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IN THIS CHAPTER

Working with what you already have

Deciding on your garden style

Staying within your budget

Setting up your garden plans

Hiring a professional

Consider your ideal garden. Perhaps you know you want a handsome woodland shade garden, but what’ll it look like? Or maybe you know you want a sunny cottage garden, but what’s your vision? Getting to this point in your garden planning is a bit like shopping for a blue shirt. You know you want a shirt and you know you want it to be blue, but you still have plenty of options. Now’s the time to narrow in on your target.

By assessing your gardening wants and needs and what you already have available for your garden, you can come up with the best garden for you. In this chapter, I lead you through the processes that can help you clarify your vision, and I explain how you can start making your dream garden a reality.

Creating a garden can be compared to writing a book. First, you start words (individual plants), then you put these words into sentences (plant combinations), next you put these phrases into paragraphs (sections of the garden), and finally these paragraphs turn into chapters and a book (your entire garden).

Don’t be intimidated by this process. No garden is created in a day. Take your time. Enjoy the process. Designing and creating a garden isn’t static; it constantly evolves. There is no one right way to do this. And don’t be self-judgmental. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. After all, it’s your garden!