Metal Garden gives you the ability to beautify the gardens with affordable metal flower sculptures and garden art. Copper is a great material for the garden but it’s soft and not very strong, so it is more useful for smaller objects, such as light fittings.

Otherwise, it can be used in sheets to clad a stronger internal core, perhaps a concrete planter or a steel water chute. When brand new it’s bright and shiny but this doesn’t last long. Untreated copper will quickly oxidize becoming darker at first and then verdigris with that green patina of age, which is beautiful and unbeatable. But if you want to retain that warm, rich old-penny look that’s somewhere between shiny and green then you need to apply a wax finish once a year to seal it.