Garden Gnomes and other creatures

Probably a self portrait.:rolleyes:

Must admit, I quite like the odd one or two cement type things in my garden in the correct place. But just for amusement and nothing serious yea.:thumb:

Garden gnomes...not sure if I like them, but nothing against them.:thumb:

 

Everybody to there own a garden is there to make it how you like it,not a gnome person myself but like a nice sculpture.

 

I think it's funny when someone borrows a gnome from anothers garden then send photos of it back to the owner from places all over the world!!

 

As long as there isn't too many of them, I think some nicely placed ones can really make the garden look nice.

 

I've got no gnomes but I do admit to having a winnie the pooh bird bath and feeder :p

 

I like them all myself, just going back to the post about travelling gnomes-I have heard of someone swiping a gnome from a garden and then sending ransom notes-hilarious.


I have a few of those mushrooms which my kids have painted up, and loads of homemade bird feeders and bug palaces. I can`t abide those faces that people nail to their trees though-it`s an atrocity.

My kids leave things outside-rubber snakes, plastic insects etc, and my daughter has a little post box for the mail to and from the faeries.

 

I have a few little japanese type things myself. (I have a bird feeder to though, a simple made out of stone one) Mostly little japanese laterns that sit around the pond, they look really nice at night time, lit up.

 

Well, my collection so far consists of one terracotta duck with the head glued back on, after it had a fight with one of my cats, and a "mousy" bird bath similar to the one in the picture with wich I started the thread, which I bought yesterday, and must yet install. I had set up the duck to look down into the water barrel in the lawn, but had to move it after it fell in twice, lol.
What I really love are old stone or terracotta pieces full of moss and lichens, lions, turtles, greyhounds, gargoyles. One of the funniest things I ever saw was a rather realistic hippo head floating among waterlilies in a pond way too small to cantain such a beast.

 

I bought this frog! a few weeks a go...



I bought this lantern specifically to hang here, so when the sun!! shines through the fence it will look like its on fire haha, no chance..:rolleyes:



And my Beautifull Sunshine, A birthday pressie to myself :thumb:




I have garden ornaments, given as presents, but i much prefer an odd one placed around the garden, Oooo just remembered i have a Great metal Slug somewhere

 

my neighbour is quite fond of "cute" ornaments this is a pic of her garden from over my fence,at the top of the bank on the far right she has added a pink bumble bee

 

Pam, ive squinted, had the laptop in the air. and still I can,t see the Pink Bumble Bee

 

Here are my three garden critters ..meet Tweaky, Paladin and Shiney I will leave you to decide whos who

 

:D:D

And could this be the face of a Nut??

 

The Nut, that's cruel :D:D:D

 

I once toyed with the idea of developing a solar powered flashing gnome (and I don't mean a light) but never got round to it. Might appeal to some people!