It doesn’t matter at all what your taste in garden decor might be no matter where on that ever lengthening line between the sublime and the ridiculous your particular individual style of garden decor may fall there is something out there to suit all tastes and all themes . I used to know someone who themed their garden space around  bottoms yes you did read that correctly it wasn’t a typo all his garden decor had something to do with bottoms,behinds ,sit upons ,bums , butts ,tushes ,yes you heard me right derrieres.

If he had no problems finding garden decor to suit that theme then no matter how weird and wacky you may think your own bizarre or strange thoughts on garden decor may be you should be able to find something somewhere to suit it.You might have to shop at some obscure places perhaps even have a few pieces of garden decor custom made, or even handcraft a few  yourself. I recall my friends wife  having a statue of the Shakespearean character Bottom from A mid summer nights dream commissioned for her husbands  garden . As time goes on I am sure you will push out the envelope of ingenuity as far as it will stretch, I know my friend did.

Your taste in garden decor might not to be traditional but so long as it makes you happy on some level no matter how tacky others may consider it ignore them, be your own man, and follow your misguided muse ,it is your garden and you can decorate it how you like .All you need is inspiration, if you are a cat lover create a theme on anything cat related.If you love birds decorate with birds and for birds, add bird feeders and birdbaths and bird houses, grow plants and flowers that encourage the birds to visit your garden ,look for plants that are named after birds . The world of garden decor is your oyster all you need is to search out that first inspiration piece.

My friends inspiration piece if you could call it that was one of those dreadful  wooden cut out  characatures that depicted a fat old lady stooped over, when positioned in front of a flower bed she exposes  her knickers to all who pass by. An an old guy down the street from where my friend  lived had had a garage sale ,the fat  lady was not surprisingly an unsold item . Rather than throw her away he gave her to my friend with a beaming smile announcing “I had it planned all along, if she didn’t sell, she was yours ,”you can imagine my friends gratitude was boundless on receipt of this very tasteful piece of garden decor. My friend was contemplating  as he walked away, that he’d bin her, when he got home. But the old guy called after him “she’s the only one I’ve got left now, I was hangin’ on to her for sentimental reasons, used to make loads of them and sell them at the flea market years ago,quite a little earner back then , would of given her to you right off. As I can see  you’re into gardening , but I needed to raise some cash, but she didn’t sell, so she all yours now”.

My friends wife banned the fat old lady from being displayed anywhere within public view, so she was relegated to the back garden. A little annoyed by what he considered to be his wife’s pretensions, he found from some where a piece of garden decor in the shape of the lower half of a dog something similar to the pig above.

His wife a little riled thought that she would show him two could play at that game and what was what, by taking a recently removed toilet that had been replaced during some renovations  and placing it together with a planter containing a plant into the flowerbed at the back of the house ,opposite from the dining room window through which her husband would be certain to see this new piece of  garden decor when he ate his supper .And so the glove had been thrown down, they were still trying to one up each other when we moved away. The lady of the house always seeking to bring her bottom inspired garden decor acquisitions a bit more an up market feel, often  resorted to far reaching stretches of the imagination or even puns. She brought home a beautiful  ship wrecked copper galleon  sailing ship ,saying  it represented the bottom of the ocean. At some point she introduced fairy figurines claiming of course they were fairies (you guessed it) at the bottom of the garden. I think she also brought home some decorative rocks as garden decor claiming the garden had now really hit rock bottom .

Her husband more of a purist when it came to bottoms as items of  garden decor ,acquired from somewhere ,an auction I think, several mid sections of mannequin dummies.  He buried them in the lawn, so only their cheeks were visible and arrayed them across the grass like a set of bum cheek stepping stones. His wife was pretty “bummed” out by this as you can imagine. I can just remember thinking at the time that she aught to of considered herself fortunate that he  had come across  grayish looking mannequins, rather than nice pink authentic looking flesh colored ones,for  as it stood until you got up quite close ,you couldn’t tell they weren’t traditional paving stones set in the lawn ,as any regular item of garden decor, it was only on closer observation you discovered you were walking across the lawn on bum cheeks.

I guess the whole point of this article is to demonstrate that your garden decor doesn’t always have to be to be in the main stream  the same as everyone else’s .

So long as you like and enjoy your garden decor  that’s all that matters, but one thing that should be born in mind if your tastes do tend to run to “extreme ” garden decor pieces, it may be advisable to bring it back more within  the main stream of things if you put your property on the market and wish to appeal to a larger pool of buyers, not eveyone wants to lookk into their back yard and recieve a bums rush or  find the undead crawling from their graves in their back garden.