Ideas For Your Backyard

This lovely fountain is not a tradional fountain, but has the classic symbols of faith and the music of a dancing waterfall bring a joyful spiritual aura to your garden! Stunning fountain features a substantial faux-stone cross with the look of hand-hewn granite; from the graceful mouth of the topmost twining lily, clear cascades of water sparkle and shine. An absolutely amazing decoration, and an eloquent declaration of devotion!  This would be a lovely addition to your Florida Room, deck or patio

Straight from the kitchen of a Santa Fe gourmet, this darling decoration recalls the fabled cooking pots treasured for generations in the Southwest.  Four graceful earthtone vessels with jute hanging loop are ready to brighten any corner!

To encourage goldfinches into your yard, plant native thistles, sunflowers and other composite plants, as well as native milkweed. Almost any kind of bird feeder may attract American Goldfinches, including hopper, platform, and hanging feeders, and these birds don’t mind feeders that sway in the wind. You’ll also find American Goldfinches are happy to feed on the ground below feeders, eating spilled seeds. They’re most attracted to sunflower seed and nyjer, which is a thistle seed.

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In landscape architecture and garden design, a water feature is any of a full range of fountains, pools, ponds,cascades, waterfalls, and streams. Prior to the eighteenth century they were usually powered by gravity, though the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon  are believed to have been supplied by an archimedean screw. Other examples were supplied with water using hydraulic rams. Since the eighteenth century the majority water features have been powered by pumps. The power source was sometimes a steam engine but in modern gardens it is almost always electricity. There is an increasing range of innovative designs as the market becomes more established and people become more aware of the advantages of using solar power. These advantages include environmental benefits, no mains electricity in the garden, and free energy.A modern famous example is the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain.Modern water features are often self-contained, meaning that they do not require water to be plumbed in; water is recycled from a hidden reservoir, also known as a sump. The sump can either be contained within the water feature, or buried underground (in the case of an outdoor water feature). A water feature may be indoor or outdoor and can be any size, from a desk top water fountain to a large indoor waterfall that covers an entire wall in a large commercial building, and can be made from any number of materials, including stone, granite, stainless steel, resin, and glass.

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The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover.

Adults have a brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with two black bands. The rump is tawny orange. The face and cap are brown with a white forehead. They have an orange-red eyering. The chicks are patterned almost identically to the adults, and are precocial — able to move around right after hatching. The killdeer frequently uses a “broken wing act” to distract predators from the nest.

Their breeding habitat  is open fields or lawns, often quite far from water, across most of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, with isolated populations in Costa Rica and in the Pacific coast of South America. Killdeer  nest on open ground, often on gravel. They may use a slight depression in the gravel to hold the eggs, but they do not line it at all, or line it only with a few stones. Since there is no structure to stand out from its surroundings, a killdeer nest blends marvelously into the background. Furthermore, the speckled eggs themselves look like stones.

Every one loves a hummingbird.  It is with wonderment that we watch as this tiny bird can hover in mid air. 

Slender copper-tone flowers and colorful hummingbird figurines grace your garden with tranquil springtime beauty. A true work of art that’s sure to be admired by all! Simply place into your lawn for an instant decoration.

Fire and water combine to form one spectacular decoration! Cascades of water trickle down faux-stone steps, while tealights glimmer from atop twin pillars. A tabletop fountain to treasure! This fountain will be a  great addition to most any decor.

Invite a family of feathered friends to help you welcome all visitors in true countrystyle! This quaint ceramic birdhouse has the homespun appearance of a handmade treasure.  Even the little birds will enjoy the roominess of this backyard birdhouse.

If you have a nautical theme, this lighthouse is for you. A quaint New England style lighthouse will fit almost anywhere you want it in your backyard garden. 

This charming Lighthouse lights up at the top and casts a warm radiance wherever you place it and features lighting for beauty, safety, security. It will accent any walkway, steps, gardens, pathways, lawns, patios etc.