Its not really a garden, (unless there is some UK-US language mix up hehe, perhaps you refer to a property as a garden?) Anyway its actually just part of the woods all around the house. We live around swampland. Actually the swamp is visible through the trees to the left of the image, we skate on it in the winter. We have beavers, turtles and frogs of different kinds, a pair of Osprey that come back each year, and a colony of great blue herons, probably about 7-10 nests out there each season. So it all naturally growing stuff! Attracts all sort of wildlife!
Ive seen foxes around here and coyotes, have yet to see a bear or a moose, but once and a while signs will turn up that something large as been through the property over night. My father in-law has also seen bobcats while hunting.
I could certainly get lots of inspiration for artwork around here, but it usually comes down to gryphons, dragons and unicorns for artwork hehe.