With spring in the air, thoughts turn to the garden and to one of the hottest categories in antiques today: garden antiques. We spoke with dealer Bob Withington, whose eponymous shop is located in York, Maine (withington1@verizon.net; 207-363-1155), on the final day of the Gramercy Garden Antiques Show, in New York City, in mid-March, to find out which garden antiques in particular seemed most sought after. “Urns!” was the reply.

Withington said 19th-century stone and marble urns are extremely popular. He had taken four sets of 19th-century marble urns to the show, ranging in size from 12-inch diameter to 21-inch diameter, and in price from $650 per pair to $4,000 per pair, and all four pairs sold.

“The good old stone and marble urns are more in demand than cast-iron right now, because there are a lot of reproduction cast-iron urns out there, so collectors are staying away from them,” said Withington. The same is true of wirework garden antiques, he said: “There are too many reproductions so wirework antiques aren’t selling as well right now.”