18 Tips for Decorating Your Garden

Ornaments with the patina of antiques can make a new garden appear as if it's been growing forever. To achieve this illusion, the Bealls incorporated treasures from their travels—including Gothic cathedral fragments bought from a salvage dealer—into landscape scenes. Placed in a gravel clearing, these stone bits and spires bring a fanciful, lost-city tableau to a garden designed just a few years ago.