Since I feel like I am rather new here, and you all seem to know each other for ages, I am curious about a few things. One, being your chosen garden name.
I have known Juli (mod) for years, yet it suddenly came up that I didn't realize that her garden was named Shagbark Gardens when she posted on Face Book. Or if I knew, I had forgotten. I am guessing that it might because of Shagbark Hickories growing there? If so, I LOVE them and would love to see pictures of them! I have a grouping on an estate that I work on. Huge old trees. Alas, here, I only have the regular Hickories. And never see any nuts!
I'll start.
Distinctive Garden Designs was not my first garden name.
I once had, for years, an antique business, and it was called 'In An Old Fashioned Way'. So while I was fading out of that and into gardening, my first garden name was 'Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way'. Both appropriate for how I feel for what I do, and where I live. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of the history of where I live, and the history/story that might be behind the antiques that I have collected. So many stories come alive in their history.
But then, it was John Peat that suggested that I should call what I do 'distinctive' in some way. And that idea stuck with me. There are plenty of landscapers around here, but none really 'create/design gardens'. They landscape. So, I came up with the current name.
Would love to hear how you have created your garden name and what the history of it is.
This topic might go well with the new theme that Juli mentioned creating.
