By Mary H. Dyer, Master Naturalist and Master Gardener Have you ever imagined creating a storybook garden? Remember the pathways, mysterious doorways and human-like flowers in Alice in Wonderland, or the lagoon in Make Way for Ducklings? How about Mr. McGregor’s whimsically orderly vegetable garden in Peter Rabbit, where stumps are miniature cottages for Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Squirrel Nutkin? Don’t forget Hagrid’s Garden, which provided Harry Potter and Ron Weasley with ingredients for their magic potions. A Dr. Seuss garden theme provides a wealth of ideas with imaginary plants such as snick-berries and other oddities – like trees with crazy, twisty-turn trunks and colorful flowers atop spiral stems. And this is just a sampling of the storybook garden themes you could create. Read on to learn more. Ideas for Storybook Gardens Coming up with storybook garden themes isn’t as difficult as you might think. What were your favorite books as
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