Free Garden Design Plans and Ideas You Can Use in Your Yard

Garden Design Plan: Butterfly and Hummingbird Plants
This garden is designed to attract both butterflies and hummingbirds. Most of the plants are suitable for a wide range of growing conditions. Alternative plants are also listed. You can follow the plan as is or adapt it to your particular site and style.

Garden Design Plan - A Cut Flower Garden of Perennial Favorites
A free garden design for a perennial cutting garden. Complete with specified plants and alternatives. Many perennials will repeat flower if kept dead headed, which is exactly what a cutting garden is for. And since not all perennial flowers bloom at the same time, your bouquets and arrangements will take on a seasonal flair and provide you...

Garden Design Plan -A Sunny Flower Border
How to design a sunny flower border. Flowers to use in designing for a sunny spot.

Combining Plants - One Plant, Three Ways
When you break it down, garden design is really all about combining plants in different ways. Here, one plant in the garden is used in 3 different ways.

Focal Points - Drawing the Eye with Garden Focal Points
What starts out as just a grouping of plants is given definition by a focal point. Viewers instantly know where to bring their attention. We'll demonstrate some techniques in the following photos, but with placing a focal point, like garden design in general, the more you do it, the better trained your eye will become.