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sarah: i love the cat garden theme!
what about gothic gardens? (with black or dark red plants, maybe some herbs for "spells"........im not into goth culture otherwise, but i think this type of garden would be very soothing. someplace quiet, secretive. with broken and mossed over statuary and overgrowth everywhere.)
also, a blue garden! ive been playing with the idea for a while, and im going to try it this spring: picture lots of himalayan poppies, borage, heavenly blue morning glories, Campanula poscharskyana, idaho fescue "siskiyou blue"and other blue fescues, blue oat grass, delphinium, etc. etc. (anyone know of any electric blue flowers similar to the himilayan poppy? suggestions welcome)----plus you could turn this into any color themed garden....maybe even a "rainbow" with rows of each color in rainbow order........
a different spin on the bible/holy garden that my grandparents have worked hard on is the mary garden, with flowers pertaining to the virgin mary, like lambs ears, ladys mantle, shasta daisys, roses, lavender, assumption lily, bleeding hearts, johnny-jump-ups (trinity flowers), canterbury bells, english daisy, foxglove, hollyhock, sweet william.....there are so many. the interesting thing about mary gardens: they were abundant in midieval times. flower and plant symbolism was important, and the plants chosen for mary gardens were aides to contemplation and meditation.
a greek mythology garden would be great, too, with plants that symbolize the gods and goddesses, as well as events in the stories themselves: anemone, poppy and violet for venus, the laurel for daphne who escaped apollo by becoming one, the narcissus, maidenhair fern for prosperine, grapevine and wheat (maybe you could substitute some kind of grass) for dionyssus, the willow for demeter, the lily and crocus for hera. pretty much every god/goddess had a flower that represented them.
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! That said, I like Starlings - very resourceful, clever, and humorous birds, really.
