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Aeolian harp

Garden; Outdoor decorations

An aeolian harp (æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument that is "played" by the wind. The traditional aeolian harp is essentially a wooden box including a sounding board, with strings ...

Sundial

Garden; Outdoor decorations

A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style onto a surface marked with lines ...

Topiary

Garden; Outdoor decorations

Topiary is the horticultural practise of training live perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes. The term also ...

Weather vane

Garden; Outdoor decorations

A weather vane is an instrument for showing the direction of the wind. Although partly functional, weather vanes are generally decorative, often featuring the traditional cockerel design with letters ...

Wind chimes

Garden; Outdoor decorations

Wind chimes are chimes constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells or other objects and are often made of metal or wood. Wind chimes are usually hung outside of a building or residence, as a visual ...

Bathtub Madonna

Garden; Outdoor decorations

A bathtub Madonna (also known as a lawn shrine, Mary on the half shell, bathtub Mary, and bathtub shrine) is an artificial grotto typically framing a Roman Catholic religious figure. These shrines ...

Plastic flamingos

Garden; Outdoor decorations

Pink plastic flamingos are one of the most famous of lawn ornaments in the United States, along with the garden gnome and other such ornamentation. The plastic pink flamingo was designed in 1957 by ...

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