Enhancing your lawn with attractive ornaments brings your landscape to life by adding focal points to your yard, attracting desirable wildlife, and discouraging intruders.
Attracters
The most typical lawn ornament is the birdbath. From molded plastic to stone or metal models, birdbaths are a favorite way to add a touch of the wild to your domestic habitat. Aside from traditional hand-filled models, many modern birdbaths offer the gardener the conveniences of self-filling and temperature controls that make them a year-round feature for bird lovers.
Another water feature that becomes more popular every season is the fountain. Aside from attracting birds to your yard, fountains also provide the homeowner with the musical sound of running water. Fountain water can also be filtered to stay crystal clear, adding an extra sparkle to your landscape. In addition, because water is constantly in motion, water-breeding insects like mosquitoes are discouraged from using your outdoor ornament for incubating their larva!
Repellers
You also can add sparkle to your yard with a gazing ball. If you've seen these in stores and wondered what earthly good they are, here's a suggestion. Although most animals don't see two-dimensional objects as we do, anyone that owns a television and a cat knows that animals do see 2-D motion. A simple gazing ball, strategically placed, not only provides a focal point for your garden area, but also doubles as a scarecrow by reflecting the approach of birds and other small animals and deflecting them from landing in your garden. However, if you want to attract birds like humming birds, do be sure to keep your gazing ball away from their favorite flowers.
Other types of statuary also are credited with keeping wildlife out of garden areas. Many gardeners use replicas of natural enemies like owls, eagles, snakes, and garden toads to help limit intrusions.
Propellers?
Help the wind to add ambience to your yard with motion ornaments like yard flags and wind chimes. Motion features have the added benefit of discouraging trespassers with noise they create or with the movement itself.
Lawn ornaments benefit your garden and lawn as well as your view. Along with their obvious benefits, features like birdbaths, fountains, gazing balls, statuary, wind chimes, and decorative garden flags serve a dual purpose in making your outdoor habitat enjoyable.