The imported trees are used ornamentally, as curtains against wind, and for fighting erosion caused by storms and grazing in the Faroe Islands.

Many of the hundreds of species are used ornamentally.

The skin was also used ornamentally, such as by the Chinese, who dyed it and ground down the thorns to yield a mottled pattern.

The hard and wrinkled nuts have been used ornamentally, for necklaces and shirt buttons, and were used as marbles on chinese checkers' boards.

Because it can be grown under somewhat flexible conditions it is used ornamentally in both Europe and North America.

Silver, gold, lapis, and faience were used ornamentally, and the grinding palettes used for eye-paint since the Badarian period began to be adorned with relief carvings.

Hemlocks are used ornamentally and as lumber.

Macramé can produce self-supporting three dimensional textile structures, as well as flat work, and is often used ornamentally or decoratively.

It can be used ornamentally in crafts, like a kind of macrame, or to make straw hats.

The plant is used ornamentally as groundcover.