My beds are named like ginny's.

The cellar bed
The grass bed
the well house bed
the new bed
the light pole bed
the porch corner bed
the garden fence border
the garage wall border
the milk parlor border
and the list goes on............

I named my beds as follows:

The Waterfall Garden
The Daylily Bed
The Hibiscus Bed

I have yet to name the garden itself.

Mine are even more straight forward:

The front grass
The front beds
The back grass
The back flower gardens
The back garden
The back, back garden

Libby

Baumer's Jungle. Or Baumer's Plopper's Flower beds. Where I see an inch Plopp a plant.

Well, I have the circle garden, round the birch; the back garden, very shady; the semi-circle garden, part sun/part shade; the veggie garden, with the mini-orchard in front; the new garden, lol, which is no longer the newest; and the new front border. Not too exciting, but very descriptive. Of course, I have the left lawn, the right lawn, the front lawn and the rear lawn.

Ginny, I'd love to see pics of your white bed. Such a hard thing to create - it is sun/partsun/shade?? Please share!

Nancy.

Like other people's, just practical obvious names:

1. The Island Bed (mostly daylilies)
2. The Elm Tree Bed (tall, wild-looking flowers)
3. The Driveway Garden (shady, quirky-formal brick path & narrow beds: used to be the driveway)
4. Rusty Alley (narrow shady passage between houses decorated with ancient rusty pipes, bedsprings & other rusty stuff -- looks nicer than it sounds. Actually this name isn't quite as boring as my other names!)
5. Front West and Front East (small sunny beds with giant tropical plants)
6. Ken's Bed (husband's native plant shade garden)

Nell ~ What a neat thread! It is so much fun reading what other's name their flower beds. Below are mine.

Main garden
Shed garden
Secret garden
Front Hedgerow
Clothesline potted garden
Back Garden

FlowerLady

Eggplant bed (shaped like an eggplant)
Foxglove and Hollyhocks' bed
Front Cottage Garden
Round bed
Papa's bed (dedicated to my late father)
Rose garden bed.

Nancy, I won't hijack this thread but will try to describe my White Garden in a new thread soon. Thank you for asking. It has been fun but a challenge.

Let's see I have the...
The Daisy bed
The Lower Steps Bed
The Back 40 (snicker)
The Top of Pool Bed
The Shed Bed
The Front Free For All
The Koi Pool Planter
The Fence Bed
The Courtyard Beds
The Wanna Be Bed and
The %$#@&! Couch Grass Bed.

Annette

Great thread, particularly since I would love to have both a secret garden and a back, back garden. In my small garden, however, I have these areas:
The sloping shade garden
The sunny border garden
The sunroom circle garden (formerly known as the construction zone) and
The front and back gymnastics gardens (aka grass) which my daughter uses exclusively for cartwheels and rollovers because if you try to use them for whiffle ball, the ball will invariably end up over the fence.

Oh, Annette, I forgot The %$#@&!Bermuda Grass garden.

and the new "hidden" garden, so new it just has 4 plants.

Mine are mostly prosaic:

the front garden
the vegetable garden
the sun garden
the afternoon shade garden
the woodland garden
the poison garden (where I put all the plants that I love that are poisonous so that dogs and kids don't get to them)

Fragrance Garden
Waterfall Garden
Butterfly Garden
Cottage Garden
Front Garden
Dry Stream Garden
Rain Garden (overlaps the front and dry stream gardens)
Driveway Island

We also have a hedgerow underway (3 years isn't enough time to be mature). I want to eventually create a meadow garden between the butterfly and the hedgerow. I'll have to wait for the shrubs to mature so that my neighbors can't see what I'm up to! :-)

Cameron

I have fairly standard names as well . . .

I have the corner vegetable garden.

I have the "dark" garden - where I'm going for dark flowers, and dark foliage plants. This is just starting to take shape, but I really like the effect. I'm looking for a small stone gargoyle statue to put in here!

I have the "fall" garden - where I'm going for fall colored plants (rust, crimson, gold, green, brown) as well as fall-blooming flowers.

I have the "Monet" garden - I read that series by Derek Fell and wanted to try to create and Impressionist/Monet garden. It is (as they all are) still a work in progress.

And then there is the main flower bed, which is separated into sections by dominant colour (pink, purple, red/yellow, shade, etc).

I have a small corner area where the hollyhocks, foxgloves, hostas, and coreopsis kind of wander. I thought maybe it could be a niche called Wanda. ;-)

ThinMan

Oh, ThinMan, for shame, for shame. A punster in our midst.

I don't name individual beds, but have names for "rooms" or areas of my garden like a lot of others here have done, such as "Wildflower garden", "Moon garden", "Center rose garden", "The Courtyard", "Veggie garden" or "vegetable parterre" depending on how uppity I feel.

Yup, they're named, not too creatively though

- redbed
- purple island
- veggie circle
- side garden
- barn bed
- front garden
- driveway bed
- patio bed
- woodsline

No wonder I never have any time - too many gardens!

Oh TM, groan!!!!

Nancy.

Nell,
I thought of the same thing seeing the house naming thread!
I have names for mine. Most are standard like 'Front Walk' or 'South Side'. I do have my 100 foot(actually longer, but the end becomes the 'Garage Shade Garden', lol,) named 'The Long Border.' It is a joke on the late Christopher Lloyd's Long Border. His long border is very wide and very beautiful. Mine is the strip between the driveway and fence so it is only 2 1/2 feet deep and fleetingly beautiful, sometimes outright ugly, lol.
Here's a couple pics of mine, but check out the link to see the real Long Border(don't click on the back arrow when there, click on the squares to see more of the border.)

Sept.2008 sort of from the back end

June 2007 from the front end

Remy

Here is a link that might be useful: Christopher Lloyd's Long Border

This is a cool thread...

I have my new holding bed, the shade garden, the kitchen garden (which is all flowers under my kitchen window), the iris bed, the lily bed and my very favorite the Roxie bed which is named for my late mom-in-law best friend and was started to save many of her plants from her gardens because her youngest son who got the house was putting a garage where the gardens were.

Bonny

Some lovely and creative names for garden beds here! Here's mine -

Front garden 1 (FG1)
Front garden 2 (FG2)
Back garden (BG)
Hummingbird garden HG)
Tall garden (TG)
Woodland garden 1 (WG1)
Meadow garden 1 (MG1)
Meadow garden 2 (MG2)
Veggie garden

Creative huh? But easy to add more gardens - Woodland garden 2, etc. :)

It seems we all name them similarly, I have
wildflower circle garden
bottle tree bed
zinnia bed
island beds (around trees)
back hill garden (a very small rise, it's a hill to a louisianagal)
shade garden
garage garden
front beds
and others unnamed, like the bed by the dryer vent

And it's funny how these names stick. We still call it the vegetable garden tho we haven't grown vegetables there for over 20 years (we gave up the fight with the wild animals).

It turned into a weedy mess. However, the "Weedy Mess Garden" lacks a certain something as a name, no matter how accurate.

Now I am pround to have reclaimed it, grassed it over for temporary neatness, and am slowly adding flowering shrubs and extra perennials so it can be my Cutting Garden. Tho we still call it the Vegetable Garden! (It still has one lonely rhubarb.)

Very interesting thread.
The only real reason I named my beds was to be able to keep things streight when I am making my notes/lists (I am a prolific list-maker). It helps when I am writing where I want to put a plant or what plant I want to move.
I don't really have any 'beds', just general areas. Sometimes I will divide one whole area up and name the sections for convenience sake. I also have 'landmarks' to help me narrow down the specific area I am refering to. Interestingly enough, these 'landmarks' are just plants, usually those plants that are permanant fixtures in those areas (the ones that have been there forever and will likely always be there).

I don't think that anybody but myslef would actually be able to tell which is which though, lol. Like ginny said, certain names just stick, even if they don't really 'work' for that area.

Some of my areas include:
The Veggie Garden

The Alley Garden- a long strip of garden boardering the alley, edged with concrete peices.
The Front Shade Garden- a shady little micro-climate under the overhang of the house.
THe Front Garden- I use it to describe the sunny area opposite the shade garden. It has roses and some perennials in it. I should probably say the 'Front Sun Garden' instead.

Then there are the 'Sides of the House Gardens'. There gardens on both the east and west sides of the house.
The east side is broken down into sections like the 'Picket Fence Garden' and the 'Arbor Garden'.

Then there is the big blob of shade/part shade/part sun garden that is devided into the 'Shade Garden', the 'Patio Garden', and the 'Peony Garden'. The peony garden has only one peony in it, 'Emile Debatene' which I adore. This is my favorite bed.

Then there is just the 'Main Garden', which is the largest. Then I call the garden across the path from the Main Garden the 'Other Garden', or sometimes the 'Stump Garden' because I have a decorative stump there.

Then there are other areas that are not important, and are therefore un-named.
CMK

This is fun!
The daylilly garden.
The Pink Garden
Sissy's Island (circle in driveway)
The Frog Song garden (koi Pond/butterfly)
The Little House beds
Rabbits Patch (vegestable garden)
Pet Cemetary Garden
Wild Garden
The borders
The Bulb Bed (my husband says Bud Garden and even helps me "bury buds" sometimes)
The Pecan Grove

fun, The name of our house is Frogview Cottage.
We have:
The Out Front
The Gaudy Garden
Jesse's Yard and Pot Ghetto
The Joyce Brown Side

I saw on HGTV a woman who named a bed "The Bed of Indecision", She couldn't make up her mind what would go there. lol

Jim

These are my garden names

Grass Patch (wild grasses)

Wild Things (wild flowers)

Lily Patch (day lilies)

Betsy's Sunshine Garden (rock garden with perennials)

The 'private garden' on one side of the house, which a neighbor lovingly calls the 'secret garden', and the 'public garden' on the other side where about half is dedicated to growing vegetables. It is now semi-private since I put up reed grass screening. The back I call the chicken/dog yard where of course I am not able to grow anything because it would get eaten/trampled.

Let's see...we have a few :)

The Fairy Garden (lots of roses and unusually shaped flowers on the east side of the house)

The Cottage Garden (this is along the front of the house)

The Rose and Herb Garden (this is on the sunny side of the house)

The Kitchen Garden (out in the yard with the big arbror...still under construction)

The Plum Tree Garden (out front under two Italian plum trees....with roses and peonies)

and The Pine Tree Garden...with the small/dwarf pine tree and lots of shade plants and shrubs

And planning for The Fragrance Garden and Mom's Vegetable Garden!

My house is "The Little House of Horrors on the Prairie." It's small, it's on the prairie, and from Day 1 it's developed into a money pit of problems.

I have the "Gate Keeper Garden". It's a huge (28"?) pot near the gate leading from the driveway to the patio area that joins the garage with the mudroom entry. It usually holds purple and variegate petunias, white cosmos or those green "Spikey" things, trailing verbena, and tri-color sweet potato vine. It also has a bluebird box mounted on a 4' pole set in the center of the pot Wrens usually nest in the box and spend the summer picking bugs out of the garden. Win-win.

The "Patio Garden" is the only area in the patio not filled with concrete. It's a hot, dry, scalded with mid-day sun, and shaded in the morning and late afternoon. It is a semi-circle area the steps to the mudroom and the former steps to the Sun Porch. On the advice of a garden manager in Fargo, I planted a dwarf Norwegian Spruce there and tucked creeping phlox around it. The spruce grows in a near perfectly round shape and should get to nearly 5' tall and 5' wide. It never needs pruning. It has grown beautifully and is thriving.

I have the "South/Vegetable Garden." I know this is will sound surprising, LOL, but it's on the south side of the house (in front of the Gate Keeper Garden) and holds most of the vegetables. I shoehorn a couple dozen marigolds in it and consider the flowering chives as "decorative."

I have the "Hosta Garden" on the north side of the house. It's a work-in-progress, but holds hostas, bleeding hearts, mosses, lily of the valley, violas, and a few Columbine that migrated over from the neighbor's house. I'm in the process of adding in an old 1940s birdbath (original to this house) as a Fairy Garden. A Virginia Creeper popped up (again from the neighbor's) so I'll probably train and prune it to twine around the base of the birdbath.

In the front I'm still working on two rock (as in granite mini-boulders; most are much bigger than basketballs) gardens. There's a 6-ft. wide walkway, newly planted with grass between the two roughly-paisley shaped gardens. The larger one, closer to the street is "Stonehenge." It will be filled with mostly cottage-type perennials. The slightly smaller one, closer to the driveway, is "Stone Age." This year it's filled with the overflow tomatoes, cabbage, and Swiss Chard from the South Garden.