How to Decorate Your Garden Using Profound Garden Statues that Bring Your Yard to Life

Written by Candice Pardue


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Whatever your theme, be sure it fits well withrepparttar overall look and feel of your garden or yard.

Some Common Themes Are Below:
  • Gnomes (water gnomes, winged gnomes)
  • Angels and Cherubs
  • Animals (birds, lions, pigs, cows, butterflies, etc.)
  • Children
  • Monumental
  • Flowers
Create a Focal Point in Your Garden with a Garden Statue

One favorite use of garden statues is to draw attention to one particular spot in your garden or yard. For example, you may want a section of flowers to receive exceptional attention. A garden statue placed amongrepparttar 138007 flowers will drawrepparttar 138008 eyes directly torepparttar 138009 location. Small statues can be used to drawrepparttar 138010 eyes to low-lying plants, shrubs or vegetation. Garden statues add a dramatic effect to your decor, while also telling a story.

Using a Garden Statue as a Memorial

If you would like to set up a memorial for a loved one, a garden statue is a great way to do so. Placing a memorial statue near flowers will help remind you of your loved one each year whenrepparttar 138011 flowers bloom.

Adding garden statues to your garden decor is a great way to enhance your garden without a lot of maintenance, and you can enjoy them year after year.

Candice Pardue writes for Online Discount Mart and TV Products 4 Less. Please include an active link to our site if you'd like to reprint this article.


Tulip Care

Written by Linda Paquette


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Growing tulips is easy. Tulips are spring flowering bulbs that should be planted in late autumn. Tulip bulbs are an excellent nutrient storage system that need little care besides water. Tulips prefer a bed of sandy, slightly alkaline soil with at least four hours of sunlight per day, but not direct sun. Today there are over 100 species of growing tulips and many hundreds of hybrids, primarily due torepparttar extensive breeding programs and tulip care that began inrepparttar 137817 late sixteenth century.

Planting tulips is as simple as growing tulips. Bulbs should be spaced depending onrepparttar 137818 effect you want to create. The only rule is that they shouldn’t be close enough to touch each other. Planting depth is also easy to calculate. As a rule of thumb, plant tulip bulbs at a depth of two to three timesrepparttar 137819 height ofrepparttar 137820 bulb. The most difficult part of planting tulips is remembering to put them root side down and pointed side up!



Linda is author of the Tulip Flower and Bulb Flowers section of Gardening-Guides.com


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