The beach balls I have come across have all faded and gone flat quickly. Just wondered what kind you get that keep their color and shape.
I'm greatly in favor of spheres in the landscape myself but mine are all glass or metal.

I really like the look!

How pretty, Hetty!

Love this tip! I've seen inexpensive hard plastic type beach balls for sale at Wal-Mart and although the color will fade quickly in the intense Florida sun, they could be spray painted ... or kept in shady spots in the garden!

Oh, good idea Lin!

You could use the spray paint that works and lasts on plastic, Krylon I think is the name!!

In a garden I had long ago, I found lots of interesting colored bowling balls at thrift shops and built the borders for the gardens from them. There are some great, swirly colored bowling balls out there and they last a long time in the garden. I wish I still had a picture of that garden bed.

Yeah, bowling balls are great!

Krylon paint is my friend.

One of these days I want to paint or cover a few different size balls to use as art in the garden. I plan on looking at yard sales for used beach balls, bowling balls, basketballs ... whatever I can find. Even a tennis ball could be painted or embellished for garden art! These are bowling balls, but check out some of these great pictures: http://www.google.com/search?q...

And, here's a tutorial from awhile back on the Garden Art Forum: The thread "Bowling Ball Garden Art Tutorial" in Garden Art forum

This is a bowling ball I covered with flower photo's from a magazine. I used Mod Podge to glue them to the bowling ball and then sprayed it with a clear sealer. It held up for only about two years in the intense Florida sun but I plan on re-doing it some day ... and I have another bowling ball that I want to do cover with mirrored glass or something.

Nice!

I love your deco ball, Lin.

That's it! Make some garden art is added to my list of New Year resolutions!

Love this idea. The only sphere type thing in my garden right now is a green float ball. This would be a great way to add more round objects. : )

I have about a dozen glass spheres of varying sizes, and a couple of wooden ones. I tend to pick a lot of these up at yard sales, but occasionally will splurge at 'real' store.

Some of my marbled plastic beach balls have held up through three + years of Gilroy temps (20's in the winter and 100's in the summer), which I think can beat up your Florida sun, Lin! (LOL!) Yes, they sometimes go flat, but I can pump 'em up with a bicycle pump. I usually find these in a big mesh bin in Tar-jay or a similar store.

I also have bowling balls and love them, but they're all the same size and I like having different-sized spheres in my garden!

Janet: LOL, we do get winter temp's in the low and mid 20º range here on occasion and we've had summer temp's in the mid and upper 90's sometimes ... but thank goodness it doesn't last long!

We've been having temperatures above normal for December ... upper 70's daytime, and low 60's at night but that's about to change ... Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights are going to be in the low to mid 30's here .... Brrrr!