I found a thread on You Grow Girl that I totally love. It is about garden themes…here are my faves and I’d love to have other ideas:

1. A Garden for Cats: a collection of catnips and catmints, successive seedlings of catgrass, flea-repellent plants, other durable plants that provide interesting little caves, a sunny spot or two for basking and a discreet sandy bed for excretion.
2. Mary Garden: with flowers about the Virgin…lambs ears, lady’s mantle, shasta daisies, roses, lavender, assumption lily, bleeding hearts, johnny-jump-ups (trinity flowers), Canterbury bells, English daisy, foxglove, hollyhock, sweet william.
3. Alice in Wonderland Garden: a bed of pansies, mushrooms and red roses. A moss chessboard. Peony trees, a croquet course with plastic flamingos planted around and hedgehogs. A Cheshire cat it a tree. A shady corner for a tea party.
4. Gothic Garden: black hollyhocks, black iris, black bat flower, black pansy, black viola, magpie columbine, sooty sweet william.
5. Grain Garden: clusters of amaranth, wheat, alfalfa and millet for the birds.
6. A Poison Garden is open in London! Check it out.
7. Artist Garden: Pick an artist. Georgia O’Keeffe could feature all the flowers she painted with scattered bones and skulls. Monet could be waterlilies, lavender and other whimsy items….and a Parisian building.
8. Pizza Garden: tomatoes, basil, garlic, onion, peppers…