How to Find the Perfect Garden Ornaments
Garden ornaments are the perfect foundation for your outdoor decoration. Not only can they express your personality, but they can provide structure and texture. Whether you’re into creating the zen of a far eastern paradise or want to hark back to a traditional English cottage garden, outdoor ornaments are a great way to start your garden decorating ideas. Prime has the widest range of garden ornaments on the market, at easily affordable prices.
Why you need garden ornaments
As well as expressing your taste, personality, and creating visual interest, garden ornaments play an important role in how to decorate your garden.
Add structure and interest to a garden
They can add structure or interest by creating a focal point. If you have a large lawn, the expanse of grass can be broken up by a stone or terrazzo statue.
Alternatively, another garden ornament idea could be to create a scene or setting by grouping certain ornaments together. You could even take a walk on the wild side with some jungle creatures.
Highlight or disguise certain areas
Garden ornaments can also be used to draw attention either to or from an area. If you have a slightly more rundown patch of garden, where bushes or plants haven’t properly grown in, you could aim the garden’s focus at a statue or ornament on the other side of your space.
A patch of grass or dirt that won’t grow uniformly could also be concealed by a large plant pot as an ornament, a decorative sculpture, or a beautiful bird bath.
Express your personality
As with all decoration ideas, garden ornaments are there to express your personality. If you are an animal lover, why not reflect that through some of our affordable animal statues?
Alternatively, you can bring the animals to you with a bird bath to draw native wildlife to your garden. Or if you prefer a Grecian vibe, make the most of large Grecian-style urns and plant pots to bring a Mediterranean look to your home?
Define the style of your outdoor decoration
When it comes to how to decorate your garden, there are a few factors to bear in mind. While you don’t have to make all of your garden ornaments matchy-matchy, it makes sense to define the style of your outdoor decoration before you buy lots of ornaments.
Are you going for a minimalist look, or do you want to fill your garden with life? Will you choose one type of material for your statues and ornaments, or lots of different ones? Try and have some garden design ideas before you begin. It’s easy to adapt them, and nothing has to be set in stone. Unless you want it to be…
Consider the size of your garden
Another thing to bear in mind when it comes to garden ornament ideas is the size of your garden. Too many ornaments in a smaller garden space may look cluttered, while not having enough statues and decorations in a bigger garden might make the pieces you do have look out of place.
What material appeals to you?
There are no hard and fast rules about the type of material you want to have in your outdoor space, but it makes sense to choose hardy materials that can stand up to the elements. Solid sturdy materials such as stone or concrete are hardy and will stand the test of time in your garden, as well as being inexpensive to purchase and maintain.
Choosing durable, hard-wearing materials
Durable, hard-wearing materials like stone, such as terracotta or terrazzo will be able to deal with excess sunshine or rain. While you can easily move smaller statues inside, larger ornaments will be harder to move and it’s easy for certain materials to age if they’re left out too long. For those who like a more historic, aged worn feel to their ornaments, this could be an added benefit.
Picking the perfect position for your garden ornaments
Use your garden ornaments as focal points; you chose them for a reason. Make sure that the grass, shrubs and flowers around your statues and ornaments are trimmed back so they can be shown off to their best advantage. Place them so they’re facing the direction of your house is one thing to bear in mind, as is taking into account how the statues relate to and are positioned near each other.
Combine practicality with aesthetics
Combining practicality with aesthetics isn’t as sensible as it sounds, we promise! It simply means getting double use out of your ornaments by incorporating decorative flower pots, bird baths or water features into your garden decoration ideas.
Bird baths
Bird baths are a beautiful way of decorating your garden. Not only do they provide a focal point, but the birds they attract will bring even more colour, life and noise to your outdoor space. In addition to the natural beauty that they will draw in, bird baths are also a fantastic way to control garden pests. The birds you attract will feed on the insects that might attack your flowers and plants. The sound of birds splashing can also create a relaxing atmosphere in your outside space for you to enjoy.
Water features
Incorporating a water feature is another good way to combine function and beauty for your garden. Prime Liquidations has a number of stunning water features that will refresh your garden, provide a home for wildlife and potentially be a talking point for guests.
Plant pots
Plant pots can brighten up any area, by bringing the foliage out of the garden and onto a patio or deck, as well as being features in themselves. Use them to line pathways, draw attention to specific areas, or even store tools, seeds or potting soil.
Shop our range
At Prime Liquidations, we have so many fresh and unique garden ornaments at every price point to suit every style. Why not contact us or come into the showroom to check out a cheap range that’s sure to put a spring in your step.
