When I posted my last garden post, Betsy, of The Simple Life of a Queen, asked for overall pictures of the garden. It’s never polite to deny the request of a Queen… and I aim to please!

Now, it is a little difficult, mostly because the gardens are fairly extensive, and faraway pictures don’t do them justice. So I’ve tried to “chunk” things up a bit, and do a couple of panoramic pictures (which become a little distorted but give a decent idea)

But first, I thought it might help to have a little map.

(Click to enlarge) The light grey areas are the house (the largest) the double garage (top left) and shed (bottom left). The darker grey bar is the road and therefore the front of the house.

The front yard is realatively small compared to the back, but it is packed with flowers.

Above is an overall view from the south side of the house (the front of the house faces East). Not overly visble in this picture are the driveway and side walk gardens which flank the walkway up to the house.

Above is a slightly distorted panoramic view. And here are a few closer looks

The front garden

The island garden.

And the side garden at the south property line.

The only other garden out front is the walkway garden at the side of the front porch

This chunk of the garden is technically new this year. It was all Snow on the Mountain but I pulled it all this spring and planted it up with a variety of plants from other parts of the yard. It’s taken off far better than expected.

Now it’s time to head out back.

On the south side of the house, the front and back yards are divided by a fence (which you can see in the first photo. The backyard side of that fence sits under the only tree in the yard – a Norway Maple… so that’s my woodland garden.

It’s the only shady spot on the yard, but in truth, most of it get sun from about 2 pm on, so it’s not all that shady except closer to the fence. The above panoramic picture does not do it justice at all.

I much prefer this view, looking through my arbour down a long green lawn to the veg beds.

Here’s another panorama that shows the entrance to the Woodland Garden, then the long fence border on the south side which runs right back to the shed.

The North side houses the catio

This, of course, is an approximate 12′ x 25′ floral playground for the boys. It has planting both inside, and all around the outside.

The view from the inside is my favourite and I often sit on the step during work breaks and just soak up the yard.

From here, you can see that Fence Border runs into the Veg Beds. (AKA Edible Alley, Potager Parlour and Cucurbit Corridor)

Like the catio, they are mostly surrounded by floral borders too.

The veg beds are all raised bed or large containers making it a very eclectic, but functional space.

And last, at the very back of the yard (western most point), we have the newest garden

The aptly named Back Fence Border. Here is where my Forsythia and Blackberries were already planted, but this year, I’ve added a Butterfly Bush (white one, as my original didn’t make it) and well as a few perennials. This is also from where we feed Loki dog cookies through the fence.

And that’s the grand tour! I cant remember the exact size of our lot, but it’s somewhere around 60′ wide by 100′ feet deep. And you can see I’ve packed plenty in that space! Especially out front.