Halloween is the one night your yard has an audience. Hand-painted metal stakes give it something worth stopping for — a carnivorous plant with a taste for trick-or-treaters, a crow in a pointed hat, a toadstool that looks like it grew there on purpose. Finished in rust tones, and built to sit outside through October and beyond.
The carnivorous collection
Four metal garden stakes with ground spikes. They read as playful yard art in daylight and as something slightly worse after dark.
Man-Eating Flower Garden Stake
A hand-painted bloom with teeth. Legible from the sidewalk, and the easiest one to place if you’re only buying one.
Giant Man-Eating Flower Stake
The bigger, louder sibling. Better for one obvious focal point than for filling a bed.
3-Headed Venus Flytrap Stake
Three heads, open mouths, visible fangs. The most sculptural of the four — place it where people walk close.
Pitcher Plant Garden Stake
The quiet one, and the most convincing — it looks like a plant that actually grows, until you look twice.
Porch and tabletop pieces
For the entry table, the mantel, the treat station, or a porch ledge — the places where people get close enough to look.
Witchy Crow & Pumpkin
A crow in a pointed hat, an orange pumpkin, a small bat for good measure. 12.2 × 7.1 × 5.9 in.
Distressed Owl Planter
Wide-eyed and a little worn — exactly the look you want from an owl. Plant it, or leave it empty. 5.1 × 4.3 × 3.9 in.
Red Mushroom Bird Feeder
A red-capped toadstool that happens to feed the birds. 7.1 in wide × 8.7 in high, hanging.
Rusty Lanternfish Planter
The odd one out, and the one that gets a double-take. A deep-sea silhouette, 6.7 × 5.9 × 6.7 in.
How to make it look intentional
- Group in odd numbers. Three stakes of different heights in one bed reads as designed. Eight in a straight row reads as merchandise.
- Repeat one motif instead of mixing everything. Two man-eating flowers at different scales says more than one of each of four designs.
- Pair painted metal with something real. A real pumpkin, a dried branch, a plain terracotta pot. The contrast is what keeps metal from looking like plastic.
- Light from behind after dark. Every piece here is silhouette-friendly — one warm light behind a stake does more than a string of colored bulbs in front of it.
Reusable past October
Most Halloween decor has a shelf life of six weeks. These don’t depend on the holiday. The carnivorous stakes read as whimsical garden art in daylight; the bird feeder is a bird feeder; the lanternfish planter is just strange, in the best way. Nothing here has to go back in a box on November 1.
Shipping for Halloween
Every order is prepared and dispatched from our workshop in 2–5 business days, then takes 7–14 business days in transit to North America. To have your order in hand before October 31, place it by October 5. Orders placed after that date will most likely arrive in early November — still worth having, just not for this Halloween.
Save 15% with code SPOOKY15 at checkout — valid through October 31.
Not sure which piece fits your yard? Email support@hollisforge.com and we’ll tell you.
Halloween garden decor FAQ
When should I order to get it before Halloween?
By October 5. Orders are prepared and dispatched from our workshop within 2–5 business days, and transit to North America takes 7–14 business days. Placed by October 5, your order has time to clear both stages before October 31.
Are they weatherproof?
The four garden stakes are metal with a rust-tone finish, designed to be used outdoors. The tabletop pieces — the crow, the owl planter, the lanternfish planter — are happiest on a porch, a shelf or a covered table.
Can I use them indoors?
Yes. The witchy crow, the owl planter, the mushroom feeder and the lanternfish planter are all tabletop scale. The four garden stakes are ground-insert pieces with spikes, so they belong in soil or a large planter.
Do they come as a set?
No — each piece is sold on its own so you can build the display you actually want rather than a fixed bundle.
Can I leave them out all year?
Yes. The stakes read as garden art in daylight, and the mushroom feeder is designed to be used year-round rather than for a single season.