Recycled Metal Garden Decor – Eco-Art For Your Garden

Passionate gardeners are likely to be very environmentally friendly people. They enjoy digging in the dirt, recycling and composting, and effortlessly incorporate other people's cast-offs into their backyard decor. When hunting for attractive pieces to decorate their back yards, recycled metal garden art is often a popular choice.

The eco-artists creating recycled metal garden are very creative and talented. What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these talented artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes magnificent mechanical structure of giraffes, elephants and robots from recycled plumbing and auto parts. He gets junk engine and transmission parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing pipes and fixtures he is able to create wonderful, moving creatures.

Discarded oil tanks and drums are quite commonly used to make metal yard decor. Painted oil tanks that once supplied fuel to cottagers are cut into brightly colored critters, such as dancing moose, climbing frogs and dogs with bones. For something a little different you can even add a diva or a devil!

In Haiti a thriving crafts community is producing fantastic metal wall sculptures from flattened drums previously used to transport oil or other products. After taking off the end these drums are flattened and next carved manually into exotic pieces of art. Using only chisels, hammers and other simple tools, the artists create elaborate, creative designs out of the steel. Haitian drum art is very popular throughout the world, and increasing in popularity daily. They look stunning in the garden, or hung on a wall inside.Saving cycles from early graves a new breed of artists are choosing recycled bikes parts to create their art. Bike art has grown so popular it is a genre of its own. With spokes and wheels, nuts and bolts and gears, a bike is the ideal raw material for recycled metal art.

A large part of the appeal of recycled metal yard art may be the weathered and often rusted look of the various pieces. Rusted metal has a earthy, natural look and blends with the garden rather than making a loud statement. That is why many gardeners seek out pre-rusted metal art.

The talent of artists working with recycled metal always amazes me. Add some recycled metal art to your yard and add instant character and charm.

Ann Wallis is a long-time gardener and lover of beautiful things for her garden. All year round she pores through gardening magazines and websites looking for colorful perennials to fill the holes in her garden and fun, whimsical metal yard art to add life and character to her yard. Ann's favorite metal creations can be found at http://metal-garden-art.com