Garden ornament

A garden ornament or lawn ornament is a non-plant item used for garden, landscape, and park enhancement and decoration.

Early examples of the use of garden ornaments in western culture were seen in Ancient Roman gardens such as those excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The English landscape garden expanded the scale of some garden ornaments to temple follies The Asian tradition of making garden ornaments, often functioning in association with Feng Shui principles, has a nearly timeless history.

Chinese gardens with Chinese scholar's rocks, Korean stone art, and Japanese gardens with Suiseki and Zen rock gardens have a symbolic meaning and natural ornamental qualities.

Garden ornaments include: Lawn ornaments are decorative objects placed in the grassy area of a property.

German garden gnome in a Wendelin landscape
Bird bath
Pavilion in the Hortus Haren , Haren, Groningen , Netherlands
Sundial as a centrepiece at Greenbank Garden in Carolside, Scotland
A front lawn featuring a fountain and a small sculpture of an elephant
A front lawn featuring an International Truck is an example of "found object art". Elephant ears and sunflowers were purposely planted to adorn the antique farm equipment on this US lawn.