Weather Vanes

If you decide to have a weather vane or a wind vane in your garden it is a good idea. They can be bought from most garden centres and are extremely useful. Farmers, for example, need information about the weather because it is important when it comes to planting crops. It’s also useful to check the direction of the wind before you start out on a long journey. Weathervanes come in a variety of materials and in all shapes and sizes so it should be easy finding one that you like and that will fit with your garden décor. Weather vanes attract people’s interest and there is a growing awareness of weather vane art – you can find animal shapes and contemporary styles of weather vane.

A wind vane is just another name for a weather vane. It sits on a pole in your garden or on top of the roof and it moves with the direction of the wind. In America the aluminium weathervane is very popular as the design was developed over here. You can polish and paint aluminium weather vanes and wind vanes so that they look like wrought iron.

Weather vanes also come with accessories such as cupolas a dome shaped structure that goes on top of a roof, the weather vane is attached to the cupola. Not only can you buy weather vanes and cupolas, you can also buy the stores that sell them – there is for example a cupola and weathervane store for sale in Maine.

Because weather vanes have such a long history, their use goes back about two thousand years, there are plenty of pictures of weather vanes around. These pictures will give you an idea of the different shapes, sizes and designs of weather vanes around. You don’t have to go to a garden store, or a specialist store to buy a weather vane. Building supplies stores may often stock weather vanes as they are sometimes attached to new roofs. There are many different types that you can buy and a common form of this wind device is the rooster chicken weathervane – this seems to be the one that many people prefer. Colonial weather vanes sometimes were designed as Indians but more often than not they were animal designs as these were seen to bring good luck to those working on the land. Some people had weather vanes in the shape of an eagle as a way of expressing their patriotism.