How can I add some colour to my small garden, but not using plants/flowers?

I want to make my garden look more funky, but not tacky. I don't just want to paint the fence or add a coloured chair. Something perhaps more subtle but still with a big impact.

How can I add some colour to my small garden, but not using plants/flowers?
One of the best ways to add colour to a small space is with a unified collection of glazed pots.





Be disciplined and choose a single or two-colour theme, or it will end up looking messy. For example, a collection of glazed planters and urns in blue and cream will look attractive all year round, regardless of what you have planted in them.





To add a bit of extra personality, consider converting one of them into a pond - plug the drainage holes with sealant and plant a few aquatic plants.





Another great way to inject colour is with some of the fabulous coloured pebbles available these days. Either use them as a mulch or make a whole pebbled pathway from them. If you want something even more funky, look for the coloured recycled glass mulches available - these come in amazing gelato-like colours.





And the painted fence is still a great technique for adding colour. If you don't want to do the whole thing, just choose a section, then hang a wall decoration on it.





- Roger, Garden Editor, Better Homes and Gardens
Reply:Wind chimes. Markets sometimes have those coloured dangly, whirly thingy's, not sure what they're actually called. Cover some extra large cushions with bright fabric to lounge on in the sun. Paint a mural (canvas) or make a mosaic to hang on an outside wall. Maybe hang a bright flag symbolising something with special meaning to you and your family, or make a funky letterbox. Buy a wheelie bin and paint a rainforest picture on it? Make a house number to hang on an outside wall using a large tile and gluing coloured stones and little pieces of mirror onto it. I'm sounding like a hippie, yet I'm anything but !!! Hope this has given you an idea or two.
Reply:Make a circle with landscape edging. Place a second circle inside the first one. Fill the circles with two different colored gravels. Place a colorful, glazed pottery birdbath in the center of the inner circle.





Glass globes, of different sizes, placed at different heights also provides a strong and unusual impact.





You can also go to your local wild bird store and find an interesting bird or butterfly house. A finch feeder will bring colorful yellow bids to your yard.
Reply:I love gazing balls. You can use a tall or short pedestal. I have a purple iridescent that is beautiful. The only problem I've had is someone stole the first one I had in a flower garden in front of the house. The second one is in a garden in back of the house. The link is only an example, not a recommendation for a certain company.
Reply:You can get coloured mulch, comes in various colours, small or large stones, pebbles. You may not want plants, but some grass like plants like cordilines some in some fab colours and require little or no maintenance except a bit of water.
Reply:You can find some inexpensive small statues to put around your garden, %26amp; plant small flowers around them. This looks very nice and tasteful.
Reply:Try using different colored stones, they can come in some great colors.
Reply:here in fl some people like to annoy the neighbors and use pink flamingos:)
Reply:try some colored stone or some garden toys.


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Reply:a fountain or a bird bath :)