Garden Design: How to Choose and Place Garden Art in Your Backyard

Garden Design: How to Choose and Place Garden Art in Your Backyard
Deborah Boland

Your backyard should relax and refresh you, but it should also delight you!
Choosing garden art that reflects your personality and makes you feel good is an important key to creating the ultimate backyard.
Art can mean many things to many people but basically there are 3 types:
1. Formal Art
Think larger stately pieces that you see in more traditional backyards, like a classic sculpture of a Greek goddess or a stone angel. Heavy iron garden ornaments like obelisks and sundials also work well with most backyard landscape designs.
These pieces create an old-world feel and lend a sense of drama to the yard. Others might include columns, carved fountains, birdbath View the rest of this article