House and gardening magazines are a good place to look for ideas. You can start a subscription or read them at the library. I found two years worth of a house & gardening magazine at a yard sale for $1.00! They were a couple of years old but the info & ideas were still good. Visit magazine websites and search their archives, you'll find all kinds of good stuff!
Take pictures of gardens and structures you like. Cut pictures out of magazines. Make lists or take pictures at garden centers and shows. Keep everything together in a book or folder and keep looking at it and adding to it. You don't have to use all of these ideas but they'll give you options as you decide how you want your garden to look. I have no less than 8 pictures of archways and gates...none of which we used! Think about how some of the structural stuff will look in the winter covered in snow or sticking out of it!
Create a list of plants you like. These can be researched in books or online. Find out if they require special nutrients, sun or shade and what level of watering they need. This will help decide where they should go in the garden or whether they are suitable at all. You can also find out if they are poisonous or irritants (especially important if you have young children or pets).
Even after you decide what you want in your garden, keep collecting. We still find new plants and ideas every season, you will too!
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