We live on 10 acres of land...the land is a perfect square...it slopes south.
Our house in in the exact middle of this square. All sides of the house are surrounded by fields.
There are some great advantages to our property...
There are some disadvantages too.
Seeing how this is Monday and I usually don't really love Mondays alot, (especially Mondays that start with doctors appointments for the kids in which they both get their shots...) I am going to cover one of my pet peeves about this place...
It is that everywhere you look is a wide open space.
There are no intimate little spots in which to sit, no rose covered arbor under which to read a book, no private corner surrounded by ivy covered brick walls besides which to sip tea...
Just wide open space...everywhere!
That is why I don't plant sweet little flowers like these...
Flowers like these would be engulfed by the openness of our place...
You would hardly notice them!
No I need big gawdy flowers like sunflowers and hollyhocks, dahlias, and giant alliums!
I need to do something about this...
I want a sweet little place in which to drink some lemonade, read a gardening magazine or just have some peace and quiet...somewhere private...somewhere hidden...somewhere secret!
I am going to have to think on this a bit, maybe draw up some plans...
hatch a scheme...
stear a course...
Somehow I am going to have to tame just a little of the wide open space to make it a little less wide and a lot less open.
Then I'm going to plant some flowers that are so sweet and so tiny that every time I sit next to them I am going to wonder how anything could be so impossible cute!
Yes this is what I'm going to do...I think somehow I am going to build myself a secret hideaway...a secret garden!
As soon as I know when and how I will let you in on the project.
For now I would love to hear from any of you that have such a place...
What makes your private places in your gardens special?
What are my 'must haves'?
What are my 'must not haves'?
Thanks...now I'm off to weed in my wide open space!
