Becky has invited us to have fun with sevens during the month of September. Having spent some time counting petals (flowers tend not to have seven petals) and counting flowers (not recommended as a pastime), I’m going with seven yard art ideas with varying degrees of difficulty, should you want to try them.
I’m calling them yard art rather than garden art because these were all taken in America.
One picture was taken in my sweetheart’s garden. Can guess which? For more square fun, check out Seven Squares for September.
Susan Rushton 
I’d have to guess the fire hydrants and succulents for your sweetheart’s garden, but that’s a tough call. Any of them could be, though maybe not the succulent compartments — that looks too orderly. The cacti-with-hydrants is hilarious, though. And that weird sound you might have heard a few minutes ago was me when I saw the guitar-playing cat. Singing succulents? “How Dry I Am”? You have just neutralized Friday the 13th!
I actually liked the lack of order in the order of the compartmentalised succulents… as if they were placed in an orderly fashion but scooted up a bit closer to one or other of their companions. You hit the nail on the head, of course.
I really like the stump sculpture
The bear sculpture was at Heartwood Galleries, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on the edge of the Smoky Mountains National Park. There was a really interesting wooden cabin too that I keep meaning to share.
This is a great collection Susan. I call garden ornaments gardenalia
Thanks, Brian. That’s the perfect term for it. I’ll be sure to pass it along, with your permission, of course!
Use it as much as you like Susan 😀
Great ideas. I especially like the singing succulents.
I’m trying to remember whether they actually sang tunes… I think they did, but perhaps I’m just imagining that.
Man oh man, did I love this post! Sure made me smile. What a great way to start the day. My favorite? The singing succulents.
And your enthusiasm makes me smile… as so often happens. 🙂
I have yard art scattered and tucked here and there. It’s like a junk teasure hunt here. Ha
My idea of the perfect garden to explore, then.
How delightfully ‘off the wall’. I love those Singing Succulents.
There was a Chess Army too and a Cheshire Cat and Flamingo Croquet. I didn’t get the best pictures of those, sadly.
These are great fun! I especially love the ducks (what a lovely idea!) and the cat and guitar, also the fire hydrants 🙂
The cacti/hydrants vignette is one of my sweetheart’s visual teases.
Great yard art.
Thanks, Timothy.
Cute. I love your descriptions. I’m going for the geetar cat in your sweetheart’s yard.
The ‘geetar’ was a red herring. It’s the hydrant/succulents combination.
Love the singing succulents.
They were part of an Alice and Wonderland themed display.
It takes all kinds to make a yard, Susan. The cat, maybe? He’s my favourite.
It wasn’t the cat, although it resides in Mississippi too. It was the collection of drought-tolerant plants around the hydrants.
Not sure if I can say this on Becky’s challenge- I’m really not a cat person, though I look after him next door when his mistress is away xx