Garden Wall Décor
Buy the best garden wall décor selected and recommended by interior designers. By Tara Gosselin.
Whether you have a big or small outdoor space, garden wall décor is a good option. Simple to put up, a piece of art for your garden wall will turn your wall from boring to cool, no matter its size or material. Our design experts have picked out some of the best garden wall art ideas so you can transform your garden space from dull to fabulous quickly and without fuss.
Garden Wall Décor
Buying Guide
Tara Gosselin
Interior Design Expert
Tara is a San Antonio-based award-winning landscape architect, writer and educator, passionate about eco-friendly solutions and growing her own food. She knows all it takes to help you create a sustainable backyard retreat that combines blissful charm with a modern take on landscaping.
Outdoor wall decorations can dress up your home or garden. They can range from simple cloth flags with butterflies, cute kittens or puppies on them, to elaborate iron or stone sculptures. Some even include areas for potted plants or small fountains, the latter of which have the added benefit of creating a pleasant ambient sound.
Some of the decorations are inexpensive, and are available in most garden sections of your department store or are even sold in garden shops. Some are more likely to be available in your local hardware, lumber yard or home improvement store.
Flags
Cloth flags are bright and colorful and can help pick out boundaries or draw attention to special areas. They can even be used as temporary decorations to guide guests to your home for special events. They are easy to put up and easy to remove. If you have a permanent holder, you can quickly change in and out seasonal decorations ranging from tulips to poinsettias without much difficulty or time investment.
Metal Sculptures
Metal sculptures designed to be mounted flat against walls come in all sort of styles, colors, and types. They include such items as stylized suns, heraldic devices such as rampant lions or unicorns. Owls, spray of flowers, butterflies, moons, and stars are also favorites. Like flags, they are easy to mount but are a little more permanent. They tend to be weather resistant and are easy to polish up if they become a little worn.
Mirrors
Dress up a small garden with a faux window that reflects the garden. This can make a small garden seem much larger and create an added interest to what might otherwise be a blank wall. Flank it with twining tendrils of ivy and a small window box to complete the illusion.
Stonework
Stonework is the most permanent of decorations, especially if it is built into a step or wall, but some are designed to hang or to be placed on a small shelf or table. Like the metal sculptures, stylized suns, moons, and stars are popular, as well as floral decorations. They can be part of an outside wall shelf or can be set up to act as planters.
Unusual Tidbits
Sometimes you just want something a little bit different, so how about half a bicycle tire, a bike basket, and handlebars? The effect is that it looks as if the bicycle is coming out of the wall. The wire basket can be a handy planter for mosses or trailing vines. Or decorate a row of hanging garden trowels with clear, plastic planters so trailing vines look as if they are growing on the blades.
What unusual outdoor wall and garden decorations can you come up with? There are few rules for these – as witness generations of gnomes, flamingos, and bunnies who can hide in flower beds in any season. Just keep browsing, and you are likely to come up with something that will be of interest to you.