I am stuck with too little space and too many big plans for my garden.  Some people who have this problem just forge ahead, like a woman I know who has two waterfalls, an island, a gazebo, a rose garden, a rock garden and an outdoor kitchen--all on the back third of a standard size suburban lot. 

I can't bring myself to do something like that, mostly because I would find such an array of landscaping and hardscaping confusing.  So I tend my own beds and borders and spend a lot of time coveting my neighbor's lot, especially the sunny parts.  Her house is the mirror image of mine, but, due to property transactions that took place a century ago, her lot is twice the size of mine.  Life is not fair.

While I am coveting, I find myself thinking about what I would do if I could annex her garden space.  First of all, I would add lots of edible crops to my planting scheme. I might even have a fancy potager or kitchen garden.  Since I love strawberries, I would also have a dedicated strawberry bed, with enough fencing and netting to keep out various varmints and berry-loving birds.   It's highly likely that I would have raspberries, a peach tree and a dwarf apple tree as well. 

In the ornamental realm, I would make a round bed and fill it with many different varieties of my favorite yellow roses, underplanted with blue-purple flowered hardy geraniums and encircled by a low lavender hedge.

Now that I have done all that dreaming and come back down to earth, I have to face the fact that there is no way I'll ever be able to annex my neighbor's yard.  I'll just have to settle for a small round rose bed in the center of the lawn, a strawberry jar on the back porch and a few edibles here and there in my planting scheme.  It's not the whole loaf, but it's a start on half a loaf.