Garden plans

Planning a vegetable garden but all you have room for is a 10 x 10 space? You might be surprised by what you can grow. Here are sample garden plans for your smaller garden

It’s tempting to go straight to picking plants without giving much thought to designing a garden layout for your entire yard. But, choosing plants is usually the very LAST step when you lay out a garden plan. It can be a daunting task to design a garden layout or garden plan, especially if you don’t have a landscape design degree. In this beginner-friendly step by step guide, I’ll give you all of the steps you need to plant for peace and privacy so you can finally get your dream garden.

Take your home’s entry garden from ho-hum to head-turning with this plan full of long-blooming drought-tolerant plants!

A woodland wildlife garden is the best environmental choice for garden design. Ecologically, a woodland garden using native plants will help to restore native flora and fauna in our urban and suburban areas that are being over run with non-native, exotic plants that are damaging our environment. Here is a design plan complete with a plant list so that everyone can help to save our environment one garden at a time.

I paid a local landscape design professional to create a landscape design plan for our property that sits on one acre in Zone 8.

Gallery of natural history, natural science, and sciart illustrations of grardens and gardening techniques by Lizzie Harper; including many step by steps

Starting a big vegetable garden? It's fun and exciting to have a lot of space to work with. But...with more space comes more planning. A good garden layout helps everything grow better and makes your

Want to know the biggest mistake I see homeowners make when they are designing their gardens? It’s this – they always start with the plants. I get it – the plants are fun and the garden center is pretty and wow – it is so nice to imagine how these green leafy things will transform your drab yard into that gorgeous future landscape oasis you might imagine.

No-Fuss Bird and Butterfly Garden Plan

25 best vegetable garden design ideas & easy layout plans for beginners & pros to grow your own food in a front or backyard edible landscape. - A Piece of Rainbow, kitchen garden, vegetable gardening ideas, small space tips, grow your own food, herbs, homestead, homesteading, spring, summer, raised beds, trellis, greenhouse, DIY

Free planting templatesI often find getting started is the hardest part of many projects. I was recently reminded how true that is for gardening when a Master Gardener from Newport News wrote to me about a fantastic project she is working on with her fellow gardeners: a "Getting Started" kit tailored specifically to Virginia coastal gardens. This sounds like a terrific idea and I hope to be able to share it when it is ready for prime time. In the meantime, her note jogged my memory about…

Raised bed layout designs and best practices to help you grow healthy food the regenerative way. Plan your raised bed garden with our guide.

This post walks you step by step through the process of building an enclosed walk-in garden with garden beds! Includes building plans & video!

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