Lying Buddha Garden Ornaments

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The XXL Balinese Buddha Statue stands a full metre tall and weighs around forty kilos. It is a two-person lift and asks for a proper load-bearing base. The Extra Large Buddha Head measures 60cm and is lighter to position. Both are disembodied heads rather than full seated or reclining figures, but laid horizontally they sit at ground level instead of upright.

The same Buddha head laid on its side reads quietly, the gaze pointing horizontally across a bed rather than down at the visitor. Upright on a plinth the piece is a focal point. Lying among hakonechloa or beside a fern bed the piece is part of the planting. Pick the lying placement for a buyer who wants the carving inside the scheme rather than at the centre of it.

Among low planting at ground level. A clump of hakonechloa, a fern bed, a mound of thyme, a mossy stone, or the soft edge of a gravel bed at the turn of a path. A flat paving slab or a flagstone underneath keeps the base out of mud through wet winters. Avoid cut lawn, a strimmer reaches it eventually and the green flattens the read.

Yes. Reconstituted cast stone is cement blended with crushed stone, cured to a durable finish, and rated for British weather without sealing. The porous surface accepts freeze and thaw cycles without surface cracking. A soft lichen patina settles in over the first two wet autumns and most owners welcome it on a lying piece, the head reads inside the green rather than placed on top of it.

The two scale tiers are the same pieces: the metre-tall XXL Balinese and the 60cm Buddha Head also appear in the upright placements under large Buddha garden ornaments and extra large Buddha garden ornaments. Laid on their sides the same heads become lying pieces. The decision is placement rather than a different piece.

Faster on a lying placement than an upright one, because the head sits closer to damp ground and low planting. The soft mid-grey deepens through the first two wet autumns as moss and lichen settle into the micro-texture of the cast stone. A soft brush over the face once a year keeps the carving clear without disturbing the moss elsewhere on the head.