Garden plaques - a decorative feature which will add a
touch of style to your garden
Make your garden something to write home about with a
garden plaque
Garden Plaques: Make Your Garden The Stuff Of Angelic
Dreams by:
John Thompson
Garden plaques are tablets, usually made out of wood and either hung
up, appended to a vertical surface like a wall, or posted like a sign
out of the ground. Garden plaques can either be modest or very long, and
beautiful, informative, or both.
Depending on the situation, garden plaques have a range of usages:
identification, commemoration, or decorative. An example of an
identification plaque would be a family marker, such as The Smiths, to
accompany an address or erected out front of home.
The short blurbs one finds at museums are also ID plaques, although
these are not in effect garden plaques. Commemorative plaques, though,
are more plenty. A headstone and historical marker are examples of this
(garden plaques need not only be made of wood.
Headstones are found in cemeteries, which are normally treated like
gardens). Decorative plaques, as those seen in a garden, would be
markers with flowers painted on them to add pizzazz to the scene.
Garden plaques can be made in a selection of shapes and sizes, depending
on the length of the message and the degree of ornamentation integrated
on them. The aforementioned headstone would have the deceases name,
dates, possible quote, and even the addition of angelic iconography.
These stones would naturally be larger than a headstone inserted in the
floor and bearing only a name and dates. Some headstones are round while
others are rectangular, square, or cross-shaped. Family markers are the
same way.
Garden plaques can even be in the form of 3-dimensional imagery, such as
animals, mythical or cultural designs, cosmological bodies (moon, sun,
stars, etc.), or everyday items, like hearts, ribbons, books, even cars.
When it comes to the possible type of garden plaques, the imagination is
the limit!
Garden plaques come in an array of prices. Plaquemaker.com offers
plaques starting at $14.00 for one. The more plaques bought, the cheaper
each plaque is. $4.00 is the cheapest for one in a box having a
101-to-250 quantity.
A variety of garden plaques offered here, with inscriptions made in at
least ten different possible colors, have designs that are based on the
customers personal choice.
For those ambitious, these are fun to have and to look at. They spice up
the garden, the house, or wherever they are placed. Garden plaques are
memorable and always in style!
Garden Plaques have an incredible ability to "take you there", whether
it's a fairy tale, or a sense of serenity, these items certainly have a
spirit all unto themselves!
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