Garden ornament
A Garden ornament is an item used for garden, landscape, and park enhancement and decoration.
The category can include:
- bird baths
- bird feeders
- nest boxes, birdhouses
- columns – cast stone
- fountains
- rocks and boulders with basins
- reflecting pools – small/portable types
- waterfalls – small prefabricated type
- garden furniture – motif types
- gazing spheres
- holiday – seasonal ornaments and decorations
- landscape lighting – decorative fixtures
- outdoor sculpture
- found objects such as recycled bowling balls, toilet planters, antique farm equipment
- kinetic sculpture
- masks
- obelisks
- renewable energy sculpture
- moon bridge – small ornament versions
- pagoda – small versions
- pedestals – e.g. terra cotta, cast stone
- pots
- urns
- ceramic art vases
- statuary
- sundials
- topiary specimens
- wind chimes, wind harps
- weathervanes
History
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Early examples of the use of garden ornaments in western culture were seen in Ancient Roman gardens such as those excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The Italian Renaissance garden and French formal garden styles were the peak of using created forms in the garden and landscape, with high art and kitsch interpretations ever since. The English landscape garden expanded the scale of some garden ornaments to temple follies
The Asian tradition of making garden ornaments, often functioning in association with Feng Shui principles, has a nearly timeless history. Chinese gardens with Chinese scholar's rocks, Korean stone art, and Japanese gardens with Suiseki and Zen rock gardens have and symbolic meaning and natural ornamental qualities.
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