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

Free garden design plants, with plant lists and layout, plus photo galleries of garden design concepts.

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.

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