Dwarves, goblins, gnomes—it doesn’t matter what you call them, these creatures of myth and folklore were once confined to the mines, but these days they’re making headlines across neighborhood gardens ...

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 — 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 ...

Garden gnomes are an excellent way to add flair to your garden, backyard, home or office. Still, traditional gnomes may not fit your personality. Luckily, there are numerous zany gnomes. Funny garden ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are an estimated 100 million gnomes protecting gardens worldwide, so it was only a matter of time before Google would want to honor the storied lawn ornament with a doodle. Google launched the ...

There's no place like home for this stolen gnome. — -- Branden Smith didn't put out a wide alert when his Seattle Seahawks garden gnome went missing in March -- but he was bewildered that the ...

I know, I know. There’s no accounting for taste. But as Clairee Belcher said in the “Steel Magnolias” play, “The only thing that separates us from animals is our ability to accessorize.” Apologies to ...

It sounds like the start of a fairytale - at the end of a country garden, there's a hut full of little men in brightly coloured clothes, looking a little shabby around the edges. They're all here, ...

There were gnome-reactions aplenty. Some involved "people all but fleeing in horror when the word was mentioned." Stalwarts put their gnomes right out there, front and center, in their exhibits.

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