Garden elements from around the world

1100 garden elements from gardens around the world: stone lanterns and pagodas, statues and busts, fountains and wells, pergolas, gates and bridges, benches, sundials, beehives, glasshouses and more. Each one can be placed in your own garden plan with one click and seen in 3D.

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🇯🇵 Japan (95)

• 🏮 Kasuga stone lantern · Lights · Japan · Kasuga Taisha, Nara · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2 m high
  The classic tall pedestal lantern (tōrō) with a hexagonal firebox and curved roof, named after the shrine in Nara lined with some 2,000 of them. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Yukimi snow-viewing lantern · Lights · Japan · 1 × 1 m, 1 m high
  A low lantern on three or four splayed legs with a wide umbrella roof that gathers snow; usually set at the water’s edge. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Kotoji two-legged lantern · Lights · Japan · Kenroku-en, Kanazawa · 1.2 × 0.8 m, 1.6 m high
  A snow-viewing lantern with one long and one short leg, said to resemble the bridge of a koto; the emblem of Kenroku-en. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Oribe buried-post lantern · Lights · Japan · tea gardens · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  A lantern whose square post is sunk straight into the ground, without a base, attributed to the tea master Furuta Oribe; common beside the tea-garden path. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Okigata set-on-ground lantern · Lights · Japan · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.6 m high
  A small lantern without a post, set directly on a stone or the ground beside a path or water basin. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Misaki cape lantern · Lights · Japan · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 0.8 m high
  A small lantern placed on a rock at the tip of a peninsula in the pond, like a lighthouse on a cape. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Tachi-gata standing lantern · Lights · Japan · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.8 m high
  The general pedestal type of stone lantern: base, post, platform, firebox, roof and jewel finial. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Tsuri-dōrō hanging lantern · Lights · Japan · temple eaves · 1 × 0.5 m, 2.2 m high
  A bronze or iron lantern hung from the eaves or a bracket; at Kasuga Taisha about 1,000 hang in the corridors. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Chōchin paper lantern on a stand · Lights · Japan · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  A collapsible paper lantern on a bamboo frame, hung at festivals and teahouse entrances. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Five-storey stone pagoda (gorintō style) · Shrines · Japan · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 2.4 m high
  A stone pagoda (sekitō) of five storeys, a Buddhist reliquary form often used as a vertical accent among pines. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Thirteen-storey stone pagoda · Shrines · Japan · e.g. Hannya-ji, Nara · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 4 m high
  A tall pagoda of thirteen stacked roofs, a form found at old temples since the Kamakura period. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Three-storey stone pagoda · Shrines · Japan · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.6 m high
  A small three-storey stone pagoda, suited to a courtyard or moss garden. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Tsukubai water basin · Water · Japan · Ryōan-ji, Kyoto · 1.2 × 1 m, 0.7 m high
  A low stone basin where guests crouch to rinse their hands before the tea ceremony, fed by a bamboo spout (kakei); the Ryōan-ji basin reads “I learn only to be contented”. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Chōzubachi tall water basin · Water · Japan · temple verandas · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  A taller hand-washing basin set beside a veranda, used standing rather than crouching. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Shishi-odoshi deer scarer · Water · Japan · Shisen-dō, Kyoto · 1.4 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  A pivoting bamboo tube that fills with water, tips, empties and knocks against a stone with a sharp clack, once used to scare deer and boar. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Tobi-ishi stepping stones · Bridges · Japan · tea gardens · 4 × 1.2 m, 0.12 m high
  Flat stones set apart along the roji (tea-garden path) to slow the walker and frame views. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Sawatari stepping stones across water · Bridges · Japan · Heian Shrine garden, Kyoto · 4 × 1.2 m, 0.3 m high
  Stepping stones that cross a pond or stream; the Heian Shrine garden uses old bridge pillars as stepping stones (garyōkyō). Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Nobedan cut-stone path · Bridges · Japan · 3 × 0.8 m, 0.08 m high
  A straight path of fitted cut stones, a formal counterpart to scattered stepping stones. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Ishibashi stone slab bridge · Bridges · Japan · 2.4 × 0.8 m, 0.4 m high
  A single slab of granite laid across a stream; often two slabs offset to guide the walker. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Yatsuhashi zig-zag plank bridge · Bridges · Japan · iris gardens, e.g. Meiji Jingu · 6 × 2 m, 0.4 m high
  Planks laid in a zig-zag over an iris marsh; the form recalls an episode of the Tales of Ise. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Taiko-bashi drum bridge · Bridges · Japan · Sumiyoshi Taisha, Osaka · 4 × 1.6 m, 1.2 m high
  A high semicircular arched bridge whose reflection completes a circle; vermilion at shrines. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Dobashi earth-covered bridge · Bridges · Japan · 3 × 1.4 m, 0.6 m high
  A gently arched bridge whose timber deck is covered with soil and moss so it reads as part of the landscape. Place it in your garden
• ⛩️ Torii shrine gate · Gates & walls · Japan · Itsukushima, Miyajima · 3.6 × 0.8 m, 3.4 m high
  The vermilion gateway marking the entrance to a Shinto shrine and its sacred space. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Kabuki-mon roofed gate · Gates & walls · Japan · temple and tea gardens · 3 × 1.2 m, 3 m high
  A gate of two posts and a crossbeam under a small gabled roof, often at the entry to a temple or tea garden. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Chūmon middle gate · Gates & walls · Japan · tea gardens · 2.2 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  A simple roofed gate dividing the outer and inner tea garden, where guests wait to be greeted by the host. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Yotsume-gaki bamboo fence · Gates & walls · Japan · 4 × 0.2 m, 1.2 m high
  An open “four-eyed” fence of bamboo poles tied with black hemp rope, marking boundaries without blocking views. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Kenninji-gaki bamboo screen · Gates & walls · Japan · Kennin-ji, Kyoto · 4 × 0.2 m, 1.8 m high
  A solid screen of split bamboo held by horizontal bamboo rails, named after Kennin-ji temple in Kyoto. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Sode-gaki sleeve fence · Gates & walls · Japan · 1.2 × 0.2 m, 1.8 m high
  A short decorative bamboo fence projecting from a building like a kimono sleeve, screening a view. Place it in your garden
• 🍵 Chashitsu tea house · Pavilions · Japan · 4 × 3.6 m, 3.6 m high
  A small thatched or shingled tea room entered through a low crawl-in door (nijiriguchi), set in its own garden. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Azumaya garden arbor · Pavilions · Japan · 3 × 3 m, 3.2 m high
  An open rest shelter with a pyramidal roof, where tea guests wait or visitors sit to view the garden. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Koshikake machiai waiting bench · Seats · Japan · tea gardens · 2.4 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  A roofed bench in the outer tea garden where guests wait to be summoned to the tea house. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Engawa-style plank bench · Seats · Japan · 1.8 × 0.6 m, 0.45 m high
  A plain timber bench recalling the engawa veranda from which Japanese gardens are viewed. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Karesansui standing stone · Sculpture · Japan · Ryōan-ji, Kyoto · 1 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  A set stone in a dry (karesansui) garden, placed to suggest a mountain or island in raked gravel. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Sanzon-seki triad stones · Sculpture · Japan · 2 × 1.2 m, 1.4 m high
  A group of three stones, the tallest in the centre, evoking a Buddhist triad; a basic grouping in Japanese garden design. Place it in your garden
• 🦢 Bronze crane · Sculpture · Japan · 0.6 × 0.4 m, 1.4 m high
  Cranes symbolise long life; bronze cranes often stand in ponds or on crane islands (tsurujima). Place it in your garden
• 🐢 Stone turtle · Sculpture · Japan · 0.9 × 0.7 m, 0.35 m high
  The turtle, symbol of longevity, is represented by turtle islands (kamejima) and carved turtle stones. Place it in your garden
• 🦊 Kitsune fox guardian · Shrines · Japan · Fushimi Inari, Kyoto · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 0.8 m high
  Fox statues are the messengers of Inari and guard thousands of shrines, often holding a key or jewel. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Komainu lion-dog guardian · Shrines · Japan · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 1 m high
  Lion-dogs placed in pairs at shrine entrances, one with mouth open and one closed. Place it in your garden
• 🦝 Tanuki raccoon-dog figure · Sculpture · Japan · Shigaraki · 0.5 × 0.45 m, 0.8 m high
  The cheerful ceramic raccoon dog from Shigaraki, a symbol of good fortune at shop and garden entrances. Place it in your garden
• 🙏 Jizō statue · Shrines · Japan · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.9 m high
  Jizō, the bodhisattva who protects children and travellers, often dressed in a red bib by visitors. Place it in your garden
• 🧘 Seated Buddha (Amida) · Shrines · Japan · 1.4 × 1.2 m, 1.8 m high
  A stone or bronze seated Buddha in meditation, found in temple gardens across Japan. Place it in your garden
• ⛩️ Hokora small shrine · Shrines · Japan · 0.8 × 0.7 m, 1.2 m high
  A miniature Shinto shrine for a local kami, found in gardens, fields and along paths. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Bonshō temple bell in a belfry · Shrines · Japan · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 3.2 m high
  A large bronze bell struck with a swinging log; on New Year’s Eve temples ring it 108 times. Place it in your garden
• 🎐 Suikinkutsu water koto · Water · Japan · Edo period · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 0.5 m high
  A buried upturned jar under a basin: drops falling into it ring like a koto. Here, the basin above ground. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Kakehi bamboo water spout · Water · Japan · 1 × 0.6 m, 0.6 m high
  A bamboo pipe leading water into a basin or pond, sometimes a long run of jointed culms. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Natural-stone bridge · Bridges · Japan · 2 × 0.7 m, 0.35 m high
  An unworked natural stone slab spanning a dry stream bed of pebbles in a dry garden. Place it in your garden
• ☸️ Mizuguruma water wheel · Water · Japan · 2.4 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  A timber water wheel turned by a stream, once used to husk rice; a rustic feature of strolling gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🎏 Koinobori carp streamers · Curiosities · Japan · Children’s Day · 2 × 0.5 m, 6 m high
  Carp-shaped windsocks flown on 5 May for Children’s Day, the carp a symbol of perseverance. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Bonsai on a display stand · Urns & pots · Japan · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 1.1 m high
  A trained miniature tree in a shallow glazed pot, displayed on a stand at eye level. Place it in your garden
• 🐸 Stone frog (kaeru) · Sculpture · Japan · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.35 m high
  “Kaeru” also means “return”, so a frog figure wishes travellers and money a safe return. Place it in your garden
• 🐟 Leaping koi sculpture · Sculpture · Japan · 0.8 × 0.4 m, 1.3 m high
  The koi climbing a waterfall to become a dragon is a symbol of perseverance. Place it in your garden
• 🐉 Dragon fountain spout (ryū) · Water · Japan · temizuya basins · 1.6 × 0.6 m, 0.8 m high
  Bronze dragons often pour the water at shrine hand-washing pavilions (temizuya). Place it in your garden
• 🎐 Fūrin wind chime · Curiosities · Japan · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 1.8 m high
  A small glass or iron bell with a paper strip, hung in summer for its cooling sound. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Moss-covered stone · Sculpture · Japan · Saihō-ji (Kokedera), Kyoto · 1.2 × 1 m, 0.6 m high
  A low mossy stone; Kyoto’s Moss Temple has over 100 kinds of moss. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Lantern for a water basin (chōzu-bachi tōrō) · Lights · Japan · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  A small lantern lighting the water basin for evening tea gatherings. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Weathered wooden post · Sculpture · Japan · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  A single cedar post, charred (shou sugi ban) or weathered silver, used as a vertical accent. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Pair of shrine lanterns · Lights · Japan · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 2.4 m high
  Shrine approaches are lined with paired stone lanterns donated by worshippers. Place it in your garden
• ⚪ Polished stone sphere · Sculpture · Japan · contemporary Zen gardens · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 0.7 m high
  A single dark polished sphere on raked gravel, a modern minimalist accent. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Raked-gravel edging stones · Bridges · Japan · 3 × 0.4 m, 0.1 m high
  A line of flat stones edging a raked gravel bed. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Stroll-garden stone bench · Seats · Japan · 1.6 × 0.5 m, 0.45 m high
  A plain stone slab bench placed at a viewpoint along a strolling garden path. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Indigo vat jars (aigame) · Kitchen garden · Japan · Tokushima and aizome workshops · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 0.8 m high
  Large earthenware jars sunk into the workshop floor where fermented indigo (sukumo) is kept alive for dyeing cloth blue. Place it in your garden
• ❄️ Yukitsuri (snow-rope supports) · Curiosities · Japan · Kenroku-en, Kanazawa · 4 × 4 m, 6 m high
  A tall pole set beside a prized pine with dozens of ropes radiating from its top to the branches, like an umbrella, to hold them up under heavy wet snow; Kenroku-en’s yukitsuri are a famous sight of early winter. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Komomaki (straw trunk wrap) · Curiosities · Japan · Edo-period custom still used in parks · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  A band of straw matting tied around pine trunks in autumn to trap pine caterpillars, which crawl in to overwinter; the wraps are removed and burned in early spring. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Fuyugakoi (winter straw shelter) · Curiosities · Japan · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 1.8 m high
  Neat cones and tents of rice straw tied over cycads, banana plants and tree peonies to protect them from frost, as decorative as they are useful. Place it in your garden
• ⛰️ Tsukiyama (artificial hill) · Curiosities · Japan · stroll gardens such as Rikugi-en and Kōraku-en, Tokyo · 6 × 6 m, 2 m high
  A man-made hill, often planted and topped with a stone or pavilion, representing a famous mountain such as Fuji in a stroll garden. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Kare-taki (dry waterfall) · Curiosities · Japan · Zen gardens (e.g. Daisen-in, Kyoto) · 3 × 1.5 m, 2 m high
  A waterfall suggested entirely with upright stones and a stream of raked gravel, without a drop of water, in a dry landscape garden. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Oil-earth wall (abura-dobei) · Gates & walls · Japan · Ryōan-ji, Kyoto · 8 × 0.6 m, 2 m high
  A clay wall mixed with rapeseed oil, capped with tiles; at Ryōan-ji the oil has seeped out over centuries into soft, cloud-like stains that frame the famous rock garden. Place it in your garden
• 🗻 Sand cone (kōgetsudai) · Curiosities · Japan · Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavilion), Kyoto · 3 × 3 m, 1.8 m high
  A truncated cone of white sand beside a raked “sea of silver sand” (ginshadan); said to be for viewing the moon, and reshaped by the monks with wooden boards. Place it in your garden
• 🐉 Dragon-gate waterfall stones (ryūmon-baku) · Water · Japan · Tenryū-ji, Kyoto (14th century) · 3 × 1.5 m, 3 m high
  A stone waterfall with a carp stone at its foot, based on the Chinese legend of the carp that leaps the Dragon Gate falls and becomes a dragon: a Zen image of the effort to reach enlightenment. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Katsura fence (living bamboo hedge) · Gates & walls · Japan · Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto · 8 × 0.5 m, 2 m high
  A fence made by bending growing bamboo and weaving its branches between posts, so that the living hedge forms the fence; famous along the road outside Katsura. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Kōetsu fence · Gates & walls · Japan · Kōetsu-ji, Kyoto · 4 × 0.4 m, 1.4 m high
  A low, curving fence of split bamboo bundles over a diamond lattice, named after the 17th-century artist Hon’ami Kōetsu, whose temple has a long one. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Stop stone (sekimori-ishi) · Curiosities · Japan · tea gardens · 0.2 × 0.2 m, 0.2 m high
  A fist-sized stone tied with a cross of black rope, placed on a path to tell guests politely: do not go further this way. Place it in your garden
• 🍂 Dust pit (chiri-ana) · Curiosities · Japan · tea gardens (roji) · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.4 m high
  A small square or round pit by the tea house where the host places a few fresh leaves or a chopstick to show that the garden has been swept for the guests. Place it in your garden
• 👞 Shoe-removing stone (kutsunugi-ishi) · Bridges · Japan · tea houses and temple verandas · 0.9 × 0.6 m, 0.3 m high
  A large flat stone at the foot of a veranda or a tea house’s small crawl-in door (nijiriguchi), where guests step out of their shoes. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Middle gate (naka-kuguri) · Gates & walls · Japan · tea gardens · 1.5 × 0.6 m, 1.8 m high
  A small roofed gate in a wall between the outer and inner tea garden, through which guests must stoop, a reminder to leave rank and worldly matters behind. Place it in your garden
• ⛱️ Outdoor tea umbrella (nodate-gasa) · Seats · Japan · outdoor tea ceremonies (nodate) · 2 × 2 m, 2.5 m high
  A large red paper umbrella over a bench spread with red felt, set up for an outdoor tea ceremony under cherry blossom or autumn maples. Place it in your garden
• 🪢 Sacred rope (shimenawa) · Shrines · Japan · Shinto shrines · 3 × 0.3 m, 2 m high
  A thick rope of twisted rice straw hung with zigzag paper streamers (shide), tied around a sacred tree or rock or hung at a shrine gate to mark a place where the divine is present. Place it in your garden
• 🪧 Votive plaque rack (ema) · Shrines · Japan · Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples · 2 × 0.4 m, 1.6 m high
  A wooden rack where visitors hang small wooden plaques painted with the year’s animal or a shrine emblem, with their wishes written on the back. Place it in your garden
• ⛩️ Purification pavilion (chōzuya) · Water · Japan · Shinto shrines · 3 × 2 m, 3 m high
  A roofed pavilion over a stone basin of running water with bamboo ladles, where visitors rinse their hands and mouth before approaching the shrine. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Hōkyōintō (stone stupa) · Shrines · Japan · Kamakura period onward · 1 × 1 m, 2.5 m high
  A stone tower of base, square body, stepped roof with horned corners and a spire, first made to hold a sacred Buddhist text; a favourite garden ornament since the Edo period. Place it in your garden
• ⛩️ Temple main gate (sanmon) · Gates & walls · Japan · Zen temples (e.g. Nanzen-ji, Chion-in, Kyoto) · 12 × 6 m, 12 m high
  The huge two-storey wooden gateway of a Zen temple, whose three passages stand for the three gates to liberation; Nanzen-ji’s gate offers a famous view over Kyoto. Place it in your garden
• 🎍 Kadomatsu (New Year pine and bamboo) · Shrines · Japan · New Year · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.5 m high
  A pair of arrangements of three diagonally cut bamboo stems with pine and plum branches, bound with straw rope and set either side of the gate at New Year to welcome the kami of the year. Place it in your garden
• 🐟 Shachihoko (castle roof fish) · Sculpture · Japan · Nagoya Castle and other castles · 0.8 × 0.4 m, 1.2 m high
  A mythical creature with a tiger’s head and a carp’s body, tail in the air, set in pairs at the ends of castle roof ridges as charms against fire; Nagoya Castle’s are covered in gold. Place it in your garden
• 🐱 Maneki-neko (beckoning cat) · Sculpture · Japan · Edo period (Gōtoku-ji, Tokyo, is one claimed origin) · 0.3 × 0.25 m, 0.4 m high
  A ceramic cat with one paw raised, beckoning customers and good luck; a temple in Setagaya, Tokyo, has thousands left by worshippers. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Castle stone wall (ishigaki) · Gates & walls · Japan · castles such as Kumamoto and Osaka · 8 × 2 m, 4 m high
  A sloping wall of huge fitted stones rising in a graceful curve (“fan slope”) to the base of a castle; the Anō masons of Ōmi were famous for walls of unshaped stones. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Kintai Bridge · Bridges · Japan · Iwakuni, Yamaguchi (1673) · 10 × 2.5 m, 3 m high
  A wooden bridge of five steep arches on stone piers across the Nishiki River, first built in 1673; rebuilt over the centuries with traditional joinery. Place it in your garden
• 🟠 Persimmon drying rack (hoshigaki) · Kitchen garden · Japan · late autumn in the countryside · 3 × 1 m, 2.5 m high
  Peeled astringent persimmons hung on strings under the eaves or on racks to dry for weeks, massaged by hand until sweet and chewy, making orange curtains on farmhouses. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Terraced rice paddies (tanada) · Kitchen garden · Japan · e.g. Shiroyone Senmaida, Noto Peninsula · 6 × 3 m, 1 m high
  Small flooded rice fields stepped down a hillside, with mud and stone walls; Shiroyone Senmaida has over a thousand tiny paddies by the sea. Place it in your garden
• ♨️ Hot-spring foot bath (ashiyu) · Water · Japan · onsen towns · 3 × 1.5 m, 0.5 m high
  A shallow trough of hot-spring water with a bench along it, where anyone can sit and soak their feet for free; common in onsen towns and stations. Place it in your garden
• ♨️ Outdoor hot-spring bath (rotenburo) · Water · Japan · onsen inns · 4 × 3 m, 0.7 m high
  A natural-stone pool of hot-spring water in a garden setting, for bathing under the sky in snow, autumn leaves or blossom. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Shīsā (Okinawan lion-dog) · Sculpture · Japan · Okinawa (Ryūkyū) · 0.4 × 0.3 m, 0.5 m high
  A pair of terracotta lion-dogs, one with mouth open and one closed, set on red-tiled roofs and gateposts to ward off evil. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Hinpun (screen wall) · Gates & walls · Japan · Okinawa · 3 × 0.4 m, 1.6 m high
  A free-standing wall of coral stone or a hedge just inside the gate of an Okinawan house, blocking the view and, it is said, evil spirits, which can only travel in straight lines. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Ishigantō (stone talisman) · Shrines · Japan · Okinawa and southern Kyushu (from China’s shí gǎn dāng) · 0.4 × 0.2 m, 0.6 m high
  A small stone carved with the characters 石敢當 set at T-junctions and corners, where evil spirits travelling straight would crash into the house. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Ainu house (chise) · Pavilions · Japan · Hokkaido (Ainu) · 6 × 4 m, 4 m high
  A house of wooden posts walled and roofed with thick bundles of bamboo grass or reeds, with a hearth at the centre and a sacred window facing east toward the mountains. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Ainu storehouse (pu) · Pavilions · Japan · Hokkaido (Ainu) · 2 × 2 m, 3 m high
  A small thatched storehouse raised on four tall posts, with rat guards, where an Ainu family kept dried salmon, millet and other food. Place it in your garden

🇨🇳🇰🇷 China, Korea & Taiwan (66)

• 🏡 Hanok courtyard (madang) · Kitchen garden · Korea · traditional hanok houses · 6 × 6 m, 0.02 m high
  The open, swept earth courtyard of a Korean house, deliberately left bare of plants so it reflects light into the rooms and can be used for drying crops, ceremonies and games. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Jangdokdae (sauce jar terrace) · Kitchen garden · Korea · 3 × 2 m, 0.8 m high
  A raised stone platform in a sunny corner of the yard where onggi jars of soy sauce, soybean paste (doenjang) and chilli paste (gochujang) ferment and breathe for months or years. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Wooden floor hall (daecheong maru) · Pavilions · Korea · hanok houses · 5 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A raised wooden-floored hall open to the courtyard and the back garden, the coolest place in a Korean house in summer. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Gwangpunggak pavilion (Soswaewon) · Pavilions · Korea · Soswaewon, Damyang (1520s) · 4 × 4 m, 4 m high
  A small pavilion beside a stream and waterfall in a scholar’s garden laid out by Yang San-bo after his teacher was purged, one of the finest surviving Joseon private gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🌸 Terraced flower beds (hwagye) · Kitchen garden · Korea · Amisan, Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul · 6 × 2 m, 1.5 m high
  Stepped stone terraces of flowering shrubs behind the queen’s quarters, with hexagonal brick chimneys decorated with symbols of long life. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Village guardian shrine (seonangdang) · Shrines · Korea · 2 × 2 m, 1.5 m high
  A pile of stones beneath an old tree hung with coloured cloth at the edge of a village or mountain pass, where travellers added a stone and prayed for a safe journey. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Jeju field walls (batdam) · Gates & walls · Korea · Jeju Island · 8 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  Black lava-stone walls laid without mortar around every field on Jeju, breaking the strong winds and marking boundaries; together they run for some 22,000 km. Place it in your garden
• 🔭 Cheomseongdae observatory (replica) · Curiosities · Korea · Gyeongju (7th century) · 3 × 3 m, 9 m high
  A bottle-shaped tower of 362 cut stones built under Queen Seondeok of Silla, believed to be the oldest surviving astronomical observatory in East Asia. Place it in your garden
• 🧊 Stone ice house (seokbinggo) · Curiosities · Korea · Gyeongju (1738) · 6 × 5 m, 3 m high
  A half-buried vault of stone arches covered with earth and grass, where river ice was stored through the summer; Gyeongju’s ice house has ventilation chimneys in its roof. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Lotus lantern (yeondeung) · Lights · Korea · Buddha’s Birthday (Yeondeunghoe, UNESCO) · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.8 m high
  A lantern of paper petals shaped like a lotus, hung by the thousand in temple courtyards and carried in the lantern parade in Seoul for Buddha’s Birthday. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Haechi (mythical guardian) · Sculpture · Korea · Gyeongbokgung Palace; symbol of Seoul · 1.5 × 0.8 m, 1.5 m high
  A lion-like creature with a horn and scales that judges right from wrong and protects against fire; a pair guards Gwanghwamun gate, and it is the symbol of Seoul. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Stone stairway bridges (Bulguksa) · Bridges · Korea · Bulguksa temple, Gyeongju (8th century) · 6 × 3 m, 3 m high
  Twin stone stairways, Cheongungyo and Baegungyo (Blue Cloud and White Cloud bridges), that lead up to the temple gate like bridges from the human world to the Buddha’s land. Place it in your garden
• ⛺ Ger (Mongolian yurt) · Pavilions · Mongolia · Central Asia (yurt) · 6 × 6 m, 3 m high
  A round tent of a folding lattice wall, roof poles and a crown wheel, covered with felt and canvas; it can be taken down and loaded onto camels in an hour. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Ovoo (sacred cairn) · Shrines · Mongolia · 2 × 2 m, 2 m high
  A cairn of stones and branches hung with blue silk scarves (khadag) on hilltops and passes; travellers walk around it three times clockwise and add a stone. Place it in your garden
• 🦌 Deer stone · Sculpture · Mongolia · Bronze Age (about 1200–600 BC) · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 2.5 m high
  An upright stone carved with flying deer with long, swept-back antlers, a belt and weapons, raised as a memorial; Mongolia has hundreds. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Balbal (Turkic stone figure) · Sculpture · Kyrgyzstan · Kazakhstan · Mongolia (6th–10th centuries) · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.5 m high
  A stone figure of a man holding a cup, set beside Turkic graves on the steppe; a field of them stands by the Burana Tower in Kyrgyzstan. Place it in your garden
• 🌕 Moon gate (yuèdòngmén) · Gates & walls · China · Suzhou classical gardens · 3 × 0.4 m, 3 m high
  A perfectly round opening in a white garden wall that frames the next courtyard like a painting. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Vase-shaped doorway · Gates & walls · China · Suzhou · 2.4 × 0.4 m, 2.8 m high
  A doorway cut in the shape of a vase; píng (vase) sounds like “peace”. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Wall with leak windows (lòuchuāng) · Gates & walls · China · Humble Administrator’s Garden, Suzhou · 5 × 0.4 m, 2.6 m high
  A whitewashed wall pierced with latticed windows that give glimpses of the garden beyond. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Dragon / cloud-topped wall · Gates & walls · China · Yu Garden, Shanghai · 6 × 0.4 m, 2.6 m high
  A white wall with an undulating grey tile coping, at Yu Garden ending in a dragon’s head. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Taihu scholar’s rock · Sculpture · China · Lion Grove Garden, Suzhou · 1.2 × 1 m, 2.6 m high
  A porous limestone rock from Lake Tai, prized for being thin, open, perforated and wrinkled. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Lingbi stone on a stand · Sculpture · China · Anhui · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 0.9 m high
  A dark, resonant limestone that rings when struck, displayed on a carved wooden stand. Place it in your garden
• ⛰️ Artificial mountain rockery (jiǎshān) · Sculpture · China · classical gardens · 5 × 4 m, 3.5 m high
  A stacked rock mountain with caves and paths, a garden in miniature of China’s sacred peaks. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Tíng pavilion · Pavilions · China · 3.4 × 3.4 m, 4.2 m high
  An open pavilion with upswept eaves set on a rise or at the water’s edge for viewing the moon and the garden. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Waterside pavilion (xiè) · Pavilions · China · Suzhou · 5 × 3.4 m, 4 m high
  A hall built partly over the pond on stone piers, open on the water side. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Two-storey tower (lóu) · Pavilions · China · 3.6 × 3.6 m, 7 m high
  A multi-storey garden building giving views over walls to borrowed scenery. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Garden pagoda (tǎ) · Shrines · China · e.g. Kew Pagoda (1762, Chinoiserie) · 3 × 3 m, 9 m high
  A multi-tiered tower; European gardens borrowed the form, as at Kew where Sir William Chambers built a ten-storey pagoda. Place it in your garden
• ⛩️ Páifāng memorial archway · Gates & walls · China · 6 × 1 m, 5 m high
  A ceremonial gateway of posts and tiled roofs marking an entrance or honouring a person. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Zig-zag bridge (jiǔqū qiáo) · Bridges · China · Yu Garden, Shanghai · 8 × 2.4 m, 0.5 m high
  A bridge that turns at angles over the pond; folk belief says evil spirits travel only in straight lines. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Humpback stone bridge · Bridges · China · Jade Belt Bridge, Summer Palace · 6 × 2 m, 2.4 m high
  A steep single-arch bridge high enough for boats to pass; the Jade Belt Bridge is the famous example. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Multi-arch stone bridge · Bridges · China · Seventeen-Arch Bridge, Summer Palace · 10 × 2.4 m, 1.6 m high
  A long low stone bridge on many arches; the Summer Palace bridge is 150 m long with 544 carved lions. Place it in your garden
• ⛵ Marble boat pavilion · Pavilions · China · Qingyan Fang, Summer Palace · 8 × 3 m, 4.5 m high
  A stone boat pavilion moored in the lake; the Summer Palace example was rebuilt in 1893. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Guardian lions (shíshī) · Shrines · China · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Paired guardian lions at gates: the male with a ball under his paw, the female with a cub. Place it in your garden
• 🦢 Bronze crane · Sculpture · China · Summer Palace · 0.6 × 0.4 m, 1.6 m high
  Bronze cranes, symbols of longevity, stand before imperial halls in Beijing. Place it in your garden
• 🦌 Bronze deer · Sculpture · China · Summer Palace · 1.2 × 0.5 m, 1.5 m high
  Deer (lù) sounds like “prosperity” and pairs with the crane for long life. Place it in your garden
• 🐉 Qilin statue · Shrines · China · 1.2 × 0.5 m, 1.2 m high
  A mythical hooved creature of good omen; bronze qilin stand in the Forbidden City and Summer Palace. Place it in your garden
• 🐉 Dragon sculpture · Sculpture · China · 3 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  Dragons, bringers of rain and imperial power, coil along walls, screens and fountains. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Stone table with drum stools · Seats · China · 2 × 2 m, 0.8 m high
  A round stone table with four drum-shaped stools, set in a pavilion or courtyard for chess and tea. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Penjing landscape on a stand · Urns & pots · China · 0.8 × 0.5 m, 1 m high
  Miniature landscapes of trees and rocks in shallow trays, the Chinese ancestor of bonsai. Place it in your garden
• 🐟 Glazed fish bowl · Water · China · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 0.7 m high
  A large glazed bowl for goldfish and lotus, traditional in courtyard houses. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Dragon water jar · Water · China · Forbidden City (gilded vats) · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 0.9 m high
  Great vats were kept full of water as firefighting reserves in palace courtyards. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Blue-and-white ginger jar · Urns & pots · China · Jingdezhen porcelain · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  A round lidded jar in blue-and-white porcelain, a favourite garden ornament since the Ming dynasty. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Chinese stone lantern · Lights · China · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.8 m high
  A square stone lantern with a flared pagoda-style roof. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Red silk lantern · Lights · China · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 2.2 m high
  Red lanterns hung for festivals, especially the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year. Place it in your garden
• 🙏 Guanyin statue · Shrines · China · 1 × 1 m, 2.4 m high
  The bodhisattva of compassion, often standing on a lotus and holding a vase of pure water. Place it in your garden
• 🐢 Stone stele on a tortoise (bìxì) · Curiosities · China · 1.6 × 1 m, 0.8 m high
  Inscribed steles often rest on the back of a tortoise-like dragon son, bìxì. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Rock with carved calligraphy · Signs · China · 1.4 × 1 m, 1.2 m high
  A boulder carved with a poetic name for the view, a classical way to label a scene. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Eave wind bell · Curiosities · China · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 2.2 m high
  Small bronze bells hung at pagoda and pavilion eaves ring in the wind. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Pebble mosaic path · Bridges · China · Suzhou gardens · 4 × 1.2 m, 0.04 m high
  Paths patterned with pebbles, tiles and shards in designs of cranes, bats and coins. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Bamboo screen · Gates & walls · China · 4 × 0.2 m, 1.8 m high
  A close screen of bamboo poles, used to hide service areas and frame views. Place it in your garden
• 🪷 Lotus bowl · Water · China · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 0.6 m high
  A wide bowl planted with lotus, a symbol of purity rising from the mud. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Seokdeung stone lantern · Lights · Korea · Bulguksa, Gyeongju · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 2.2 m high
  An octagonal stone lantern set before a temple hall, with lotus-carved base and capital. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Seokgatap-style stone pagoda · Shrines · Korea · Bulguksa, Gyeongju · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 4.2 m high
  A plain three-storey granite pagoda of the 8th century, admired for its proportions. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Many-storied stone pagoda · Shrines · Korea · Bulguksa, Gyeongju · 1.8 × 1.8 m, 4.6 m high
  The ornate Dabotap stands opposite Seokgatap in the Bulguksa courtyard; this is a simplified multi-tier pagoda. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Jangseung village guardian posts · Shrines · Korea · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 2.4 m high
  Carved wooden posts with fierce faces that guarded village entrances and marked distances. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Jeongja pavilion · Pavilions · Korea · Huwon, Changdeokgung, Seoul · 3.4 × 3.4 m, 4 m high
  An open timber pavilion for viewing water and hills, like those around the Buyongji pond in the Secret Garden. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Onggi fermentation jars · Kitchen garden · Korea · 1 × 1 m, 0.9 m high
  Breathable earthenware jars for kimchi and soy sauce, set out in rows on a jangdokdae terrace. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Dol hareubang stone grandfather · Shrines · Korea · Jeju Island · 0.7 × 0.6 m, 1.6 m high
  Basalt guardian statues from Jeju with bulging eyes and hands on the belly. Place it in your garden
• 🪶 Sotdae bird pole · Shrines · Korea · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 4 m high
  Tall poles topped with carved wooden ducks, set up at village entrances to wish for good harvests. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Granite bench · Seats · Korea · 1.6 × 0.5 m, 0.45 m high
  A plain granite slab bench beside a temple path. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Square pond island planter · Urns & pots · Korea · Buyongji pond, Changdeokgung · 2 × 2 m, 1.4 m high
  Joseon gardens set a round island in a square pond, for heaven and earth; this is a planted island block. Place it in your garden
• ⛩️ Temple gate with swallowtail roof · Gates & walls · Taiwan · Fujian style · 5 × 1.2 m, 4.5 m high
  Southern Chinese temple gates with upswept “swallowtail” ridges covered in colourful figures. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Earth god shrine (tǔdìgōng) · Shrines · Taiwan and southern China · 1 × 0.8 m, 1.6 m high
  Small shrines to the local earth god stand beside fields, trees and streets. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Bronze incense burner · Shrines · China and East Asia · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 0.9 m high
  A tripod or footed burner for incense before a temple or shrine. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Chinoiserie bridge (Chinese Chippendale) · Bridges · England · 18th-century landscape gardens · 5 × 1.6 m, 1.2 m high
  European gardens copied Chinese bridges with geometric fretwork rails, as at Painshill and Biddulph Grange. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Spirit screen wall (yǐngbì) · Gates & walls · China · courtyard houses · 4 × 0.5 m, 2.6 m high
  A free-standing wall just inside the gate that blocks a straight view in, and, by tradition, evil spirits. Place it in your garden

🇹🇭🇮🇳 South & Southeast Asia, Himalaya (145)

• 🛕 San phra phum spirit house · Shrines · Thailand · 1 × 1 m, 2.2 m high
  A miniature temple on a pillar for the guardian spirit of the land; offerings of flowers, food and drinks are left daily. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Chedi (white stupa) · Shrines · Thailand · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 5 m high
  A bell-shaped reliquary tower on stepped bases with a ringed spire. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Golden chedi · Shrines · Thailand · Myanmar · 2 × 2 m, 4.5 m high
  A gilded bell-shaped stupa; the Shwedagon in Yangon is the most famous. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Lanna square chedi · Shrines · Northern Thailand · Chiang Mai · 2.2 × 2.2 m, 4.5 m high
  A northern Thai stupa on a square stepped base. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Sala Thai pavilion · Pavilions · Thailand · 3.6 × 3.6 m, 4.5 m high
  An open pavilion with a steep layered roof and chofa finials, a resting place by roads and water. Place it in your garden
• 🐘 Elephant statue · Sculpture · Thailand · 2.2 × 1 m, 2 m high
  The elephant is Thailand’s national animal and a favourite temple and garden statue. Place it in your garden
• 🐍 Naga serpent balustrade · Shrines · Thailand · Laos · Cambodia · 3 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  Multi-headed naga serpents line temple stairs and bridges as guardians. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Martaban glazed water jar · Water · Myanmar · Thailand · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 1 m high
  Large brown-glazed storage jars from the port of Martaban, used for rainwater and as fountains. Place it in your garden
• 🪷 Lotus water jar · Water · Thailand · 1 × 1 m, 0.7 m high
  A wide glazed jar planted with lotus or water lilies, set at temple and house entrances. Place it in your garden
• 🦅 Garuda figure · Shrines · Thailand · Indonesia · 1.2 × 0.6 m, 1.8 m high
  The mythical bird mount of Vishnu, emblem of Thailand and Indonesia. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Temple bell · Shrines · Thailand · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 2.6 m high
  Rows of bells line temple walks; visitors ring them for merit. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Candi bentar split gate · Gates & walls · Indonesia · Bali · 5 × 1.4 m, 5 m high
  A gateway like a tower split in two, marking the entrance to a Balinese temple’s outer court. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Padmasana shrine · Shrines · Indonesia · Bali · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 3 m high
  A stone lotus-throne shrine to the supreme god, in the holiest corner of a temple. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Sanggah family shrine · Shrines · Indonesia · Bali · 1 × 1 m, 2.2 m high
  A small thatched shrine on a pillar in a Balinese house compound. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Bale open pavilion · Pavilions · Indonesia · Bali · 3.4 × 3.4 m, 4 m high
  A raised platform pavilion under a thatched alang-alang roof for resting and gathering. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Dwarapala guardian · Shrines · Indonesia · Java and Bali · 0.8 × 0.7 m, 1.6 m high
  Kneeling or crouching guardian statues flanking temple entrances, often wrapped in chequered poleng cloth. Place it in your garden
• ☂️ Tedung ceremonial umbrella · Shrines · Indonesia · Bali · 1 × 1 m, 3 m high
  Tall fringed umbrellas set beside shrines during ceremonies. Place it in your garden
• 🎋 Penjor bamboo pole · Shrines · Indonesia · Bali · 1 × 0.6 m, 6 m high
  Arching bamboo poles decorated with palm leaves, set up outside every house for the Galungan festival. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Carved padas stone figure · Sculpture · Indonesia · Bali · 0.7 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Figures carved in soft volcanic tuff (paras), which quickly gathers moss. Place it in your garden
• 🐸 Frog with umbrella statue · Sculpture · Indonesia · Bali · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.6 m high
  A whimsical Balinese garden figure of a frog sheltering under a leaf or umbrella. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Chhatri domed pavilion · Pavilions · India · Rajasthan, Mughal gardens · 3 × 3 m, 5 m high
  An elevated dome on pillars, used as a garden pavilion, cenotaph or roof feature. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Baradari twelve-door pavilion · Pavilions · India · Mughal gardens · 6 × 6 m, 5 m high
  A pavilion with twelve arched openings, three per side, to catch the breeze. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Chadar water chute · Water · India · Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar · 3 × 1 m, 1.4 m high
  A sloping stone slab carved with ripples so water flowing over it shimmers like a shawl (chadar). Place it in your garden
• 🪔 Chini khana niche wall · Water · India · Mughal gardens · 3 × 0.8 m, 2 m high
  A wall of small niches behind a waterfall, lit with oil lamps by night and filled with flowers by day. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Lotus-bud fountain jet · Water · India · Taj Mahal gardens · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 1.2 m high
  Rows of lotus-shaped jets in a marble channel, as in the canal before the Taj Mahal. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Jaali pierced stone screen · Gates & walls · India · Mughal and Rajput architecture · 3 × 0.15 m, 2.4 m high
  A stone or marble screen pierced in geometric or floral patterns, for light, air and privacy. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Mosaic figure from recycled materials · Sculpture · India · Nek Chand’s Rock Garden, Chandigarh · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.2 m high
  Nek Chand built thousands of figures from broken ceramics and industrial waste in his Rock Garden. Place it in your garden
• 🐂 Nandi bull · Shrines · India · 1.6 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  Shiva’s mount, Nandi, reclines facing the shrine in Shaiva temples. Place it in your garden
• 🐘 Ganesha statue · Shrines · India · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  The elephant-headed god of beginnings and remover of obstacles, often placed at entrances. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Tulsi vrindavan planter · Urns & pots · India · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.2 m high
  A raised square planter for holy basil (tulsi) in the courtyard, tended daily in many Hindu homes. Place it in your garden
• 🪜 Stepwell steps (baoli) · Water · India · Rajasthan and Gujarat · 4 × 3 m, 1.2 m high
  Stepped wells reach down to groundwater; this is a small rectangular stepped tank. Place it in your garden
• 🪔 Stone lamp pillar (deepa stambha) · Lights · India · South Indian temples · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 2.2 m high
  Lamp pillars with tiers of oil-lamp holders, lit at festivals such as Karthigai Deepam. Place it in your garden
• 🌙 Moonstone threshold (sandakada pahana) · Curiosities · Sri Lanka · Anuradhapura · 2 × 1 m, 0.08 m high
  A semicircular carved stone at the foot of a stair, with rings of animals and lotus petals. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Guardstone (muragala) · Shrines · Sri Lanka · 0.9 × 0.4 m, 1.4 m high
  Carved slabs flanking temple stairs, often with a naga king figure. Place it in your garden
• 🎏 Prayer flags (lung ta) · Shrines · Tibet · Nepal · Bhutan · 6 × 0.3 m, 2.6 m high
  Strings of blue, white, red, green and yellow flags printed with prayers that the wind carries away. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Chorten (Tibetan stupa) · Shrines · Tibet · Ladakh · Bhutan · 2 × 2 m, 4 m high
  A white-washed stupa with a stepped base, rounded dome and gilded spire. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Mani stone cairn · Shrines · Tibet · Nepal · 1.4 × 1.2 m, 1.1 m high
  Stones carved with the mantra “Om mani padme hum”, piled into walls and cairns along paths. Place it in your garden
• ☸️ Prayer wheel · Shrines · Tibet · Nepal · 1.2 × 0.8 m, 1.6 m high
  Rotating cylinders containing prayers; water-driven wheels turn day and night in streams. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Stupa with dome and harmika · Shrines · India · Nepal (e.g. Sanchi, Swayambhunath) · 3 × 3 m, 4.5 m high
  A hemispherical reliquary mound topped with a square harmika and parasol rings. Place it in your garden
• 🧘 Meditating Buddha (Bodhgaya style) · Shrines · India · Southeast Asia · 1.4 × 1.2 m, 1.8 m high
  A seated Buddha in meditation under a tree, recalling the enlightenment at Bodh Gaya. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Ceramic garden stool · Seats · Vietnam · China · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.45 m high
  A barrel-shaped glazed ceramic stool, used indoors and out. Place it in your garden
• ⛰️ Hòn non bộ rock landscape · Water · Vietnam · 2 × 1.6 m, 1.6 m high
  Miniature rock mountains set in a water basin, planted with small trees: Vietnam’s form of penjing. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Carved stone face · Sculpture · Cambodia · Bayon, Angkor · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.4 m high
  The serene carved faces of the Bayon temple are widely copied as garden heads. Place it in your garden
• 💃 Apsara dancer figure · Sculpture · Cambodia · Angkor Wat · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  Celestial dancers (apsaras) are carved by the thousand on the walls of Angkor Wat. Place it in your garden
• 🧘 Naga-protected Buddha · Shrines · Cambodia · Thailand · 1.2 × 1 m, 2 m high
  The Buddha seated on the coils of the naga Mucalinda, who shelters him with its hoods. Place it in your garden
• 🧚 Kinnari statue · Sculpture · Thailand · Wat Phra Kaew, Bangkok · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.8 m high
  A gilded half-woman, half-bird of the Himavanta forest from Buddhist and Hindu legend; pairs of kinnari stand on the upper terrace of Wat Phra Kaew. Place it in your garden
• 👹 Yaksha (yak) guardian giant · Shrines · Thailand · Wat Phra Kaew and Wat Arun, Bangkok · 1 × 1 m, 3 m high
  Giant demon guardians with masked faces and clubs stand in pairs at temple gates; the twelve at Wat Phra Kaew represent characters from the Ramakien. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Singha guardian lion · Shrines · Northern Thailand · Lanna temples · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Upright, long-necked guardian lions flank the stairs and gates of northern Thai temples, a style shared with Myanmar and Laos. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Bai sema boundary stone · Shrines · Thailand · Laos · 0.9 × 0.4 m, 1.4 m high
  Eight leaf-shaped carved stones, each on a small pedestal, mark the consecrated ground around the ordination hall (ubosot) of a Thai or Lao temple. Place it in your garden
• 🧘 Reclining Buddha · Shrines · Thailand · Wat Pho, Bangkok · 1.5 × 0.6 m, 1.1 m high
  The Buddha lying on his right side at the moment of passing into nirvana; Wat Pho’s gilded figure is 46 m long. Place it in your garden
• 🚶 Walking Buddha (Sukhothai style) · Shrines · Thailand · Sukhothai Historical Park · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.8 m high
  A graceful striding Buddha with one heel raised, a pose invented by Sukhothai sculptors in the 14th century. Place it in your garden
• 🐒 Hanuman statue · Sculpture · Thailand · Cambodia (Ramakien and Reamker) · 0.7 × 0.6 m, 1.6 m high
  The white monkey general of the Ramayana, a hero of Thai Ramakien murals and khon masked dance, often shown with a trident. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Prang tower · Shrines · Thailand · Wat Arun, Bangkok · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 5.5 m high
  A tall, corn-cob-shaped tower derived from Khmer temple sanctuaries; Wat Arun’s central prang is covered in pieces of Chinese porcelain. Place it in your garden
• 📜 Ho trai scripture library on a pond · Pavilions · Thailand · Wat Thung Si Mueang, Ubon Ratchathani · 4 × 4 m, 5 m high
  A temple library for palm-leaf scriptures, built on stilts in the middle of a pond to keep out termites and rats. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Bodhi-leaf temple bells · Shrines · Thailand · Myanmar · Laos · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 2.2 m high
  Small bronze bells with a bodhi-leaf-shaped clapper hang from temple eaves and chedi spires and ring in the slightest breeze. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Bodhi tree props (mai kham sri) · Shrines · Thailand · Laos · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 2.4 m high
  Wooden poles leant under the branches of a sacred bodhi tree, offered at Songkran as a merit-making gesture to support the Buddha’s teaching. Place it in your garden
• 🎏 Tung prayer banner · Shrines · Northern Thailand · Lanna · 1 × 0.6 m, 6 m high
  Long woven or paper banners hung from tall bamboo poles at northern Thai temples during festivals and Songkran. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Khom paper lantern · Lights · Northern Thailand · Chiang Mai, Yi Peng · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  Lanna paper lanterns in star, ball and lotus shapes are hung by the thousand around temples and houses for the Yi Peng full-moon festival. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 San chao thi spirit house on legs · Shrines · Thailand · 1 × 1 m, 2 m high
  A wooden spirit house set on four or six legs for the old guardian spirits of the land (Ta Yai and Yai Yai), usually placed next to the san phra phum. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Ratchaburi dragon jar (ong mangkon) · Water · Thailand · Ratchaburi · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 1 m high
  Brown-glazed stoneware rain jars decorated with yellow dragons, made in Ratchaburi since the 1930s by Chinese potters and set under the eaves to catch rainwater. Place it in your garden
• 🪴 Mai dat shaped tree in a glazed pot · Urns & pots · Thailand · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.1 m high
  Mai dat is the Thai art of training small trees such as water jasmine and tamarind into stylised shapes, displayed in glazed pots at temples and houses. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Benjarong porcelain urn · Urns & pots · Thailand · Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  Porcelain painted in five or more bright enamel colours with gold, first ordered from China by the Ayutthaya court; today made in villages such as Don Kai Dee and Bang Chang. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Yung khao rice granary · Pavilions · Thailand · Isan and the central plains · 3 × 3 m, 3.5 m high
  A raised wooden barn with a steep roof for storing the family’s rice harvest, set apart from the house to keep out damp and rodents. Place it in your garden
• ⚙️ Rahat paddle water wheel · Kitchen garden · Thailand · central plains · 2.4 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  A wooden wheel and trough with a chain of paddles, turned by foot or by a small windmill, that lifts water from canals into rice fields. Place it in your garden
• 🧑‍🌾 Rice-field scarecrow (hun lai ka) · Kitchen garden · Thailand · Laos · 1.4 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  Figures of straw and old clothes in a farmer’s hat, set up in the paddies to keep birds off the ripening rice. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Floating-market sampan · Water · Thailand · Damnoen Saduak and Amphawa · 5 × 0.9 m, 0.6 m high
  Narrow wooden paddle boats from which vendors sell fruit, flowers and noodles at the canal floating markets west of Bangkok. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Zebra-dove cage pole · Wildlife · Southern Thailand · Malaysia · Indonesia · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 4.5 m high
  Ornate wooden cages of singing zebra doves are hoisted up tall poles for cooing competitions, a tradition of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 That (Lao stupa) · Shrines · Laos · Pha That Luang, Vientiane · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 5 m high
  A Lao stupa with a square base, an inverted-lotus bulb and a tall, slender four-sided spire; Pha That Luang is the national symbol. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Stone jar from the Plain of Jars · Curiosities · Laos · Xieng Khouang (UNESCO World Heritage) · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 0.8 m high
  Thousands of carved stone jars, up to 3 m tall, stand on the plateau of Xieng Khouang; they date from the Iron Age and are linked with funerary practice. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Khmer gopura gate · Gates & walls · Cambodia · Angkor · 5 × 1.4 m, 5 m high
  A cruciform stone entrance pavilion in the enclosure walls of Khmer temples, its tower often carved with faces as at Angkor Thom. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Chinthe guardian lion · Shrines · Myanmar · Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Huge seated leogryphs guard the entrances of Burmese pagodas in pairs; the chinthe gave its name to the Chindits of the Second World War. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Kyizi triangular gong · Shrines · Myanmar · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 3.4 m high
  A flat bronze gong shaped like a triangle with curved sides, hung at pagodas and struck to share merit after prayers. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Zayat rest house · Pavilions · Myanmar · Thailand · 3.6 × 3.6 m, 4 m high
  An open shelter built as an act of merit by roads and around pagodas, where travellers and pilgrims can rest out of the sun. Place it in your garden
• 🫙 Roadside water-pot stand (yay o zin) · Water · Myanmar · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 1 m high
  Clay pots of drinking water with a cup, kept full under a small roof by householders as a merit offering to anyone passing by; the porous clay keeps the water cool. Place it in your garden
• 🦢 Hintha pole · Shrines · Myanmar · Mon temples, Bago · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 6 m high
  A tall pillar topped by the hintha, a mythical golden goose that is the emblem of Bago (Hanthawaddy) and the Mon people. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Covered bridge (Chùa Cầu) · Bridges · Vietnam · Hội An · 6 × 2.4 m, 3 m high
  A roofed wooden bridge with a small temple on one side, built over a stream by Hội An’s Japanese merchant community, by tradition in the 1590s. Place it in your garden
• 🐢 Doctors’ stele on a tortoise · Curiosities · Vietnam · Temple of Literature (Văn Miếu), Hanoi · 0.9 × 0.7 m, 1.2 m high
  Stone steles recording the names of doctoral laureates, carried on the backs of stone tortoises; 82 survive from exams held between 1442 and 1779. Place it in your garden
• 🎭 Water-puppet pavilion (thủy đình) · Pavilions · Vietnam · Thầy Pagoda, Hà Nội · 4 × 4 m, 4.5 m high
  A small pavilion standing in a village pond that serves as the stage for múa rối nước, the Red River Delta tradition of water puppetry. Place it in your garden
• ⚱️ Dynastic bronze urn (Huế) · Curiosities · Vietnam · Imperial City, Huế · 1 × 1 m, 1.4 m high
  The Nine Dynastic Urns cast in 1835–1837 stand in the courtyard of the Thế Miếu temple, each decorated with landscapes, plants and animals of Vietnam. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Bát Tràng ceramic jar · Urns & pots · Vietnam · Bát Tràng, Hà Nội · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  Glazed jars and planters from the pottery village of Bát Tràng on the Red River, making ceramics since at least the 15th century. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Pendopo pavilion · Pavilions · Indonesia · Java (Kraton Yogyakarta) · 6 × 6 m, 5 m high
  A large open pavilion on columns under a stepped joglo roof, the reception hall at the front of a Javanese palace or noble house. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Meru shrine tower · Shrines · Indonesia · Pura Ulun Danu Bratan, Bali · 3 × 3 m, 8 m high
  A Balinese shrine with an odd number of stacked thatched roofs, up to eleven, standing for the holy mountain Meru. Place it in your garden
• 🥁 Kulkul drum tower · Shrines · Indonesia · Bali · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 2.6 m high
  A tower in each temple and village hall holding wooden slit drums, beaten to call meetings, mark ceremonies or raise an alarm. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Lumbung rice barn · Pavilions · Indonesia · Bali and Lombok · 3 × 3 m, 4.5 m high
  A rice store raised on posts with rat guards under a tall, rounded thatched roof; the shape is now copied for guest cottages. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Subak water divider (temuku) · Water · Indonesia · Bali (subak, UNESCO World Heritage) · 6 × 0.8 m, 0.3 m high
  Stone or timber weirs split each irrigation channel into shares for the rice terraces below, under the subak system run by farmers and water temples since the 9th century. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Holy-spring water spouts (pancuran) · Water · Indonesia · Tirta Empul, Bali · 3 × 0.8 m, 2 m high
  A row of carved stone spouts pouring spring water into a bathing pool, where worshippers purify themselves; Tirta Empul’s spring has been sacred since 962. Place it in your garden
• 🏊 Royal bathing pool (Taman Sari) · Water · Indonesia · Taman Sari, Yogyakarta · 4 × 3 m, 1.2 m high
  Stepped stone pools with fountains in the former pleasure garden of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, built from 1758. Place it in your garden
• 🫙 Padasan ablution jar · Water · Indonesia · Java · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 0.9 m high
  A clay water jar with a spout near its base, set on a stand outside houses and village mosques for washing hands and feet. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Wakaf rest pavilion · Pavilions · Malaysia · Kelantan and Terengganu · 3 × 3 m, 4 m high
  A small open roadside shelter with a raised floor and tiled roof, built by villagers as a charitable gift for travellers to rest and pray. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Tempayan foot-washing jar · Water · Malaysia · Malay kampung houses · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 0.7 m high
  A big glazed earthenware jar of water kept at the foot of the house stairs, with a ladle for washing feet before going inside. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Merlion · Sculpture · Singapore · Merlion Park · 2 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  A lion with a fish’s body, designed in 1964 as the emblem of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board; the 8.6 m statue spouts water into Marina Bay. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Bahay kubo (nipa hut) · Pavilions · Philippines · 3.4 × 3.4 m, 4 m high
  A bamboo house raised on stilts under a steep roof of nipa palm thatch; the folk song "Bahay Kubo" lists the vegetables growing around it. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Bulul rice guardian · Shrines · Philippines · Ifugao, Cordillera · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.9 m high
  Carved wooden figures, seated or standing, kept in Ifugao rice granaries to guard and increase the harvest. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Ifugao rice-terrace wall · Gates & walls · Philippines · Banaue and Batad (UNESCO World Heritage) · 6 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  Dry-stone and earth walls hold up the Ifugao rice terraces, carved into the mountains of the Cordillera and fed by forest streams. Place it in your garden
• ⭐ Parol star lantern · Lights · Philippines · Pampanga (San Fernando) · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.8 m high
  Five-pointed star lanterns of bamboo and paper or capiz shell, hung at Christmas to recall the Star of Bethlehem; San Fernando holds a giant lantern festival. Place it in your garden
• 🌸 Pietra dura inlay panel (parchin kari) · Gates & walls · India · Taj Mahal, Agra · 1.2 × 0.1 m, 1.2 m high
  White marble inlaid with flowers of cut semi-precious stones such as carnelian, jade and lapis, the technique that decorates the Taj Mahal; Agra workshops still practise it. Place it in your garden
• 🪟 Jharokha (overhanging balcony window) · Gates & walls · India · Rajasthan (e.g. Hawa Mahal, Jaipur) · 1.5 × 0.8 m, 2 m high
  A projecting stone or wooden balcony window with a little domed roof and pierced screens, letting breezes in and allowing the women of the palace to watch the street unseen; Jaipur’s Hawa Mahal has 953 of them. Place it in your garden
• 🎨 Shekhawati painted wall · Gates & walls · India · Shekhawati, Rajasthan · 4 × 0.4 m, 3 m high
  Walls of merchants’ havelis covered with frescoes of gods, horses, trains and cars, painted in the 18th to early 20th centuries; the region is called an open-air art gallery. Place it in your garden
• 🕰️ Samrat Yantra (giant sundial) · Curiosities · India · Jantar Mantar, Jaipur (UNESCO) · 6 × 4 m, 6 m high
  The great triangular gnomon of Jai Singh II’s observatory in Jaipur, built in the 1720s–1730s: its shadow tells local time to about two seconds on the curved quadrants. Place it in your garden
• 🎲 Giant pachisi court (Fatehpur Sikri) · Play · India · Fatehpur Sikri · 6 × 6 m, 0.1 m high
  A cross-shaped board laid out in the paving of Akbar’s palace courtyard, where, legend says, the emperor played pachisi using slave girls as the pieces. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Shikara boat · Water · India · Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir · 5 × 1.2 m, 1.4 m high
  A long, slim wooden boat with a canopied seating area and carved, heart-shaped paddles, used to ferry people and flowers across Dal Lake and its floating markets. Place it in your garden
• 🥬 Floating vegetable garden (rad), Dal Lake · Kitchen garden · India · Dal Lake, Kashmir · 4 × 2 m, 0.3 m high
  Rafts of matted reeds and lake weed, covered with mud, on which Kashmiri farmers grow tomatoes, cucumbers and melons, towing them across the lake by boat. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Johad (earthen check dam) · Water · India · Rajasthan (revived by Tarun Bharat Sangh, Alwar) · 6 × 3 m, 0.8 m high
  A crescent earthen bank that holds monsoon runoff so it soaks into the ground and recharges wells; their revival from the 1980s brought rivers in Alwar district back to life. Place it in your garden
• ⚪ Kund (covered rainwater tank) · Water · India · Thar Desert, Rajasthan and Gujarat · 3 × 3 m, 1 m high
  A round underground cistern with a domed cover in the middle of a saucer-shaped, plastered catchment that funnels rain into it, storing drinking water for the dry months. Place it in your garden
• 🧊 Ice stupa (artificial glacier) · Water · India · Ladakh (Sonam Wangchuk, 2013) · 6 × 6 m, 15 m high
  In winter, stream water piped downhill sprays into the freezing air and builds a cone of ice that melts slowly in spring, watering fields when farmers need it most. Place it in your garden
• ❄️ Kolam threshold drawing · Shrines · India · Tamil Nadu (rangoli elsewhere in India) · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 0.02 m high
  A geometric pattern of lines looped around a grid of dots, drawn each dawn with rice flour on the swept ground before the door; the flour also feeds ants and birds. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Temple tank (pushkarani) · Water · India · Hampi, Karnataka; temples across South India · 8 × 8 m, 1.5 m high
  A square tank lined with stone steps on all sides, descending in geometric terraces to the water, used for ritual bathing and festivals; the stepped tank at Hampi’s royal centre is a famous example. Place it in your garden
• 🛕 Stone chariot (Hampi) · Sculpture · India · Vittala Temple, Hampi (UNESCO) · 4 × 3 m, 6 m high
  A shrine to Garuda carved in the shape of a temple chariot with stone wheels, built in the 16th century under the Vijayanagara kings; it appears on India’s 50-rupee note. Place it in your garden
• ☀️ Nadumuttam (open courtyard) · Water · India · Kerala (nalukettu houses) · 3 × 3 m, 0.4 m high
  The open-to-the-sky courtyard at the heart of a traditional Kerala house, sunk a few steps below the verandahs that surround it, catching rain and light; often with a tulsi plant in the middle. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Padippura (gatehouse) · Gates & walls · India · Kerala · 4 × 3 m, 4 m high
  A roofed gatehouse with a tiled, sloping roof and wooden benches inside, at the entrance to the walled compound of a traditional Kerala house or temple. Place it in your garden
• 🪔 Nilavilakku (brass lamp) · Lights · India · Kerala · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 1.2 m high
  A tall brass oil lamp with a round base and wicks set in a bowl at the top, lit at dusk in Kerala homes and at the start of ceremonies. Place it in your garden
• 🌼 Brass urli with floating flowers · Urns & pots · India · Kerala and South India · 1 × 1 m, 0.4 m high
  A wide, shallow bell-metal bowl, once used for cooking in temples, now filled with water and floating flowers and candles at the entrance of homes and gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🐍 Naga stones (sarpa kavu) · Shrines · India · Kerala and Karnataka · 1.5 × 0.8 m, 1 m high
  Carved stones of serpent deities set under trees in small sacred groves (sarpa kavu) kept beside homes and temples; the groves were never cut, saving islands of native forest. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Hero stone (veerakallu) · Shrines · India · Karnataka and Tamil Nadu · 0.8 × 0.3 m, 1.8 m high
  An upright slab carved in panels recording the death of a hero in battle or defending cattle, from the 3rd century BC to the 18th century; thousands survive in villages. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Chulha (clay cooking stove) · Kitchen garden · India · Nepal · Bangladesh · 0.8 × 0.5 m, 0.4 m high
  A U-shaped stove of clay moulded by hand, fed with wood or dung cakes, in village kitchens and courtyards; improved chimney models cut harmful indoor smoke. Place it in your garden
• 🫓 Tandoor (clay oven) · Kitchen garden · India · Pakistan · Central Asia · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 1 m high
  A barrel-shaped clay oven heated with charcoal at the bottom; flatbreads are slapped onto the hot inner wall and skewered meat is lowered inside. Place it in your garden
• 🛏️ Charpai (rope bed) · Seats · India · Pakistan · Bangladesh · 1.9 × 0.9 m, 0.45 m high
  A light wooden frame strung with woven rope or jute on four legs, carried into the courtyard or under a tree for sitting and sleeping outdoors in the heat. Place it in your garden
• 🪢 Jhoola (garden swing) · Play · India · 2.5 × 1.5 m, 2.5 m high
  A swing hung from a tree branch or a carved wooden frame; swinging is part of the monsoon festival of Teej, when women sing swing songs in gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Piyau (public drinking-water stand) · Water · India · 1.5 × 0.8 m, 1 m high
  A roadside shelter with clay pots of cool water set out free for travellers in summer, an old act of charity. Place it in your garden
• 🕊️ Bird-feeding tower (chabutro) · Wildlife · India · Ahmedabad pols, Gujarat · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 5 m high
  An ornate pillar topped by a little pavilion where grain is placed for pigeons and other birds, a feature of the old neighbourhoods (pols) of Ahmedabad. Place it in your garden
• 🪜 Ghat steps to the water · Water · India · Varanasi and riverbanks across India · 6 × 3 m, 1 m high
  Broad flights of stone steps descending to a river or tank, used for bathing, washing, prayers and cremation; Varanasi has more than 80 ghats along the Ganges. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Living root bridge · Bridges · India · Meghalaya (Khasi and Jaintia hills) · 8 × 1.5 m, 2 m high
  Bridges grown over decades by guiding the aerial roots of rubber fig trees across streams; they strengthen with age and some, like the double-decker at Nongriat, are over a century old. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Snake boat (chundan vallam) · Water · India · Kerala backwaters · 10 × 1.2 m, 1.5 m high
  A long wooden racing boat with a tall, rising stern, rowed by about a hundred oarsmen in the boat races held at Onam, such as the Nehru Trophy race on Punnamada Lake. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Machan (raised watch platform) · Pavilions · India · Nepal · Bangladesh · 2.5 × 2.5 m, 3.5 m high
  A platform of bamboo or wood on tall posts in a field or orchard, where farmers sit to guard crops from birds, deer and elephants. Place it in your garden
• 🎀 Toran (door garland) · Gates & walls · India · Nepal · 2 × 0.1 m, 0.4 m high
  A festive hanging of mango leaves and marigolds, or of embroidered cloth and beads, strung across a doorway to welcome guests and good fortune. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Temple bell (ghanta) · Shrines · India · Nepal · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 2 m high
  A bronze bell hung at a shrine’s entrance and rung by worshippers as they enter, its sound believed to clear the mind and announce the visit. Place it in your garden
• ⛩️ Sanchi gateway (torana) · Gates & walls · India · Great Stupa, Sanchi (UNESCO) · 4 × 1 m, 7 m high
  A gateway of two carved posts and three curved crossbars covered with reliefs of the Buddha’s life and Jataka tales, made in the 1st century BC; the four gateways of Sanchi are masterpieces of early Indian sculpture. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Ashoka pillar with lion capital · Sculpture · India · Sarnath (about 250 BC) · 1 × 1 m, 6 m high
  A polished sandstone column raised by the emperor Ashoka, crowned with four lions back to back above a wheel; the lion capital from Sarnath is India’s national emblem. Place it in your garden
• 🚧 Stupa railing (vedika) · Gates & walls · India · Sanchi, Bharhut · 6 × 0.5 m, 3 m high
  A stone railing imitating timber posts and crossbars that encloses the path around an early Buddhist stupa. Place it in your garden
• ☸️ Konark chariot wheel · Sculpture · India · Sun Temple, Konark, Odisha (UNESCO) · 3 × 0.6 m, 3 m high
  One of 24 carved stone wheels, about 3 m across, on the Sun Temple built as the chariot of the sun god Surya in the 13th century; their spokes cast shadows that can be read like a sundial. Place it in your garden
• 🧘 Gandhara Buddha · Shrines · Pakistan and Afghanistan · Gandhara (1st–5th centuries AD) · 1 × 1 m, 2 m high
  A Buddha carved in grey schist with wavy hair and robes falling in deep folds, showing the blend of Greek, Roman and Indian art in the ancient kingdom of Gandhara around Peshawar and Taxila. Place it in your garden
• 🐴 Bankura terracotta horse · Sculpture · India · Panchmura, Bankura, West Bengal · 0.6 × 0.25 m, 0.9 m high
  A stylised horse with a long upright neck and pricked ears, made of fired red clay by village potters and offered at local shrines; a symbol of Indian folk craft. Place it in your garden
• 🐎 Ayyanar guardian horse · Shrines · India · Tamil Nadu villages · 3 × 1 m, 4 m high
  Huge painted horses of terracotta or plaster standing at the edge of villages as mounts for the guardian deity Ayyanar, who rides out at night to protect the village. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Dokra bell-metal figure · Sculpture · India · Bastar, West Bengal and Odisha · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.7 m high
  Small figures of people and animals cast by the lost-wax method, a craft over 4,000 years old (the Mohenjo-daro “dancing girl” was made the same way), with fine threads of wax giving a rustic texture. Place it in your garden
• 🖌️ Madhubani painted wall · Gates & walls · India · Mithila, Bihar · 3 × 0.3 m, 2.5 m high
  Mud walls painted by the women of Mithila with gods, fish, peacocks and the tree of life in bold outlines and bright natural colours, traditionally for weddings and festivals. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Terracotta temple plaque (Kantajew) · Gates & walls · Bangladesh · Kantajew Temple, Dinajpur (1752) · 3 × 0.4 m, 2.5 m high
  Walls covered with thousands of terracotta plaques of scenes from the Mahabharata, Ramayana and everyday life, the finest example of Bengal’s brick temple art. Place it in your garden
• 🚚 Truck art panel · Signs · Pakistan · 2 × 0.1 m, 1.2 m high
  Panels painted with flowers, birds, landscapes and poetry in dazzling colours and mirror work, as on the decorated trucks of Pakistan; now used to brighten walls and gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🐲 Stone water spout (dhunge dhara, hiti) · Water · Nepal · Manga Hiti, Patan (AD 570) · 3 × 2 m, 2 m high
  Carved stone spouts in the shape of mythical makara heads in sunken courtyards, fed by underground channels from ponds; many still supply water in the Kathmandu Valley. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Pati (Newar rest house) · Pavilions · Nepal · Kathmandu Valley · 4 × 2.5 m, 3 m high
  An open, raised rest house with a tiled roof on carved wooden posts, built beside roads, temples and water spouts for travellers and neighbours to sit and talk. Place it in your garden
• 🦚 Peacock window (Bhaktapur) · Gates & walls · Nepal · Pujari Math, Bhaktapur · 1 × 0.2 m, 1 m high
  A latticed window carved in wood with a peacock spreading its tail, made in the 15th century; the masterpiece of Newar woodcarving. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Chautara (resting platform) · Seats · Nepal · 3 × 3 m, 0.6 m high
  A stone platform built around a pipal and a banyan tree, planted together as a married pair, where porters set down their loads and villagers gather in the shade. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Ambalama (wayside rest house) · Pavilions · Sri Lanka · e.g. Panavitiya Ambalama, Kurunegala · 4 × 3 m, 3.5 m high
  An open-sided pavilion with a raised floor and a tiled or thatched roof on wooden pillars, built for travellers and pilgrims; the Panavitiya ambalama has richly carved pillars and beams. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Twin ponds (Kuttam Pokuna) · Water · Sri Lanka · Anuradhapura · 8 × 4 m, 1.5 m high
  A pair of stepped bathing ponds of carved granite from about the 8th century, fed through underground conduits and a filter chamber, at a monastery in Anuradhapura. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Vesak lantern (Vesak kuduwa) · Lights · Sri Lanka · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  Paper and bamboo lanterns, often star-shaped with fluttering tails, made by families and hung outside homes for Vesak, the festival of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. Place it in your garden
• 🎯 Archery target (Bhutan) · Play · Bhutan · 0.4 × 0.2 m, 1 m high
  A small painted wooden target set about 145 m away across a field: archery is Bhutan’s national sport, played with songs, dances and teasing of the other team. Place it in your garden

🇪🇺 Europe (265)

• 🏺 Medici vase · Urns & pots · Italy · Villa Medici, Rome (now Uffizi) · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 1.8 m high
  A bell-shaped marble krater carved with a relief, copied for gardens across Europe since the 17th century. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Borghese vase · Urns & pots · Italy · Borghese collection (now Louvre) · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 1.9 m high
  A monumental Athenian marble krater with a Bacchic procession, widely cast in lead and stone for gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Anduze vase · Urns & pots · France · Anduze, Cévennes · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 0.9 m high
  A glazed terracotta planter with garlands and coloured drips, made in Anduze since the 17th century, traditionally for orange trees. Place it in your garden
• 🍋 Terracotta lemon pot with citrus · Urns & pots · Italy · Boboli Gardens, Florence · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 2.2 m high
  Potted citrus moved outdoors each spring; the Medici villas of Florence still keep hundreds in terracotta pots. Place it in your garden
• 🗽 Marble nymph statue · Sculpture · Italy · Renaissance gardens · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2.4 m high
  Classical statues of nymphs and gods line Italian Renaissance garden avenues. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Reclining river god · Sculpture · Italy · Villa Lante, Villa d’Este · 2.4 × 1 m, 1.2 m high
  A bearded river god reclining on an urn, a fountain theme from Roman antiquity. Place it in your garden
• 👹 Bomarzo-style monster head · Curiosities · Italy · Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo · 2 × 2 m, 2.4 m high
  The 16th-century “Park of Monsters” has giant carved creatures; here, a stylised head on a plinth. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Herm (term) pillar · Sculpture · Italy · Greece · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 2 m high
  A square tapering pillar topped with a carved bust, used to line paths and frame hedges. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Venetian wellhead (vera da pozzo) · Water · Italy · Venice · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 1 m high
  A carved stone well head over a cistern; many were moved to gardens as planters and ornaments. Place it in your garden
• 😮 Grotto mask fountain · Water · Italy · Villa d’Este, Tivoli · 1.4 × 0.8 m, 1.6 m high
  Water spouting from a carved mask into a basin; Villa d’Este’s Avenue of a Hundred Fountains has hundreds. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Tazza fountain · Water · Italy · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 2.2 m high
  A wide shallow bowl on a pedestal over a pool, the water falling in a curtain from its rim. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Three-tier fountain · Water · Italy · France · 3 × 3 m, 3.2 m high
  A central column carrying three diminishing basins over a round pool. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Classical column · Sculpture · Italy · Greece · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 3 m high
  A free-standing column used as an eye-catcher or to carry a statue or urn. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Ionic column · Sculpture · Greece · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 3.2 m high
  A column with scroll-shaped (volute) capital, one of the classical orders. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Corinthian column · Sculpture · Greece · Rome · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 3.4 m high
  The most ornate classical order, its capital carved with acanthus leaves. Place it in your garden
• 🏚️ Ruined column · Curiosities · England · 18th-century landscape gardens · 1.6 × 0.8 m, 2.2 m high
  Picturesque broken columns and fallen drums evoked the ruins of Rome in landscape gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Colonnade · Pavilions · Europe · 8 × 1 m, 3.2 m high
  A row of columns carrying an entablature, framing a walk or a view. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Stone-pillared pergola · Pavilions · Italy · Villa Cimbrone, Ravello · 6 × 3 m, 2.8 m high
  Round masonry pillars carrying timber beams, often hung with wisteria or vines. Place it in your garden
• 🍊 Versailles planter box (caisse de Versailles) · Urns & pots · France · Versailles Orangery · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  A square planter with removable panels, designed for Versailles in 1670 so orange trees could be root-pruned and moved. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Planter with clipped box ball · Urns & pots · France · Europe · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.4 m high
  A formal planter holding a clipped evergreen ball on a stem. Place it in your garden
• 🪟 Treillage trellis screen · Gates & walls · France · 4 × 0.2 m, 2.4 m high
  Painted timber lattice work made into screens, arbours and false perspectives. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Octagonal basin with jet · Water · France · Baroque parterres · 4 × 4 m, 2.4 m high
  A geometric basin with a single tall jet at the centre of a parterre. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Stone bench with lion feet · Seats · France · Italy · 2 × 0.6 m, 0.5 m high
  A carved stone seat set along a formal allée. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Luxembourg garden chair · Seats · France · Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 0.9 m high
  Green metal chairs free for anyone to move around Paris parks; a bistro set here. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Wallace drinking fountain · Water · France · Paris · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2.7 m high
  Cast-iron drinking fountains given to Paris by Richard Wallace in 1872, with four caryatids. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Green garden bench (Giverny) · Seats · France · Giverny · 1.6 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  Monet painted his garden furniture and bridge the same green. Place it in your garden
• 🌹 Iron rose arch (Grande Allée) · Gates & walls · France · Giverny · 3 × 2 m, 3 m high
  Iron hoops over the main path carry climbing roses, as on Monet’s Grande Allée. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Green Japanese footbridge · Bridges · France · Giverny · 6 × 2 m, 2.4 m high
  Monet’s arched footbridge over the lily pond, hung with wisteria. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Glass bell cloche · Kitchen garden · France · potagers · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.45 m high
  Hand-blown glass bells set over young plants in French market gardens from the 17th century. Place it in your garden
• 🕊️ Pigeonnier (dovecote tower) · Wildlife · France · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 4 m high
  Dovecotes were a privilege of French nobility; garden versions stand on a post. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Lutyens bench · Seats · England · Sir Edwin Lutyens · 2.2 × 0.7 m, 1.1 m high
  A broad teak bench with a wavy top rail and scrolled arms, designed by Edwin Lutyens around 1910. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Classic teak bench · Seats · England · 1.6 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  The slatted teak bench of English parks and botanic gardens, often with a memorial plaque. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Victorian cast-iron bench · Seats · England · Coalbrookdale · 1.6 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  Ornate cast-iron benches with timber slats, made famous by the Coalbrookdale foundry. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Tree seat · Seats · England · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 1 m high
  A circular bench around a tree trunk. Place it in your garden
• 🌹 Rose arbour seat · Seats · England · cottage gardens · 1.8 × 0.9 m, 2.3 m high
  A trellis arch over a bench, smothered in climbing roses or honeysuckle. Place it in your garden
• 🏡 Summerhouse · Pavilions · England · 3 × 3 m, 3.2 m high
  A glazed garden room for sitting out in mild weather. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Potting shed · Kitchen garden · England · 3 × 2.4 m, 2.6 m high
  A timber shed with a potting bench and window, the working heart of the garden. Place it in your garden
• 🏚️ Ruined folly wall · Curiosities · England · Painshill, Stowe · 6 × 0.8 m, 4 m high
  Purpose-built “ruins” added drama to 18th-century landscape gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Classical temple folly · Pavilions · England · Stourhead, Stowe · 5 × 4 m, 5 m high
  A small classical temple placed as an eye-catcher across a lake, as at Stourhead. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Ha-ha sunken wall · Gates & walls · England · 18th century · 10 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  A wall set in a ditch that keeps livestock out without interrupting the view. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Dry-stone wall · Gates & walls · Britain · Ireland · 6 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  A wall of stones laid without mortar, home to mosses, ferns and insects. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Flint wall · Gates & walls · England · East Anglia and the South Downs · 5 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  Knapped or cobbled flint set in lime mortar with brick dressings. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Crinkle-crankle wall · Gates & walls · England · Suffolk · 8 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  A serpentine brick wall: its curves make one brick thick strong enough, and warm the fruit trees in its bays. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Kitchen-garden brick wall · Gates & walls · Britain · 8 × 0.4 m, 3 m high
  High brick walls store the sun’s heat for fan-trained peaches and figs. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Lychgate · Gates & walls · England · churchyards · 3 × 2 m, 3.4 m high
  A roofed timber gateway to a churchyard; the name comes from the Old English for corpse. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Wrought-iron gate between brick piers · Gates & walls · Britain · Europe · 3.6 × 0.5 m, 2.6 m high
  A pair of iron gates hung on brick or stone piers topped with balls or urns. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Chestnut paling fence · Gates & walls · England · 6 × 0.1 m, 1.2 m high
  Split sweet-chestnut stakes wired together, a coppice product. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Woven hazel hurdle · Gates & walls · England · 2 × 0.1 m, 1.2 m high
  A panel of hazel rods woven between uprights, made by coppice workers for centuries. Place it in your garden
• 🏡 White picket fence · Gates & walls · England · USA · 5 × 0.1 m, 1 m high
  A painted fence of pointed pickets around a cottage or front garden. Place it in your garden
• 🕰️ Pedestal sundial · Curiosities · Europe · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.1 m high
  A horizontal dial with a gnomon on a stone pedestal, often with a Latin motto such as “Tempus fugit”. Place it in your garden
• 🌐 Armillary sphere · Curiosities · Europe · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 1.8 m high
  A model of the celestial sphere of rings; garden versions are also sundials. Place it in your garden
• 🧍 Analemmatic (human) sundial · Curiosities · Europe · e.g. Brou, France · 6 × 4 m, 0.1 m high
  You stand on the date mark and your shadow tells the time against hour markers set in an ellipse. Place it in your garden
• 🔮 Gazing ball · Curiosities · Germany (Rosenkugel) · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.1 m high
  A mirrored glass globe on a pedestal that reflects the whole garden; a 19th-century German and Victorian fashion. Place it in your garden
• 🪴 Wardian case · Curiosities · England · Nathaniel Ward, 1829 · 1 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  A sealed glass case that let living plants survive long sea voyages; it moved tea, rubber and bananas around the world. Place it in your garden
• 🪟 Cold frame · Kitchen garden · Britain · 1.6 × 1 m, 0.6 m high
  A low box with a glazed lid for hardening off seedlings and early crops. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Bee boles in a wall · Wildlife · Britain · Ireland · 1 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  Recesses built into garden walls to shelter straw skeps; more than 1,500 sites are recorded in Britain and Ireland. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Straw bee skep · Wildlife · Europe · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  A dome of coiled straw used as a beehive until the 19th century. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 WBC beehive · Wildlife · England · William Broughton Carr, 1890 · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.2 m high
  A double-walled white hive with sloping tiers, the classic English cottage-garden hive. Place it in your garden
• 🌱 Stone sink garden · Urns & pots · England · 1.2 × 0.6 m, 0.4 m high
  Old stone sinks and troughs planted with alpines, a favourite of alpine gardeners since the early 20th century. Place it in your garden
• 🍄 Staddle stones · Curiosities · England · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.8 m high
  Mushroom-shaped stones that once lifted granaries off the ground away from rats, now garden ornaments. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Stone obelisk · Sculpture · Egypt · Europe · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 3.5 m high
  A tall tapering four-sided pillar ending in a pyramid, a classic garden eye-catcher. Place it in your garden
• 🗽 Coade stone figure · Sculpture · England · Coade factory, Lambeth (1769–1833) · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2.2 m high
  A statue in Eleanor Coade’s weather-resistant ceramic “artificial stone”. Place it in your garden
• 👼 Lead cherub (putto) · Sculpture · England · Europe · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.2 m high
  Small lead figures of children, popular in 18th-century gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Lean-to greenhouse · Kitchen garden · Britain · 4 × 2.4 m, 3 m high
  A glasshouse built against a south-facing wall, which stores heat for vines and peaches. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Victorian palm house · Pavilions · England · Kew Palm House (1848) · 10 × 6 m, 7 m high
  A curvilinear iron-and-glass house for tropical plants. Place it in your garden
• 💡 Victorian lamp post · Lights · England · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 3.2 m high
  A cast-iron lamp standard with a lantern head, once lit by gas. Place it in your garden
• 🌬️ Dutch windmill · Curiosities · Netherlands · Keukenhof · 3 × 3 m, 6 m high
  A tower mill with four sails; Keukenhof’s windmill overlooks the bulb fields. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 White drawbridge · Bridges · Netherlands · 5 × 2 m, 1.2 m high
  A white timber lift bridge over a canal. Place it in your garden
• 👞 Giant wooden clog planter · Urns & pots · Netherlands · 1 × 0.5 m, 0.5 m high
  Oversized wooden clogs filled with tulips, a playful Dutch garden ornament. Place it in your garden
• 🍺 Beer garden table and benches · Seats · Germany · Bavaria · 2.2 × 1.8 m, 0.8 m high
  Folding wooden tables and benches under chestnut trees, the Bavarian Biergarten tradition since the 19th century. Place it in your garden
• 🧙 Garden gnome · Sculpture · Germany · Gräfenroda, 19th century · 0.3 × 0.3 m, 0.6 m high
  The painted terracotta gnome was popularised by Philipp Griebel in Thuringia. Place it in your garden
• 🎏 Maypole · Curiosities · Germany · Sweden · England · 1 × 1 m, 8 m high
  A tall decorated pole raised for May Day or Midsummer festivities. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Falu red garden shed · Pavilions · Sweden · 3 × 2.4 m, 2.6 m high
  A timber shed painted in Falu red, a pigment from the copper mine at Falun. Place it in your garden
• 🧖 Garden sauna hut · Pavilions · Finland · 3 × 2.4 m, 2.6 m high
  Finland has about three million saunas, many in garden huts by the water. Place it in your garden
• ✨ Gilded fountain statue · Water · Russia · Peterhof Grand Cascade · 1 × 1 m, 2.6 m high
  Gilded bronze figures among fountains, as on the Grand Cascade at Peterhof. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Azulejo tiled bench · Seats · Portugal · Spain · 2 × 0.7 m, 0.9 m high
  A masonry bench faced with blue-and-white painted tiles. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Olive oil jar (tinaja) · Urns & pots · Spain · Greece · 0.9 × 0.9 m, 1.3 m high
  Large terracotta jars once used for oil and wine, now garden ornaments. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Cretan pithos · Urns & pots · Greece · Crete · 1 × 1 m, 1.4 m high
  Huge storage jars of the kind found at Knossos, still made in Cretan villages. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Amphora · Urns & pots · Greece · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.1 m high
  A two-handled jar for wine and oil, a symbol of the Mediterranean garden. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Mediterranean stone seat wall · Seats · Mediterranean · 3 × 0.6 m, 0.5 m high
  A low dry-stone wall at sitting height edging a terrace. Place it in your garden
• 🐇 Bronze hare · Sculpture · England · 0.6 × 0.4 m, 0.8 m high
  Leaping and sitting hares are popular contemporary bronzes in English gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🦉 Stone owl · Sculpture · Europe · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.6 m high
  Owls, emblem of Athena and wisdom, perch on gateposts and walls. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Bronze heron · Sculpture · Europe · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 1.3 m high
  A heron standing at the pond’s edge. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Catena d’acqua water chain · Water · Italy · Villa Lante, Bagnaia · 6 × 1.2 m, 1 m high
  A stepped stone runnel down which water ripples in a chain of little falls; at Villa Lante it is carved as a giant crayfish, the gambero of Cardinal Gambara. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Water theatre (teatro d’acqua) · Water · Italy · Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati · 6 × 2 m, 3 m high
  A curved architectural backdrop of niches, statues and spouting water facing the villa like a stage; Villa Aldobrandini’s, with its figure of Atlas, was finished around 1620. Place it in your garden
• 💦 Giochi d’acqua trick fountains · Water · Austria · Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg · 4 × 3 m, 1.2 m high
  Hidden jets that suddenly soak unwary guests, a Renaissance and Baroque garden joke; Hellbrunn’s, built for Archbishop Markus Sittikus around 1612–1619, still work, including a stone dinner table with jets in the seats. Place it in your garden
• 🐟 Peschiera fishpond · Water · Italy · Villa d’Este, Tivoli · 8 × 3 m, 0.8 m high
  A long, formal stone-edged pond that once stocked fish for the table; Villa d’Este’s three Peschiere run across the garden below the Hundred Fountains. Place it in your garden
• 🐚 Nymphaeum grotto fountain · Water · Italy · Villa Giulia, Rome · 4 × 2 m, 3 m high
  A sunken or wall-set fountain court dedicated to water nymphs, revived from Roman villas; Villa Giulia’s nymphaeum of the 1550s steps down to a spring-fed pool. Place it in your garden
• 🌰 Pine-cone finial (pigna) · Sculpture · Italy · Cortile della Pigna, Vatican · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.9 m high
  A carved stone pine cone, a classical emblem of fertility and renewal, set on gate piers and balustrades; the giant Roman bronze Pigna gives the Vatican courtyard its name. Place it in your garden
• 🍍 Stone pineapple finial · Sculpture · Britain · 18th-century gardens · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.8 m high
  Pineapples were a costly hothouse luxury in Georgian Britain, so carved pineapples crowned gate piers as symbols of wealth and welcome; the Dunmore Pineapple (1761) in Scotland is a whole summerhouse in the shape of one. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Stone balustrade · Gates & walls · Italy · Renaissance terraces · 3 × 0.4 m, 1 m high
  A row of turned balusters under a coping rail, edging the terraces and stairs of Italian villa gardens and copied across Europe. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Exedra stone seat · Seats · England · Chiswick House, London · 4 × 1.6 m, 0.9 m high
  A semicircular stone seat or recess for conversation, after the exedrae of Greek and Roman gardens; William Kent’s Exedra at Chiswick sets statues in a curved yew hedge. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Berceau tunnel arbour · Pavilions · France · 17th-century formal gardens · 6 × 2.4 m, 2.8 m high
  An arched tunnel of trelliswork or trained trees forming a shady covered walk; the French berceau (cradle) was a feature of Renaissance and Baroque parterres. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Claire-voie wrought-iron screen · Gates & walls · England · Hampton Court Palace (Tijou Screen) · 6 × 0.5 m, 3 m high
  An ornamental iron grille set in a wall or at the end of a vista so the view runs on beyond the garden; Jean Tijou’s gilded screens of the 1690s close the Privy Garden at Hampton Court. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Gloriette pavilion · Pavilions · Austria · Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna · 5 × 4 m, 4.5 m high
  A pavilion on a rise from which to survey the garden; the colonnaded Gloriette of 1775 crowns the hill above the Schönbrunn parterre. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Palladian bridge · Bridges · England · Wilton House, Wiltshire · 10 × 3.5 m, 4 m high
  A stone bridge carrying a roofed, columned loggia, after a design by Andrea Palladio; the first was built at Wilton in 1737, then copied at Stowe and Prior Park. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Root house · Pavilions · Britain · 18th-century landscape gardens · 3 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A rustic hut built of gnarled roots, logs and moss, a picturesque retreat in Georgian landscape gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Garden hermitage · Pavilions · England · Painshill, Surrey · 3 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A rough thatched cell built to evoke contemplation; Charles Hamilton famously advertised for a resident hermit for the one at Painshill. Place it in your garden
• 🛁 Cold plunge bath · Water · England · Rousham, Oxfordshire · 3 × 2 m, 0.6 m high
  A stone-lined plunge pool fed by a spring, taken for health in the 18th century; William Kent’s octagonal Cold Bath at Rousham is fed by a serpentine rill. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Gothick garden seat · Seats · England · Painswick Rococo Garden · 1.8 × 0.7 m, 1.1 m high
  A bench in the playful “Gothick” taste of the 18th century, with pointed-arch fretwork; Painswick’s restored Rococo garden has a Gothick alcove among its follies. Place it in your garden
• 🏚️ Eyecatcher arch · Curiosities · England · Rousham, Oxfordshire · 5 × 0.8 m, 5 m high
  A sham arch or ruin built on a distant hill purely to be seen from the garden; William Kent’s Eyecatcher (1738) stands in a field across the Cherwell from Rousham. Place it in your garden
• 🏰 Sham castle · Curiosities · England · Sham Castle, Bath · 8 × 1 m, 5 m high
  A castle front with no castle behind it, built as a view; Ralph Allen had Bath’s Sham Castle put up in 1762 to improve the prospect from his town house. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Column of Victory · Sculpture · England · Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 12 m high
  A tall commemorative column topped by a statue, set at the end of a park avenue; Blenheim’s, completed in 1730, carries a lead statue of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Place it in your garden
• 🍍 Pineapple pit · Kitchen garden · England · Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall · 6 × 2 m, 1.2 m high
  A brick pit under glass lights, warmed by fermenting horse manure packed in side trenches, used to grow pineapples in the 18th and 19th centuries; Heligan’s restored pit still fruits. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Lantern cloche · Kitchen garden · England · Victorian kitchen gardens · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.6 m high
  A lantern-shaped cloche of glass panes in a lead or iron frame, often with a removable top for ventilation, set over tender seedlings. Place it in your garden
• 🪟 Barn cloche · Kitchen garden · England · Chase cloches · 1.2 × 0.6 m, 0.45 m high
  Four glass panes held by wire clips into a little barn-roofed tunnel, set end to end down a row; popularised by Major L. H. Chase in the early 20th century. Place it in your garden
• 🪴 Long Tom pot · Urns & pots · England · Victorian nurseries · 0.25 × 0.25 m, 0.4 m high
  A tall, narrow terracotta pot for deep-rooted plants such as sweet peas, lilies and agapanthus. Place it in your garden
• 🍓 Strawberry pot · Kitchen garden · Europe · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.6 m high
  A terracotta jar with cup-shaped side pockets, each planted with a strawberry or herb so the fruit hangs clean and dry. Place it in your garden
• 🍎 Apple store · Kitchen garden · Britain · country-house walled gardens · 3 × 2.4 m, 2.6 m high
  A cool, dark, airy fruit store with slatted shelves where apples and pears were laid out, not touching, to keep through winter. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Dipping pond · Water · Britain · Victorian walled kitchen gardens · 2 × 2 m, 0.5 m high
  A small pool, usually at the crossing of the main paths, from which gardeners dipped watering cans; the water was warmed by the sun before use. Place it in your garden
• 🍏 Step-over apple edging · Kitchen garden · Britain · France · 3 × 0.3 m, 0.5 m high
  An apple tree trained as a single horizontal arm on a wire about 45 cm high, low enough to step over, edging kitchen-garden beds. Place it in your garden
• 🍑 Fan-trained fruit tree · Kitchen garden · Britain · France · 3.6 × 0.3 m, 2.4 m high
  Branches spread like a fan on wires against a warm wall, the classic training for peaches, apricots, cherries and figs in walled gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🫛 Runner bean A-frame row · Kitchen garden · Britain · allotments · 2.4 × 1.2 m, 2.2 m high
  Two rows of canes crossed and tied to a ridge cane, the traditional British support for runner beans. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Cast-iron campana urn · Urns & pots · Britain · Victorian foundries · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.1 m high
  A bell-shaped urn cast in iron, once mass-produced by foundries such as Coalbrookdale and Handyside to stand on lawns and terraces. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Warwick vase · Urns & pots · Italy · Hadrian’s Villa (now Burrell Collection, Glasgow) · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 1.2 m high
  A huge marble vase with vine-stem handles and Bacchic masks, found at Hadrian’s Villa in the 1770s; bronze and iron copies stand in gardens worldwide. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Pulhamite rockwork · Sculpture · England · Battersea Park, Sandringham · 3 × 2 m, 1.8 m high
  Artificial rock modelled in cement over rubble by James Pulham and Son in the 19th century, so convincing it is often taken for real stone. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Slovenian bee house (čebelnjak) · Wildlife · Slovenia · 3 × 2 m, 2.4 m high
  An open-fronted wooden shed holding stacked hives; the hive fronts were painted with folk scenes (panjske končnice) from the 18th century. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 British National hive · Wildlife · Britain · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.9 m high
  The square, single-walled hive with removable frames that is the standard in Britain and Ireland. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Warré hive · Wildlife · France · Abbé Émile Warré · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 1.1 m high
  The “people’s hive” of stacked small boxes with top bars instead of frames, devised by the French priest Émile Warré; new boxes are added beneath. Place it in your garden
• 🏡 Revolving summerhouse · Pavilions · England · Shaw’s Corner, Hertfordshire · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 2.8 m high
  A small hut on a turntable that can be turned to follow the sun; George Bernard Shaw wrote in one at the bottom of his garden. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Camellia house · Pavilions · England · Wollaton Hall, Nottingham · 10 × 5 m, 5 m high
  A glasshouse for growing camellias, a 19th-century craze; Wollaton Hall’s of 1823 is one of the earliest surviving cast-iron glasshouses. Place it in your garden
• 🍇 Vinery (grape house) · Kitchen garden · England · Hampton Court Palace · 10 × 4 m, 4 m high
  A lean-to or span glasshouse for dessert grapes, the vines often rooted outside and led in under the wall; Hampton Court’s Great Vine was planted in 1768. Place it in your garden
• 🪣 Lead cistern planter · Urns & pots · England · 18th century · 1.2 × 0.6 m, 0.7 m high
  A rectangular lead water tank cast with dates, initials and panels of raised decoration, now prized as a garden planter. Place it in your garden
• 🕰️ Scottish multiple sundial · Curiosities · Scotland · Drummond Castle, Perthshire · 1 × 1 m, 2.4 m high
  A stone column carved with dozens of dials on many faces, a 17th-century Scottish speciality; John Mylne made the Drummond Castle dial in 1630. Place it in your garden
• 🗽 Lead garden statue · Sculpture · England · John Cheere’s yard, Hyde Park Corner · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.8 m high
  A painted or plain lead figure of a shepherd, god or rustic, mass-produced for 18th-century gardens by workshops such as John Cheere’s. Place it in your garden
• 🌸 Statue of Flora · Sculpture · Italy · Farnese Flora (Naples) · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2.4 m high
  The Roman goddess of flowers and spring, often copied from the Farnese Flora for parterres and temples of Flora. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Statue of Hercules · Sculpture · Germany · Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel · 1 × 1 m, 3 m high
  The hero leaning on his club, after the ancient Farnese Hercules; a giant copper Hercules has crowned the cascade at Kassel since 1717. Place it in your garden
• 🐐 Statue of Pan · Sculpture · Classical Greece · English landscape gardens · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.8 m high
  The goat-legged god of shepherds and wild places, piping in a grove; a favourite subject for 18th-century landscape gardens. Place it in your garden
• ⚪ Gate piers with stone balls · Gates & walls · England · 17th–18th century · 3.6 × 0.8 m, 2.6 m high
  A pair of stone or brick piers capped with ball finials, marking a garden entrance or the end of an avenue. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Arched door in a garden wall · Gates & walls · Britain · walled kitchen gardens · 3 × 0.5 m, 3 m high
  A round-headed doorway through the high brick wall of a kitchen garden, often with a plank door. Place it in your garden
• 🦜 Aviary · Wildlife · England · Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire · 5 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A wire-mesh enclosure for ornamental birds; the Rothschilds’ rococo-style aviary of 1889 at Waddesdon still houses birds. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Chinese Chippendale bench · Seats · England · 18th-century chinoiserie · 1.8 × 0.7 m, 1 m high
  A wooden bench with a geometric lattice back in the chinoiserie style popularised by Thomas Chippendale’s 1754 Director. Place it in your garden
• 🕊️ Beehive doocot · Wildlife · Scotland · Phantassie Doocot, East Linton · 3 × 3 m, 5 m high
  A round stone dovecote tapering like a beehive, with hundreds of nest boxes inside; pigeons supplied meat and manure on Scottish estates. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Cloister lavabo fountain house · Water · Germany · Maulbronn Monastery (UNESCO) · 3 × 3 m, 2.6 m high
  Cistercian monks washed their hands before meals at a fountain in a small house built out from the cloister into the garth; Maulbronn’s 14th-century fountain house holds a three-tier basin. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Palm-column cloister fountain · Water · Italy · Cloister of Monreale Cathedral, Sicily (12th century) · 2 × 2 m, 1.8 m high
  In one corner of the Norman cloister a carved column shaped like a palm trunk spouts water from lion and human mouths into a round basin; tradition calls it the King’s Fountain. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Romanesque cloister arcade · Pavilions · France · Moissac Abbey (c. 1100) · 8 × 2 m, 3 m high
  Round arches on paired slender columns with carved capitals surround the cloister garth; Moissac’s is one of the oldest carved cloisters in Europe. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Hortulus raised herb bed · Kitchen garden · Germany · Reichenau Island (UNESCO) · 2.4 × 1.2 m, 0.4 m high
  Abbot Walahfrid Strabo’s poem Hortulus (c. 840) describes raised beds framed with boards and the plants he grew in them; a herb garden on Reichenau recreates it. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Herbularius bed (Plan of St Gall) · Kitchen garden · Switzerland · Plan of St Gall (c. 820), Abbey Library of St Gallen · 1.6 × 1 m, 0.3 m high
  The oldest surviving monastery plan shows a physic garden of 16 beds beside the physician’s house, each labelled with one herb such as sage, rue, lovage and fennel. Place it in your garden
• 🌱 Turf seat · Seats · Europe · medieval enclosed gardens (hortus conclusus) · 2 × 0.6 m, 0.5 m high
  A bench of earth held in by planks, brick or wattle and topped with grass or fragrant herbs, often painted in 15th-century pictures of enclosed gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🌼 Chamomile seat · Seats · England · Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent (herb garden, 1938) · 1.8 × 0.7 m, 0.9 m high
  A raised seat planted with chamomile that gives off an apple scent when sat on; chamomile seats and lawns were popular in Elizabethan gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🪢 Tudor knot garden bed · Kitchen garden · England · Hampton Court Palace; Tudor House, Southampton · 4 × 4 m, 0.4 m high
  Low clipped bands of box, wall germander, thyme or hyssop woven into an interlacing pattern, filled with gravel or flowers and meant to be viewed from above. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 King’s beast on a striped pole · Sculpture · England · Chapel Court garden, Hampton Court Palace (2009) · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 2.6 m high
  Henry VIII’s privy garden had dozens of painted heraldic beasts on green-and-white striped poles; the Chapel Court garden recreates them for the 500th anniversary of his accession. Place it in your garden
• 🟩 Tudor painted rail fence · Gates & walls · England · Chapel Court garden, Hampton Court Palace · 4 × 0.1 m, 0.9 m high
  Low post-and-rail fencing painted in the Tudor livery colours, green and white, edging the beds of a heraldic garden. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Atlas fountain (Kenilworth) · Water · England · Elizabethan Garden, Kenilworth Castle (recreated 2009) · 3 × 3 m, 3 m high
  An eight-sided marble fountain with figures of Atlas holding up a globe, rebuilt from Robert Langham’s description of the garden Robert Dudley made for Elizabeth I’s visit in 1575. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Circular botanic garden wall (Padua) · Gates & walls · Italy · Orto Botanico di Padova (1545, UNESCO) · 12 × 0.6 m, 2.5 m high
  The oldest university botanic garden still in its original place is a square of beds inside a round wall, the hortus cinctus. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Danby Gateway · Gates & walls · England · Oxford Botanic Garden (1632–33) · 5 × 1 m, 6 m high
  A Baroque stone arch by Nicholas Stone, paid for by Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby, founder of Britain’s oldest botanic garden. Place it in your garden
• 🗂️ Systematic order beds · Kitchen garden · England · Chelsea Physic Garden (founded 1673) · 4 × 1.2 m, 0.3 m high
  Long narrow beds where plants are grouped by family so that students can compare relatives side by side, a layout used by physic and botanic gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Statue of Sir Hans Sloane · Sculpture · England · Chelsea Physic Garden · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2.4 m high
  Michael Rysbrack’s 1737 statue honours the physician who leased the land to the Society of Apothecaries for a nominal rent; a copy now stands in the garden. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Lava and Tower stone rockery · Curiosities · England · Chelsea Physic Garden (1773) · 4 × 3 m, 1.4 m high
  The oldest rock garden in England open to the public, built from old stone of the Tower of London and Icelandic lava brought back by Joseph Banks. Place it in your garden
• 🌱 Linnaean system beds · Kitchen garden · Sweden · Linnaeus Garden, Uppsala · 3 × 1 m, 0.3 m high
  Small rectangular beds replanted to Linnaeus’s 1745 plan, with plants arranged by his sexual system of classification. Place it in your garden
• 🌷 Clusius garden beds · Kitchen garden · Netherlands · Hortus botanicus Leiden · 2 × 1 m, 0.3 m high
  A reconstruction of the 1594 garden of Carolus Clusius, the botanist who brought tulips to the Netherlands, in small square-edged beds. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Albarello apothecary jar · Urns & pots · Italy · Renaissance maiolica pharmacy jars · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.6 m high
  A waisted, tin-glazed jar made to hold dried herbs and ointments in apothecary shops from the 15th century; today often used as a planter. Place it in your garden
• ☠️ Poison garden gates · Gates & walls · England · The Alnwick Garden, Northumberland (2005) · 3 × 0.4 m, 2.4 m high
  Locked black iron gates marked with skull and crossbones and the words “These plants can kill”; visitors enter only with a guide. Place it in your garden
• 🕰️ Mass dial (scratch dial) · Curiosities · England · medieval parish churches · 0.5 × 0.2 m, 0.6 m high
  A simple sundial scratched into the south wall of a church, its lines marking the times of Mass; many survive from the 12th to 15th centuries. Place it in your garden
• 🧑‍🌾 Statue of St Fiacre · Shrines · France · Breuil near Meaux · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.5 m high
  The 7th-century Irish hermit who cleared a garden at Breuil is the patron saint of gardeners; he is shown with a spade in French and Irish gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🕊️ St Francis statue · Shrines · Italy · Assisi · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and ecology, is shown with birds, often holding a dish that serves as a birdbath. Place it in your garden
• 🌹 Mary garden statue · Shrines · USA · Mary’s Gardens (Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1932) · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.5 m high
  A statue of the Virgin among plants named for her in medieval legend, such as marigold and lady’s mantle; the Mary garden movement spread from Woods Hole and Philadelphia. Place it in your garden
• 🎗️ Clootie well · Shrines · Scotland · Munlochy, Black Isle · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 0.9 m high
  A holy spring where visitors tie strips of cloth (clooties) to the surrounding trees as a wish for healing, a custom also seen at Madron in Cornwall. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Temple of Aesculapius · Pavilions · Italy · Villa Borghese gardens, Rome (1785–1792) · 6 × 6 m, 6 m high
  An Ionic temple by Antonio Asprucci on an island in the garden lake, sheltering a statue of the Greek and Roman god of medicine. Place it in your garden
• 🥬 Ornamental potager square · Kitchen garden · France · Château de Villandry, Loire · 4 × 4 m, 0.4 m high
  Nine box-edged squares of vegetables planted in geometric patterns, recreated from 1906 by Joachim Carvallo in the spirit of Renaissance kitchen gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🏡 Bauerngarten cross beds · Kitchen garden · Germany · northern farm gardens · 5 × 5 m, 0.3 m high
  A fenced farm garden of four box-edged beds around a central round bed, mixing vegetables, herbs and flowers. Place it in your garden
• ☸️ Cartwheel herb bed · Kitchen garden · England · cottage gardens · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 0.3 m high
  An old cart wheel laid flat on the soil, with a different herb planted between each pair of spokes. Place it in your garden
• 🛐 Wayside shrine (Bildstock) · Shrines · Germany · Austria · South Tyrol · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 2 m high
  A stone or wooden pillar topped by a small roofed niche with a painted saint or crucifix, set at field edges, crossroads and garden corners. Place it in your garden
• ✝️ Celtic high cross · Shrines · Ireland · Muiredach’s Cross, Monasterboice (10th century) · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 4 m high
  A tall stone cross with a ring around its head and Bible scenes carved on its faces, raised at early Irish monasteries; replicas stand in gardens and cemeteries. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Elizabethan garden pavilion · Pavilions · England · Montacute House, Somerset (c. 1598) · 4 × 4 m, 6 m high
  A small two-storey corner pavilion with an ogee roof and finials, built at the corners of an Elizabethan walled forecourt. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Stabbur (storehouse on posts) · Pavilions · Norway · farmyards; many at the Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo · 3 × 3 m, 4 m high
  A timber storehouse raised on wooden or stone posts, often with an overhanging upper storey, to keep grain and food dry and out of reach of rodents; the pride of a Norwegian farmyard. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Turf-roofed log cabin (torvtak) · Pavilions · Norway · Faroe Islands · 3.5 × 3 m, 3.2 m high
  Birch bark laid over the roof boards as a waterproof layer and topped with living turf: the traditional roof of Norwegian and Faroese cabins and outhouses, warm in winter and green in summer. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Vigeland Monolith (replica) · Sculpture · Norway · Frogner Park (Vigeland Park), Oslo · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 4 m high
  Gustav Vigeland’s 14 m column of 121 intertwined human figures, carved from a single granite block between 1929 and 1943, crowns the sculpture park he designed in Oslo. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Hay-drying rack (hesje, hässja) · Kitchen garden · Norway · Sweden · Finland · 5 × 0.5 m, 1.8 m high
  Rows of posts strung with wires or poles on which cut grass is hung to dry into hay, a common sight in Nordic fields until the 1960s and still used on small farms. Place it in your garden
• 🐉 Stave church dragon head · Sculpture · Norway · Borgund stave church (about 1180) · 1.2 × 0.4 m, 0.8 m high
  Carved dragon heads jut from the upper gables of Norwegian stave churches such as Borgund, echoing the prows of Viking ships and believed to ward off evil. Place it in your garden
• ⛵ Viking ship (Oseberg style) · Water · Norway · Oseberg ship, Museum of the Viking Age, Oslo · 6 × 1.5 m, 1.6 m high
  A clinker-built oak ship with a high, spiral-carved prow; the Oseberg ship, buried in a mound with two women in 834, is the best-preserved Viking ship ever found. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Bautastein (memorial standing stone) · Shrines · Norway · Sweden · 0.8 × 0.5 m, 2.5 m high
  A tall, uninscribed standing stone raised in the Iron Age in memory of the dead, often beside old roads and grave fields. Place it in your garden
• 🐴 Dala horse (dalahäst) · Sculpture · Sweden · Dalarna (Nusnäs) · 1.2 × 0.4 m, 1.2 m high
  A carved wooden horse painted red with kurbits flower patterns, made in the villages of Dalarna for centuries and in Nusnäs workshops since the 1920s; a national symbol of Sweden. A 13 m concrete one stands at Avesta. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Rune stone (runsten) · Shrines · Sweden · Uppland (most of the world’s Viking-age rune stones are in Sweden) · 1 × 0.5 m, 2.2 m high
  An upright stone carved with a runic inscription inside a winding serpent band, usually raised in the 11th century in memory of a relative; Uppland alone has over a thousand. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Friggebod garden hut · Pavilions · Sweden · 3 × 2.5 m, 3 m high
  A small garden hut Swedish home owners may build without a building permit; the rule came in 1979 and is named after the housing minister Birgit Friggebo. Place it in your garden
• ⛺ Copper Tents (Koppartälten), Haga Park · Pavilions · Sweden · Hagaparken, Stockholm · 10 × 5 m, 7 m high
  Three buildings disguised as a Roman army camp of striped blue-and-gold tents in painted copper sheet, designed by Louis Jean Desprez for Gustav III and built 1787–1790 as stables and guard quarters. Place it in your garden
• 🏡 Kolonistuga (allotment cottage) · Pavilions · Sweden · koloniträdgårdar (allotment gardens) · 3.5 × 3 m, 3.2 m high
  A small painted cottage on a Swedish allotment plot, where city families spend summer days among flowers and vegetables; Swedish allotment gardens began in the 1890s on the Danish model. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Roundpole fence (gärdsgård) · Gates & walls · Sweden · Norway · Finland · Estonia · 5 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  Split poles laid at a slant between pairs of upright stakes tied with willow or spruce withies, without nails; such fences once enclosed pastures across Scandinavia and the Baltic. Place it in your garden
• 🧙 Tomte (nisse) figure · Sculpture · Sweden · Norway and Denmark (nisse) · Finland (tonttu) · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.9 m high
  In Scandinavian folklore a small, grey-bearded farm spirit in a red cap who guards the farm and its animals, as long as he gets his bowl of porridge at Christmas. Place it in your garden
• 🗽 Sculpture on a tall column (Millesgården) · Sculpture · Sweden · Millesgården, Lidingö · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 5 m high
  At his home and sculpture garden on Lidingö, Carl Milles (1875–1955) set bronze figures high on slender columns against the sky, such as Man and Pegasus. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Stone ship setting (Ales stenar) · Shrines · Sweden · Kåseberga, Skåne · 8 × 3 m, 1.8 m high
  An oval of 59 standing boulders set out in the shape of a ship, 67 m long, on a cliff above the Baltic; probably late Iron Age, about AD 600. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Chinese Pavilion (Kina slott), Drottningholm · Pavilions · Sweden · Drottningholm Palace park (UNESCO) · 10 × 6 m, 6 m high
  A rococo pavilion in Chinese taste, first given to Queen Lovisa Ulrika as a birthday surprise in 1753; the present building of 1763–1769 is one of Europe’s finest chinoiserie interiors. Place it in your garden
• ⛄ Snowball lantern (snölykta) · Lights · Sweden · Finland · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 0.9 m high
  A cone of stacked snowballs with a candle inside, built in gardens and yards during the long Nordic winter nights. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Jelling rune stone · Shrines · Denmark · Jelling (UNESCO) · 1.2 × 1 m, 2.4 m high
  Of the two rune stones at Jelling, the great three-sided one was raised by Harald Bluetooth about 965 in memory of his parents Gorm and Thyra, with a carving of Christ and a great beast; it records that he made the Danes Christian. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Dolmen (dysse) · Shrines · Denmark · southern Sweden · northern Germany (Neolithic, about 3500 BC) · 2.5 × 1.8 m, 1.6 m high
  A Stone Age burial chamber of upright stones capped by a huge flat stone, often within a kerb of boulders; Denmark still has thousands of them. Place it in your garden
• 📖 Statue of Hans Christian Andersen · Sculpture · Denmark · Kongens Have (King’s Garden), Copenhagen · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  August Saabye’s seated bronze of the writer reading aloud, unveiled in the King’s Garden by Rosenborg Castle in 1880; Andersen had rejected a first design that showed children crowding round him. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Grill hut (grillikota) · Pavilions · Finland · from the kota huts of Lapland · 3.5 × 3.5 m, 3.2 m high
  A six- or eight-sided timber hut with benches around a central fire under a chimney hood, for grilling sausages and sitting out in any weather. Place it in your garden
• ♨️ Wood-fired hot tub (palju) · Water · Finland · 2 × 2 m, 1.1 m high
  A large round wooden tub of hot water heated by its own small wood stove, enjoyed outdoors after the sauna, even in snow. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Bronze Age burial cairn (Sammallahdenmäki) · Shrines · Finland · Sammallahdenmäki, Satakunta (UNESCO) · 3 × 3 m, 1.2 m high
  More than 30 granite burial cairns from the Bronze Age (about 1500–500 BC) on a rocky ridge; the largest, the rectangular “Church Floor”, is unique in Scandinavia. Place it in your garden
• ⛺ Lavvu tent · Pavilions · Sápmi · northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia · 3.5 × 3.5 m, 3 m high
  A conical tent of poles covered with canvas, once reindeer hide, used by Sámi reindeer herders on the move; lower and steadier in the wind than a tipi, with a fire in the middle. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Goahti (Sámi turf hut) · Pavilions · Sápmi · 3.5 × 3.5 m, 2.6 m high
  A Sámi dwelling built on a frame of curved birch poles covered with turf, bark or canvas, with a smoke hole above the central hearth. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Njalla (storehouse on a post) · Pavilions · Sápmi · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 3.2 m high
  A small log storehouse built on top of a single tall stump with its bark stripped, so that wolverines, bears and rodents cannot climb up to the food. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Sieidi (Sámi sacred stone) · Shrines · Sápmi · 1.5 × 1.2 m, 1.6 m high
  A striking natural rock, or a carved stump, where Sámi people left offerings for luck in hunting, fishing and reindeer herding; many sieidi are still respected places today. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Icelandic turf house (torfbær) · Pavilions · Iceland · Glaumbær and Laufás museums · 6 × 4 m, 3.5 m high
  A row of gabled rooms with thick walls and roofs of stacked turf and stone around a timber frame, with wooden gables facing the yard: the main kind of Icelandic home until the 19th century. Place it in your garden
• ♨️ Geothermal hot pot (heitur pottur) · Water · Iceland · Snorralaug, Reykholt · 2.5 × 2.5 m, 0.6 m high
  A small outdoor pool of naturally hot water where Icelanders soak and talk in all seasons; the medieval Snorralaug at Reykholt, named after Snorri Sturluson, is fed from a hot spring by a stone channel. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Varða (Icelandic cairn) · Curiosities · Iceland · Faroe Islands · 1 × 1 m, 2 m high
  Tall stone cairns built along old paths and mountain passes to guide travellers in fog and snow; many have stood for centuries. Place it in your garden
• 🎠 Village swing (külakiik) · Play · Estonia · Latvia · 4 × 3 m, 5 m high
  A big wooden swing on tall posts where village young people gathered on summer evenings and at midsummer, standing to swing high; the modern sport of kiiking, swinging right over the top, began in Estonia in the 1990s. Place it in your garden
• 🌬️ Post windmill (Angla, Saaremaa) · Curiosities · Estonia · Angla windmill hill, Saaremaa · 3 × 3 m, 7 m high
  A small timber windmill whose whole body turns on a central post to face the wind; Angla keeps a row of five mills, the last of a landscape once full of village windmills. Place it in your garden
• ⛪ Roofed pole shrine (stogastulpis) · Shrines · Lithuania (cross-crafting, UNESCO intangible heritage) · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 3 m high
  A carved wooden pole topped by a little roofed shrine sheltering a saint’s figure, set up at farmsteads, crossroads and cemeteries. Place it in your garden
• ✝️ Wayside cross with iron sun top (kryžius) · Shrines · Lithuania · 0.8 × 0.4 m, 3.5 m high
  A tall carved oak cross crowned with a wrought-iron top of sun rays, crescents and flowers, raised at farms and roadsides; a living folk tradition that survived Soviet bans. Place it in your garden
• 🙏 Rūpintojėlis (Pensive Christ) · Shrines · Lithuania · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  A folk carving of the seated, sorrowing Christ resting his head on his hand, placed in roadside shrines and on poles; a symbol of Lithuanian folk art. Place it in your garden
• 🧖 Russian banya · Pavilions · Russia · 4 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A log bath house with a stove heating a pile of stones in a hot, steamy room; bathers swat themselves with bundles of birch or oak twigs (venik) and cool off in a plunge pool or the snow. Place it in your garden
• 🪟 Carved window frame (nalichnik) · Gates & walls · Russia · villages of the Volga and the north · 1.4 × 0.15 m, 2 m high
  Fretwork window surrounds of carved and painted wood with suns, birds and plants that decorate village houses across Russia; each region has its own patterns, once believed to guard the house. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Starling house (skvorechnik) · Wildlife · Russia · Ukraine · Belarus · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 6 m high
  A wooden nest box for starlings fixed high on a tall pole, traditionally put up by children and gardeners in early spring to welcome the birds, which eat many garden pests. Place it in your garden
• 🪣 Well sweep (zhuravl, gémeskút) · Kitchen garden · Russia · Ukraine · Lithuania · Hungary · 1.4 × 4 m, 4.5 m high
  A long pole pivoting on a forked post, with a bucket on a rod at one end and a counterweight at the other, for drawing water from a village well; called the “crane” in Russian. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Gzhel blue-and-white planter · Urns & pots · Russia · Gzhel, Moscow region · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.6 m high
  Ceramics painted in cobalt blue on white, made in the villages around Gzhel since the 18th century and today a symbol of Russian folk craft. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Samson fountain (Peterhof) · Water · Russia · Peterhof, near St Petersburg · 6 × 6 m, 4 m high
  A gilded Samson tearing open a lion’s jaws, sending a jet about 20 m high, at the foot of Peterhof’s Grand Cascade; it celebrates Peter the Great’s victory over Sweden at Poltava in 1709. The statue looted in 1941 was recast after the war. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Grand Cascade (Peterhof) · Water · Russia · Peterhof · 8 × 5 m, 4 m high
  A great water staircase below the Grand Palace with 64 fountains and over 200 gilded statues, reliefs and vases, feeding a canal that runs to the Gulf of Finland. Place it in your garden
• ☂️ Trick fountain “Umbrella” (Peterhof) · Water · Russia · Peterhof, Lower Park · 3 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A round mushroom-shaped canopy over a bench: when someone sits underneath, a curtain of water pours from its edge and traps them, one of Peterhof’s 18th-century joke fountains. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Temple of Friendship (Pavlovsk) · Pavilions · Russia · Pavlovsk Park · 8 × 8 m, 7 m high
  Charles Cameron’s round temple of Doric columns above the Slavyanka river, built 1780–1782 in tribute to Catherine the Great; said to be the first building in Russia in the Greek Doric order. Place it in your garden
• 🚧 Summer Garden railing · Gates & walls · Russia · Summer Garden (Letny Sad), St Petersburg · 8 × 0.6 m, 4 m high
  The granite-and-iron railing along the Neva side of Peter the Great’s Summer Garden, built 1771–1784 to designs by Yuri Felten, with granite columns crowned by urns and vases. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Porphyry vase (Summer Garden) · Urns & pots · Russia · Summer Garden, St Petersburg · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 2 m high
  A huge vase of red Swedish porphyry from Älvdalen, given to Nicholas I by the Swedish king Charles XIV John in 1839 and set up in the Summer Garden. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Girl with a Pitcher (Tsarskoye Selo) · Water · Russia · Catherine Park, Tsarskoye Selo · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 1.6 m high
  Pavel Sokolov’s 1816 bronze of a girl sitting sadly by her broken jug, from which spring water flows endlessly; inspired by La Fontaine’s fable of the milkmaid and praised in a poem by Pushkin. Place it in your garden
• 🌼 Village front garden (palisadnik) · Gates & walls · Russia · 5 × 0.4 m, 1.1 m high
  A narrow front garden behind a low painted picket fence under the windows of a village house, traditionally planted with lilac, rowan, mallows and dahlias. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Carved farmyard gateway (vorota) · Gates & walls · Russia · the Russian North (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kizhi) · 4 × 1 m, 3.2 m high
  A wide roofed timber gateway beside a smaller wicket gate, closing the covered farmyard of a northern Russian log house, often with carved posts and boards. Place it in your garden
• 🍇 Vineyard terraces (Sanssouci) · Kitchen garden · Germany · Sanssouci, Potsdam (1744) · 8 × 2 m, 1.5 m high
  Six curved terraces below Frederick the Great’s summer palace, faced with glazed niches where figs and vines ripened against the warm walls; the palace was built on top of them. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Chinese House (Sanssouci) · Pavilions · Germany · Sanssouci, Potsdam (1755–1764) · 8 × 8 m, 7 m high
  A round rococo tea pavilion with a tent-like roof on gilded palm-tree columns, ringed by life-size gilded figures of Chinese musicians and tea drinkers. Place it in your garden
• 🌋 Artificial volcano (the “Stein”, Wörlitz) · Curiosities · Germany · Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm (UNESCO) · 8 × 8 m, 6 m high
  A rocky island built in the 1790s as a copy of Vesuvius, with a grotto and the Villa Hamilton; on special nights fire, smoke and red-lit water made it “erupt”, as it still does today. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Iron Bridge (Wörlitz) · Bridges · Germany · Wörlitz Park (1791) · 6 × 2 m, 2 m high
  A small-scale copy of the world’s first iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, England, built for Prince Franz of Anhalt-Dessau; the first iron bridge in Germany. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Great Fountain (Herrenhausen) · Water · Germany · Herrenhausen Gardens, Hanover · 10 × 10 m, 6 m high
  A single jet in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen that rises about 70 m, among the tallest garden fountains in Europe; making it work took engineers from 1700 to 1720. Place it in your garden
• 🕳️ Venus Grotto (Linderhof) · Water · Germany · Linderhof Palace, Bavaria (1877) · 6 × 5 m, 4 m high
  An artificial cave with a lake, a swan boat and a stage painting from Wagner’s Tannhäuser, built for King Ludwig II and lit in changing colours by one of the first electric generators in Bavaria. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Hercules monument and cascades (Wilhelmshöhe) · Sculpture · Germany · Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel (UNESCO) · 3 × 3 m, 8 m high
  A colossal copper Hercules on a stone octagon crowns a hill above a 350 m baroque cascade; on summer afternoons water runs down the steps to the Great Fountain below. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Garden mosque (Schwetzingen) · Pavilions · Germany · Schwetzingen Palace garden (1779–1795) · 10 × 10 m, 10 m high
  A garden folly in the form of a mosque with two minarets, designed by Nicolas de Pigage for Elector Carl Theodor as a symbol of tolerance and wisdom; it was never used for worship. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Nymphenbad (Zwinger) · Water · Germany · Zwinger, Dresden (about 1712) · 6 × 4 m, 3 m high
  A sunken baroque fountain court with a cascade and nymph statues in niches, by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann and the sculptor Balthasar Permoser. Place it in your garden
• 🔺 Earth pyramid (Branitz Park) · Curiosities · Germany · Branitz Park, Cottbus · 10 × 10 m, 8 m high
  Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau built a land pyramid and a lake pyramid in his landscape park after a journey to Egypt; he was buried in the lake pyramid in 1871, and Virginia creeper turns it scarlet each autumn. Place it in your garden
• 🎭 Mechanical theatre (Hellbrunn) · Water · Austria · Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg · 5 × 3 m, 4 m high
  A water-powered model of a baroque town with more than a hundred moving figures, made in the 1750s for the famous trick-fountain garden laid out for Archbishop Markus Sittikus in 1612–1615. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Roman Ruin (Schönbrunn) · Curiosities · Austria · Schönbrunn Palace Park, Vienna (1778) · 8 × 3 m, 6 m high
  A deliberately “ruined” arch and fountain basin designed by Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg to evoke the fall of Carthage; one of the earliest artificial ruins in a Central European garden. Place it in your garden
• 🏡 Allotment garden house (Kleingarten-Laube) · Pavilions · Germany · Schrebergärten (first in Leipzig, 1864) · 4 × 3 m, 3 m high
  The little summer house on a German allotment plot, limited by law to 24 m²; allotment gardens are named after the Leipzig doctor Moritz Schreber, who urged fresh air and gardening for city children. Place it in your garden
• 🏖️ Strandkorb (roofed beach chair) · Seats · Germany · invented in Rostock by Wilhelm Bartelmann (1882) · 1.3 × 0.9 m, 1.6 m high
  A wicker double seat under a hood, sheltering sunbathers from the wind on Baltic and North Sea beaches, now also placed in gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🦶 Kneipp water-treading basin · Water · Germany · Bad Wörishofen (Sebastian Kneipp) · 4 × 1.2 m, 0.6 m high
  A shallow basin of cold water where you walk “like a stork”, lifting each foot clear of the water, part of the 19th-century hydrotherapy of the priest Sebastian Kneipp; found in German spa parks and villages. Place it in your garden
• 🧂 Graduation tower (Gradierwerk) · Water · Germany · spa towns such as Bad Dürkheim and Bad Kissingen · 12 × 3 m, 8 m high
  A tall wall of stacked blackthorn twigs over which brine trickles, evaporating to concentrate the salt; the salty mist around it is breathed for health in spa parks. Place it in your garden
• 🥚 Easter fountain (Osterbrunnen) · Water · Germany · Franconian Switzerland, Bavaria · 3 × 3 m, 3 m high
  At Easter, village fountains and wells are decorated with arches and garlands of greenery hung with thousands of hand-painted eggs, a custom celebrating water as the source of life. Place it in your garden
• 🪜 Hunting stand (Hochsitz) · Curiosities · Germany · Austria · Central Europe · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 4 m high
  A raised wooden seat or hut on tall legs at the edge of a forest or meadow, from which hunters and wildlife watchers observe deer. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Round woodpile (Holzmiete) · Kitchen garden · Germany · Black Forest · 2 × 2 m, 2 m high
  Firewood stacked in a round, beehive-shaped pile around a central pole, often with a roof of bark or shingles on top, so the logs dry and shed rain. Place it in your garden
• 🍷 Vineyard hut (Wingertshäuschen) · Pavilions · Germany · Palatinate and Rhine wine regions · 2.5 × 2.5 m, 3 m high
  A small stone or timber hut among the vines, where growers sheltered from rain, kept tools and watched over ripening grapes. Place it in your garden
• ☕ Schanigarten (café garden) · Seats · Austria · Vienna · 2 × 2 m, 1 m high
  Tables and chairs set out on the pavement or in a little fenced garden in front of a Viennese café or inn from spring to autumn. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Alpine pasture hut (Almhütte) · Pavilions · Austria · Bavaria · South Tyrol · 6 × 5 m, 4 m high
  A log hut on a summer mountain pasture where herders lived with the cattle and made butter and cheese, now often an inn for hikers. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Spycher (Swiss granary) · Pavilions · Switzerland · Emmental and the Bernese Oberland · 3 × 3 m, 4 m high
  A small, richly carved wooden storehouse on stone or timber stilts where farm families kept grain, meat and their best clothes, safe from fire and mice. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Suone (bisse irrigation channel) · Water · Switzerland · Valais · 10 × 0.4 m, 0.3 m high
  Narrow channels of wood or stone that carry glacier water along cliffs for many kilometres to dry meadows and vineyards; some date from the 15th century and are now walking trails. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Figure fountain (Bern) · Water · Switzerland · Old City of Bern (UNESCO) · 3 × 3 m, 5 m high
  Bern’s old town has a dozen 16th-century fountains with painted figures on columns, such as the child-eating ogre of the Kindlifresserbrunnen (about 1545); villagers fetched their water there. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Pile dwelling (Pfahlbau) · Pavilions · Lake Constance and the lakes around the Alps (UNESCO) · open-air museum at Unteruhldingen, Germany · 5 × 4 m, 5 m high
  A reconstructed Stone and Bronze Age house on stilts at a lake shore; the remains of over 100 such settlements around the Alps are a World Heritage Site. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Minaret folly (Lednice) · Curiosities · Czechia · Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape (UNESCO) · 4 × 4 m, 15 m high
  A 60 m Moorish-style tower built for the Liechtenstein princes in 1797–1804 in their park at Lednice, the largest landscaped estate in Europe; it was never a mosque. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Flower Garden rotunda (Kroměříž) · Pavilions · Czechia · Kroměříž Flower Garden (UNESCO) · 10 × 10 m, 10 m high
  An octagonal domed pavilion at the centre of a formal baroque garden of the 1660s–1670s; a Foucault pendulum now swings inside. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Dripstone wall (Wallenstein Garden) · Gates & walls · Czechia · Wallenstein Palace garden, Prague (1620s) · 10 × 1 m, 6 m high
  A huge wall of artificial stalactites in which visitors spot hidden faces and animals, part of the garden of the general Albrecht von Wallenstein. Place it in your garden
• 🍷 Wine cellar huts (Moravia) · Kitchen garden · Czechia · South Moravia (e.g. Plže at Petrov) · 3 × 4 m, 3 m high
  Rows of small white-washed, often painted cellar houses dug into a hillside, where village families make and taste their wine. Place it in your garden
• 🌺 Painted cottage (Zalipie) · Pavilions · Poland · Zalipie, Lesser Poland · 6 × 5 m, 4 m high
  Village houses, wells and fences painted inside and out with bright flowers; the custom began with women hiding soot marks and has a painting contest every year since 1948. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Patterned log house (Čičmany) · Pavilions · Slovakia · Čičmany · 6 × 5 m, 4 m high
  Dark log houses painted with white geometric patterns taken from local embroidery, originally to protect the timber; Čičmany became the world’s first folk-architecture reserve in 1977. Place it in your garden
• 🎹 Chopin Monument (Łazienki Park) · Sculpture · Poland · Royal Łazienki Park, Warsaw · 4 × 4 m, 6 m high
  Wacław Szymanowski’s bronze of Fryderyk Chopin seated beneath a wind-bent willow, unveiled in 1926; destroyed by the occupiers in 1940 and recast in 1958. Free Chopin piano concerts are held beside it every summer Sunday. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Kozolec (Slovenian hayrack) · Kitchen garden · Slovenia · 8 × 3 m, 6 m high
  A tall open timber frame with slatted sides where hay and grain are hung to dry; the double kozolec (toplar) has a roofed loft and is a symbol of the Slovenian countryside. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Maramureș carved gate · Gates & walls · Romania · Maramureș · 4 × 1 m, 4.5 m high
  A massive oak gateway with a shingled roof, carved with twisted rope, the sun, the tree of life and other protective symbols, guarding the farmyard and showing the family’s standing. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Székely gate · Gates & walls · Romania · Székely Land, Transylvania (also Hungary) · 4.5 × 1 m, 4.5 m high
  A carved and painted wooden gateway with a large door for carts and a small one for people, topped by a row of dovecote holes under the roof. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Latona Fountain (Versailles) · Water · France · Gardens of Versailles (1668–1670) · 10 × 10 m, 4 m high
  Tiers of marble basins crowned by the goddess Latona, surrounded by gilded frogs and turtles, Lycian peasants she changed into frogs for refusing her water; by the Marsy brothers. Place it in your garden
• ☀️ Apollo Fountain (Versailles) · Water · France · Gardens of Versailles (1668–1670) · 12 × 8 m, 3 m high
  Jean-Baptiste Tuby’s gilded lead Apollo driving his chariot of four horses out of the water at sunrise, the emblem of the Sun King Louis XIV, at the head of the Grand Canal. Place it in your garden
• 🌀 Parterre de broderie · Kitchen garden · France · Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte and baroque gardens across Europe · 6 × 4 m, 0.3 m high
  Low clipped box hedges laid out in flowing scrolls like embroidery, filled with coloured gravel or flowers, designed to be admired from the windows above; perfected by Boyceau and Mollet in the 17th century. Place it in your garden
• 🏡 Queen’s Hamlet cottage (Hameau de la Reine) · Pavilions · France · Versailles (1783–1787) · 8 × 6 m, 6 m high
  A rustic Norman-style village of thatched cottages, a mill and a dairy beside a lake, built for Marie Antoinette by Richard Mique as a working farm and a retreat from court. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Broken Column House (Désert de Retz) · Curiosities · France · Désert de Retz, Chambourcy (1781) · 6 × 6 m, 10 m high
  A four-storey house built inside a giant fluted column that appears to have snapped off, the centrepiece of François Racine de Monville’s garden of follies. Place it in your garden
• 🏰 Ideal Palace of Postman Cheval · Curiosities · France · Hauterives, Drôme (1879–1912) · 10 × 3 m, 8 m high
  A fantastic palace of stones and shells built single-handed over 33 years by the country postman Ferdinand Cheval from pebbles he collected on his rounds; a masterpiece of naive architecture. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Medici Fountain (Luxembourg Garden) · Water · France · Luxembourg Garden, Paris (about 1630) · 6 × 2 m, 6 m high
  A grotto fountain built for Queen Marie de’ Medici, at the end of a long, still pool shaded by plane trees; the sculpture of Polyphemus spying on Acis and Galatea was added in the 1860s. Place it in your garden
• 🧺 Village wash house (lavoir) · Water · France · 6 × 3 m, 0.6 m high
  A roofed stone basin fed by a spring or stream where village women washed clothes, kneeling on sloping stone edges; thousands were built in the 19th century and many are now restored. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Borie (dry-stone hut) · Pavilions · France · Provence (Village des Bories, Gordes) · 3 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A beehive-shaped hut built entirely of flat limestone slabs without mortar, used by shepherds and farmers for shelter and storage. Place it in your garden
• 🎯 Pétanque court (boulodrome) · Play · France · invented in La Ciotat (1907) · 4 × 15 m, 0.05 m high
  A level strip of fine gravel where players throw steel boules towards a small wooden jack, feet planted together (pieds tanqués), under the shade of plane trees. Place it in your garden
• ✝️ Breton calvary (calvaire) · Shrines · France · Brittany (e.g. Guimiliau, 1581–1588) · 4 × 3 m, 5 m high
  A granite monument crowded with carved figures telling the story of Christ’s Passion around a tall cross, in the parish enclosures of Brittany. Place it in your garden
• ⛪ Béguinage courtyard (begijnhof) · Gates & walls · Belgium · Netherlands (Flemish béguinages, UNESCO) · 4 × 1 m, 4 m high
  Enclosed communities of small houses around a green courtyard and church, built from the 13th century for beguines, laywomen living a religious life; the courtyard gardens are calm oases in Bruges, Leuven and Amsterdam. Place it in your garden
• 🏘️ Almshouse courtyard (hofje) · Gates & walls · Netherlands · Leiden, Haarlem, Amsterdam · 6 × 0.5 m, 3 m high
  Rows of small almshouses around a quiet courtyard garden, entered through a single door from the street; Leiden alone has about 35. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Tea house on the water (theekoepel) · Pavilions · Netherlands · along the Vecht and Amstel rivers · 4 × 4 m, 5 m high
  A small garden pavilion at the water’s edge of a country estate, where wealthy Amsterdam families drank tea and watched boats go by in the 17th and 18th centuries. Place it in your garden

🕌 Persia, Mughal, Moorish & Ottoman (46)

• 🌊 Chahar bagh water rill · Water · Iran · Persian Gardens (UNESCO) · 8 × 0.8 m, 0.4 m high
  A narrow stone channel dividing the garden into four parts, recalling the four rivers of paradise. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Octagonal pool with jet (hauz) · Water · Iran · Bagh-e Fin, Kashan · 3 × 3 m, 1.4 m high
  A shallow tiled pool at the crossing of the channels, often octagonal, with a single jet. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Line of jets in a channel · Water · Iran · Bagh-e Fin, Kashan · 6 × 1.4 m, 0.9 m high
  At Bagh-e Fin spring water feeds turquoise channels lined with small jets, without pumps. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Talar columned porch · Pavilions · Iran · Chehel Sotoun, Isfahan · 8 × 2 m, 4.5 m high
  A flat-roofed porch on slender wooden columns facing a long pool; at Chehel Sotoun 20 columns reflect as 40. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Garden kiosk (köşk) · Pavilions · Iran · Turkey · 4 × 4 m, 5 m high
  A light pavilion in the garden, the origin of the English word kiosk. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Lion fountain · Water · Spain · Court of the Lions, Alhambra · 3 × 3 m, 1.4 m high
  A basin held up by twelve marble lions, each spouting water into channels; built in the 14th century. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Low marble basin with jet · Water · Spain · Alhambra, Granada · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 0.5 m high
  A shallow scalloped marble basin set in the floor, its jet barely rising above the rim. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Water staircase · Water · Spain · Generalife, Granada · 4 × 1.6 m, 2.4 m high
  Water runs down channels cut into the handrails of a stair, as on the Generalife’s Camino de las Cascadas. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Acequia channel and jets · Water · Spain · Patio de la Acequia, Generalife · 8 × 1.2 m, 1.2 m high
  A long pool flanked by arching jets, one of the best-known views of the Generalife. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Zellige wall fountain · Water · Morocco · Fez · 1.6 × 0.8 m, 2.2 m high
  A wall fountain clad in geometric mosaic of cut glazed tiles (zellige), found in courtyards and streets. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Riad courtyard fountain · Water · Morocco · 2 × 2 m, 1.2 m high
  A small fountain at the centre of a riad’s courtyard garden, usually planted with orange trees. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Majorelle blue pot · Urns & pots · Morocco · Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  Painter Jacques Majorelle painted his garden’s walls and pots the intense cobalt now called Majorelle blue. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Majorelle blue wall · Gates & walls · Morocco · Jardin Majorelle · 5 × 0.4 m, 2.6 m high
  A rendered garden wall in Majorelle blue, setting off cacti and palms. Place it in your garden
• 🪟 Mashrabiya lattice screen · Gates & walls · Egypt · Arab world · 3 × 0.1 m, 2.4 m high
  A turned-wood lattice screen giving shade, airflow and privacy. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Horseshoe arch gateway · Gates & walls · Spain · Morocco · 3 × 0.6 m, 3.6 m high
  The rounded arch that narrows at its base, typical of Moorish architecture. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Pointed arch opening · Gates & walls · Iran · Mughal India · 3 × 0.6 m, 3.6 m high
  A wall with a pointed (ogee) arch framing the view into the next garden room. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Şadırvan ablution fountain · Water · Turkey · Ottoman mosques · 3 × 3 m, 2.4 m high
  A domed fountain with taps all round, in a mosque courtyard for washing before prayer. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Selsebil cascade fountain · Water · Turkey · Ottoman palaces · 1.2 × 0.6 m, 2 m high
  A marble wall slab carved with little cups so water drips from one to the next with a soft sound. Place it in your garden
• 🌷 Tulip vase · Urns & pots · Turkey · Ottoman “Tulip Era” (1718–1730) · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.9 m high
  The tulip came to Europe from Ottoman gardens; slim vases displayed single blooms. Place it in your garden
• 🪴 Iznik-tiled planter · Urns & pots · Turkey · İznik · 1 × 1 m, 0.8 m high
  A planter faced with tiles in the blue, turquoise and red of İznik pottery. Place it in your garden
• 🖋️ Calligraphy panel · Signs · Islamic world · 1.4 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  A tile or stone panel with Qur’anic or poetic calligraphy, set in a garden wall. Place it in your garden
• 🪔 Lamp niche (chirag-dan) · Lights · India · Mughal gardens · 0.6 × 0.4 m, 1.4 m high
  Small niches for oil lamps behind cascades made the water glow at night. Place it in your garden
• 🌴 Raised date-palm bed · Urns & pots · Middle East · 2 × 2 m, 1.2 m high
  A raised square bed for a date palm, standard in Gulf courtyards. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Falaj irrigation channel · Water · Oman · Aflaj (UNESCO) · 6 × 0.6 m, 0.3 m high
  Ancient channels carrying groundwater to date gardens by gravity. Place it in your garden
• 🕳️ Qanat access shaft · Water · Iran · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 0.9 m high
  Qanats are underground channels with vertical access shafts; this is a shaft head with a well ring. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Wind catcher tower (badgir) · Curiosities · Iran · Yazd · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 6 m high
  A tower that catches breezes and draws them down to cool a building or cistern. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Moroccan pierced lantern · Lights · Morocco · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.8 m high
  Brass or tin lanterns pierced with patterns cast lacy shadows when lit. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Tadelakt built-in bench · Seats · Morocco · 2.4 × 0.6 m, 0.5 m high
  A curved masonry bench finished in polished, waterproof lime plaster (tadelakt). Place it in your garden
• ⛺ Garden tent canopy · Pavilions · Persia · Mughal court · 4 × 4 m, 2.8 m high
  Rich textile canopies were raised in gardens for feasts; here, an open frame with a cover. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Pair of tall jars · Urns & pots · Mediterranean · Middle East · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.5 m high
  Tall terracotta jars flanking a path or doorway. Place it in your garden
• 🚰 Ottoman çeşme fountain · Water · Turkey · Ottoman Istanbul · 2 × 0.8 m, 2.4 m high
  A marble wall fountain with a tap over a trough, built as a charitable gift and carved with an inscription naming its donor; thousands lined Istanbul’s streets. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Sebil water kiosk · Pavilions · Egypt · Turkey · Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda, Cairo (1744) · 4 × 4 m, 4 m high
  A grilled kiosk from which an attendant handed free drinking water to passers-by, a pious gift in Ottoman Cairo and Istanbul. Place it in your garden
• 🕊️ Pigeon tower (kabutar-khaneh) · Wildlife · Iran · Isfahan region · 5 × 5 m, 8 m high
  Round mud-brick towers housing thousands of pigeons, built from Safavid times so their droppings could fertilise melon fields. Place it in your garden
• ☸️ Noria water wheel · Water · Syria · Norias of Hama, Orontes River · 6 × 1.2 m, 6 m high
  A huge wooden wheel turned by the river current that lifts water in boxes on its rim into an aqueduct; seventeen old norias survive at Hama. Place it in your garden
• 🪞 Alberca reflecting pool · Water · Spain · Court of the Myrtles, Alhambra · 12 × 3 m, 0.4 m high
  A long, still pool filled to the brim between clipped myrtle hedges, reflecting the Comares Tower; alberca comes from the Arabic for pool. Place it in your garden
• 🌺 Córdoba patio flowerpot wall · Gates & walls · Spain · Courtyards Festival of Córdoba (UNESCO intangible heritage, 2012) · 5 × 0.4 m, 3 m high
  A whitewashed courtyard wall hung with dozens of pots of geraniums and carnations, watered with a can tied to a long cane. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Menara pavilion · Pavilions · Morocco · Menara Gardens, Marrakech · 6 × 6 m, 7 m high
  A pavilion with a green-tiled pyramid roof, rebuilt in the 19th century, overlooking the great 12th-century Almohad basin that irrigates the olive groves. Place it in your garden
• 🛋️ Takht garden day-bed · Seats · Iran · Central Asia · 2 × 1.5 m, 0.5 m high
  A raised wooden platform spread with carpets and cushions, set under trees or beside a stream for tea, meals and naps; tapchan in Uzbekistan. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Hasht Behesht octagonal pavilion · Pavilions · Iran · Hasht Behesht, Isfahan (1669) · 10 × 10 m, 9 m high
  A two-storey Safavid garden palace on an octagonal plan whose name means “eight paradises”, open on all sides to its garden and pool. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Mercury pool statue · Water · Spain · Royal Alcázar of Seville · 1 × 1 m, 2.5 m high
  A bronze figure of Mercury (1576) stands over the raised pool that stores water for the palace gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Zir water jar on a stand · Urns & pots · Egypt · Levant · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  A large unglazed clay jar on a wooden or iron stand; water seeping through its walls evaporates and keeps the drinking water cool. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Terraced cascade (Shazdeh Garden) · Water · Iran · Bagh-e Shazdeh, Mahan (19th century, UNESCO) · 3 × 8 m, 2 m high
  Water from a qanat tumbles down a series of terraces and jets along the axis of a walled garden in the desert near Kerman. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Stepped city pool (Lyab-i Hauz) · Water · Uzbekistan · Lyab-i Hauz, Bukhara (1620) · 8 × 6 m, 0.6 m high
  A rectangular pool with stone steps down to the water, shaded by old mulberry trees, at the heart of a square of madrasas and teahouses. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Granada pebble paving (empedrado) · Bridges · Spain · Granada (Generalife, Albaicín) · 3 × 3 m, 0.05 m high
  Black and white river pebbles set on edge in patterns of stars, knots and flowers, the traditional paving of Granada’s gardens and lanes. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Damascene courtyard fountain (bahra) · Water · Syria · Azm Palace, Damascus (1750) · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 1 m high
  A marble pool with a fountain at the centre of a Damascus house courtyard, planted around with citrus, jasmine and vines. Place it in your garden
• ☸️ Fayoum water wheel · Water · Egypt · Faiyum Oasis · 5 × 1 m, 5 m high
  Dark wooden wheels turned by the current of the oasis canals lift water to the fields; they have become the emblem of the Faiyum. Place it in your garden

🌎 The Americas (149)

• 🪑 Adirondack chair · Seats · USA · Westport, New York (1903) · 0.8 × 0.9 m, 1 m high
  A wide-armed, slant-backed wooden chair designed by Thomas Lee in the Adirondacks. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Porch swing · Seats · USA · 2.2 × 1.2 m, 2.2 m high
  A hanging bench swing, here on its own A-frame. Place it in your garden
• 🧺 Picnic table · Seats · USA · Canada · 2 × 1.8 m, 0.8 m high
  The classic park picnic table with attached benches. Place it in your garden
• 🌬️ Farm wind pump · Curiosities · USA · Aermotor Company, Chicago (1888) · 2 × 2 m, 7 m high
  A steel lattice tower with a many-bladed wheel that pumped water across the prairies. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Barn-style shed · Pavilions · USA · 3 × 2.6 m, 3 m high
  A red-painted shed with white trim in the style of a farm barn. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Victorian gazebo · Pavilions · USA · Britain · 4 × 4 m, 4 m high
  An open octagonal gazebo with gingerbread trim, often used as a bandstand. Place it in your garden
• 🎺 Bandstand · Pavilions · Britain · USA · 6 × 6 m, 5 m high
  A raised octagonal stage under a roof for outdoor concerts in parks. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Purple martin house · Wildlife · USA · Canada · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 4.5 m high
  Multi-room houses on poles for purple martins, a custom learned from Native Americans who hung gourds. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Bird feeder table · Wildlife · North America · Britain · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  A roofed feeding table on a post. Place it in your garden
• 🛢️ Rain barrel · Kitchen garden · USA · worldwide · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  A barrel under a downpipe collects roof water for the garden. Place it in your garden
• 🥕 Cedar raised bed · Kitchen garden · North America · 2.4 × 1.2 m, 0.4 m high
  A timber raised bed filled with good soil, warming early and draining well. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Totem pole · Shrines · Pacific Northwest Coast · e.g. Stanley Park, Vancouver · 1.4 × 0.8 m, 6 m high
  Carved cedar poles by First Nations of the Northwest Coast, telling family histories and crests. Commissioned or loaned poles stand in some gardens and parks. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Inukshuk · Sculpture · Canada · Inuit · 1.2 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  Stone figures built by the Inuit as waymarkers and messages; the one with arms is an inunnguaq. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Mission bell marker · Signs · USA · El Camino Real, California · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 3.4 m high
  Bells on bent posts mark the old road linking California’s Spanish missions. Place it in your garden
• 🍞 Horno adobe oven · Kitchen garden · USA · New Mexico · Mexico · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 1.2 m high
  A beehive-shaped outdoor clay oven of the Pueblo peoples and Spanish settlers. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Ramada shade shelter · Pavilions · USA Southwest · Mexico · Desert Botanical Garden · 4 × 4 m, 2.8 m high
  An open shelter of posts roofed with branches or saguaro ribs for desert shade. Place it in your garden
• 🌶️ Chile ristra post · Kitchen garden · USA · New Mexico · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 2 m high
  Strings of red chiles drying on a post, a New Mexico tradition. Place it in your garden
• 🍾 Bottle tree · Curiosities · USA South · African-American folk tradition · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  Coloured glass bottles slipped over branches or a metal frame, a tradition with roots in Central Africa. Place it in your garden
• 🦬 Bronze bison · Sculpture · USA · Great Plains · 2.2 × 1 m, 1.6 m high
  The American bison, national mammal of the United States since 2016. Place it in your garden
• 🦌 Bronze deer · Sculpture · North America · 1.2 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  A life-size deer, a common garden bronze. Place it in your garden
• 🐻 Bronze bear · Sculpture · North America · 1.4 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  Bears are favourite subjects of North American wildlife sculpture. Place it in your garden
• 🧑‍🌾 Scarecrow · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 1.4 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  A figure of old clothes stuffed with straw set up to keep birds off crops. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Covered bridge · Bridges · USA · Vermont and New England · 8 × 3 m, 3.6 m high
  A timber bridge with a roof that protects its trusses from the weather. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Rustic log bridge · Bridges · USA · Adirondack style · 4 × 1.4 m, 0.6 m high
  A footbridge of logs and branches with natural railings. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Split-rail fence · Gates & walls · USA · 8 × 0.3 m, 1.2 m high
  Split logs laid between posts, the classic rural fence of North America. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Garden lighthouse · Lights · USA · New England · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.8 m high
  A miniature lighthouse with a lamp at the top, a coastal garden ornament. Place it in your garden
• 🪣 Wishing well · Water · Europe · North America · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 2.2 m high
  A round stone well with a little roof and a bucket; visitors toss in coins for luck. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Talavera tiled fountain · Water · Mexico · Puebla · 2 × 2 m, 1.8 m high
  A fountain decorated with tin-glazed Talavera tiles, a craft brought from Spain in the 16th century. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Talavera planter · Urns & pots · Mexico · Puebla · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.7 m high
  A hand-painted blue-and-white or multicoloured glazed pot. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Chiminea · Curiosities · Mexico · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.4 m high
  A clay outdoor fireplace with a bulbous body and short chimney. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Colossal head replica · Sculpture · Mexico · Olmec culture (c. 1200–900 BC) · 1.6 × 1.4 m, 2 m high
  The Olmec carved 17 known colossal basalt heads; replicas stand in parks around the world. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Maya stela · Sculpture · Mexico · Guatemala · Honduras (e.g. Copán) · 1 × 0.5 m, 2.8 m high
  Carved standing stones recording rulers and dates in the Maya script. Place it in your garden
• ☀️ Clay sun face · Sculpture · Mexico · Metepec · 0.8 × 0.2 m, 0.8 m high
  Painted clay suns are a famous folk craft of Metepec, hung on garden walls. Place it in your garden
• 🎏 Papel picado banners · Curiosities · Mexico · 5 × 0.3 m, 2.6 m high
  Strings of cut-paper flags hung for fiestas and Day of the Dead. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Gingerbread gazebo · Pavilions · Caribbean · 3.6 × 3.6 m, 3.8 m high
  Fretwork trims on Caribbean houses and gazebos are known as gingerbread. Place it in your garden
• 🛢️ Oil drum planter · Urns & pots · Caribbean · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  Cut and painted steel drums reused as planters. Place it in your garden
• 🏝️ Hammock · Play · Caribbean · Amazon (Taíno “hamaca”) · 3.6 × 1.2 m, 1.6 m high
  The word hammock comes from the Taíno people of the Caribbean. Place it in your garden
• 〰️ Wave mosaic pavement · Bridges · Brazil · Copacabana promenade · 6 × 2 m, 0.03 m high
  Black-and-white Portuguese stone paving in waves, laid at Copacabana in 1970 to Roberto Burle Marx’s design. Place it in your garden
• ⬛ Portuguese pavement (calçada) · Bridges · Portugal · Brazil · 6 × 2 m, 0.03 m high
  Hand-laid black basalt and white limestone setts in patterns. Place it in your garden
• 🔮 Mirrored sphere installation · Sculpture · Brazil · Inhotim · 1 × 1 m, 1 m high
  Inhotim combines a major contemporary art collection with a large botanical garden, so sculpture and plants are seen together. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Dugout canoe · Curiosities · Amazon · 5 × 0.9 m, 0.6 m high
  A canoe hollowed from a single log, as still made along Amazonian rivers. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Stone terrace wall (andén) · Gates & walls · Peru · Andes · 6 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  Dry-stone agricultural terraces of the Andes, like those of Moray and Machu Picchu. Place it in your garden
• ✳️ Chakana stone · Shrines · Andes · 1 × 0.4 m, 1 m high
  The stepped Andean cross, a symbol of the three worlds. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Andean clay pot · Urns & pots · Peru · Bolivia · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.7 m high
  A round-bellied earthenware pot used for cooking and chicha. Place it in your garden
• 🦙 Llama statue · Sculpture · Andes · 1 × 0.4 m, 1.5 m high
  The llama, domesticated in the Andes some 5,000 years ago. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Toucan figure · Sculpture · Brazil · Central America · 0.4 × 0.3 m, 0.6 m high
  A bright toucan on a branch, a favourite tropical garden ornament. Place it in your garden
• 🐹 Capybara statue · Sculpture · South America · 0.9 × 0.5 m, 0.6 m high
  The world’s largest rodent, at home on the banks of rivers and ponds. Place it in your garden
• 🐆 Jaguar statue · Sculpture · Central and South America · 1.6 × 0.5 m, 1 m high
  The jaguar was sacred to the Maya and Aztecs. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Colonial plaza fountain · Water · Latin America · 3 × 3 m, 2.4 m high
  A stone fountain at the centre of a Spanish colonial plaza. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Longhouse (Haudenosaunee) · Pavilions · United States and Canada · Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy · 12 × 6 m, 6 m high
  A long, round-roofed house of bent saplings covered with elm bark, home to several related families of a clan along a central row of fires; the Haudenosaunee call themselves the People of the Longhouse. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Wigwam (wiigiwaam) · Pavilions · North-eastern North America · Anishinaabe and other Algonquian peoples · 4 × 4 m, 3 m high
  A domed house of bent saplings covered with birch bark or woven mats, with a fire in the middle and a smoke hole above. Place it in your garden
• ⛺ Tipi (Plains) · Pavilions · Great Plains · Lakota, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Crow and others · 5 × 5 m, 6 m high
  A cone of long poles covered with bison hide (later canvas), with smoke flaps at the top that are turned with the wind; quick to strike and move when following the herds. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Hogan (Diné) · Pavilions · United States · Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah) · 6 × 6 m, 3.5 m high
  A round or eight-sided home of logs and earth with its door facing east to greet the rising sun; it remains the centre of Diné ceremonies. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Earth lodge · Pavilions · Great Plains · Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (Knife River Indian Villages, North Dakota) · 10 × 10 m, 4 m high
  A large domed house of timber covered with willow, grass and a thick layer of earth, warm in winter and cool in summer, in permanent farming villages along the Missouri. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Cedar plank house · Pavilions · Pacific Northwest · Haida, Coast Salish, Kwakwaka’wakw and others · 12 × 8 m, 5 m high
  A large gabled house of split western red cedar planks on a post-and-beam frame, home to an extended family, often with a carved and painted front. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Chickee (Seminole house) · Pavilions · United States · Florida (Seminole and Miccosukee) · 5 × 4 m, 4 m high
  An open-sided house on cypress posts with a raised floor and a steep roof of palmetto thatch, built for the heat, rain and floods of the Everglades. Place it in your garden
• ⭕ Medicine wheel (stone circle) · Shrines · Northern Great Plains · e.g. Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming · 6 × 6 m, 0.3 m high
  A circle of stones with spokes radiating from a central cairn, built by Plains peoples over centuries; many are still sacred places of ceremony, so garden versions should be made with guidance and respect. Place it in your garden
• 🕸️ Dreamcatcher · Curiosities · Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) · now widespread · 0.4 × 0.05 m, 0.6 m high
  A willow hoop with a woven web, once hung over a child’s cradle by Ojibwe families to catch bad dreams and let good ones through. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Birchbark canoe · Water · Northern North America · Anishinaabe, Cree, Algonquin and others · 5 × 0.9 m, 0.8 m high
  A light canoe of birch bark sewn with spruce root over cedar ribs and sealed with spruce gum, carried easily between lakes and rivers. Place it in your garden
• 🐟 Salmon drying rack · Kitchen garden · Pacific Northwest and Alaska · Indigenous fishing camps · 3 × 1.5 m, 2 m high
  A frame of poles where split salmon are hung to dry and smoke in the summer runs, preserving food for the winter. Place it in your garden
• 🌵 Saguaro fruit harvesting pole (kuipad) · Kitchen garden · United States · Tohono O’odham Nation, Arizona · 0.3 × 0.1 m, 4 m high
  A long pole of saguaro ribs tipped with a crosspiece, used each June to knock ripe fruit from the tops of saguaro cacti; the harvest marks the Tohono O’odham new year. Place it in your garden
• 🌰 Acorn granary (chuck’ah) · Kitchen garden · United States · Miwok and other California peoples · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 2 m high
  A tall basket-like granary of woven branches on posts, lined with grass and capped with a thatch roof, storing a year’s supply of acorns, the staple food of Native California. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Bedrock mortar (grinding rock) · Kitchen garden · United States · Chaw’se (Indian Grinding Rock), California · 2 × 1.5 m, 0.4 m high
  A flat outcrop of rock worn with cup-shaped holes where women ground acorns into flour with stone pestles; Chaw’se has over a thousand mortar holes. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Monticello garden pavilion · Pavilions · United States · Monticello, Virginia · 4 × 4 m, 5 m high
  A small brick pavilion with a Chinese-style railing set at the edge of Thomas Jefferson’s 300 m vegetable garden terrace, where he read in the evenings; rebuilt in 1984 on its original foundations. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Sixteen-sided treading barn (Mount Vernon) · Pavilions · United States · Mount Vernon, Virginia · 10 × 10 m, 8 m high
  George Washington’s brick barn of the 1790s, where horses trod grain on an upper floor and the kernels fell through gaps to a floor below; reconstructed in 1996. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Round stone barn (Hancock Shaker Village) · Pavilions · United States · Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts (1826) · 15 × 15 m, 10 m high
  A huge circular barn of stone where a single farmer could feed dozens of cattle stalled around a central hay mow, an example of Shaker ingenuity. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 New England stone wall · Gates & walls · United States · New England · 6 × 0.8 m, 1 m high
  Low walls of fieldstones cleared by farmers from glacial soils and stacked along field edges; a survey in 1871 estimated over 380,000 km of them, now mostly lost in forest. Place it in your garden
• 🥔 Root cellar · Kitchen garden · North America · farms and homesteads · 3 × 3 m, 2 m high
  A room dug into a hillside or under the ground, with a stone or earth-covered roof, keeping potatoes, apples and roots cool, dark and humid through winter. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Springhouse · Kitchen garden · United States · Pennsylvania and the Appalachians · 3 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A small stone house built over a spring, where crocks of milk, butter and eggs sat in the cold flowing water before refrigerators. Place it in your garden
• 🥓 Smokehouse · Kitchen garden · United States · Southern and Appalachian farms · 2 × 2 m, 3 m high
  A small, tight wooden or brick building where hams and bacon were salted and hung over a slow hickory fire for weeks. Place it in your garden
• 🌽 Corn crib · Kitchen garden · United States · Midwest farms · 3 × 1.5 m, 3 m high
  A narrow building of spaced slats that lets air dry ears of corn stored inside, often raised off the ground to keep out rats. Place it in your garden
• ✳️ Hex sign (barn star) · Signs · United States · Pennsylvania Dutch Country · 1.2 × 0.1 m, 1.2 m high
  Round painted designs of stars, rosettes, birds and tulips on the barns of German-speaking Pennsylvania farmers, now mostly decorative good-luck signs. Place it in your garden
• 🟥 Barn quilt · Signs · United States · started in Adams County, Ohio (2001) · 2.4 × 0.1 m, 2.4 m high
  A large painted square of a traditional quilt block mounted on a barn; Donna Sue Groves began the first quilt trail in honour of her mother, and thousands now line country roads. Place it in your garden
• 🇺🇸 Victory garden sign · Signs · United States · United Kingdom · Canada (World War I and II) · 0.6 × 0.1 m, 1.2 m high
  During the Second World War, home and community “victory gardens” produced a large share of the fresh vegetables eaten in the United States; the sign recalls that movement. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Sod house (soddie) · Pavilions · United States · Great Plains (Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas) · 5 × 4 m, 2.8 m high
  A house built of strips of prairie turf stacked like bricks, by homesteaders in treeless country after the Homestead Act of 1862; warm in winter but dusty and buggy. Place it in your garden
• 🏚️ Dogtrot cabin · Pavilions · United States · the South and the Appalachians · 10 × 5 m, 4 m high
  Two log rooms under one roof separated by a wide open breezeway (the “dogtrot”) that catches the breeze and gives shady space to work and sit. Place it in your garden
• 🧹 Swept yard · Kitchen garden · United States · the South, especially African American homes · 6 × 6 m, 0.02 m high
  A packed earth yard kept clean of grass and debris by sweeping with brush brooms, often edged with flowers and shrubs; a tradition with West African roots. Place it in your garden
• 🔵 Haint blue porch · Pavilions · United States · Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia (Gullah Geechee) · 5 × 2.5 m, 3 m high
  A porch with its ceiling painted soft blue-green; Gullah tradition holds that the colour, like water, keeps haints (restless spirits) away, and many say it deters wasps too. Place it in your garden
• 🧺 Sweetgrass basket stand · Curiosities · United States · Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (Gullah Geechee) · 2 × 1 m, 1 m high
  A roadside stand of hand-coiled baskets of sweetgrass, bulrush and palmetto, a craft brought from West Africa and kept alive by Gullah women along Highway 17. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Adirondack lean-to · Pavilions · United States · Adirondack Mountains, New York · 4 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A three-sided log shelter with a sloping roof that faces a campfire, built along trails in the Adirondacks since the 19th century. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 World’s Fair bench (Central Park) · Seats · United States · Central Park, New York (designed for the 1939 World’s Fair) · 1.8 × 0.7 m, 0.85 m high
  A bench of wooden slats on cast-iron frames designed by Kenneth Lynch for the 1939 World’s Fair, later adopted as the standard bench of Central Park. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Angel of the Waters (Bethesda Fountain) · Water · United States · Bethesda Terrace, Central Park, New York (1873) · 8 × 8 m, 7 m high
  A bronze angel blessing the waters above two basins, by Emma Stebbins, the first woman to receive a commission for a major public artwork in New York City. Place it in your garden
• 📬 Rural mailbox · Curiosities · United States · Rural Free Delivery (from 1896) · 0.25 × 0.5 m, 1.2 m high
  The round-topped metal mailbox on a post at the end of a country lane, with a red flag raised to tell the carrier there is outgoing mail. Place it in your garden
• 🦋 Monarch Waystation sign · Signs · United States · Canada · Mexico (Monarch Watch, since 2005) · 0.4 × 0.1 m, 1 m high
  A sign certifying a garden with milkweeds and nectar flowers that helps monarch butterflies breed and migrate; tens of thousands of gardens are registered. Place it in your garden
• 📚 Neighbourhood book exchange box · Curiosities · United States (from 2009) · now worldwide · 0.6 × 0.4 m, 1.5 m high
  A small weatherproof box on a post, like a birdhouse for books, where neighbours take a book and leave a book; the idea spread from Wisconsin to over a hundred countries. Place it in your garden
• 🦩 Plastic lawn flamingo · Sculpture · United States · designed by Don Featherstone (1957) · 0.3 × 0.2 m, 0.8 m high
  A pink plastic flamingo on wire legs, an icon of American kitsch designed in 1957; the city of Madison, Wisconsin, made it its official bird in 2009. Place it in your garden
• 🌀 Whirligig · Curiosities · United States · folk art · 0.6 × 0.3 m, 1.5 m high
  A wind-driven folk toy whose propeller turns figures that saw wood, pump water or ride bicycles; Vollis Simpson’s giant whirligigs fill a park in Wilson, North Carolina. Place it in your garden
• 🛞 Tire swing · Play · Worldwide · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 2.5 m high
  An old tyre hung from a strong tree branch by a rope or chain, a classic of backyards and country childhoods. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Treehouse · Play · Worldwide · 3 × 3 m, 5 m high
  A small timber house built among the branches of a sturdy tree, reached by a ladder or rope; build it without nails through the bark where possible and check the tree’s health. Place it in your garden
• ☸️ Wagon wheel · Curiosities · United States · Old West · 1.2 × 0.2 m, 1.2 m high
  A wooden spoked wheel from a farm wagon, leaned against a fence or post as a reminder of pioneer days. Place it in your garden
• 🍳 Chuck wagon · Kitchen garden · United States · Texas (Charles Goodnight, 1866) · 3.5 × 1.8 m, 2.5 m high
  A covered wagon with a hinged chuck box at the back that folds down into a cook’s table, invented by the rancher Charles Goodnight to feed cowboys on long cattle drives. Place it in your garden
• 🧲 Horseshoe pit · Play · United States · Canada · 1.5 × 13 m, 0.1 m high
  Two boxes of sand or clay with iron stakes set 40 feet (12 m) apart; players pitch horseshoes to ring the stake. Place it in your garden
• 🎯 Cornhole boards · Play · United States · 0.6 × 9 m, 0.3 m high
  Two sloping boards, each 2 × 4 feet with a hole near the top, set 27 feet apart; players toss bags of corn or beans to land on the board or drop through the hole. Place it in your garden
• 🍁 Sugar shack (cabane à sucre) · Kitchen garden · Canada · Quebec (also New England) · 6 × 4 m, 5 m high
  A wooden building with a steaming vent in the roof where maple sap is boiled down to syrup in early spring; Quebec produces about 70% of the world’s maple syrup. Place it in your garden
• 🪣 Maple sap bucket and spout · Kitchen garden · Canada · north-eastern United States · 0.3 × 0.3 m, 0.4 m high
  A metal bucket with a lid hung on a spout (spile) tapped into a sugar maple in late winter, when freezing nights and thawing days make the sap run; about 40 litres of sap make 1 litre of syrup. Place it in your garden
• 🍞 Outdoor bread oven (four à pain) · Kitchen garden · Canada · Quebec and Acadia · 2 × 2 m, 1.8 m high
  A domed clay or brick oven under a small roof in the yard, fired with wood and then swept out to bake the week’s bread in the stored heat. Place it in your garden
• 🦞 Lobster trap stack · Curiosities · United States · Canada · Maine and the Maritimes · 1.2 × 0.6 m, 0.8 m high
  Wooden-slatted or wire lobster traps stacked by fishing wharves and in seaside gardens, often hung with painted buoys in each fisher’s colours. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Coyote fence (latilla fence) · Gates & walls · United States · New Mexico · 5 × 0.3 m, 1.8 m high
  A fence of rough, unpeeled juniper or cedar poles (latillas) set upright side by side and wired together, a traditional fence of New Mexican homes and gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🪜 Pueblo ladder · Curiosities · United States · Taos and other Pueblos, New Mexico · 0.8 × 0.2 m, 3.5 m high
  A tall ladder of peeled poles lashed with rungs, leaning against adobe walls to reach the roofs and upper storeys of Pueblo houses, where the ladders were once drawn up for safety. Place it in your garden
• 🌽 Chinampa plot · Kitchen garden · Mexico · Xochimilco (Aztec, from c. 1250) · 8 × 2.5 m, 0.5 m high
  Narrow plots built up from lake mud and plant matter between canals and anchored by ahuejote willows. The chinampas of Xochimilco are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Place it in your garden
• 🌽 Milpa plot · Kitchen garden · Mesoamerica · 4 × 4 m, 0.3 m high
  Maize, beans and squash grown together: the beans climb the maize and fix nitrogen, and the squash leaves shade the soil. The milpa has fed Mesoamerica for thousands of years. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Trajinera (Xochimilco boat) · Curiosities · Mexico · Xochimilco · 6 × 1.6 m, 1 m high
  Flat-bottomed boats poled along the canals of Xochimilco, painted in bright colours with a woman’s name on the arch at the front. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Cuexcomate granary · Kitchen garden · Mexico · Morelos and Puebla · 2 × 2 m, 3 m high
  A bulbous grain store of clay and straw on a stone base with a thatched cap, a pre-Hispanic design still seen in villages of Morelos. Place it in your garden
• ♨️ Temazcal sweat lodge · Pavilions · Mexico · Mesoamerica · 3 × 3 m, 2 m high
  A low vault of stone or adobe where water is thrown on heated stones: a Mesoamerican steam bath still used for healing and after childbirth. Place it in your garden
• ✝️ Atrial cross (cruz atrial) · Shrines · Mexico · 16th-century monasteries (e.g. Acolman) · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 3 m high
  Carved stone crosses on stepped bases in the walled forecourts (atrios) where friars taught Indigenous converts in the open air; many are carved with the instruments of the Passion. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Chac Mool figure · Sculpture · Mexico · Chichén Itzá and Tula (c. 800–1200) · 1.5 × 0.6 m, 1.1 m high
  A reclining stone figure with raised knees and the head turned 90°, holding a bowl or disc on its belly, found at Toltec and Maya sites. Place it in your garden
• 🐍 Feathered serpent head · Sculpture · Mexico · El Castillo, Chichén Itzá · 1.2 × 1.6 m, 1 m high
  Great stone heads of Kukulkán sit at the foot of El Castillo’s north stairway; at the equinoxes the afternoon sun casts a serpent of light and shadow down the balustrade. Place it in your garden
• ☀️ Sun Stone replica (Piedra del Sol) · Sculpture · Mexico · Mexica (Aztec), c. 1502–1521 · 3.6 × 1 m, 3.6 m high
  A 24-tonne basalt disc carved with a deity’s face at its centre and the signs of the days around it; it was found under Mexico City’s Zócalo in 1790. Place it in your garden
• ⭕ Ballcourt ring · Sculpture · Mexico · Great Ball Court, Chichén Itzá · 1.6 × 0.4 m, 1.6 m high
  Carved stone hoops set high in the walls of Mesoamerican ballcourts; at Chichén Itzá they hang about 6 m above the playing field. Place it in your garden
• 🐕 Colima dog figure · Sculpture · Mexico · Colima shaft-tomb culture (c. 300 BC–AD 300) · 0.6 × 0.3 m, 0.4 m high
  Plump, burnished clay dogs placed in the shaft tombs of west Mexico; they probably show the native hairless dog, the xoloitzcuintle. Place it in your garden
• 🐉 Alebrije · Sculpture · Mexico · Pedro Linares (Mexico City, 1936) · Oaxaca · 1.2 × 0.5 m, 1 m high
  Brightly painted fantastic creatures, first made in papier-mâché by Pedro Linares and later carved from copal wood in Oaxacan villages such as San Martín Tilcajete and San Antonio Arrazola. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Tree of life (árbol de la vida) · Curiosities · Mexico · Metepec and Izúcar de Matamoros · 0.8 × 0.4 m, 1.4 m high
  Painted clay candelabra trees crowded with leaves, flowers and figures, often Adam and Eve, a ceramic tradition of Metepec in the State of Mexico. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Barro negro pot · Urns & pots · Mexico · San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.6 m high
  Black clay pottery fired with little oxygen; in the 1950s Doña Rosa Real found that burnishing the pots before firing gives them a metallic shine. Place it in your garden
• ⭐ Mexican tin star lantern · Lights · Mexico · San Miguel de Allende and Oaxaca · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.6 m high
  Punched and cut tinplate (hojalata) lanterns, often star-shaped with coloured glass, hung in patios and doorways. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Cantera stone fountain · Water · Mexico · Querétaro, Zacatecas, Guanajuato · 3 × 3 m, 1.6 m high
  Fountains carved from cantera, a soft volcanic tuff in pink, grey and ochre quarried in central Mexico and used for colonial churches and plazas. Place it in your garden
• 🕌 Moorish kiosk (Kiosco Morisco) · Pavilions · Mexico · Santa María la Ribera, Mexico City · 7 × 7 m, 8 m high
  A cast-iron Neo-Mudéjar pavilion designed by José Ramón Ibarrola for the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans; it has stood in the Alameda of Santa María la Ribera since 1910. Place it in your garden
• 🪟 Wrought-iron window grille (reja) · Gates & walls · Spain · Mexico · colonial towns of Latin America · 1.4 × 0.2 m, 2.2 m high
  Forged iron grilles over street windows and doorways, a Spanish craft (herrería) seen throughout the colonial towns of Latin America. Place it in your garden
• 🔔 Bell wall (campanario, espadaña) · Shrines · Spain · Mexico · California missions (e.g. San Gabriel) · 2 × 0.6 m, 4 m high
  A wall pierced with arches that hold the bells, used on mission and village churches instead of a tower; Mission San Gabriel’s campanario holds six bells. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Las Pozas concrete column · Sculpture · Mexico · Las Pozas, Xilitla (Edward James, 1949–1984) · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 5 m high
  The surrealist patron Edward James built dozens of concrete follies, flower columns and stairways to nowhere in the cloud forest at Xilitla. Place it in your garden
• 🟪 Barragán colour wall · Gates & walls · Mexico · Luis Barragán (Casa Barragán, 1948; Cuadra San Cristóbal, 1966–68) · 6 × 0.4 m, 4 m high
  Tall, plain stuccoed walls in pink, ochre and violet that frame sky, trees and water, the signature of the architect Luis Barragán (Pritzker Prize 1980). Place it in your garden
• 🐎 Barragán horse-pool fountain · Water · Mexico · Cuadra San Cristóbal, Los Clubes, Mexico City · 5 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A spout pours from a high rust-red wall into a wide, shallow pool where the horses of the stud farm drink. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Camagüey tinajón (rain jar) · Urns & pots · Cuba · Camagüey · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 1.8 m high
  Huge clay jars, partly sunk into the ground, that caught rainwater from the roofs of colonial Camagüey, known as the “city of tinajones”. Place it in your garden
• 🫕 Sugar copper basin · Urns & pots · Barbados · Jamaica · Caribbean sugar estates · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 1 m high
  Wide iron boiling pans (“coppers”) from old sugar works, reused as planters and lily ponds in Caribbean gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Chattel house · Pavilions · Barbados · 3.5 × 3 m, 3.2 m high
  Small timber houses set on loose stone blocks so that tenant workers could take them apart and move them; today they are painted in bright colours. Place it in your garden
• 🔺 Taíno three-pointed zemi · Shrines · Caribbean · Taíno (Puerto Rico, Hispaniola) · 0.5 × 0.3 m, 0.4 m high
  Carved triangular stones that housed spirits (cemí); some are thought to have been buried in cassava gardens (conucos) to help the crop. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Taíno petroglyph stone · Shrines · Puerto Rico · Caguana Ceremonial Park, Utuado · 1 × 0.5 m, 1.5 m high
  Upright stones carved with faces line the ball and dance plazas (bateyes) of Caguana, built by the Taíno around 1200. Place it in your garden
• 🏰 Garita sentry box · Pavilions · Puerto Rico · Old San Juan (El Morro) · 2 × 2 m, 3.5 m high
  Domed stone sentry boxes on the corners of Spanish forts; the garitas of San Juan have become a symbol of Puerto Rico. Place it in your garden
• ⚪ Diquís stone sphere · Sculpture · Costa Rica · Diquís Delta (c. 500–1500) · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 1.5 m high
  Almost perfectly round spheres of granodiorite and gabbro up to 2.6 m across; the settlements where they stand became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. Place it in your garden
• 🛞 Painted oxcart (carreta) · Curiosities · Costa Rica · Sarchí · 3 × 1.5 m, 1.6 m high
  Two-wheeled carts painted with bright geometric and floral designs; Costa Rica’s oxherding and oxcart traditions are on UNESCO’s intangible heritage list. Place it in your garden
• 🧺 Public washing basins (pilas) · Water · Guatemala · Tanque La Unión, Antigua Guatemala · 6 × 2 m, 1 m high
  Arcaded stone tanks divided into scrubbing basins (pilas) where townspeople washed clothes; the colonial-era tanks of La Unión still stand in a park. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 San Agustín statue · Sculpture · Colombia · San Agustín Archaeological Park (1st–8th century) · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 2.2 m high
  Hundreds of volcanic-stone guardians, animals and deities stand in the Andean hills around San Agustín, the largest group of megalithic sculpture in Latin America (UNESCO 1995). Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Intihuatana stone · Shrines · Peru · Machu Picchu (15th century) · 1.6 × 1.2 m, 1.8 m high
  A carved granite outcrop with a short upright post at the top of Machu Picchu; its Quechua name is usually translated “hitching post of the sun”. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Inca water channel (Tipón) · Water · Peru · Tipón, Cusco · 6 × 1 m, 0.8 m high
  Stone-lined channels and falls carry spring water across Tipón’s terraces, a showpiece of Inca hydraulic engineering. Place it in your garden
• 🌱 Waru waru raised field · Kitchen garden · Peru · Bolivia · Lake Titicaca · 6 × 3 m, 0.6 m high
  Raised planting beds separated by water-filled ditches; the water stores the day’s heat and protects crops from night frost. Revived since the 1980s. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Qollqa storehouse · Pavilions · Peru · Ollantaytambo (Inca) · 4 × 3 m, 3.5 m high
  Inca storehouses built on cool, windy hillsides so that maize, chuño and other food kept for years. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Apacheta · Shrines · Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina) · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 1.2 m high
  Cairns at mountain passes to which travellers add a stone as an offering to the mountain spirits (apus) and Pachamama. Place it in your garden
• 🐂 Torito de Pucará · Sculpture · Peru · Pucará, Puno · 0.4 × 0.2 m, 0.4 m high
  A pair of glazed clay bulls set on the roof ridge of Andean houses for protection and good fortune, often beside a cross. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Gate of the Sun replica · Gates & walls · Bolivia · Tiwanaku (c. 500–1000) · 3.8 × 0.5 m, 2.8 m high
  A doorway cut from a single andesite block, carved above with the “Staff God” and rows of winged attendants. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Tiwanaku monolith · Sculpture · Bolivia · Tiwanaku (c. 500–1000) · 1 × 1 m, 4 m high
  Pillar-like stone figures holding a cup and a staff; the Bennett Monolith, of red sandstone, is 7.3 m tall. Place it in your garden
• 🪜 Rewe (Mapuche altar post) · Shrines · Chile · Argentina · Mapuche · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 2.5 m high
  A notched, stepped log set in the ground as the ritual centre where the machi (healer) climbs during ceremonies. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Chemamull · Sculpture · Chile · Mapuche · 0.6 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  Tall carved wooden figures (“wooden people”) set at Mapuche burial grounds to accompany the dead. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Chiloé shingled shed · Pavilions · Chile · Chiloé · 3 × 2.5 m, 3 m high
  Timber buildings clad in hand-split alerce or cypress shingles (tejuelas) cut in scallop and diamond patterns, as on Chiloé’s UNESCO-listed wooden churches. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Parrilla (asado grill) · Kitchen garden · Argentina · Uruguay · 1.6 × 0.8 m, 1 m high
  A brick or iron grill with a side basket (brasero) where wood burns down to embers that are raked under the grate, the heart of the Sunday asado. Place it in your garden
• 🐴 Palenque hitching rail · Gates & walls · Argentina · Uruguay · gaucho estancias · 4 × 0.3 m, 1.1 m high
  A rail on posts in front of a ranch house or country store (pulpería) where gauchos tie their horses. Place it in your garden
• 👹 Carranca figurehead · Sculpture · Brazil · São Francisco River · 0.5 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  Fierce carved heads, half human and half beast, once fixed to the bows of São Francisco river boats to ward off evil spirits; now popular as house and garden guardians. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Salvaged granite wall (Sítio Burle Marx) · Gates & walls · Brazil · Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro · 6 × 0.5 m, 3 m high
  At his Guaratiba estate Roberto Burle Marx built a wall of granite blocks salvaged from demolished buildings in Rio and planted it with bromeliads and other epiphytes. Place it in your garden
• 🟦 Modernist azulejo wall (Pampulha) · Gates & walls · Brazil · Igreja São Francisco de Assis, Pampulha (1943–45) · 6 × 0.3 m, 3 m high
  Blue-and-white tile panels by Cândido Portinari cover the outside of Oscar Niemeyer’s church at Pampulha, part of a modern ensemble with gardens by Burle Marx (UNESCO 2016). Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Chafariz do Mestre Valentim · Water · Brazil · Praça XV, Rio de Janeiro (1789) · 3 × 2 m, 4 m high
  A granite public fountain by the sculptor Mestre Valentim that supplied water to ships and townspeople at the old harbour square. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Passeio Público pyramid · Sculpture · Brazil · Passeio Público, Rio de Janeiro (1783) · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 5 m high
  Twin granite pyramids by Mestre Valentim stand in the Passeio Público, the first public park in Brazil, opened in 1783. Place it in your garden

🌍 Africa, Australia & the Pacific (136)

• 🗿 Shona stone sculpture · Sculpture · Zimbabwe · Chapungu Sculpture Park · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Abstracted heads and figures carved in serpentine and springstone, a modern Zimbabwean art movement from the 1950s. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Shona “family” sculpture · Sculpture · Zimbabwe · 1 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Polished serpentine figures of mothers and families are a favourite Shona subject. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Egyptian-style obelisk · Sculpture · Egypt · 1 × 1 m, 5 m high
  Ancient obelisks were single granite monoliths; Rome, London, Paris and New York each have one. Place it in your garden
• 🦁 Sphinx · Sculpture · Egypt · also European gardens · 2 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  A lion with a human head; pairs of sphinxes guarded 18th-century European garden steps. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Ibis · Sculpture · Egypt · Africa · 0.5 × 0.3 m, 0.9 m high
  The sacred ibis was associated with Thoth, god of writing. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Lotus column · Sculpture · Egypt · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 3.4 m high
  Egyptian columns with capitals shaped like lotus or papyrus buds. Place it in your garden
• 🎨 Ndebele painted wall · Gates & walls · South Africa · Ndebele · 5 × 0.4 m, 2.2 m high
  Bold geometric house paintings by Ndebele women, an art handed down through generations. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Rondavel hut · Pavilions · Southern Africa · 4 × 4 m, 4 m high
  A round dwelling with a conical thatched roof; here as a garden shelter. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Boma fire pit · Curiosities · Southern and East Africa · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 0.5 m high
  A circular gathering place around a fire, enclosed by a low wall or seats. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Clay water pot · Urns & pots · Africa · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 0.8 m high
  Hand-coiled earthenware pots keep water cool by evaporation. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Log bench · Seats · Africa · 2 × 0.6 m, 0.5 m high
  A bench hewn from a single tree trunk. Place it in your garden
• 🪺 Weaver-bird nest sculpture · Wildlife · Africa · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  Weaver birds knot grass into hanging nests; artists make giant woven versions. Place it in your garden
• 🐘 Bronze elephant · Sculpture · Africa · 2.4 × 1.2 m, 2.2 m high
  The African elephant, the largest land animal. Place it in your garden
• 🦒 Giraffe sculpture · Sculpture · Africa · 1.4 × 0.5 m, 3.2 m high
  A tall giraffe sculpture, often made of metal or carved wood. Place it in your garden
• 🦏 Rhino sculpture · Sculpture · Africa · 2.2 × 1 m, 1.5 m high
  Rhino sculptures raise awareness of rhino conservation. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Contemporary African stone figure · Sculpture · South Africa · Kirstenbosch · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.8 m high
  Kirstenbosch has shown stone sculpture by Zimbabwean and South African artists among its plantings. Place it in your garden
• 🌸 Protea sculpture · Sculpture · South Africa · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.4 m high
  The king protea, South Africa’s national flower, rendered as a large metal sculpture. Place it in your garden
• 🦓 Wire-and-bead animal · Sculpture · South Africa · 1 × 0.4 m, 1.2 m high
  Wire-and-bead craft of South Africa; here a zebra-like horse figure. Place it in your garden
• 🛢️ Corrugated-iron water tank · Kitchen garden · Australia · 2 × 2 m, 2.2 m high
  Round galvanised tanks collect rainwater from the roof, an icon of Australian homes. Place it in your garden
• 🔄 Rotary clothes line · Curiosities · Australia · Adelaide (Hills Hoist, 1945) · 3 × 3 m, 2.4 m high
  The rotary washing line made famous by Lance Hill’s Hills Hoist. Place it in your garden
• 🦘 Kangaroo sculpture · Sculpture · Australia · 0.8 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  A kangaroo figure, Australia’s national symbol. Place it in your garden
• 🐾 Wombat · Sculpture · Australia · 0.8 × 0.5 m, 0.5 m high
  The burrowing marsupial wombat, a popular garden bronze. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Hardwood park bench · Seats · Australia · 1.8 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  A slatted bench of native hardwood such as jarrah or spotted gum. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Pou whenua carved post · Shrines · New Zealand · Māori · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 4 m high
  Carved posts that mark land and tell the history of an iwi (tribe). Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Waka canoe prow · Curiosities · New Zealand · Māori · 6 × 1 m, 1 m high
  Carved Māori canoes; the great waka taua (war canoes) carried 80 or more paddlers. Place it in your garden
• 🥝 Kiwi · Sculpture · New Zealand · 0.5 × 0.3 m, 0.4 m high
  The flightless national bird of New Zealand. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Tiki carving · Shrines · Polynesia · Hawaiʻi · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.8 m high
  Carved wooden or stone figures of gods and ancestors across Polynesia. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Tiki torch · Lights · Hawaiʻi · 0.3 × 0.3 m, 1.8 m high
  A bamboo torch on a pole, lit for evening gatherings. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Thatched hale · Pavilions · Hawaiʻi · Polynesia · 4 × 3 m, 3.6 m high
  A traditional thatched house; open hale serve as garden shelters. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Lava rock · Sculpture · Hawaiʻi · Iceland · 1.4 × 1.2 m, 0.9 m high
  Black porous lava rock, common in volcanic-island gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Fale open house · Pavilions · Samoa · Tonga · 4 × 4 m, 3 m high
  An open-sided Samoan house with a domed thatched roof on posts. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Outrigger canoe · Curiosities · Pacific · 5 × 1.4 m, 0.7 m high
  Austronesian voyagers crossed the Pacific in outrigger and double-hulled canoes. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Coconut-wood bench · Seats · Pacific · Southeast Asia · 1.6 × 0.5 m, 0.45 m high
  A simple bench of coconut palm timber. Place it in your garden
• 🐚 Shell-studded planter · Urns & pots · Worldwide · 1 × 1 m, 0.8 m high
  A planter decorated with seashells, a craft as old as 18th-century shell grottoes. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Gourd lantern · Lights · Africa · Peru · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 1.4 m high
  Carved and pierced gourds used as lantern shades. Place it in your garden
• 🟦 Indigo dye pit (Kofar Mata) · Kitchen garden · Nigeria · Kofar Mata dye pits, Kano (1498) · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 0.5 m high
  Pits dug about two metres deep where indigo, ash and potash ferment for weeks before cloth is dipped; Kano’s dyers have worked them for over 500 years. Place it in your garden
• 🪣 Shaduf (shadoof) water-lifting pole · Kitchen garden · Egypt · Nile valley (also ancient Mesopotamia) · 1.2 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A long pole pivoting on an upright, with a bucket at one end and a counterweight of clay or stone at the other, for lifting water from the Nile onto fields and gardens. New Kingdom tomb paintings, such as the tomb of Ipuy at Deir el-Medina, show gardeners watering with one. Place it in your garden
• ⚙️ Saqiya (sakia) ox-driven water wheel · Kitchen garden · Egypt · Sudan · 3 × 3 m, 3 m high
  An ox or donkey walks in a circle turning a horizontal gear that drives an upright wheel with a chain of pots, lifting water from a well or canal. Introduced to Egypt in Ptolemaic or Roman times, it watered Nile valley fields until diesel pumps replaced it. Place it in your garden
• 🐏 Ram-headed sphinx (criosphinx) · Sculpture · Egypt · Karnak, Luxor · 2 × 0.8 m, 1.4 m high
  A lion’s body with the head of a ram, the sacred animal of the god Amun. Rows of them line the processional ways of Karnak; the 2.7 km Avenue of Sphinxes to Luxor Temple reopened in 2021. Place it in your garden
• 🪷 Egyptian garden pool (Nebamun style) · Water · Egypt · tomb chapel of Nebamun, Thebes (British Museum) · 3 × 2 m, 0.5 m high
  A rectangular pool with lotus, fish and ducks, framed by rows of fruit trees, as painted in the tomb chapel of the scribe Nebamun about 1350 BC; the painting is now in the British Museum. Place it in your garden
• 📏 Nilometer · Curiosities · Egypt · Roda Island, Cairo · 2 × 2 m, 1.2 m high
  A stepped shaft with a graduated column for measuring the height of the Nile flood, which set the year’s taxes. The Roda Island nilometer in Cairo, built in 861, has an octagonal marble column in a stone-lined pit. Place it in your garden
• 🕊️ Egyptian mud-brick dovecote (burg hamam) · Wildlife · Egypt · Nile delta and Fayoum · 2 × 2 m, 4 m high
  Tall towers of mud brick studded with clay pots and perching sticks, built in Egyptian villages for pigeons kept for meat and for their droppings, a valued fertiliser. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Incense-tree planter (Punt expedition) · Urns & pots · Egypt · Hatshepsut’s temple, Deir el-Bahari · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 0.6 m high
  Reliefs in Queen Hatshepsut’s temple show myrrh trees carried in baskets on poles, brought by ship from the Land of Punt about 1470 BC and planted at the temple: the earliest recorded transplanting of foreign trees. Place it in your garden
• 🕳️ Khettara shaft head · Water · Morocco · Tafilalet and the Draa valley · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 0.8 m high
  A khettara is an underground channel that brings groundwater by gravity to oasis gardens, dug and cleaned through a line of shafts whose ring-shaped spoil mounds dot the desert; it is related to the Persian qanat and the Algerian foggara. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Akan carved stool (dwa) · Seats · Ghana · Asante (Akan) · 0.6 × 0.35 m, 0.45 m high
  A stool carved from one block of wood, with a curved seat on a central support; a stool belongs to its owner, and the stools of departed chiefs are blackened and kept as shrines. The Golden Stool is the sacred symbol of the Asante nation. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Benin brass commemorative head · Sculpture · Nigeria · Kingdom of Benin (Edo), Benin City · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Cast brass heads made by the royal guild of casters for the ancestral altars of the obas, from about the 15th century. Thousands of Benin Bronzes were looted by a British force in 1897; some have been returned to Nigeria since 2022. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Ife copper-alloy head · Sculpture · Nigeria · Ile-Ife (Yoruba) · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Strikingly naturalistic heads cast at Ile-Ife, the sacred city of the Yoruba, between the 12th and 15th centuries; when the first reached Europe in 1910 they overturned colonial ideas about African art. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Nok terracotta head · Sculpture · Nigeria · Nok culture, central Nigeria · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Hollow fired-clay heads and figures with triangular or D-shaped eyes and elaborate hairstyles, made from about 900 BC to the turn of the era: the oldest known figurative sculpture of sub-Saharan Africa. Place it in your garden
• 🧍 Osun-Osogbo grove sculpture · Shrines · Nigeria · Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove (UNESCO) · 1 × 1 m, 3 m high
  Towering cement and mud sculptures of Yoruba deities made from the 1950s onward by the Austrian-born artist Susanne Wenger (Adunni Olorisa) and the New Sacred Art movement to protect the forest of the river goddess Osun; a World Heritage Site since 2005. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Yoruba carved veranda post (opo) · Shrines · Nigeria · Yoruba palaces · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 2.4 m high
  Carved posts holding up the verandas of Yoruba palace courtyards, showing kings, queens, warriors and horsemen; the master carver Olowe of Ise (about 1873–1938) made celebrated sets for the palace at Ikere. Place it in your garden
• 👥 Ibeji twin figures · Shrines · Nigeria · Benin (Yoruba) · 0.6 × 0.4 m, 0.8 m high
  Small carved figures made when a twin dies, then washed, dressed and fed by the mother as a home for the twin’s spirit; the Yoruba have one of the highest twin birth rates in the world. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Mbari house · Shrines · Nigeria · Owerri Igbo · 5 × 4 m, 4 m high
  An open shrine house filled with painted clay figures of the earth goddess Ala, other deities and everyday people, built over many months as a sacrifice and then left to return to the earth. The Mbari Club of writers and artists, founded in Ibadan in 1961, took its name from it. Place it in your garden
• 🚢 Fante posuban (asafo company shrine) · Shrines · Ghana · Fante coast (Elmina, Mankessim) · 3 × 2 m, 3 m high
  Brightly painted concrete shrines of the Fante asafo military companies, crowded with figures, ships, animals and proverbs; most were built in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Place it in your garden
• 🐟 Ga fantasy coffin (abebuu adekai) · Curiosities · Ghana · Teshie, Accra (Ga) · 2 × 0.7 m, 0.8 m high
  Coffins carved as fish, cars, cocoa pods or tools that recall the life of the dead, a Ga tradition made famous by the carpenter Seth Kane Kwei from the 1950s. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Senufo hornbill sculpture (sejen) · Sculpture · Côte d’Ivoire · Mali · Burkina Faso (Senufo) · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.5 m high
  A large carved hornbill whose long beak touches its swollen belly, one of the first creatures in Senufo belief, carried in Poro society ceremonies. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Toguna (Dogon house of words) · Pavilions · Mali · Bandiagara Escarpment (Dogon, UNESCO) · 4 × 3 m, 1.6 m high
  A low shelter with a thick roof of millet stalks on carved pillars, where village elders meet to settle disputes; the roof is built too low to stand under, so that tempers cannot rise. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Dogon granary · Pavilions · Mali · Bandiagara Escarpment · 2 × 2 m, 3 m high
  Small mud-brick granaries with pointed thatched caps stand in clusters among Dogon houses; men’s granaries hold millet, women’s their own goods. Place it in your garden
• 🏰 Tata somba tower house · Pavilions · Togo · Benin (Batammariba, Koutammakou) · 4 × 4 m, 4 m high
  Two-storey fortified mud houses of the Batammariba, with round towers capped by thatched granaries and a flat terrace for drying grain; their landscape of Koutammakou is a World Heritage Site. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Sudano-Sahelian mud wall with toron · Gates & walls · Mali · Great Mosque of Djenné (UNESCO) · 5 × 0.6 m, 3 m high
  Smooth walls of sun-dried mud brick and plaster bristling with toron, bundles of palm wood that serve as permanent scaffolding; the Great Mosque of Djenné (rebuilt 1907) is replastered by the whole town each year in the Crépissage festival. Place it in your garden
• 🎲 Oware (mancala) board table · Play · Ghana (Akan) · West Africa and the Caribbean · 1 × 0.5 m, 0.7 m high
  Oware is a mancala game of sowing seeds round two rows of six pits, played across West Africa and carried to the Caribbean; ancient mancala boards are also cut into rock in many places. Place it in your garden
• 🪧 Adinkra symbol panel · Signs · Ghana · Asante (Ntonso) · 1.2 × 0.1 m, 1.4 m high
  Adinkra are Akan symbols for proverbs and ideas, such as Gye Nyame (the supremacy of God) and Sankofa (go back and fetch it); they are stamped on cloth with carved calabash stamps in Ntonso and used on walls and gates. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Zanzibar carved door · Gates & walls · Tanzania · Stone Town, Zanzibar (UNESCO) · 2 × 0.4 m, 2.8 m high
  Heavy teak doors with richly carved frames and lintels, some studded with brass bosses; the door was often the first part of a Swahili house to be built, and Stone Town still has hundreds. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Swahili baraza bench · Seats · Kenya · Tanzania (Lamu, Stone Town) · 2.4 × 0.6 m, 0.5 m high
  Built-in benches of coral stone and lime plaster along the fronts of Swahili town houses, where neighbours meet and talk in the shade of the narrow streets. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Swahili pillar tomb · Shrines · Kenya · Tanzania coast (Gede, Malindi, Kunduchi) · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 4 m high
  Coral-stone tombs crowned by a tall pillar, sometimes inset with Chinese or Persian porcelain bowls, built along the Swahili coast from the 14th century onward. Place it in your garden
• ⛵ Swahili dhow · Curiosities · Kenya · Tanzania · Zanzibar · 5 × 1.5 m, 1.2 m high
  Wooden boats with a triangular lateen sail, still built by hand in Lamu and Zanzibar and sailed on the monsoon winds that linked East Africa with Arabia and India for centuries. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Aksum stele · Sculpture · Ethiopia · Aksum (UNESCO) · 1 × 1 m, 6 m high
  Granite stelae carved to look like many-storeyed buildings with false doors and windows, raised over royal tombs in the 3rd and 4th centuries. The Obelisk of Aksum, taken to Rome in 1937, was returned in 2005 and re-erected in 2008. Place it in your garden
• 🏯 Fasilides’ Bath pavilion · Water · Ethiopia · Gondar (UNESCO) · 6 × 6 m, 5 m high
  A two-storey stone pavilion standing in a large rectangular pool, built in the 17th century for Emperor Fasilides; the pool is filled from the river each January for Timkat, the Ethiopian Epiphany. Place it in your garden
• ☕ Jebena coffee pot · Urns & pots · Ethiopia · Eritrea · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.6 m high
  A round-bellied black clay coffee pot with a long neck and spout, used in the coffee ceremony: green beans are roasted, ground and brewed three times over charcoal while incense burns. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Tukul round house · Pavilions · Ethiopia · Eritrea · 4 × 4 m, 4.5 m high
  A round house of wattle and daub under a conical thatched roof, often topped with a clay pot or a cross; the traditional farmhouse of the Ethiopian highlands. Place it in your garden
• 🌵 Thorn boma fence (enkang) · Gates & walls · Kenya · Tanzania (Maasai) · 6 × 0.8 m, 1.6 m high
  A ring of cut thorny acacia branches around a Maasai homestead (enkang), keeping lions and hyenas from the cattle gathered inside at night. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Makonde ujamaa (tree of life) carving · Sculpture · Tanzania · Mozambique (Makonde) · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.8 m high
  A column of intertwined human figures carved from one block of African blackwood, each supporting the others: an image of family and community developed by Makonde carvers in the 1960s. Place it in your garden
• 🎨 Tingatinga painted panel · Signs · Tanzania · Dar es Salaam · 1.2 × 0.1 m, 1.4 m high
  Bright, flat paintings of animals and birds in bicycle enamel on board, begun by Edward Saidi Tingatinga in Dar es Salaam in the late 1960s and carried on by a cooperative of painters. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Buganda royal thatched house (Kasubi) · Pavilions · Uganda · Kasubi Tombs, Kampala (UNESCO) · 8 × 8 m, 7 m high
  The tombs of the Buganda kings lie under Muzibu Azaala Mpanga, a vast dome of reeds and grass thatch on a wooden frame; it burned in 2010 and has been rebuilt with traditional thatching skills. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Great Zimbabwe dry-stone wall · Gates & walls · Zimbabwe · Great Zimbabwe (UNESCO) · 5 × 1.2 m, 3 m high
  Walls of shaped granite blocks laid without mortar, up to 11 m high, built between the 11th and 15th centuries; the outer wall of the Great Enclosure is topped by a band of chevrons. Place it in your garden
• 🦅 Zimbabwe Bird · Sculpture · Zimbabwe · Great Zimbabwe · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  Eight birds carved in soapstone on top of tall columns, probably royal emblems, were found at Great Zimbabwe; the bird is now on Zimbabwe’s flag and coat of arms. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Great Zimbabwe conical tower · Sculpture · Zimbabwe · Great Zimbabwe · 3 × 3 m, 5 m high
  A solid, tapering tower of dry-laid granite about 9 m tall inside the Great Enclosure; its purpose is unknown, and it may have been a symbolic granary. Place it in your garden
• 🦏 Golden rhinoceros of Mapungubwe · Sculpture · South Africa · Mapungubwe (UNESCO) · 1.2 × 0.5 m, 0.7 m high
  A small rhinoceros of gold foil over a wooden core, buried with a ruler on Mapungubwe Hill about 1250, emblem of the kingdom that came before Great Zimbabwe; South Africa’s highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe, is named after the site. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Zulu beehive hut (iQukwane) · Pavilions · South Africa · KwaZulu-Natal · 4 × 4 m, 3 m high
  A dome of bent saplings thatched with grass from the ground up, the traditional Zulu home, entered through a low arched doorway. Place it in your garden
• 🎨 Litema patterned wall · Gates & walls · Lesotho · Free State (Basotho) · 5 × 0.4 m, 2.2 m high
  Basotho women decorate the mud plaster of house walls with litema, patterns scored with fingers or combs and coloured with earth pigments, renewed after the rains. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Cape Dutch gable · Gates & walls · South Africa · Western Cape (Groot Constantia) · 5 × 0.5 m, 4 m high
  Whitewashed farmhouses with an ornate curved gable over the front door, built on Cape farms in the 18th century; the manor house of Groot Constantia is the best-known example. Place it in your garden
• 🐍 Kirstenbosch Boomslang canopy walkway · Bridges · South Africa · Kirstenbosch, Cape Town · 8 × 1.5 m, 3 m high
  A curving steel-and-timber walkway, nicknamed the Boomslang (tree snake), that winds through and above the trees of the arboretum; it opened in 2014 to mark the garden’s centenary. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Colonel Bird’s Bath · Water · South Africa · Kirstenbosch, Cape Town · 3 × 2 m, 0.6 m high
  A small stone-lined pool fed by a clear spring, made around 1811 for Colonel Christopher Bird, deputy colonial secretary of the Cape; one of the oldest features of Kirstenbosch. Place it in your garden
• 🍲 Potjie pot · Kitchen garden · South Africa · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.5 m high
  A round, three-legged cast-iron pot set over coals for potjiekos, a slow-cooked layered stew; the pots came with Dutch settlers and are now used across southern Africa. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Braai stand · Kitchen garden · South Africa · 1 × 0.6 m, 0.9 m high
  A wood or charcoal grill for the braai, the South African barbecue; 24 September, Heritage Day, is popularly called National Braai Day. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Aloalo funerary post · Shrines · Madagascar · Mahafaly (south-west) · 0.3 × 0.3 m, 2.5 m high
  Carved wooden posts set on the stone tombs of the Mahafaly people, with geometric openwork below and figures such as zebu, birds or people on top. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Vatolahy standing stone · Shrines · Madagascar · central highlands · 0.6 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  Tall "male stones" raised in the Malagasy highlands to honour ancestors, mark important events or remember a person buried far from home. Place it in your garden
• 🐟 Stone eel and fish trap (Budj Bim, Brewarrina) · Water · Australia · Budj Bim, Victoria (UNESCO) · Brewarrina, NSW · 6 × 2 m, 0.6 m high
  Channels, weirs and stone-walled ponds built by the Gunditjmara people at Budj Bim to trap and farm short-finned eels, dated to at least 6,600 years ago; the Ngunnhu stone fish traps on the Barwon River at Brewarrina are another ancient example. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Yarning circle · Seats · Australia · Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tradition · 5 × 5 m, 0.45 m high
  A circle of logs or stones where people sit as equals to talk, listen, share stories and settle matters; many Australian schools, parks and gardens now have one, often made with local Elders. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Gunyah (bark and branch shelter) · Pavilions · Australia · Aboriginal tradition (also called humpy or mia-mia) · 3 × 3 m, 2 m high
  A quick shelter of branches and sheets of bark leaned against a frame, built by Aboriginal people across much of Australia; the words gunyah and humpy entered Australian English from Aboriginal languages. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Seed grinding stone · Kitchen garden · Australia · inland Aboriginal communities · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 0.3 m high
  A flat lower stone and a small top stone for grinding grass seed, wattle seed and nardoo into flour for damper; grindstones from Cuddie Springs in NSW may be over 30,000 years old. Place it in your garden
• 🧊 Coolgardie safe · Kitchen garden · Australia · Coolgardie goldfields, Western Australia (1890s) · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 1.4 m high
  A food cupboard with walls of hessian kept wet by water dripping from a tray on top; the breeze evaporating the water keeps the food cool. Invented on the dry goldfields and used in homes until refrigerators spread. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Edna Walling dry-stone wall · Gates & walls · Australia · Bickleigh Vale, Mooroolbark, Victoria · 5 × 0.5 m, 0.8 m high
  Low, rough walls of local stone softened with creeping plants, a signature of the designer Edna Walling (1895–1973), who brought the English cottage-garden style into a gentle Australian bush setting. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Bush house (slat house) · Pavilions · Australia · New Zealand (19th century onwards) · 5 × 4 m, 2.6 m high
  A shade house with a roof and walls of spaced timber slats, letting through dappled light for ferns, orchids and staghorns; many old botanic gardens, such as Adelaide’s, had one. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Cast-iron lace verandah · Pavilions · Australia · Melbourne, Sydney and Victorian goldfield towns · 5 × 2.5 m, 3 m high
  Verandahs trimmed with friezes, brackets and balustrades of ornamental cast iron, the “iron lace” of Melbourne’s terrace houses from the 1850s gold-rush boom to the 1890s. Place it in your garden
• 🏚️ Bush slab hut · Pavilions · Australia · 19th-century selectors and stockmen · 4 × 3 m, 3 m high
  A hut of split hardwood slabs set upright in a ground trench, with a bark or corrugated-iron roof and a big fireplace at one end; built by settlers and stockmen across the bush. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Hardwood paling fence · Gates & walls · Australia · 6 × 0.3 m, 1.8 m high
  A tall fence of rough-sawn eucalypt palings nailed to rails, for decades the standard back fence of Australian suburbs. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Campfire with a billy · Kitchen garden · Australia · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 0.8 m high
  A tin can with a wire handle hung over a fire to boil water for bush tea, as the swagman does in Banjo Paterson’s song Waltzing Matilda (1895). Place it in your garden
• 🥬 Corrugated-steel round raised bed · Kitchen garden · Australia · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 0.7 m high
  Round or oval vegetable beds of corrugated, coated steel, now a common sight in Australian backyards; they warm quickly and keep out rabbits. Place it in your garden
• 🚽 Backyard dunny · Curiosities · Australia · New Zealand · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 2.2 m high
  The outdoor toilet at the bottom of the garden, a timber or corrugated-iron shed emptied by the “dunny man” before sewers reached the suburbs; many survive as garden sheds. Place it in your garden
• 🐨 Koala sculpture · Sculpture · Australia · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 0.7 m high
  A koala, the eucalyptus-eating marsupial of eastern Australia. Place it in your garden
• 🦘 Kangaroo warning sign · Signs · Australia · 0.7 × 0.1 m, 2 m high
  The yellow diamond road sign with a black kangaroo, warning drivers that kangaroos may cross; one of Australia’s best-known images. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Stingless native bee box · Wildlife · Australia · Queensland and New South Wales · 0.35 × 0.25 m, 0.5 m high
  A small wooden hive (such as the OATH design) for Australian stingless bees, Tetragonula: harmless, tiny bees that pollinate macadamias and make small amounts of tangy “sugarbag” honey. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Pātaka (raised storehouse) · Pavilions · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori · 2.5 × 2 m, 3.5 m high
  A carved storehouse raised on one or more posts to keep food and treasures safe from rats and damp; the finest pātaka were richly carved and showed the wealth of a hapū. Place it in your garden
• 🚪 Waharoa (carved gateway) · Gates & walls · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori · 4 × 1 m, 4.5 m high
  The carved entrance gateway to a pā or marae, with ancestral figures on the posts and lintel, coloured with red ochre (kōkōwai). Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Pā palisade (tūwatawata) · Gates & walls · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori · 6 × 0.5 m, 3 m high
  Rows of tall timber stakes, often with carved figures on the main posts, defending a pā (fortified village) on a hill or headland, together with ditches and banks. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Hāngī (earth oven) · Kitchen garden · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori (also umu in Samoa and Tonga, imu in Hawaiʻi, lovo in Fiji) · 1.5 × 1.5 m, 0.4 m high
  Stones are heated in a fire, laid in a pit, covered with baskets of meat and vegetables, wet cloths and earth, and left to steam for hours. Place it in your garden
• 🍠 Māra kai (kūmara garden) · Kitchen garden · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori · 3 × 2 m, 0.4 m high
  A food garden of small mounds (puke) for kūmara (sweet potato), often sheltered by low fences and stone rows; gravel and sand were added to warm the soil in the cool climate. Place it in your garden
• 🏖️ Bach (holiday hut) · Pavilions · Aotearoa New Zealand (crib in the south) · 5 × 4 m, 3.2 m high
  A small, simple holiday cottage by the beach or lake, often built by its owners from salvaged materials; a beloved piece of New Zealand summer life. Place it in your garden
• 🎨 Kōwhaiwhai painted panel · Gates & walls · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori · 2 × 0.1 m, 0.6 m high
  Flowing scroll patterns painted in red, black and white on the rafters of a meeting house, based on forms such as the koru (unfurling fern frond). Place it in your garden
• 🧶 Tukutuku lattice panel · Gates & walls · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori · 1.5 × 0.15 m, 2 m high
  Panels of woven flax and kiekie strips stitched over a lattice of slats in geometric patterns, set between the carved posts inside a meeting house. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Tekoteko (gable figure) · Sculpture · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.5 m high
  A carved ancestral figure standing at the apex of the front gable of a meeting house or storehouse. Place it in your garden
• 🌱 Loʻi kalo (taro pond field) · Water · Hawaiʻi · 4 × 3 m, 0.4 m high
  Terraced, flooded fields banked with earth and stone where taro grows in cool, flowing water fed by ʻauwai channels from a stream; restored loʻi are worked again across the islands. Place it in your garden
• 🐠 Loko iʻa (fishpond wall) · Water · Hawaiʻi · e.g. Heʻeia fishpond, Oʻahu · 8 × 1.5 m, 1.2 m high
  Curving walls of lava rock built across the shallows to enclose fishponds, with sluice gates (mākāhā) that let small fish in and keep grown ones from leaving: a centuries-old Hawaiian aquaculture. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Lava-rock wall (pā pōhaku) · Gates & walls · Hawaiʻi · 5 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  Dry-laid walls of fitted lava rock enclosing house sites, gardens and animal pens, still a mark of Hawaiian landscapes and gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Ahupuaʻa boundary marker · Curiosities · Hawaiʻi · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 1.2 m high
  A stone heap (ahu) marking where an ahupuaʻa, a land division running from the mountains to the sea, met the trail around the island; during the Makahiki season offerings were left there, under a carved pig head (puaʻa). Place it in your garden
• 🛷 Hōlua sled course · Curiosities · Hawaiʻi · e.g. Keauhou, Hawaiʻi Island · 10 × 2 m, 0.6 m high
  A long ramp of stones paved with grass and mats down which chiefs raced on narrow wooden sleds (papa hōlua) during the Makahiki festival. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Petroglyph boulder (kiʻi pōhaku) · Curiosities · Hawaiʻi · e.g. Puʻuloa, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park · 1.5 × 1.2 m, 1 m high
  Figures, circles and dots pecked into lava; at Puʻuloa there are more than 23,000, many holes made to hold a newborn’s piko (umbilical cord) for long life. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Canoe house (hālau waʻa) · Pavilions · Hawaiʻi · Polynesia · 8 × 4 m, 3.5 m high
  A long, open-ended thatched shed on the beach where voyaging and fishing canoes were built, repaired and kept out of the sun. Place it in your garden
• 🥣 Poi board and pounder (papa kuʻi ʻai) · Kitchen garden · Hawaiʻi · 1.2 × 0.6 m, 0.3 m high
  A long, shallow wooden board and a stone pounder (pōhaku kuʻi ʻai) used to pound cooked taro corms into poi, the staple food of old Hawaiʻi. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Moai (Rapa Nui figure) · Sculpture · Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile · 1.2 × 1 m, 2.8 m high
  Monolithic figures carved from volcanic tuff at the Rano Raraku quarry between about 1250 and 1500, nearly 1,000 in all, raised on stone platforms (ahu) facing inland to watch over their villages. Place it in your garden
• ⛩️ Haʻamonga ʻa Maui trilithon · Shrines · Tonga · Tongatapu · 6 × 2 m, 5 m high
  Two coral-limestone uprights about 5 m tall capped by a lintel, raised about AD 1200 by the Tuʻi Tonga Tuʻitātui; notches on the lintel may mark the solstice sunrises. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Manavai (stone-walled garden) · Kitchen garden · Rapa Nui (Easter Island) · 3 × 3 m, 1 m high
  Circular enclosures of stacked stones, or pits, sheltering bananas, taro and paper mulberry from the island’s strong salty winds and keeping the soil moist; more than 2,000 are known. Place it in your garden
• 🌱 Babai (giant taro) pit · Kitchen garden · Kiribati · Tuvalu (pulaka) · Marshall Islands · 4 × 3 m, 0.6 m high
  A pit dug down to the freshwater lens of a coral atoll and filled with compost, where giant swamp taro grows over years; a prized food for feasts. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Bure (Fijian thatched house) · Pavilions · Fiji · 5 × 4 m, 5 m high
  A house with a tall, steep thatched roof on a raised earth platform; the chief’s bure and the old temple bure (bure kalou) had the tallest roofs. Place it in your garden
• 🥥 Tanoa (kava bowl) · Urns & pots · Fiji · Samoa · Tonga (kumete) · 1 × 1 m, 0.45 m high
  A wide, shallow, many-legged wooden bowl carved from a single block, in which kava (yaqona) is mixed and served at ceremonies. Place it in your garden
• 🥁 Lali (slit drum) · Curiosities · Fiji · Tonga · 1.6 × 0.5 m, 0.5 m high
  A log hollowed through a long slit and beaten with sticks to call people to church, mark the hours or announce events. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Standing slit gong (tamtam) · Shrines · Vanuatu · Ambrym and Malakula · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 3.5 m high
  A hollowed tree trunk stood upright, with a face of great round eyes carved at the top; its deep voice spoke at ceremonies and graded-society rituals. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Haus tambaran (spirit house) · Pavilions · Papua New Guinea · Sepik River (Maprik, Kanganaman) · 8 × 6 m, 10 m high
  A great ceremonial men’s house with a soaring painted gable façade, home to sacred carvings and flutes; the Abelam and Iatmul built some of the tallest. Place it in your garden
• 🍠 Yam house (bwayma) · Kitchen garden · Papua New Guinea · Trobriand Islands · 3 × 3 m, 3.5 m high
  An open log-crib storehouse where a family’s harvest of yams is stacked to be seen, the size of the display showing the gardener’s skill and standing. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Nguzunguzu (canoe prow figure) · Sculpture · Solomon Islands · New Georgia · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 0.6 m high
  A small black head inlaid with nautilus shell, holding its hands to its chin, fixed at the waterline of a war canoe’s prow to protect the crew and watch for dangers. Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Kanak roof spire (flèche faîtière) · Shrines · New Caledonia · Kanak · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 3 m high
  A carved wooden spire with a face that crowns the conical roof of a chief’s great house (grande case), representing the ancestors of the clan. Place it in your garden
• 🪙 Rai stone (Yap stone money) · Curiosities · Yap, Federated States of Micronesia · 1.8 × 0.4 m, 1.8 m high
  Large discs of limestone with a hole in the middle, quarried on Palau and carried to Yap by canoe; their ownership changes hands without the stones moving, and they still mark important exchanges. Place it in your garden
• 🏛️ Latte stones · Shrines · Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands · Chamorro · 2.5 × 1 m, 1.8 m high
  Pairs of stone pillars (haligi) topped with hemispherical capstones (tasa) that held up the houses of the ancient Chamorro; a symbol of Guam today. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Bai (Palauan meeting house) · Pavilions · Palau · 10 × 5 m, 8 m high
  A men’s meeting house raised on stones with a tall, steep roof, its gable and beams painted with story-boards of legends and history. Place it in your garden
• 🗺️ Marshall Islands stick chart · Curiosities · Marshall Islands · 1 × 0.1 m, 1 m high
  A frame of tied sticks and shells used to learn how ocean swells bend around islands; navigators memorised the charts and left them on shore when they sailed. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Maneaba (meeting house) · Pavilions · Kiribati · Tuvalu · 12 × 8 m, 6 m high
  The great open meeting house of a village, a huge thatched roof on low posts, where every family has its own place to sit. Place it in your garden

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• ♻️ Three-bay compost bins · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 3 × 1 m, 1 m high
  Slatted timber bays let compost be turned from one bin to the next as it matures. Place it in your garden
• ♻️ Plastic compost bin · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1 m high
  A closed black bin that warms in the sun and keeps compost moist. Place it in your garden
• 🍂 Leaf-mould cage · Kitchen garden · Britain · 1 × 1 m, 1 m high
  Fallen leaves stacked in a wire or timber cage rot into leaf mould in one to two years. Place it in your garden
• 🪱 Wormery · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.8 m high
  Stacked trays where composting worms turn kitchen scraps into worm castings. Place it in your garden
• 🛢️ Oak barrel water butt · Kitchen garden · Europe · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1 m high
  A recycled oak barrel collecting rainwater. Place it in your garden
• 🛒 Wheelbarrow · Kitchen garden · China (by the 2nd century) · Europe · 1.4 × 0.6 m, 0.7 m high
  The single-wheeled barrow appears in China by the 2nd century and in Europe in the 12th–13th centuries. Place it in your garden
• 🪴 Potting bench · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 1.6 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  A waist-high work bench for sowing and potting on, with a shelf for pots. Place it in your garden
• 🧺 Sussex trug · Kitchen garden · England · Herstmonceux, Sussex · 0.6 × 0.35 m, 0.3 m high
  A shallow basket of willow boards on a chestnut frame, made in Sussex since the 19th century. Place it in your garden
• 🪟 Cold frame · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 1.6 × 0.9 m, 0.6 m high
  An unheated glazed box for hardening off seedlings. Place it in your garden
• ⛺ Polytunnel · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 6 × 3 m, 2.4 m high
  Polythene stretched over hoops gives a cheap season-extending greenhouse. Place it in your garden
• 🫐 Fruit cage · Kitchen garden · Britain · 4 × 3 m, 2 m high
  A netted walk-in frame keeping birds off soft fruit. Place it in your garden
• 🫛 Bean teepee · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 2.2 m high
  Canes tied at the top for climbing beans; a structure as old as the three-sisters gardens of the Americas. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Tuteur obelisk frame · Kitchen garden · France · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.8 m high
  A pyramidal frame for sweet peas, clematis or beans in a border or potager. Place it in your garden
• 🍐 Espalier fruit frame · Kitchen garden · France · Britain · 3 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  Wires on posts for training fruit trees flat, saving space and ripening fruit in the sun. Place it in your garden
• 🥕 Raised vegetable bed · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 2.4 × 1.2 m, 0.35 m high
  A timber-edged bed raised above the soil for drainage and easy reach. Place it in your garden
• 🌀 Herb spiral · Kitchen garden · Permaculture (Bill Mollison) · 2 × 2 m, 0.9 m high
  A spiral mound of stone giving dry sunny spots at the top and moist ones at the base. Place it in your garden
• 🗝️ Keyhole garden · Kitchen garden · Lesotho · southern Africa · 2.4 × 2.4 m, 0.8 m high
  A round raised bed with a central compost basket reached by a notch, developed for dry climates. Place it in your garden
• ⛰️ Hügelkultur mound · Kitchen garden · Germany · Austria · 3 × 1.4 m, 0.9 m high
  A mound built over buried logs that hold moisture as they decay. Place it in your garden
• 🧑‍🌾 Classic scarecrow · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 1.4 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  A cross-frame figure in old clothes, hat and straw. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Rhubarb forcer · Kitchen garden · England · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.7 m high
  A terracotta bell with a lid, placed over rhubarb crowns in late winter for pale, tender stems. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Seakale pot · Kitchen garden · England · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.6 m high
  A smaller forcing pot for blanching seakale and chicory. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Tool shed · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 2 × 1.6 m, 2.2 m high
  A small timber shed for tools, kept dry with a felt or shingle roof. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Greenhouse · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 3 × 2.4 m, 2.6 m high
  A free-standing ridge greenhouse for tomatoes, seedlings and tender plants. Place it in your garden
• 🚰 Cast-iron hand pump · Water · Europe · North America · 1 × 0.8 m, 1.4 m high
  A lever pump drawing water from a well into a stone trough. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Stone water trough · Water · Europe · 1.6 × 0.7 m, 0.6 m high
  A carved stone livestock trough reused as a small pond or planter. Place it in your garden
• 🐸 Pebble beach for wildlife · Wildlife · Britain · 2 × 1 m, 0.06 m high
  A shallow pebble edge lets frogs, newts and hedgehogs climb in and out of a pond. Place it in your garden
• 🐞 Insect hotel · Wildlife · Europe · 1 × 0.4 m, 1.2 m high
  Stacked logs, canes and pinecones in a frame give shelter to solitary bees, ladybirds and lacewings. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Solitary bee hotel · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.4 × 0.2 m, 0.5 m high
  Bundles of hollow stems and drilled blocks for mason and leafcutter bees. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Langstroth beehive · Wildlife · USA · Lorenzo Langstroth (1852) · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 1 m high
  Langstroth’s hive with removable frames, spaced by the “bee space”, is now the world’s most common. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Log hive (Zeidlerei) · Wildlife · Poland · Russia · Bashkortostan · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.4 m high
  Hollowed logs hung in trees or set on stands, the forest beekeeping still practised in the Urals. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Bird nest box · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.3 × 0.3 m, 2 m high
  A small box with an entrance hole sized for the target species (about 25–32 mm for tits). Place it in your garden
• 🦉 Owl box · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 3.5 m high
  A large box on a pole or tree for barn or tawny owls. Place it in your garden
• 🦇 Bat box · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.35 × 0.3 m, 3.5 m high
  A narrow box with a slit entrance underneath, hung high in the sun for roosting bats. Place it in your garden
• 🕊️ Pole dovecote · Wildlife · Europe · 1 × 1 m, 3 m high
  A white dovecote on a pole for doves and pigeons. Place it in your garden
• 🦔 Hedgehog house · Wildlife · Britain · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 0.35 m high
  A small wooden shelter with a tunnel entrance for hibernating hedgehogs. Place it in your garden
• 🦔 Hedgehog figure · Wildlife · Europe · 0.4 × 0.3 m, 0.25 m high
  A small hedgehog statue; real hedgehogs need gaps under fences to roam. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Pedestal birdbath · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 0.9 m high
  A shallow bowl on a pedestal; birds prefer water 2–5 cm deep. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Ground-level birdbath · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 0.12 m high
  A shallow dish on the ground, used by ground-feeding birds and hedgehogs. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Rock birdbath · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.9 × 0.8 m, 0.5 m high
  A natural stone with a hollow that holds rainwater. Place it in your garden
• 🦋 Butterfly sculpture on a stake · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.8 m high
  A metal butterfly on a garden stake. Place it in your garden
• 🪰 Dragonfly stake · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.8 m high
  A copper dragonfly on a stake by the pond. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Bee sculpture · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.8 m high
  A bee on a stake, a reminder that most flowering plants rely on pollinators. Place it in your garden
• 🐸 Frog statue · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.3 × 0.3 m, 0.25 m high
  A frog figure by the pond edge; real frogs need shallow margins and plant cover. Place it in your garden
• 🦆 Duck decoys · Wildlife · North America · Britain · 0.5 × 0.3 m, 0.35 m high
  Carved wooden duck decoys, a North American folk art. Place it in your garden
• 🐓 Rooster statue · Sculpture · Worldwide · 0.5 × 0.3 m, 0.7 m high
  A cockerel, symbol of morning and of France. Place it in your garden
• 🐔 Chicken coop · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 2 × 1.2 m, 1.6 m high
  A small henhouse with nest boxes and a run. Place it in your garden
• 🐇 Rabbit statue · Sculpture · Worldwide · 0.3 × 0.25 m, 0.4 m high
  A sitting rabbit figure among the lettuces, a nod to Peter Rabbit. Place it in your garden
• 🐌 Snail sculpture · Sculpture · Worldwide · 0.5 × 0.3 m, 0.4 m high
  A large garden snail, a playful corten or bronze sculpture. Place it in your garden
• 🐢 Tortoise statue · Sculpture · Worldwide · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 0.3 m high
  A tortoise, symbol of patience and long life. Place it in your garden
• 🏷️ Botanical plant label · Signs · Botanic gardens worldwide · 0.2 × 0.05 m, 0.4 m high
  Labels give the scientific name, family, origin and accession number, as in every botanic garden. Place it in your garden
• 🪧 Interpretation panel · Signs · Botanic gardens worldwide · 1.2 × 0.3 m, 1.1 m high
  An angled panel explaining the plants or habitat in front of it. Place it in your garden
• 🪧 Fingerpost signpost · Signs · Britain · 1 × 1 m, 2.4 m high
  A post with arms pointing the way to parts of the garden. Place it in your garden
• 🗺️ Garden map board · Signs · Worldwide · 1.6 × 0.6 m, 2.2 m high
  A roofed board showing the garden map at the entrance. Place it in your garden
• 🪦 Memorial plaque stone · Signs · Worldwide · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 0.6 m high
  A stone with a bronze plaque dedicating a tree or bench. Place it in your garden
• 🐓 Weathervane · Curiosities · Worldwide · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2.8 m high
  A vane that turns to point into the wind, often topped with a cockerel. Place it in your garden
• 🌧️ Weather station post · Curiosities · Worldwide · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 1.4 m high
  A post carrying a rain gauge and thermometer for recording garden weather. Place it in your garden
• 🚰 Standpipe and trough · Water · Allotments worldwide · 0.8 × 0.6 m, 1.1 m high
  A standpipe tap over a trough, the watering point of every allotment. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Allotment shed · Kitchen garden · Britain · 2.4 × 1.8 m, 2.3 m high
  Every allotment plot has its shed, often built from reclaimed materials. Place it in your garden
• 🛒 Garden cart · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 1.2 × 0.7 m, 0.8 m high
  A two-wheeled cart for moving soil and harvest. Place it in your garden
• 🌱 Seed library box · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · 0.6 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  A small roofed box on a post where neighbours swap seeds. Place it in your garden
• 🌧️ Rain garden · Water · United States · first built in Prince George’s County, Maryland (1990s) · 3 × 2 m, 0.3 m high
  A shallow planted hollow that collects rain from a roof or path and lets it soak into the ground within a day or two, filtering pollutants and easing floods; planted with species that take both flooding and drought. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Bioswale · Water · Worldwide · streets and car parks · 6 × 1.2 m, 0.3 m high
  A long, gently sloping planted channel that carries stormwater from paving, slowing it down and cleaning it through plants and soil before it reaches drains or streams. Place it in your garden
• 〰️ Swale on contour · Kitchen garden · Permaculture · worldwide · 8 × 1.5 m, 0.4 m high
  A level ditch dug along the contour of a slope with the soil heaped into a mound below it; rain collects in the ditch and seeps into the hillside instead of running off, watering trees planted on the mound. Place it in your garden
• ⛓️ Rain chain (kusari-doi) · Water · Japan · temples and houses · 0.3 × 0.3 m, 2.5 m high
  A chain of linked cups or loops hung in place of a downpipe, guiding rain from the gutter to the ground with a gentle sound; long used on Japanese temples and tea houses. Place it in your garden
• 🪴 Downpipe planter (stormwater planter) · Water · Worldwide · urban stormwater programmes · 1.2 × 0.6 m, 0.6 m high
  A deep raised bed that takes the water from a disconnected downpipe, letting plants and gravel soak it up and slowly release the overflow. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Green-roofed shed · Pavilions · Germany · Scandinavia · worldwide · 2.5 × 2 m, 2.4 m high
  A shed topped with a shallow layer of growing medium and sedums or wildflowers, which soaks up rain, insulates and feeds pollinators; Germany led modern green-roof building in the 1970s and 1980s. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Living wall (vertical garden) · Gates & walls · France · popularised by Patrick Blanc (Musée du quai Branly, Paris) · 3 × 0.3 m, 2.5 m high
  A wall clad with plants rooted in felt pockets, panels or modules with drip irrigation; the botanist Patrick Blanc made the “mur végétal” famous on buildings around the world. Place it in your garden
• 🟩 Grass pavers (permeable paving) · Bridges · Worldwide · 3 × 2 m, 0.05 m high
  A grid of concrete or recycled plastic cells filled with soil and grass or gravel, strong enough to park on but letting rain soak through instead of running off. Place it in your garden
• 🛢️ IBC water tank (1,000-litre tote) · Kitchen garden · Allotments and smallholdings worldwide · 1.2 × 1 m, 1.2 m high
  A reused intermediate bulk container in a steel cage, collecting rain from a shed or greenhouse roof; one fills from a light shower. Cover it to keep out light and algae, and use only food-grade ones. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Dew pond · Water · England · chalk downs of Sussex, Wiltshire and Dorset · 6 × 6 m, 0.4 m high
  A shallow, saucer-shaped pond lined with puddled clay and straw, made on dry hilltops to water sheep; despite the name, rain fills them, not dew. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Floating treatment wetland · Water · Worldwide · 2 × 2 m, 0.3 m high
  A buoyant mat planted with rushes and sedges whose roots hang in the water, taking up nutrients and giving shelter to fish and insects in ponds and city canals. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Reed bed for greywater · Water · Worldwide · constructed wetlands · 4 × 2 m, 0.6 m high
  A lined bed of gravel planted with reeds through which waste water from sinks and showers flows; bacteria on the roots and gravel clean it before it soaks away or is reused. Place it in your garden
• 🏺 Ollas (buried clay pot irrigation) · Kitchen garden · China (described in the Fan Shengzhi shu, 1st century BC) · Mexico and the US South-west · North Africa · 0.4 × 0.4 m, 0.45 m high
  An unglazed clay pot buried to its neck and filled with water, which seeps slowly through the walls straight to the roots around it, saving most of the water lost by surface watering. Place it in your garden
• ☀️ Solar irrigation pump · Kitchen garden · Smallholder farms in India and Africa · worldwide · 2 × 1.2 m, 1.5 m high
  A panel of solar cells driving a pump that lifts water from a well, river or tank to fields and gardens, with no fuel costs. Place it in your garden
• 🚽 Composting toilet · Curiosities · Sweden (Clivus Multrum, 1939) · worldwide · 1.3 × 1.3 m, 2.2 m high
  A toilet that uses no water: waste is covered with sawdust and composted for a year or more in a closed chamber before it is safe to use around trees. Place it in your garden
• 🪣 Bokashi bin · Kitchen garden · Japan · Teruo Higa’s Effective Microorganisms (1980s) · 0.35 × 0.35 m, 0.45 m high
  An airtight bucket in which kitchen scraps, including meat and dairy, are pickled with bran inoculated with lactic-acid bacteria, then buried to finish rotting. Place it in your garden
• 🪱 In-bed worm tower · Kitchen garden · Australia and New Zealand · permaculture · 0.25 × 0.25 m, 0.6 m high
  A pipe with holes sunk into a vegetable bed and fed with scraps; composting worms eat in it and roam out into the bed, spreading castings. Place it in your garden
• 🥬 Wicking bed · Kitchen garden · Australia · developed by Colin Austin · 2 × 1 m, 0.7 m high
  A raised bed with a sealed water reservoir of gravel at the bottom; water rises into the soil by capillary action, so it needs filling only every week or two even in heat. Place it in your garden
• ♨️ Manure hotbed · Kitchen garden · France (Parisian market gardens) · Victorian kitchen gardens · 2 × 1.2 m, 0.8 m high
  A pit or frame filled with fresh horse manure under a layer of soil: as it rots it warms the bed for early salads, melons and cucumbers, a trick of Paris market gardeners and Victorian head gardeners. Place it in your garden
• 🌾 Straw-bale garden · Kitchen garden · Worldwide (popularised by Joel Karsten) · 1 × 0.5 m, 0.5 m high
  Vegetables planted straight into straw bales that have been “conditioned” with water and nitrogen fertiliser for about two weeks until they start to rot inside; good where soil is poor or contaminated. Place it in your garden
• 🪴 Vertical pallet planter · Urns & pots · Worldwide · 1.2 × 0.3 m, 1.5 m high
  A wooden pallet stood upright and lined to hold herbs and strawberries in rows. Use only pallets stamped HT (heat-treated), never MB (fumigated with methyl bromide). Place it in your garden
• 🗼 Vertical hydroponic tower · Kitchen garden · Worldwide · contemporary · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 1.8 m high
  A column with planting pockets where a pump trickles nutrient solution over the roots from a tank in the base, growing salads and herbs in very little space. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Cob bench · Seats · England (Devon) · natural building worldwide · 2 × 0.7 m, 0.5 m high
  A curved bench sculpted from cob, a mix of clay, sand and straw, on a stone base with a roof or lime plaster to keep off rain; it stores the day’s warmth. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Dead hedge · Wildlife · United Kingdom · conservation gardening · 5 × 0.8 m, 1 m high
  A barrier of pruned branches and brushwood packed between two rows of stakes, giving shelter to birds, hedgehogs and insects and using up prunings without burning. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Log pile · Wildlife · Worldwide · 1.5 × 0.8 m, 0.6 m high
  A heap of logs left to rot in a shady corner, home to fungi, beetle larvae (including stag beetles), woodlice, toads and the animals that eat them. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Stumpery · Wildlife · England · Biddulph Grange (1856), Highgrove · 4 × 3 m, 0.8 m high
  Tree stumps and roots arranged upside down or on their sides as a woodland garden for ferns, mosses and fungi; a Victorian fashion begun at Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire. Place it in your garden
• 🦎 Hibernaculum (reptile and amphibian refuge) · Wildlife · United Kingdom · conservation practice · 2 × 1.5 m, 0.6 m high
  A mound of rubble, logs and stones partly buried and covered with turf, where newts, toads, slow-worms and lizards can spend the winter safe from frost. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Bee bank (sand bed for ground-nesting bees) · Wildlife · Worldwide · 1.5 × 1 m, 0.5 m high
  A sunny, south-facing bank or bed of bare sandy soil for mining bees and other solitary bees, most of which nest in the ground rather than in bee hotels. Place it in your garden
• 🦋 Butterfly puddling station · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.5 × 0.5 m, 0.1 m high
  A shallow dish of damp sand with a pinch of salt or compost where butterflies gather to sip minerals, a behaviour called puddling (mostly by males). Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Sparrow terrace nest box · Wildlife · United Kingdom · Europe · 0.45 × 0.2 m, 4 m high
  A nest box with three compartments side by side for house sparrows, which like to nest in colonies under the eaves; they have declined sharply in many European cities. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 Swift nest box · Wildlife · Europe · 0.45 × 0.2 m, 6 m high
  A shallow box with a slit-shaped entrance fixed high under the eaves for common swifts, which spend almost their whole lives in the air and lose nest sites when old buildings are repaired. Place it in your garden
• 🐦 House martin nest cups · Wildlife · Europe · 0.3 × 0.2 m, 5 m high
  Artificial cups of wood-concrete fixed under the eaves where house martins, which build mud nests on buildings, can raise their young. Place it in your garden
• 🐸 Toad house · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.25 × 0.25 m, 0.2 m high
  An upturned clay pot or small shelter with a doorway, set in a damp, shady spot near a pond, where toads that eat slugs can hide by day. Place it in your garden
• 🦔 Hedgehog highway (fence gap) · Wildlife · United Kingdom · Hedgehog Street campaign · 2 × 0.1 m, 1.8 m high
  A hole about 13 × 13 cm cut in the bottom of a garden fence or wall, letting hedgehogs roam between gardens to find food and mates; too small for most pets. Place it in your garden
• 🦔 Hedgehog feeding station · Wildlife · United Kingdom · Europe · 0.5 × 0.4 m, 0.35 m high
  A small box with a low entrance and a dish of meaty cat food and water inside, keeping out cats and foxes; never give hedgehogs milk or bread. Place it in your garden
• 🪜 Wildlife escape ramp · Wildlife · Worldwide · 0.6 × 0.2 m, 0.3 m high
  A rough plank, stone pile or mesh ramp in a steep-sided pond, water butt or trough so that hedgehogs, birds, frogs and bees that fall in can climb out instead of drowning. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Pond dipping platform · Water · United Kingdom · schools and nature reserves · 2 × 1.5 m, 0.3 m high
  A safe timber deck with a rail at the edge of a wildlife pond, from which children sweep nets to find newts, dragonfly nymphs and water boatmen. Place it in your garden
• 🪲 Beetle bank · Wildlife · United Kingdom · Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (late 1980s) · 10 × 1.5 m, 0.4 m high
  A long raised strip of tussocky grass across a field or large garden, sheltering ground beetles and spiders through winter so they can spread out to eat aphids in spring. Place it in your garden
• 🌼 No-mow meadow patch sign · Signs · United Kingdom · Plantlife’s No Mow May (2019) · 0.4 × 0.1 m, 0.9 m high
  A small sign explaining that a patch of lawn is left unmown so clovers, daisies and wild flowers can bloom for pollinators. Place it in your garden
• 🐝 Bumblebee nest box · Wildlife · Europe · North America · 0.3 × 0.3 m, 0.35 m high
  A small insulated wooden box with an entrance tube and soft nesting material, set on the ground in spring for a bumblebee queen; occupancy is often low, so give a few. Place it in your garden
• 🦅 Raptor perch pole · Wildlife · Farms and orchards worldwide (e.g. Israel, California) · 0.8 × 0.2 m, 4 m high
  A tall T-shaped pole from which owls, kestrels and hawks hunt voles and mice, a natural pest control used in orchards and vineyards. Place it in your garden
• 🧇 Zuni waffle garden · Kitchen garden · United States · Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico · 3 × 3 m, 0.3 m high
  A grid of small sunken beds with earthen walls, like a waffle, that catches every drop of water and shelters seedlings from desert wind; Zuni gardeners have farmed this way for centuries. Place it in your garden
• 🕳️ Zaï planting pits · Kitchen garden · Burkina Faso · Sahel · 2 × 2 m, 0.2 m high
  Small pits dug in crusted soil and filled with manure before the rains, catching water and nutrients for millet and sorghum; revived in the 1980s by the farmer Yacouba Sawadogo to regreen degraded land. Place it in your garden
• 🌙 Demi-lune (half-moon) bund · Kitchen garden · Niger · the Sahel · 3 × 1 m, 0.3 m high
  A crescent-shaped earth bank opening uphill that traps runoff on dry slopes, so that trees and crops planted inside get several times more water than the rain alone. Place it in your garden
• 🌫️ Fog collector net · Water · Chile (Chungungo) · Morocco (Dar Si Hmad, Aït Baamrane) · 6 × 0.3 m, 4 m high
  A large mesh net stretched between posts on a foggy ridge: droplets collect on the mesh and run into a trough and pipes, supplying drinking water and gardens in coastal deserts. Place it in your garden
• 🌽 Three Sisters mound · Kitchen garden · North America · Haudenosaunee and many other Native nations · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 0.4 m high
  Corn, climbing beans and squash planted together on low mounds: the corn holds up the beans, the beans feed the soil with nitrogen and the squash leaves shade out weeds. Place it in your garden
• 🍇 Vine pit with stone wall (La Geria, Lanzarote) · Kitchen garden · Spain · La Geria, Lanzarote · 3 × 1 m, 0.8 m high
  Each vine grows in a hollow dug through volcanic ash down to the old soil, behind a crescent wall of lava stones (zoco) against the wind; the ash holds dew and moisture. Made after the eruptions of 1730–1736. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Laid hedge (Midland style) · Gates & walls · England · National Hedgelaying Society · 6 × 0.8 m, 1.3 m high
  A hedge rejuvenated by cutting the stems almost through near the base and bending them over (pleachers), held by stakes and woven hazel binders; it regrows thick and stock-proof. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Willow spiling (living riverbank) · Water · United Kingdom · Europe · 5 × 0.4 m, 0.6 m high
  Live willow rods woven between willow stakes along a stream or pond bank; they root and sprout, binding the bank against erosion. Place it in your garden
• 🐘 Beehive fence (elephant deterrent) · Wildlife · Kenya · Save the Elephants (Lucy King, since 2008) · 8 × 0.5 m, 1.6 m high
  Beehives hung on a wire between posts around a farm: an elephant that touches the wire sets the hives swinging and the bees swarm, so elephants keep away from the crops and farmers sell the honey. Place it in your garden

🔷 Contemporary & play (50)

• 🟠 Corten steel sphere · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1 × 1 m, 1 m high
  Weathering steel forms a protective rust patina, so it needs no paint. Place it in your garden
• 🪩 Mirror-polished steel sphere · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1 × 1 m, 1.4 m high
  A polished stainless sphere on a plinth reflects sky and plants. Place it in your garden
• 🥚 Stone egg · Sculpture · Contemporary · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  A smooth ovoid of granite or marble, a symbol of new life. Place it in your garden
• ⭕ Ring sculpture · Sculpture · Contemporary · 2 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  A large open ring framing a view through it. Place it in your garden
• 🪢 Bronze knot sculpture · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1 × 1 m, 1.8 m high
  An abstract looping form in bronze on a stone plinth. Place it in your garden
• 🌀 Spiral sculpture · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  A steel spiral rising from the ground. Place it in your garden
• ⬛ Standing monolith · Sculpture · Contemporary · Neolithic · 1 × 0.5 m, 2.8 m high
  A single upright slab, echoing the standing stones of prehistory. Place it in your garden
• 🧊 Cube balanced on a corner · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 1.6 m high
  A cube balanced on one corner, apparently defying gravity. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Balancing stones · Sculpture · Contemporary · 0.7 × 0.7 m, 1.2 m high
  Stacked rounded stones in precarious balance. Place it in your garden
• 〰️ Wave ribbon sculpture · Sculpture · Contemporary · 3 × 0.5 m, 1.2 m high
  A flowing steel band that rises and falls like a wave. Place it in your garden
• 🌈 Steel arc · Sculpture · Contemporary · 3 × 0.4 m, 2.6 m high
  A single arc of steel spanning a path. Place it in your garden
• 🌪️ Twisted tower · Sculpture · Contemporary · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2.6 m high
  Stacked slabs each rotated a little, forming a helix. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Pierced stone slab · Sculpture · Contemporary · inspired by Barbara Hepworth · 1.4 × 0.4 m, 2 m high
  A slab with a circular opening framing the landscape, a theme of 20th-century British sculpture. Place it in your garden
• 🌬️ Kinetic wind spinner · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1 × 1 m, 2.6 m high
  Blades that turn in the slightest breeze. Place it in your garden
• 🌰 Seed-pod sculpture · Sculpture · Contemporary · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.4 m high
  A sculpture based on the shape of a seed head. Place it in your garden
• 🕸️ Wire sphere · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1 × 1 m, 1 m high
  An open sphere of steel wire that plants can grow through. Place it in your garden
• 🫘 Cluster of pods · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 1 m high
  A group of upright ceramic or concrete pods among grasses. Place it in your garden
• 🔺 Cone sculpture · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1 × 1 m, 2 m high
  A simple geometric cone, a strong vertical accent among low planting or gravel. Place it in your garden
• 🧍 Bronze standing figure · Sculpture · Contemporary · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2.2 m high
  A life-size bronze figure on a low plinth. Place it in your garden
• 🤔 Seated thinker figure · Sculpture · France · after Rodin · 1 × 1 m, 1.9 m high
  A seated figure in thought, after Rodin’s “The Thinker” (1880 onward). Place it in your garden
• 🛌 Reclining figure · Sculpture · England · after Henry Moore · 2.4 × 1 m, 1 m high
  Henry Moore made many large reclining figures for open landscapes. Place it in your garden
• 💃 Dancer · Sculpture · Contemporary · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 2 m high
  A dancing figure in motion, catching the eye at the end of a path. Place it in your garden
• 🧎 Kneeling figure · Sculpture · Contemporary · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1.4 m high
  A kneeling figure, often placed by water. Place it in your garden
• 🧒 Children playing statue · Sculpture · Contemporary · 1.2 × 0.8 m, 1.2 m high
  A pair of figures, adult and child. Place it in your garden
• 🧱 Gabion wall · Gates & walls · Contemporary · 4 × 0.5 m, 1 m high
  Wire cages filled with stone, used as retaining walls and seats. Place it in your garden
• 🟫 Corten steel planter · Urns & pots · Contemporary · 2 × 0.6 m, 0.6 m high
  A long weathering-steel trough planted with grasses. Place it in your garden
• ⬜ Concrete cube planter · Urns & pots · Contemporary · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 0.8 m high
  A minimalist cast-concrete cube planter, heavy enough to stay put in the wind. Place it in your garden
• 🥣 Large bowl planter · Urns & pots · Contemporary · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 0.6 m high
  A wide low bowl planted with succulents. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Concrete bench with timber seat · Seats · Contemporary · 2 × 0.6 m, 0.45 m high
  A cast-concrete block with a hardwood top. Place it in your garden
• 🪑 Curved bench · Seats · Contemporary · 3 × 1.2 m, 0.45 m high
  A curving bench for conversation round a fire or table. Place it in your garden
• ☕ Bistro table and chairs · Seats · France · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 0.8 m high
  A small round table with two folding metal chairs, the café set of French gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🍽️ Teak dining set · Seats · Worldwide · 2.2 × 2.2 m, 0.8 m high
  An outdoor table with four chairs for eating in the garden. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Fire pit · Curiosities · Worldwide · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 0.45 m high
  A stone-ringed fire pit for evening gatherings. Place it in your garden
• 🔥 Iron brazier · Lights · Worldwide · 0.8 × 0.8 m, 1 m high
  A fire bowl on legs for warmth and light on cool evenings; keep it away from overhanging branches. Place it in your garden
• 💡 Bollard path light · Lights · Contemporary · 0.25 × 0.25 m, 0.8 m high
  A low post light marking a path. Place it in your garden
• 🔦 Tree uplighter · Lights · Contemporary · 0.25 × 0.25 m, 0.15 m high
  A ground light washing a tree or wall from below. Place it in your garden
• 💡 Festoon lights · Lights · Worldwide · 5 × 0.3 m, 2.8 m high
  Strings of bulbs swagged between posts. Place it in your garden
• ☀️ Solar stake light · Lights · Worldwide · 0.15 × 0.15 m, 0.5 m high
  A small solar-powered light on a stake. Place it in your garden
• 💡 Double-headed lamp post · Lights · Europe · 1 × 0.4 m, 3.4 m high
  A lamp post with two lanterns on a cross-arm, as on old promenades. Place it in your garden
• 🛝 Garden swing · Play · Worldwide · 3 × 1.6 m, 2.2 m high
  A wooden A-frame swing with two seats. Place it in your garden
• 🛝 Seesaw · Play · Worldwide · 3 × 0.5 m, 0.7 m high
  A plank balanced on a central pivot for two children. Place it in your garden
• 🛝 Children’s slide · Play · Worldwide · 3 × 0.8 m, 1.6 m high
  A small slide with a ladder platform. Place it in your garden
• 🏖️ Sandpit · Play · Worldwide · 2 × 2 m, 0.3 m high
  A timber-edged sandpit; a lid keeps out cats and rain. Place it in your garden
• 🧗 Climbing frame · Play · Worldwide · 2.4 × 1.6 m, 2 m high
  A frame of posts and bars for climbing. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Playhouse · Play · Worldwide · 1.6 × 1.4 m, 1.8 m high
  A small children’s house with a door and window, for play and make-believe. Place it in your garden
• ♟️ Giant chess set · Play · Europe · 4 × 4 m, 0.9 m high
  A chessboard laid in the paving with knee-high pieces. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Shepherd’s hut · Pavilions · England · 4 × 2.2 m, 3 m high
  A wheeled hut with a curved roof, once used by shepherds in lambing season, now a garden retreat. Place it in your garden
• 🏠 Garden office pod · Pavilions · Contemporary · 3.6 × 3 m, 2.6 m high
  A timber-clad garden room used as a studio or office at the bottom of the garden. Place it in your garden
• 🛖 Log cabin · Pavilions · Scandinavia · North America · 4 × 3.4 m, 3 m high
  A cabin of horizontal logs notched at the corners. Place it in your garden
• 🏗️ Timber pergola · Pavilions · Worldwide · 4 × 3 m, 2.6 m high
  Posts, beams and rafters shading a terrace. Place it in your garden

⛲ Water & botanic-garden landmarks (38)

• 🦁 Lion-head wall fountain · Water · Europe · 1.4 × 0.8 m, 1.8 m high
  Water spouting from a lion’s mouth into a trough, a motif since Roman times. Place it in your garden
• ⚪ Water-over-sphere fountain · Water · Contemporary · 1.4 × 1.4 m, 1.2 m high
  Water wells up through a stone sphere and runs over it in a thin film. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Millstone fountain · Water · Europe · 1.2 × 1.2 m, 0.4 m high
  An old millstone with water bubbling from its centre hole over pebbles. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Bubbling boulder · Water · Contemporary · 1 × 1 m, 0.8 m high
  A drilled boulder with water bubbling from the top into hidden pebbles; safe where children play. Place it in your garden
• ⛲ Cascade of basins · Water · Worldwide · 1.8 × 1.8 m, 1.8 m high
  Water falling from one basin to the next. Place it in your garden
• 💦 Ground jets (splash pad) · Water · Worldwide · e.g. Longwood Gardens · 5 × 4 m, 1.6 m high
  Jets set flush in paving that children can run through; Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden has hundreds of jets. Place it in your garden
• 🔱 Neptune fountain · Water · Italy · Bologna, Florence · 1.6 × 1.6 m, 3 m high
  A statue of the sea god Neptune over a basin, a Renaissance fountain theme. Place it in your garden
• 👼 Cherub fountain figure · Water · Europe · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1.2 m high
  A small boy figure at the centre of a basin, like Brussels’ Manneken Pis (1619). Place it in your garden
• 🚰 Drinking fountain · Water · Worldwide · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 1 m high
  A pedestal drinking fountain in a park. Place it in your garden
• 🌊 Formal rill · Water · Arts and Crafts gardens · e.g. Hestercombe · 6 × 0.8 m, 0.3 m high
  A narrow stone-edged channel running through a formal garden, as in Lutyens and Jekyll’s gardens at Hestercombe. Place it in your garden
• 🛶 Timber jetty · Bridges · Worldwide · 4 × 1.4 m, 0.5 m high
  A short timber deck projecting over the water. Place it in your garden
• 🚣 Moored rowing boat · Curiosities · Worldwide · 3.6 × 1.4 m, 0.7 m high
  A wooden rowing boat at the lake edge. Place it in your garden
• 🐉 Dragon boat · Curiosities · China · Duanwu Festival · 8 × 1.2 m, 1.2 m high
  Long racing boats with dragon heads, raced at the Dragon Boat Festival. Place it in your garden
• 🦆 Duck house · Wildlife · Britain · 1 × 0.8 m, 0.9 m high
  A small shelter on a float or island for ducks. Place it in your garden
• 🪷 Water-lily tub · Water · Worldwide · 1 × 1 m, 0.5 m high
  A half barrel or tub holding a miniature water lily, for small gardens. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Rope bridge · Bridges · Asia · South America · 6 × 1.2 m, 1.4 m high
  A plank walkway hung from ropes or cables. Place it in your garden
• 🪵 Log stepping stones · Bridges · Woodland gardens · 3 × 0.8 m, 0.25 m high
  Upright log rounds set as stepping stones through a woodland or play area. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Stone arch bridge · Bridges · Europe · e.g. Stourhead · 6 × 2 m, 1.8 m high
  A single-arch masonry bridge over a lake or stream, a Palladian landscape feature. Place it in your garden
• 🌉 Red arched bridge · Bridges · Japan · China · 5 × 1.6 m, 1.4 m high
  A vermilion lacquered arched footbridge. Place it in your garden
• 🌳 Supertree vertical garden · Curiosities · Singapore · Gardens by the Bay · 8 × 8 m, 25 m high
  Steel tree structures 25–50 m tall clad in more than 162,900 plants, harvesting solar energy and lit at night. Place it in your garden
• 🍊 Orangery · Pavilions · Europe · e.g. Kew (1761) · 10 × 5 m, 5 m high
  A tall-windowed classical building for overwintering citrus; Kew’s was designed by William Chambers. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Fern house · Pavilions · Victorian Britain · 6 × 4 m, 3.6 m high
  Victorian “pteridomania” filled ferneries with tree ferns and filmy ferns under shaded glass. Place it in your garden
• 🏔️ Alpine house · Pavilions · Britain · Kew (Davies Alpine House, 2006) · 6 × 3 m, 3 m high
  An unheated, very well ventilated glasshouse that keeps alpines dry in winter. Place it in your garden
• 🪷 Water-lily house · Pavilions · Britain · Kew Waterlily House (1852) · 8 × 8 m, 5 m high
  A heated glasshouse with a central pool, built to grow the giant Amazon water lily. Place it in your garden
• 🔷 Geodesic biome dome · Pavilions · Missouri Climatron (1960) · Eden Project (2001) · 10 × 10 m, 7 m high
  A dome of triangulated frames, the lightest way to enclose a large planted space. Place it in your garden
• 💛 Laburnum arch · Gates & walls · Wales · Bodnant Garden · 8 × 2.6 m, 2.8 m high
  A tunnel of trained laburnum dripping with yellow flowers in late spring; Bodnant’s is about 55 m long. Laburnum seeds are poisonous. Place it in your garden
• 💜 Wisteria pergola · Pavilions · Japan · Kawachi Fuji Garden; Europe · 6 × 3 m, 2.8 m high
  A pergola draped with hanging wisteria flowers in spring. Place it in your garden
• 🌹 Rose pergola walk · Pavilions · Europe · e.g. Roseraie de L’Haÿ · 8 × 2.6 m, 2.6 m high
  A pergola walk covered in rambling and climbing roses. Place it in your garden
• 🌿 Living willow arch · Gates & walls · Britain · 2.4 × 1.2 m, 2.4 m high
  Live willow rods pushed into the ground and woven into an arch that sprouts each spring. Place it in your garden
• 🌹 Trellis arch · Gates & walls · Worldwide · 2.2 × 1 m, 2.4 m high
  A wooden lattice arch for climbers over a path. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Rock garden boulder · Sculpture · Botanic gardens · e.g. Kew Rock Garden (1882) · 1.4 × 1.2 m, 0.9 m high
  A weathered limestone or sandstone boulder with planting pockets for alpines. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Standing stone · Sculpture · Britain · Brittany · 1 × 0.6 m, 2.4 m high
  A single upright stone, recalling Neolithic menhirs. Place it in your garden
• 🗿 Trilithon · Curiosities · England · Stonehenge · 3 × 1 m, 2.6 m high
  Two upright stones carrying a lintel, the signature of Stonehenge. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Garden scholar rock · Sculpture · China · botanic gardens worldwide · 1 × 0.8 m, 2.2 m high
  A tall pitted rock, displayed in Chinese gardens abroad such as those at Portland and Montréal. Place it in your garden
• 🪨 Gravel-garden stone group · Sculpture · Japan · botanic-garden Japanese sections · 2 × 1.4 m, 0.9 m high
  A small group of rocks in raked gravel. Place it in your garden
• 🪧 Collection sign · Signs · Botanic gardens worldwide · 1 × 0.3 m, 1 m high
  A sign naming a collection or garden section. Place it in your garden
• 🏮 Floating-style pond lantern · Lights · Japan · 0.6 × 0.6 m, 0.7 m high
  A small lantern on a rock at the water’s edge. Place it in your garden
• 💧 Small cascade rock · Water · Worldwide · 1 × 0.8 m, 0.9 m high
  A rock with water spilling from its top, for small gardens. Place it in your garden

Models are simplified 3D interpretations for planning, sized to typical examples; they are not replicas of any specific object.