How to Buy a Garden Statue or Gnome

A garden statue is a quick way to decorate a particular area in your garden. Statues are available in sizes, materials, and shapes for every style and budget. You can choose from a variety of animals, gnomes, and pieces of sculpture to find just the right statue that identifies who you are.

Choosing a Statuary or Garden gnome is fun and exciting. You will be able to enjoy your garden companion’s company for many years to come. The first step in purchasing a statue is often to pick the spot in your garden where you will be placing it. This will help you determine the size statue you will need, and possibly the theme, if you are inclined to have one.

Consider adopting a garden gnome for your garden! Garden gnomes are becoming more and more popular. Their friendly faces welcome visitors to your yard. Gnomes are known to love helping out in the garden, readying the soil and planting. They have been known to be good luck to the gardens they inhabit. Gnomes are very conscientious creatures and are helpful to all animals, great and small.

Statues and gnomes are available in a variety of materials. All of these materials are designed to hold up to normal outdoor weather conditions, but they do vary slightly in how they age and how you care for them. Resin or bonded poly-resin statues are perhaps the most abundant. These statues are extremely durable, and only need to be rinsed off with a garden hose if they become dirty. They are not frostproof, and if you live in cold areas you may need to take resin statues indoors during the winter months. Our German Garden Gnomes are made of frost-proof stoneware, which can be left out all winter without fear of breakage from frost. We also offer a few brass statues, which will tarnish to a dark finish as they naturally age outside. The concrete and stone-mix gnomes are also fully weatherproof and can be left outside during the winter.

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Nadiah Al-Harbi , OutdoorDecor.com Staff Writer