Avid gardeners can be very green folk. They enjoy digging in the dirt, composting and recycling, and effortlessly incorporate other people’s discards into their outdoor decor. When shopping for attractive pieces to enhance their yards, recycled metal garden art can be a popular choice.

The eco-artists creating recycled metal garden are very creative and ingenious What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these talented artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes remarkable mechanical sculptures of elephants, giraffes and robots from recycled auto and plumbing parts. He gets discarded transmission and engine parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing fixtures and pipes he is able to create wonderful, moving creatures.

Discarded oil tanks and drums are quite frequently used to make metal yard decor. Coloured oil tanks that once supplied fuel to cottagers are cut down into brightly colored critters, including dogs with bones, dancing sheep or moose, lurking alligators and climbing frogs. For something a little different you can even add a diva or a devil!