Much classier than any old garden gnome!

Zombie Gnomes are better ;) https://www.houseplantgirl.com/wp-c.....mbie-gnome.jpg

GerrrRRRR-AIN-neee-ums!

Oh boy fresh salad fixings... nasturtiums look great on top of a salad...yes I saw them first. I do like the fox too.

The flowers are just starting to bloom. I believe I might try eating a couple flowers and leaves just to see what they taste like. After all, my Doctor has been encouraging me to eat more fresh greens.

Apparently, this fox has been preying on that rabbit eating the good carrots with "Lots of iron."

Heh! I must confess that it always gave me a giggle to watch THAT carrot split open, raise a flag and play an off key version of "Yankee Doodle".

I must agree with Walt. That’s a nifty looking garden decor!

Those gnomes are neat too, but this fox just resonates for me. :D

I commissioned the sculpture from the artist who created a Giant Wooly Mammoth sculpture which is visible from the 60 Freeway, just before one gets to Riverside California. The fellow salvages steel from old washing machines, refrigerators, appliances and cars to create life sized or larger statues of animals with horses and dinosaurs being the most popular. For some odd reason he added plastic eyes to my "Fox" which is also more "Coyote" sized. It's one of my prized possessions from the times when I had "More money than Brains."

Beautiful!
I love nasturtiums!

The Nasturtiums came up as a total surprise, actually. We were lucky the Deer didn't find them while they were growing, so I guess the tin clad fox kept them away.

I'd love something like this in my garden. Priceless and worth whatever you commissioned it for.

The sculpture was created as a custom piece by Ricardo Breceda who also built he life sized dinosaurs and other large, metal sculptures on display at the Jurupa Mountain Discovery Center, just off Interstate 60 near Riverside, CA. Mister Breceda usually crafts his sculptures from sheet steel salvaged off old appliances and automobiles, and hand forms each part. (I have a sneaking suspicion my "Tin Clad Fox" started out as a life sized coyote.) I commissioned the piece, (Back when I had more money than brains in 2004 or so.) And it cost almost $900.00 back then. It appears Mr. Breceda has retired to Temecula CA recently and is teaching blacksmithing between private showings.

http://ricardobreceda.com/contact/

Weird plant!

Not that weird, really. But they do add a nice shade of green and a dash of color to the garden.

Heh heh, I meant the Fox.

Heh! Like I planted nuts, bolts, bailing wire and old tin cans in the garden, and it grew into a fox sculpture? It's a novel idea. (And testament to the fertility of the soil enriched by Schirm's special blend of mulch.)

Ha! Indeed.

and suddenly, plant life. :)

what's next, magnolias of steel? XD

The sculptor also crafted up palm trees, giant fern plants and even prickly pear cactus to go with his life size dinosaur sculptures. So why not? If I had the money, I'd get a set of metal prickly pear panels to go over the windows of the "Office" here.

next to your plants, my squash look terrible...

V.

Don't feel bad. "Bambi" or the local cottontail rabbits took out my pumpkins just as the sprouted.

A great sculpture. A fox statue lives in NYC's Quick Brown Fox Triangle: https://untappedcities.com/2022/05/.....peth-queens/3/

Shoot! Had I known about this charming little sculpture, I would have tried to get a photo of it to add to my collection of fox images. My friend Eric and I got some great images of Winged Sphinxes at the Met, though.

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