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Creature feature: Gardens gone wild!

Creative garden creatures from re-purposed materials…

Every garden has living creatures if you’re lucky, and if you’re lucky you might also find one of these garden art creatures.

Garden Sculptures and assemblages you make or hunt for…

Repurposed Life cut a butterfly from a rusty square of tin ceiling tile and a chair rung

Repurposed Life says, “My repurposed butterfly made from antique ceiling tile! He is painted with Chalk Paint, Georgia Clay and Maine Harbor Blue. Love him among the flowers! Perfect companion for my dragonflies.”

Sue Gerdes’s clever bird feeder bird made from old tools

 

Nancy K. Meyer’s hovering ‘shoe’ flies‎

Nancy K. Meyer‎ says, “My latest garden art, beautiful butterflies fabricated by the welder uptown!  I had the draft or idea for one, the other two were his invention —horseshoes from a local horseman.”

 

Kathy Gilbert’s elegant heron

 

Steel Construction ‘Heron’ Figure, 18.90 by 7.09 by 38.58-Inch, Brown

Serene cats are always welcome in the garden

Everyone loves animals in the garden! Whether living or not, pet or pest, there is usually someplace to add a creature accent in your garden. I once had a small visitor who delighted in finding and naming all my little cement frogs, ceramic bunnies or stone kitties. I was surprised at how many creatures I had!

 

Denise Nestor found a perfect spot‎ for her dragonfly, made from ceiling fan parts

Denise Nestor tells us, “The dragonfly is my creation and the recycled iron fence garden is James’. We love making our yard an extension to our home and decorating it as well.” 

Making dreamy dragonflies for the garden

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Twisted Mind Rusty Metal beak bird from miscellaneous parts

 

Ann Elias‎’s whimsical flutterby

Ann Elias’s Gem butterfly. “For this garden butterfly, Ann says, “I made my butterfly from dishes, a bottle and some gems. The wings are made out of plexiglass.”  Ann used GE II Silicone to attach the gems.”

Ann’s butterfly garden extraordinaire

 

Wenda Vorce welded a dragon fly in a mop bucket

 

Caroline Lawson’s rakish bird,, made from a pulley and some rusty old rakes

9 uses for a rusty old rake in the garden

 

Becky Fosbrink’s net-winged dragonfly

Becky Fosbrink says, “Flowers are in an old copper wringer washer and the dragonfly made by me was made with all different things I had that I upcycled to this.”

 

Janet Waddell says, “Look out!! A swarm of flying oil cans!”

 

Tonya Fennig’s dragonfly is nearly hidden amongst the fern on this barrel

 

Deanne Clemens has big ants in her garden! Made from metal rods and rocks

Handmade Recycled Metal Frog Couple Garden Art

Now what animals live in your garden?

Sue Langley

Sue Langley, a passionate gardener and photographer lives and gardens with her husband and Corgi, Maggie on 7 acres just south of Yosemite, Zone 7 at 3000 feet. She manages the Flea Market Gardening Facebook page and website.

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