Neal, your gardens are just beautiful. Five acres, oh my. I can only immagine what a joy to have so much space. I only have a normal suburban sized lot. But then everything is very intensly planted here. It has to be in order to make it all fit. Plus I just continue to keep planting.
But I did have a design plan. I had rose beds laid out, I had shrub beds and areas laid out and then kept adding to them. Because my property is very mulilevel, I had to go with teraced beds in some areas. The hardscape projects alone took three years to get them all done.
