Garden gnomes — those cute figurines often used to decorate the back yard — are a fairly common sight in the American suburbs. But when you take a minute to really think about gnomes, their ...
People have a love for garden gnomes that is gnot gnormal. The colourful terra cotta lawn decorations pop up in everything from Travelocity commercials to R.L. Stine’s Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes to ...
As long as I can remember, my father has loved two things – football and gardening. So, this Christmas, when I stumbled across a series of garden gnomes clad in, you guessed it, football jerseys, I ...
Garden gnomes are considered a symbol of good luck, and they’re darn cute to have decorating your garden. If a gnome on it’s own is lucky, what could possibly be luckier than a leprechaun garden gnome ...
Garden gnomes have always been a curiosity for me. I like them and don’t mind seeing or having a gnome in the garden, but how in the world did this tradition get started? Apparently, the practice of ...
As with, say, the pioneer of the hamburger, the inventor of the garden gnome has several claimants. Philipp Griebel, a trained porcelain maker who in 1874 founded a shop in the German state of ...
A few years ago, British gardener Vivian Russell noticed something about certain interlopers in her garden — a gaggle of garden gnomes she had moved in as a single shot of fun for a young guest.
Gardens may have to go gnome-free this summer. Over the past year, a combination of changing consumer needs and issues stemming from the pandemic has caused a variety of shortages. These supply issues ...
The rustic retreat had been on this Tulalip couple’s to-do list for five years. Now, the gnomes — and the family cat — stay dry. A garden gnome home has been on Debbie and Ed Cogswell’s to-do list for ...
Garden gnomes are in danger of dying out after a huge fall in sales over the past decade. There are believed to be around 5 million in the UK, but sales have halved since 2006, new figures show. In ...
Google celebrated Garden Day in Germany with a fun game that lets players toss gnomes with a trebuchet. The interactive doodle game made its debut on the homepage Sunday. Players can choose from a ...