Metal Hare Garden Ornaments

Verdigris, graphite and bronze-effect hares

The Large Verdigris Moon-Gazing Hares Ornament Set carries the soft blue-green wash that copper takes after a few seasons outdoors, in the classic skyward pose. The Large Moon-Gazing Graphite Hares Set carries a cooler, darker tone that suits a shaded border more than a sunny lawn. The Medium Bronze Moon-Gazing pair stands 23cm tall, a smaller antique-bronze pairing for a porch step or a window ledge. The Large New Bronze March Hares Ornament Set picks up the running pose at over 40cm, with more visual weight than the sitters. All four finishes are paint on frost-stable cast resin: the metallic look without the theft worry, and at around 3kg per large pair, light enough to lift and reposition as the planting fills in.

How the metal-look finishes compare with the painted sister ranges

For the warm metallic tone alone, the bronze hare selection gathers the bronze-effect pieces in one place. For the same skyward pose across white, brown and the rest of the painted finishes, the moon-gazing hare selection compares them side by side. Buyers after a quieter sit-down pose will find more in the sitting hare cut.

Placement for verdigris and graphite hares

Verdigris sits warmly against warm planting: box hedging, a sandstone path or climbing roses let the blue-green wash pull the eye. Graphite pairs with cool grasses or a gravel bed; it lifts a pale pea-gravel border and sits quietly under darker foliage. The moon-gazing pairs look best a few feet apart rather than nose-to-nose, so each hare has its own sightline upward. For a single larger statement piece to set alongside them, the large hare ornament selection carries 40cm-plus singles and sets.

Finish, care and weathering

The painted metallic finish is weather-rated and frost-stable, fine to leave out through wet Januarys if the hares sit on a flat pad rather than a pooling puddle. A wipe with a damp cloth each spring keeps verdigris lifted; graphite wants less work. Unlike real copper or iron, the paint will not keep weathering: the colour is fixed from the day it arrives. The upside is no rust bloom eating through the feet where they meet damp ground, and no patchy oxidation on one side.

The bronze moon-gazing cut narrows the metallic edit to the skyward pose in bronze tones alone, and the wooden hare range is the warmer-grain alternative for buyers who want softer, less metallic colour. The hare garden ornaments parent gathers every pose and finish for a side-by-side look.