A Brief Tour of the Grounds

 

We have designed themes for several gardens to be built throughout the lands of the Windlands over the course of a few years.  Each garden will consist of one acre of land devoted to a particular theme.  Some of our ideas are listed below.

 

The Angel Garden - will incorporate stones, pebbles, and crystals in the overall idea, and will possibly include a meditation maze made of white gravel or sand which can be walked slowly and quietly, much like the ones seen in certain cathedrals and gardens.

 

The Elven Wild Acre - will, in the interest of the native inhabitants of the land, be left wild to grow as it will.

 

The Miniature Garden - will incorporate miniature buildings into a miniature landscape, leaving a few secret "fairy places" for hidden magic.  It has lately been added that we should have a miniature palace in the center, surrounded by gardens and outlying villages.  We can use the tiniest natural flowers amidst interwoven walking paths.

 

The Marian Garden - a garden dedicated to St. Mary, which will be centered with a pavilion with a dais and a circular pool by which to sit, in the company of roses and the music of the water.  There will be only one wall to the pavilion, with columns supporting the rest of the roof area.  The wall will be a lattice upon which a variety of roses will be trained to grow.  The surrounding acre will be sectioned off, each section devoted to a particular flowering plant.  Gravel paths will lead to the pavilion from all directions, with the main path being of trimmed grass, with a fountain just in front of the pavilion.

 

The Japanese Garden - pretty self-explanatory.

 

The Fountain Garden - will contain a central fountain on a grand scale, much like the one at Longwood Gardens, with colored lights for night-time shows.  There will be small fountains of all shapes and sizes throughout the acre, with plenty of benches for sitting and drifting.

 

The Native Wild Place - will be similar to the Elven acre, with lots of things to encourage habitation by small animals and birds - bird feeders, butterfly bushes, a creek, etc.

 

The Train Garden - is hoped to be an acre devoted to the design and construction of a miniature outdoor railroad and appropriate landscape, with English style villages nestled along the way.

 

The Wishing Place - this will use a "Secret Garden" theme, where the entire acre is surrounded by a wall covered with ivy and mosses and growing vines, and inside is all designed on a magic, whimsical theme.  Some ideas include wishing well, gazebo, pond, natural woodland plants, soft grasses, lots of Queen Ann's lace, fluffy things like thistle, dandelions, milkweed, and, tucked away to be discovered by visitors, things associated with wishing such as statues of a genie, fairy godmother, magic lamp, magic wand, pot of gold, a terrace with a "magic" door reminiscent of the wardrobe in Narnia, all mixed in with topiaries and little surprises in nooks and crannies in the wall.

 

The Portal Acre - will be the location of our Portal, which is depicted on the home page of this web site.  This will be a mechanized construction of the twin sets of nine pillars and the pathway between, and will include scattered doorways depicted by pairs of small piles of rocks and stones, and lots of gazing balls and large geodes, all focused on the Portal.

 

The Camelot Garden - will have a stone for a sword, a round table, a "lake" for the Lady, some sort of Avalon reminiscent of the depiction in the movie  Dragonheart, a castle facade with a moat with swans.

 

The Ruin Acre - an acre dedicated to a "ruin" reminiscent of an ancient monastery, with perhaps one or two partial walls still standing with striking stained glass windows, and the little plants and animals that slowly reclaim these sites on their own.

 

Birch Acre - an acre of land gently forested with carefully planted birch trees spaced apart to allow for strolling amidst the slender trunks.

 

Geode Fountains and Pool - will be built with a backdrop of giant geodes drilled for water to flow through, into channels of other boulders and stones, and into a still pond.