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Garden Plans

Our exclusive planting plans and plant combinations make growing a great-looking garden easy. Browse planting plans for front yards, backyards and everything in between. Find gardens that look great in spring, summer, fall and winter and plants that you can grow in sun or shade.
Beds & Borders

Deer-Resistant Garden Bed

This deer-resistant island bed will add interest to any bare spot with full sun to part shade and most of the plants are not usually tasty to deer.

Entries

Help your garden make a great first impression. Our garden plans for front yards in sun or shade make it easy. Foundation plantings, front door plantings, garden arbor plantings. They're all here!

A Welcoming Entry Garden

Take your home’s entry garden from ho-hum to head-turning with this plan full of long-blooming drought-tolerant plants that can take the heat and still look gorgeous.

Flowery Foundation Garden

Boost your curb appeal this flowery foundation garden that really packs a punch. With help from easy-care, long-blooming plants you'll have color all season.
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Beds & Borders

Garden plans for sun. Garden plans for shade. Deer-resistant gardens. Easy-care flower gardens. When you're ready to start a new garden, this is the place to look for backyard borders, flowerbeds and island plantings. Let us help you get started!

Four-Season Hydrangea Border

Looking for a hydrangea-filled flower border that will look great year-round? Try our four-season garden border plan. Includes a plant list and how-to tips!

Budget-friendly garden border

If you’re looking for an affordable but gorgeous plan for your garden, this budget-friendly border shows off all summer and is easy to maintain year after year.

Elegant spring garden bed

Looking for a simple and elegant spring garden bed? The bold alliums punctuate white-flowering slender deutzia in this low-maintenance garden plan.

Decks & Patios

Make your deck or patio better by surrounding it with a garden. These deck and patio planting plans make it easy to create a great-looking garden right where you'll see it most! Grow vegetables, colorful annuals or fragrant plants in your courtyard, around a patio or next to your deck.

Yoga garden

Create a space that encourages balance, good health and peace with this tranquil yoga garden and patio.

Patio Garden Plan

Create a welcoming spot outside your back door with color, fragrance and flavor with this simple 10-plant patio garden design.

Wildlife Friendly

Plant a butterfly garden, a hummingbird garden or a pollinator garden with one of our garden plans. We know which plants attract birds and butterflies and will show you exactly what other features make it most likely to bring in birds, butterflies and other friendly garden visitors.

Butterfly Garden Plan

This butterfly garden plan will attract these beautiful pollinators with colorful & fragrant flowers.

Hummingbird Flower Garden

Looking to bring in more hummingbirds? This simple five-plant garden plan will be sure to turn your garden into a hummingbird hot spot!
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