A garden gnome statue holding a red mushroom planter in a sunlit miniature fairy garden setting.

Collection: Garden Statues

Plants grow, fade, and change with the season. A statue does not. It is the one thing in a garden that stays exactly where it is all year, which means it decides what the place looks like in January.

Choose by position before subject. An open lawn needs three feet or more before a piece holds it. Beside a doorstep, sixteen inches is enough. On a paved terrace, something that takes a drink or a plant will earn its space more often than a figure that only stands there.

Weight is what makes concrete the right material. Heavy enough to skip anchoring, heavy enough to shrug off a dog or a child, and heavy enough that it settles into a garden over the years rather than staying obviously new.

The Numbers That Matter

7 to 36 inches Heights
Cast concrete throughout Material
Hand painted or left as raw stone Finish
Seven pieces work as a stool or side table Doubles as
No power, no water, no pump Upkeep
Starts at $39.90 Price

Some of Them You Can Sit On

Seated cast concrete lion statue on a lawn beside a wet stone path and clipped shrubs

Cast concrete, and what it does outside

Everything in this collection is solid cast concrete. That is not a detail, it is the whole proposition. Concrete is heavy, which is what keeps a statue standing through a windy autumn without being staked down. It is porous, which is why it darkens in rain and lightens as it dries and eventually picks up moss on the shaded side. And it is mineral all the way through, so a chip shows more concrete rather than a different color underneath. Nothing here plugs in or holds water, which makes these the simplest things we sell.

Gnome toadstool garden stool on a porch with an open book and a mug on its red cap

Half the range doubles as a stool or a side table

Seven of the fourteen pieces here are made to be used as well as looked at. A toadstool with a flat cap, a frog sitting on a lily pad, a tiki figure with a level top, a plain pedestal, a twisted pyramid, a bear holding a tabletop. They are cast the same way as the statues and they weather the same way, but the top surface is flat and finished to take weight. In practice that means a garden stool you can pull up to a bench, or a side table that stays outside all year and never blows over.

Cast concrete Moai head on a lawn in a ring of stones beside a weathered teak bench

Tiki figures and the Moai head

The largest single theme here is Pacific. Four tiki pieces, from a seated Kanaloa to a totem column at just under three feet, plus a Moai head at thirty six inches that is the tallest thing in the collection. They suit a deck or a poolside corner in a way a classical figure does not, and they read well against timber, bamboo and broad leaved planting rather than clipped hedging. Two of the tiki pieces are also side tables, which is a combination almost nobody else makes.

Long cast concrete tortoise statue stepping from a border onto a lawn at brick edging

Animals, from a six inch turtle to a foraging bear

The rest of the collection is animal. Two turtles, one small enough to tuck beside a step and one cast long and low across the ground. Two bears, one foraging and one holding a tabletop. A seated guardian lion. A hand painted rooster. A frog on a lily pad. The animal pieces are the ones that work half hidden, set back into planting so they are found rather than displayed, which is also how they read at their best in a small garden.

Hand painted concrete rooster statue in a bark mulch bed beside a terracotta pot

Size, and what each one is for

The range runs from under seven inches to nearly thirty six, and the middle sits around twenty. Small pieces under a foot are for the edge of a step, the front of a border, beside a pot. Fifteen to twenty inches is the stool and side table band, which is also the height at which a statue reads as an object rather than an ornament. Anything approaching three feet is a focal point and wants a position chosen for it rather than a gap it happens to fit.

Close view of moss settled into the carved lines of a tiki totem statue in autumn

Weathering, moss and winter

A cast concrete piece looks its best in its third year, not its first. Rain darkens it, sun lightens it, and moss finds the shaded hollows, which is the whole reason people choose stone over plastic. Through winter, leave it where it stands. The only thing worth doing is keeping standing water off a cupped surface and making sure the base is not sitting in a puddle that freezes, because water expanding in a hollow is what damages concrete, not cold air.

Comparing Your Garden Statue Options

	Statues	Stools and side tables
What it does	Gives a corner something to look at	Holds a drink or takes a seat
Typical height	Up to 36 inches	Fifteen to twenty inches
Goes best	At the end of a path or in a planting bed	Beside a bench, on a deck, next to a chair
Top surface	Sculpted all over	Flat and level, made to be used
Themes here	Tiki, Moai, lion, bear, turtle, rooster	Toadstool, lily pad frog, tiki, plain pedestal
Winter	Leave it out, just keep water off the top	Same, and store cushions indoors

The rest of the cast concrete range

01
Concrete fountains
The same material with water running over it
16 pieces
02
Concrete bird baths
Heavy enough to stay put in an open yard
23 pieces
03
All bird baths
Concrete and resin, every style
27 pieces
04
Outdoor fountains
The full range, 13 to 79 inches
82 pieces

Black bear statue stepping onto a lawn from a border of blue and white hydrangeas

Before You Order a Garden Statue

What are garden statues made of

Every piece in this collection is cast concrete, poured into a mold and finished by hand. Concrete is the traditional material for garden statuary because it is heavy enough to stay where it is put, it takes weather rather than resisting it, and the surface gains character instead of fading. Some pieces here are hand painted, others are left as raw stone.

Will a concrete garden statue crack in winter

Concrete itself handles freezing fine. What causes damage is water sitting in a hollow, a cupped surface or a base that has nothing to drain through, because water expands as it freezes and pushes outward. Keep the top of a piece clear of standing water and make sure it is not sitting in a puddle, and a cast concrete statue will come through winter outside without a cover.

Can you actually sit on the garden stools

Yes. Seven of the fourteen pieces here are made as seating or as side tables, with a flat level top rather than a sculpted one. The toadstool, the lily pad frog and the tiki seats are all built to take an adult, and the pedestal and pyramid pieces are side tables at about the right height for a chair arm.

How heavy are they

Heavy is the point. Cast concrete at this size is what keeps a statue upright in an open yard without staking or anchoring, and it is the same reason the stools do not tip when you sit down. Plan on two people for anything around three feet, and decide where a large piece goes before it arrives rather than after.

Where should a garden statue go

Somewhere it can be seen from where you actually sit or walk. The end of a path, a gap in a border, the corner of a bed, the turn of a lawn. A statue set in the middle of open ground has nothing to be in scale with, so it tends to read smaller than it is. Put it against planting or a wall and it holds its size.

How do you clean a concrete statue

Brush the loose dirt off dry, then wash with plain water and a stiff brush. Skip the pressure washer, which can lift the surface, and skip bleach, which can leave a pale bloom on concrete. Moss and lichen in the shaded hollows are worth leaving. On a cast concrete piece that is the part most people are waiting for.

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Guides and how tos

Everything here ships free in the continental US, carries a 3-year warranty, and can go back within 60 days with no restocking fee if it is not right in the space.