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Design-A-Garden: What Would You Do?

© Carol Wallace

Editor's note: This is a new idea for our Virtual Garden Tour. This time we are taking you to a spot where there is no garden -- yet. You get to help design the garden, by giving your ideas and sharing your own garden experience. Maybe next year we'll come back and see what we've helped to create.

Welcome to my future garden! Two weeks ago I moved to a small house and 50 acres of land. I hope to have beautiful gardens with pathways, bird baths, bird houses, benches and more. I'm located in eastern Maine, in zone 5. We get a lot of snow in the winter and very hot weather in the summer, often into the 90's. The winter temps usually drop to -40* two or three times during the year.

The space is approximately 30' x 100'. I'm sure I'll never get the entire space planted in the first year. This will be a long term project.

I'm particularly interested in perennials. I'm a single mom of two, own a business that keeps me working full time, have horses and chickens and lots of other activities that keep me busy.

I'd like to make the garden attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies. I'd also like the garden to have a sort of "texture." I want to avoid a flat garden so I'm planning to include shrubs, a rock garden, maybe a wine barrel water garden and any other ideas you can lend that may catch my fancy.

I have a 12' x 12' greenhouse and can start most of the plants I'll use in the garden. I do tend to have a green thumb and can grow most anything.

Thanks for coming to visit!

Here is one view of the backyard, and here is another.

These two pictures are of the backyard itself. The following picture is of the side of the house and includes a bit of the space the garden will cover. This will give you an idea of where it's situated. My bedroom has a door that will open out into the garden and I'll be able to view it first thing in the morning.

Post here or e-mail me.

Thanks to everyone! This has been a lot of fun for me.

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