On my wandering around n about various towns I have noticed the continental love of garden ornamentation..... especially garden gnomes and anything vaguely cuteish !! I'm sure I read soemwhere that garden gnomes originated in Germany? Something to do with Grimm's fairy tales ? 
What we would consider rather vulgar in Britain is adored by many on the continent and they seem to think the more the merrier too.
It's actually quite fun just peeping over garden hedges or through gates and seeing what turns up ! It amazes me how much effort people put into decorating their garden with these treasured objects ?! First they have to organise their garden, then they have to acquire these ornaments somehow and then they have to arrange their placement in the garden. All that effort.Wheelbarrows, painted concrete animals, windmills, just about anything, really, can be tarted up and used to good and startling effect. See what you think ....tho personally I prefer to let nature do the startling. Give me a beautiful shrub anyday but then each to his own.
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