The most interesting gardens are those that have incorporated some sculptures, statues or ornaments in amongst their plantings. However, just as interesting as these are they can also bring down the tone of your garden if placed innapropriately.

Have you ever seen a tropical garden without an Easter Island head or a little Buddha? Or a cottage garden without a sundial? Now, imagine swapping those two pieces over and hosting them in the other garden style. It just doesn't work. The trick is being able to define your style and then purchase your ornaments to complement it.

One of our garden rooms is based on an Australian native theme. There are lots of things we could, and most probably will, decorate it with. At the moment our only ornaments are these jarrah fence posts which we collected from the bush. They don't look out of place because people expect to see them in this setting. We will add things like rusty steel buckets filled with cascading "somethings", plough shears etc.

Another of our garden rooms is cottage style where these things would look out of place. We would do better to have sundials, statues, bird baths etc to accentuate what we're trying to display.

Analyse each statue, sculpture or ornament to see whether it fits or not. The golden rule is: Better to not have something that have a decoration that seems out of place.