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Mark wrote:Mixie, I love the look of the Mirror. at first I thought it was a port hole

I wish I could go through it like Alice lol!!!!!!!!!! A world full of exotics and no Mrs Mixie moaning about my latest purchase!!!

Be honest how many of us would love that one lmao.

I love the mirror. My fave thing non plant like in the garden.

Ta for the comment on my Brian (Dragon). He is always sitting on my head all day long when I am home. Mrs Mixie says it is because my head looks like a stone lol. Ie bare and barren. I even chased the postman up the road yesterday because he had mis delivered some mail with Brian on my head. He was going " get that horrid thing away from me" lol. Hope he meant Brian!!!!

At last I've got round to taking pic's of our ornaments, I didn't realise we had so many Melissa

There's more hope you're not bored yet
And lots and lots of pots.

While doing this post I've remembered several others that I've missed out

Melissa

Hi Melissa
What a mixed bag of ornaments! Looking through this thread, I wonder what a psychologist would make of it say we're all barking I expect

cathy.

Melissa, as well you know, pic's of gardens can never be boring

The croc' and lizards basking in the sunshine and pot display are my favourite ornaments! the glimpses of your garden are a treat as well!

cathy.

Yes Cathy, they look a odd collection when you put them altogether like this anyone analyising this lot would have a field day

Melissa

If they hadnt already realised that we are all nuts then they will now

You all certainly have an interesting collection of objets d'art in your gardens - here is some more of my bric-a-brac......

Neptune

A pile of stone from my travels

Fred's brother

Obligatory Easter style head

Charity Shop 50p glass head

Charity shop glass balls

A pile of stone balls

Vera Duckworth style flying birds

Brutus
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John

John, whats that on the left of Brutus, looks interesting.

Like all your balls to

Melissa

The terracotta vases by the tap water feature is one my favourites Mel!

John, I like the balls!! With the Neptune statue the first thing that popped into my mind was 'Tresco'

Hi Melissa

I wondered if someone might spot that. It is one of my shell towers. My parents live about 30 seconds from a beach and whenever I go to visit them I walk on the beach collecting these flat shells. At first we used to only collect ones with holes in, that had been made natuarally by wave action, as I had an idea to stack them on metal rods (we now cheat and collect all of them and then drill the holes!). I have 4 or 5 of these towers now in my garden. Up to now I have been using the spiral metal things that you can buy from garden centres - but they are not really up to the weight when it gets windy - so I am looking into getting a blacksmith to make me something more substantial.

Below are a couple of photos of my shell towers in more detail.

cheers

John

What an excellent idea John, I really like it.

Are they scallop shells?

Thanks MarkD, glad you like that bit

John, thought they might be shells but wasn't sure how you'd stacked them, I like that idea, they look really great Might nick that idea hope you don't mind

I've always fanced doing a stone pile on the same theme, by collecting stones with holes in and stacking them, but never managed to collect enough

Melissa

Melissa wrote:I've always fanced doing a stone pile on the same theme, by collecting stones with holes in and stacking them, but never managed to collect enough

Melissa

Hi Melissa

Please do nick the idea - I am sure I was inspired by Derek Jarman's garden in the first place.

I wish I had some photos of my parents garden to share with you. We have managed to collect loads of stones with holes in over the years and there are stone towers, stone 'necklaces', stone table cloth weights and just about anything else I could think of to do with stones with holes in!

regards

John

Bumping up this thread again, as while browsing through garden centres last Monday, once again I came across the worst garden ornaments still on sale! I mentioned about seeing these statues before to a few members, I'm glad I came across them again, this time I have the camera!

Charlie Dimmock
Alan Titchmarsh
And the naffest of them all.....

David and Victoria Beckham