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Free Garden Design Plans You Can Use in Your Yard

Garden design plans, with plant selections and alternatives. Free!
Design Plan for a Simple, Formal Herb Garden
Formal Herb Garden Design and Layout.
A Cut Flower Garden of Perennial Favorites
A free garden design for a perennial cutting garden. Complete with specified plants and alternaives. 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 with ever changing variety. Here's a garden design of perennial cutting flowers you can duplicate in your own yard.
Attracting Butterflies and Hummingbirds to Your Gardens
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 - Creating a Sunny Flower Border
How to design a sunny flower border. Flowers to use in designing for a sunny spot.
The Shady Nook - Designing a Garden for Partial Shade
How to create a shade garden design for a partially shaded garden nook.
Accent Shade Gardens with White & Silver Flowers and Foliage
How to design a garden that will brighten a shade spot, using white and silver flowers and foliage.

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