Growing Family Memories in a Story Book Garden

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, how does your garden grow?  With story books, and alphabets, and fairytales all in a row!

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My husband and I are finally tackling our backyard landscaping, and embarking on what I'm going to optimistically call "an adventure in gardening".  

There are so many options - should we do a raised bed, potager, vegetable, rose, herb, wild flower, fairy, storybook, or alphabet garden? Did I lose you with those last three?

I was on the internet this afternoon looking for design ideas, and I came across several "Theme Gardens" for kids.  Here are some of my favorites...

Alphabet Garden

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How about an Alice in Wonderland Garden???

This cute statuary is available from the Victorian Trading Company

Available in white or stone.

And you have to have a bird feeder made from a vintage tea cup!

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Peter Rabbit's Garden is totally doable -

There's even a little jacket and tam o'shanter!

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My garden will have to have a Cinderella pumpkin vine, like this beauty! [source]

I might even allocate a little corner of my yard for a miniature Fairy Garden,

like this one with succulents in a shallow pot (I took this photo at a local nursery)...

or this one, planted in a old metal tub...

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...or in a bird bath!

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Go here for more theme garden inspiration ideas.

And don't forget these fun garden-themed books like Mama, Is It Summer Yet? by Nikki McClure, from my past post.

  

Sigh. We hired a landscaper to help us, but we have so much to decide!  Stay tuned!  Any advice?