Unusual Animal Garden Ornaments
Elephant garden ornaments, foxes, flamingos, dragons and more - the free spirits, for gardens that refuse to be ordinary.
Quick answer: Unusual animal garden ornaments are figures of the less common creatures – geckos, parrots and other exotics – for gardens that want something unexpected. This collection holds 3 pieces from £9.99, every one chosen to stay outside through a British winter, with free UK delivery over £20 and 30 days to change your mind.
The less obvious creatures
- Unexpected beats familiar. Everyone has seen a hedgehog ornament. A gecko running up a pot gets a second look.
- Match the creature to the spot. Climbers on walls and pots, birds up high, low animals in planting. Put them where the real thing would be.
- Colour needs committing to. A bright parrot works as a deliberate splash against green. Half-hearted colour just looks faded.
- Keep the scale honest. Roughly life-sized reads as wildlife. Twice life-sized reads as a statement, which is fine if you mean it.
Collections that go with this one
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Other Animals at a glance
- 3 pieces in this collection, from £9.99
- Weatherproof: made to stay out through frost and rain
- Free UK delivery over £20, dispatched within 48 hours
- 30 days to change your mind, return postage on us
About our other animals
Not every garden animal comes from a British hedgerow, and that is precisely the fun of this collection. Elephant garden ornaments lead the parade - trunk-up for good luck, as tradition has it - alongside sly fox ornaments who look entirely at home on UK lawns, flamboyant flamingos for gardens with a sense of humour, and peacocks that bring a shot of colour to green borders. Butterfly ornaments add delicacy to walls and fences, tortoises plod charmingly along path edges, and dragon garden ornaments guard gateposts and rockeries for households of a more fantastical persuasion. It is the menagerie for gardeners who already have the robin and the hedgehog and want something with a story. All pieces are weatherproof and frost-resistant, cast with the detail each creature deserves. Free UK delivery on orders over £20, dispatched within 48 hours, with our 100% money-back guarantee as standard.
Fox ornaments for the garden
Fox ornaments have quietly become one of our most-asked-for pieces. A resin fox curled at the base of a shrub or trotting across a lawn edge brings a flash of the countryside to a town plot, and unlike the real thing it leaves the bins well alone. Sit one low among ferns or grasses where a real fox might pause, and let the planting grow up around it. See the rest of the wildlife in our animal ornaments range.
Butterfly ornaments for garden walls and borders
Butterfly ornaments for garden walls, fences and stakes add movement to the spots most ornaments miss. Metal and resin butterflies catch the light on a bare fence panel, while stake-mounted ones hover above low planting like the real visitors they echo. Butterflies are worth encouraging, too: the charity Butterfly Conservation runs the annual Big Butterfly Count, one of the world's largest surveys of butterfly numbers. Pair a butterfly with our metal dragonfly and insect pieces for a whole fence of small wings.
Garden dragon statue pieces
For a household of a more fantastical bent, a garden dragon statue earns its keep guarding a gatepost, a step or the mouth of a rockery. Ours are cast in weatherproof resin at an outdoor scale that reads from across the garden, no plinth or crane required. Stand a garden dragon statue where a path turns and let it surprise people.
Other Animals - FAQs
Why are elephant ornaments displayed trunk-up?
Tradition holds that an elephant with a raised trunk showers good luck on the household. Ours are cast trunk-up for exactly that reason - and because it is the more joyful pose.
Where do dragon ornaments work best?
Guarding something - a gatepost, a doorway, a rockery or the top of a wall. Dragons like a vantage point, and they make a brilliant gift for anyone with a fantastical streak.
Are flamingo ornaments weatherproof?
Fully - like everything here, they are made for year-round UK outdoor life. The pink survives the drizzle, which is more than can be said for most of us.
Do you sell fox ornaments for the garden?
Yes. Our fox ornaments are cast in weatherproof resin and sized to sit among borders and lawn edges, where they bring a touch of the countryside without troubling the bins or the flower beds.
Where do butterfly ornaments work best in a garden?
Butterfly ornaments for garden settings look best on the surfaces other pieces forget - a bare fence panel, a wall or a planting stake - where they catch the light and add a little movement above low planting.
100% money-back guarantee
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