Recycled Metal Yard Decor – Fun, Eco-Friendly Art For Your Backyard

Passionate gardeners are likely to be very eco-friendly folk. They like digging in the dirt, composting and recycling, and easily incorporate other people’s cast-offs into their backyard decor. When hunting for attractive pieces to decorate their yards, recycled metal garden art may be 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 amazing mechanical sculptures of giraffes, elephants and robots from recycled automobile and plumbing parts. He gets junk transmission and engine parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing fixtures and pipes he is able to create fantastic, moving creatures.

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

In Haiti an expanding crafts community is creating delightful metal wall sculptures from flattened drums which had been used to haul oil or other products. After removing the ends these drums are flattened and then carved manually into exotic art pieces. Using only simple tools like hammers and chisels, the artists carve decorative, elaborate designs out of the steel. Haitian drum art is renowned world-wide and increasing in popularity. They look stunning in the garden, or hung on a wall inside.Saving cycles from untimely graves a new breed of eco-artists are using recycled bikes parts to produce their art. Bike art is becoming so trendy it is a genre of its own. Providing nuts and bolts, spokes and wheels, and even 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 ingenuity of artists working with recycled metal never ceases to amaze me. For instant charm and character, add some recycled metal art to your yard.

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 garden decor to add life and character to her yard. Ann’s favorite metal creations can be found at http://metal-garden-art.com