Ooh I am so excited for you!! It's a wonderful house and look at all that space. Wow! Are you gonna do a pond?
There is nothing more exciting and more intimidating than a blank slate. LOL

Megan, Your yard is nice and big.....what fun you are going to have. Remember just do a little at a time and then add to it over the years. Don't try to do everything at once.

Sierra

What a nice place! I'm facing the same blank slate syndrome but I don't have anywhere near that amount of space. Lovely that you have mature trees - I think it makes such a big difference. Boy are you going to have some fun! Progress reports please.

What a beautiful interesting blank slate. You are fortunate to have the mature trees already in place. I love your front porch and you have many neat nooks and crannies around the rest of the house to do neat gardens in and my oh my what a back yard - so many possibilities. Have fun and like Sierra said do a section at a time and take plenty of pictures ......

Lynne

Thanks for the nice comments! I should have some pics of my front shade garden to post in the next few weeks, once my plants come in and I've got them all situated. :-)

I did drive by a garden center today and couldn't help picking up a couple of plants. I'd never heard of this, but they crossed a rhododendron with an azalea. They called it a PGM or something like that. It has leaves that are something in between rhodies and azaleas, and flowers in bunches like rhodies. It should only get about 3' tall and this variety is deep pink.

Megan

Here is a link that might be useful: rhodo x azalea