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LET’S DECORATE THE GARDEN

Give your imagination free reign

By Lynn Leissler

onsidering all that’s out there, the world is your market when Old bicycles add a delightful focal point in the yard. A neighbor puts
it comes to garden art. Like any art, however, its interpretation his deceased wife’s bike out each year, painted solid blue with geranium
Cand beauty are in the eyes of the beholder. My brother once baskets hanging from the handlebars. It’s a sweet memorial to her, and
asked why I had broken plates poking out of the soil in my flowerbeds. a reminder to the rest of us of enduring love.
I told him it was garden art, and he rewarded me with a brotherly eye
roll. Currently trending are large metal pinwheel spinners, especially in
copper. Old doors, mirrors or ladders propped against a fence add
If you favor a particular décor inside your home, the garden offers a whimsy. Discarded chairs look great when painted and decorated, or
place for variety and fanciful imagination. Pinterest can be your friend, left naturally distressed. A potted flower on the seat and you have a
your inspiration. One ambitious person covered the entire surface of conversation piece. Has the man in your life retired and hung up his
a bowling bowl with pennies (glue-gunned on) and set it in a metal suits? Dangle a few of his discarded ties from a tree branch. One friend
holder. Another individual created a garden guest from clay flower- angled an old croquet mallet and a few colorful croquet balls as a point
pots, letting nature eventually dress the terracotta man in moss. of interest among green shrubs.

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