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| LakeOntarioFarmgirl |
Posted - Jan 15 2010 : 07:11:38 AM
Ok. This may seem like a strange request, but I have not been able to find anything searching online.....
One of my daughters and her husband and 3 children bought a house in the fall. Yesterday while I was there, she was telling me what she wanted to do with the backyard.
She wants me to plan a secret garden type garden for her! She has a few ideas of her own, like an arbor in one corner that leads into the backyard, 2 dwarf apple trees in a back corner, she is going to have French doors leading from the dining room out to the yard. I told her she should put in a small pond. Paved walkways, etc. but I am at a loss as to how to plan it, and what types of plants would be good. Flowers I can handle, but I think she needs all sorts of plants, and maybe even a small kitchen garden near the other back door. I asked her what about the kids play area, but their front yard is so huge, that won't matter! 
The yard is probably at least 100' wide by 150' deep.
Any ideas on where I could find some ideas??!!!
Brenda
FarmGirl # 711
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jan 15 2010 : 12:31:10 PM
English Cottege Gardens, that is the type she should be looking at, they are the ones that have "rooms" in them, with tables and benches, etc. This is also my daughters favorite, she has windows (old woodframe with panes, 6 or 8, still with the glass) hanging in arbor type structures, 2 differant ponds with a stream between them, with a wooden bridge crossing one, fariey houses and little people houses, she has two water turtles who live in the ponds, plus a couple of frogs/toads who live in the little people houses, their is a wooden door that you must open to enter her garden and in the spring, summer and fall , it is just beautiful, something is always blooming, and with wind chimes, fariey glass and bells of all sixes, its just plain magical.
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jan 15 2010 : 12:08:53 PM
Lots of pretty ground cover, bird baths for water or to hold big potted plants.
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| emsmommy5 |
Posted - Jan 15 2010 : 11:18:30 AM
I would simply look at general garden ideas and pick the ones you like to incorporate them into her secret garden. I think secret gardens are a very personal thing. I know I want to eventually do one in my back yard off the sliding doors from my bedroom. I want to have a place to sit and drink tea and read a book and in summer.... a place to sleep in the corner.
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