Some gardeners think that gazing balls are tacky .   I tend to call back   it depends on the base you put it on ( or not at all . ) At the Enid A. Haupt Garden of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington , D.C. , they ’ve made gazing balls apt , challenging , and whimsical by floating them amongst the foliation of a shrub boundary line . To make gazing balls current and cool in your garden , you could nestle them nucleotide - gratis into a flora combo that pick up on the people of color of the ball , make one a key feature film in a container planting , or scatter a few on a lesser - traveled lawn .

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