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Quirky things for the garden

12/14/2018

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quirky things for the garden


Quirky things for the garden

The garden is a place where people can experience nature, relax, party and spend time with friends and family. In times of good weather there is much enjoyment to be had which is a change from the confinement of inside living. Gardens give us an enlightened mood with a window into the natural world on our very door steps.​
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Green bird ornament
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Quirky sundial
How we plan and enjoy our gardens can vary in a multitude of ways. Some people prefer their gardens to be a design statement extending the home and giving a statement of their personality. It is good to realise that gardens give us a freedom of expression which is difficult to replicate inside.  Many people’s homes are spatially confined by laws and legislation or expectable design styles.
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Gardens do not necessarily have to conform to these parameters. This enables gardens to be a freer way for creative or eccentrics to express their passions in whichever way they please. Gardens can be the artists paint brush or the wildlife gardener’s jungle! Gardens allow us to embrace or celebrate the extraordinary and fabulous. ​
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Bamboo label kit
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Glow in the dark pebbles
How we plan and enjoy our gardens can vary in a multitude of ways. Some people prefer their gardens to be a design statement extending the home and giving a statement of their personality. It is good to realise that gardens give us a freedom of expression which is difficult to replicate inside.  Many people’s homes are spatially confined by laws and legislation or expectable design styles.
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Gardens do not necessarily have to conform to these parameters. This enables gardens to be a freer way for creative or eccentrics to express their passions in whichever way they please. Gardens can be the artists paint brush or the wildlife gardener’s jungle! Gardens allow us to embrace or celebrate the extraordinary and fabulous. ​
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Bee friendly wildflower seeds
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Claw garden gloves

Quirky garden lighting

Garden lights can give us means to highlight focal points to our gardens or parts of the house. Many underestimate just how effective and powerful garden lighting can be when enhancing a space. At night gardens can become different worlds with varying coloured lights making dark, boring corners places of curiosity! Garden lighting can make seasonal times like Christmas more profound and exciting.​
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Modern coach lantern
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Solar garden frog
Most of the most powerful and effective garden lighting are powered by mains electrical power. This means you will need an outside port to realise lighting projects. These can be installed with the help of a professional electrical contractor.

Mains power however is not completely essential. Modern advances in solar lighting technology mean all sorts of quirky garden lights can be placed anywhere! From up lighters to string lights solar lighting can add a quirky touch to your garden space.

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We have put together our favourite selection of quirky garden lights which can make great gifts!​
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Solar garden flame lighting
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Solar garden lights

Quirky garden pots

Garden pots allow us to grow our favourite plants in places in which they could not otherwise grow. Extensive patios or places where adequate soil is limited are more common in modern gardens. Pots can be placed in suntraps and places of micro-climate. This allows the garden lover to grow types of plants which are used to warmer climates.

​Even better pots give us the opportunity to take plants into the home in winter time. This allows us to grow even more exotic plants like banana and citrus!

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Such freedom and choice provided by pot growing makes pots a popular element of many homes and gardens. As there is literally any pot for any style, shape and situation they can make very quirky additions to our gardens! We have put together some great examples of quirky garden pots here.
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Suitcase Planter
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Wishing well planter
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Wall planter
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Quirky garden pot

Quirky garden gifts for relaxation

One of the gardens best uses is to relax! Time spent outside surrounded by plants and wildlife has been proven to be beneficial for mental and physical health. There is nothing like sitting back with a cold drink and great meal on lazy summer afternoons! Gardens really are a tonic for the mind providing escapism from a stressful world.
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When planning to treat someone close or special to you something relaxing can be a great choice. There are countless opportunities to give them a relaxation encouraging quirky garden gift! Perhaps you could buy them a quirky outside rocking chair? Or perhaps eccentric, calming water feature? Why not check out our selection below!
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Garden Hammock
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Bean bag outside seat
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Rocking sun lounger
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Hanging relaxation dome

Quirky gardening things for the garden

Gardening is a hobby enjoyed by millions of people worldwide and for good reason! The combination of intense physical exercise in a naturalistic outside environment is extremely health inducing. Gardeners will tell you of the great feeling endorphins they get from working outside with nature. The good feelings then are reinforced by the satisfying feeling of admiring the fruits of their labour.
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Gardening and gardens in general are good for us! This is why when treating our gardening friends there is always something personal to them which can be exploited! If they love wildlife you could get them a quirky insect hotel. If they have an issue with pests perhaps a quirky garden scare crow is a great choice!​
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Wildflower seed ball
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Grow your own cress llama
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Herb growing kit
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Kew gardens hand trowel set

Quirky vegetable garden gifts
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There is nothing quite like the fantastic taste of fresh, organic garden vegetables. Not only are home grown vegetables tastier the process of turning the soil and caring for young plants has two main benefits. The physically demanding process of gardening exercises the body in a way that promotes health and fitness. This fights against premature dementia, heart attack and stroke.
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Vegetable gardening is most commonly a trait of people who enjoy a long and happy life. The process of germinating new life and nurturing it to harvest evokes a spiritual wholeness that is indescribable but very real. If your garden lover friends are already keen gardeners or just getting started a quirky vegetable gardening gift can be an excellent choice.
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Funky veg kit
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Quirky vegetable garden kit
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Vegetable growing table
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Vegetable garden gift hamper

Quirky garden gift sets

Gardens can be fun places to have and to enjoy. The fact is unfortunately gardening to many can be looked apron as a chore! Although gardening can be fun and rewarding with busy lives and hectic schedules enjoyable gardening can be in short supply. This is why sometimes all your garden friends need is a little encouragement.
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When planning quirky things for the garden why not choose a small quirky gift set? They make a nice tightly packaged gift evoking fun gardening activities. Some of these include growing your own mushrooms, bonsai or record breaking chillies. ​
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Super food grow kit
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Gardeners bits & bobs gift set
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Fragrant Flower kit
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Gardening 6 piece gift set

Quirky garden tools
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Although time in the garden can be fun and relaxing the fact is there will always be work to carry out. Even the most low maintenance of gardens do require some work to keep them looking at their best. There is simply no such thing as a zero maintenance garden this is why garden keepers need all the help they can get. ​
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Garden topiary shears
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Cordless shears
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Carbon steel tool set
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Weed puller
Garden tools can break the back of many tasks and make keeping a garden much easier. This is why garden tools are a necessity in the garden. The best way to make keeping the garden a fun is choosing quirky garden tools specific for their needs. For gardeners that do not like bending down and have a problem with weeds a thermal weeder could be a solution! See some of our favourite quirky garden tools below. ​

Quirky cooking gifts for the garden

Cooking can make the garden a place of family gatherings providing a party atmosphere. The smell of freshly cooked meat and vegetables will see envious noses of neighbours hovering above the horizons of fence lines. The laid back excitement of cooking outside is reminiscent of Mediterranean holidays and colourful carnivals. Cooking outside provides atmosphere and a ravenous appetite.
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Barbecue cooking apron
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Barbecue charcoal smoker
What type of cooking methods you choose in the garden may depend on your taste and cultural heritage. People who love Italian food may go for a pizza oven or an outside Indian Tandoor. Whatever quirky tastes you have there are many to choose from which will satisfy your taste buds. Check out our selection of quirky garden cooking gifts here.
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Clifford James pizza oven
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Cypriot rotisserie barbecue

Quirky garden furniture

If there is one thing gardens are great at doing its bringing the inside outside! Most of us wait all year with a high expectation of warm summer evenings in the garden. The biggest way to bring the comfort of the home into the garden is with some garden furniture. Garden furniture needs to be comfortable but also robust to survive the extreme conditions gardens can bring.
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What is most favourable about garden furniture is it can be as unusual and quirky as you like. Whatever your garden style or design theme garden furniture can make great quirky things for the garden.
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Garden orange bean bag seat
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Eaton Range garden sofa set
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Oak barrel bench
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Hanging swinging seat

Quirky things for garden wildlife

Wildlife can bring wonder and joy to our back doorstep. There is something magical about sharing our world with creatures not bound by our superficial human existence. Wildlife can survive even in densely populated environments! Experiencing wildlife can invigorate our souls evoking an emotional love for the environment. ​
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Butterfly feeder
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Solitary bee hive
Our gardens are an opportunity to experience such wildlife and encourage it for its benefit and our enjoyment. Wildlife gardening has seen a huge growth in popularity in recent years while wildlife has actually been declining. What better way to add a quirky feel to your garden than to include a quirky wildlife gift. These can come in the form of nesting boxes, feeding stations or insect hotels. ​
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Nest box camera kit
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Hedgehog care pack

Quirky arts & crafts gifts for the garden

The garden gives multiple opportunities to explore our creative side! Being a place to relax and have fun gardens can give host to some very exciting activities. Arts and craft activities can be a great way to start a new hobby or develop a new skill. Activities such as painting, model making and pottery are new artistic skills which can be developed in the garden or work shed.
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Why not check out our suggestions for quirky arts and crafts garden gifts and past times below.
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Paintable bird house
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Build your own insect hotel
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Build your own windchimes
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Paintable garden gnome

Quirky garden ornaments

Garden ornaments are much loved by garden owners of all shapes and sizes. Some garden ornaments have a more classical feel whilst others can be contemporary or even replicate modern art. From stylish to cultural to religious to modern garden ornaments are extremely popular in modern gardens today.
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There are so many ornaments to choose from today they can create a focal point within the garden or provoke drama and humour. Some of the best of these are the quirky garden ornaments. These are usually original and unusual. Why not check out our favourite, quirky garden ornaments here.  ​
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Quirky bigfoot ornament
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Buddha garden ornament
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Flamingo ornament
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Zombie garden ornament

Quirky things for the garden lawn

Garden lawns are the pride of gardens across the globe. There is something very satisfying about the neatly manicured surface like a natural carped lush and inviting to all. Some believe the reason we enjoy well kept lawns is it represents our desire to dominate nature making it orderly, neat and tidy. This may explain why some garden lawn enthusiasts will not allow walking just distant admiration.
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Whether you are a perfect garden lawn fanatic or occasional weekend gardener a nice lawn is a universal desire for most people. This is why it is worth recognising that lawn care tools and products can make essential quirky things for the garden. ​
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Lawn Aerator shoes
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Rotary spreader
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Makita scarifier
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Flymo robot lawn mower

Quirky tech gifts for the garden

Technology has truly changed the way we live our lives! Some would argue for the better and some would argue otherwise. The truth is technology has given us many opportunities to experience the outdoors as well as inside activities.

​There are countless opportunities for tech gifts and gadgets to encourage outside and these can make excellent gifts. Some of these can be rather outrageous and even quirky, that is why we have put together our favourites here! 

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Outside digital thermometer
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Levitation pot

Quirky garden things for her

If the women in your life enjoy being outside or would much prefer staying inside there is always room for something quirky in the garden. From Moroccan lanterns to comfy outside bean bags there are plenty of quirky gift ideas for get her excited about! Why not check out some of these here? ​
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Spider catcher
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Grow your own chocolate flowers

Quirky garden things for him

Having a garden is always a positive aspiration for most people including the male of the species. If the man in your life enjoys the outside life or not you can be sure there will always be something fun for him in the garden. That’s why we have put a selection of perfectly quirky things for the garden for him below. ​
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Meat claws
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Man cave sign


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1 Comment
L-shaped link
2/19/2020 12:56:15 am

As its name suggests, the L-shaped desk is L-shaped. Therefore, the feature is that it is easier to secure a working space than a normal desk.

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    Paul Nicolaides is a Landscape architect and garden builder with over 30 years experience in designing, building and maintaining gardens. Contemplating just how important garden space is for nature and recreation he created 'Cool Garden Gadgets' to explore the best gadgets for enhancing outside spaces. From outdoor dining ideas to the latest garden technology we break it down for you here.  

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