Garden plaques are tablets, usually made out of wood and either suspended, appended to a vertical surface like a wall, or posted like a sign out of the ground. Garden plaques can either be brief or very long, and poetic, informative, or both.

Depending on the situation, garden plaques have a variety of purposes: identification, commemoration, or decorative. An example of an identification plaque would be a family marker, such as The Smiths, to accompany an address or erected out front of home.

The brief descriptions one finds at museums are also identification plaques, although these are not really garden plaques. Commemorative plaques, though, are more varied. A headstone and historical marker are examples of this (garden plaques need not only be made of wood.

Headstones are found in cemeteries, which are usually treated like gardens). Decorative plaques, as those seen in a garden, would be markers with flowers painted on them to add flare to the scene.

Garden plaques can be made in a variety of shapes and sizes, depending on the length of the message and the degree of ornamentation included on them. The aforementioned headstone would have the deceases name, dates, possible quote, and even the addition of angelic iconography.

These stones would naturally be larger that a headstone inserted in the ground and bearing only a name and dates. Some headstones are round while others are rectangular, square, or cross-shaped. Family markers are the same way.

Garden plaques can even be in the form of 3-dimensional images, such as animals, mythical or cultural designs, cosmological bodies (moon, sun, stars, etc.), or everyday items, like hearts, ribbons, books, even cars. When it comes to the possible style of garden plaques, the imagination is the limit!

Garden plaques come in an array of prices. Plaquemaker.com offers plaques starting at $14.00 for one. The more plaques purchased, the cheaper each plaque is. $4.00 is the cheapest for one in a package having a 101-to-250 quantity.

A variety of garden plaques offered here, with inscriptions made in at least ten different possible colors, have designs that are based on the customers personal preference.

For those interested, these are fun to have and to look at. They spice up the garden, the house, or wherever they are placed. Garden plaques are memorable and always in fashion!