Garden flags - adding color to your lawn, yard or garden

Garden flags are one of the most colorful things you can add to your yard with little overall impact to your natural beauty. The flag is easily inserted into your yard, blending in nicely with your trees, flowers and shrubbery to spice up the color landscape. With the flags coming in a never ending variety of themes and colors, you can cycle through the seasons and your moods with an unending variety.

I enjoy scanning the neighborhoods wherever I travel to see what garden flags are flying from the porches, houses and yards of the neighborhoods. It can give you a great snapshot of the mindset of the communities and what they believe is important. Seeing flags of America means there is a patriotism that people want to express as they live their daily lives.

For others, their sports or hobby interests are expressed with theses banners of color. This is a unique way of advertising your unique interests in just a further way of expressing your feelings and likes. It can tell people things about you that might not seem important enough to bring up I conversation, but may be a common bond that another can use to further your friendship.

Sometimes people are either uninterested or unable to enhance their home with colorful displays of flowers. To be sure gardening is a labor intensive task, so adding some garden flags with artful renditions of the flowers they would like to have in their yard is an option many people enjoy.

Garden flags are made with themes intended to match the current time of year, thus showing your neighbors and the rest of the world that you have an interest in what is going on, that you are not simply just existing in your space. Colorful flowers and birds for the spring, fireworks or beach scenes for the summer, colorful leaves in the fall and Christmas scenes in the winter make the garden flag a year round source of joy.

My wife and I are serious gardeners, so a good majority of our flags have some relevance to flowers. There is no shortage of colorful banners to reinforce our love of all things floral. The Colorful flags added to the landscape of natural petals and colors seem to be a great way to share our passion.

There are garden flags for sports teams that are very popular in their particular seasons. College sports team flags are big in the United States, especially as the weather begins to cool in autumn when the thoughts shift to college football and the great college rivalries. In some yards you will see multiple flags as loyalties do not always permeate the entire household.

The most obvious way to display your garden flag is on a flag pole attached to your home or other structure. You can find an abundance of devices to allow you to complete this desire. The main consideration to keep in mind is that you can expect the flag to collect a lot of wind during its lifetime which will place a lot of stress on the flag itself as well as the mounting area and flag pole.

The key to a successful flag mounting experience is to pick a mounting surface that is made of a solid material. This would include concrete, brick, a solid wood surface or a place you know has a solid support within reach of some long screws. The most annoying problem with the flags mounted to a structure is when they begin to work loose and you find your flag hanging at a quirky angle or blowing across your yard.

Another way to display your garden flag is with the garden flag pole. These poles are specifically designed to display your garden flag and simply insert into the ground. The garden flag poles allow you the convenience of placing your flag anywhere you choose. Since they are lower to the ground, you can place them in a spot that offers a bit of a wind break to protect your flag.

Almost all garden flags are made of nylon or like material that is intended for the rigors a flag will experience as the elements have their fun. Strong wind, cold or hot air, rain sleet and snow will not destroy these flags. With time your flag will begin to show its age, but for the money the lifespan of these garden flags is well worth your investment.

So you want to take part in this mode of decoration but you find yourself short on discretionary cash, what can you do. Discount flags can be snapped up if you do a little planning ahead. Retailers have no choice but to estimate the amount of a particular item they will sell months ahead of their targeted sales period to assure they will have the stock in house when needed. This is a great thing for bargain hunters as you can find discount flags that are left over at the end of a partuclar season.

Picking up three or four inexpensive flags for the same price as an in-season flag is the way my wife and i enjoyed our flags even in a time when the demands of our new family squeezed every penny we had.