more relaxed in theme, a little
more nostalgic and decorative.
For example, light hearted sculptures of animals or children in
concrete, resin or bronze, contemporary metal sculptures of
flowers and insects, stained glass stepping stones, artistic
birdhouses, and hand painted garden pots, copper wind chimes.
3. Informal Art I call this art "your imagination gone wild".
Everyday objects are placed in the garden to create art that is
fun, whimsical, and even campy.
I've seen all kinds of items used as garden d