This was a project I made for my mom for her birthday last year. It has a certain folk-art quality to it. The whole thing is made of rebar and remesh so I guess if she doesn't want to display it in the garden she can use it to reinforce a sidewalk.

On with the pictures:

Cool! i like it and so will your mom.

rebar...it's not just for breakfast anymore..... :P
well done!

ryan i like that! so sweet for your mum i bet she loves it :) it may be from rebar but youve shaped the top nicely and added the sun rays and that message for her garden, i think its lovely - nice work! :)

Thanks for all the positive feedback. My mom loves it. In these pics I had sandblasted it and I offered to paint or clear coat it but my mom and I reached the consensus that allowing it to rust would make it look more natural in the garden.

I can't find pictures right now but I also made a set of hose guides for my mom's garden as well. For those who aren't gardeners, hose guides are stakes that you put in the garden so when you drag your hose around it keeps the hose off your flowers. If I find some pics I'll add them here as well. The guides were made of 3/8" round stock bent using my harbor freight compact bender.

Being a professional horticulturist by trade and an avid gardener by hobby I think I gravitate toward garden themed stuff to roll several of my hobbies in together.