Our lot was essentially compacted soil and weedy pasture with a few brambles along an abandoned ditch bank and one wild rose. It was still very beautiful when the tall pasture grass was at its best.

As you can see from the picture above, I was eager (overeager, really) to get started creating and building the garden. As soon as we owned the land and before the ground had been cleared, fences installed, or ground broken for the house, I was already launching into projects.

Any garden can have a name regardless of size. Even if it's just a nickname like the Garden of Weedin'. But if you're setting out to create a garden of substantial size, let's say half an acre or more, it just seems right to give it a name.