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

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!

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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!

Colorful Planting Around a Garden Arbor

Add interest to a garden pathway with this colorful planting around an arbor.

Brighten Up A Dull Foundation Planting

Here’s a new idea for your foundation planting! These tough and long-blooming perennials dress up a shady area beside the house.

Multiseason beauty for the front of the home

A foundation planting covers the base of your house and welcomes guests to the front door. Highlight your home's entryway with easy color that lasts through the seasons.

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!

Cut Flower Garden Plan with Colorful Annuals

Grow your own beautiful cut flower garden with this planting plan full of annual blooms perfect for a back bed or border!

Colorful Spring Garden Bed with ‘Hino-Crimson’ Azalea

Start your growing season by showcasing the vibrant blooms of 'Hino-Crimson' azalea along with other shade garden favorites.

Spring Shade Garden Plan with Cowslip

Fill your spring shade garden with cowslip, coral bells and bleeding heart!

Fall Garden Border with ‘Nicholas’ Dahlia

Autumn doesn't mean color has to call it quits in your garden! Use mums, dahlias, sedum, salvia and switchgrass to make a splash when temperatures start to cool off.

Grow a Drought-Tolerant Border with ‘Millenium’ Allium

Dry summers and deer aren't a problem for this garden plan featuring 'Millenium' allium and a supporting cast of colorful blooms and fabulous foliage!

Colorful Backyard Flower Border

Surround yourself with blooms every summer with this garden plan for a colorful flower border.

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.

An edible landscape for around the patio

This stylish and functional edible landscape design will help you remake your plain concrete patio into a destination that looks good and tastes delicious!

Planting around a gazebo

This flowery and fragrant garden is perfect for planting around a gazebo.

Add Colorful Plants Around Your Deck

Want a nicer-looking deck? Our colorful deck planting plan has 10 plants that will make any outdoor space look better.

Patio Garden Plan

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

Small-space patio border

Plant a beautiful flower border around your patio with our planting plan and tips.

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.

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Beds & Borders

Four-Season Hydrangea Border

Entries

Colorful Planting Around a Garden Arbor

Brighten Up A Dull Foundation Planting

Multiseason beauty for the front of the home

A Welcoming Entry Garden

Flowery Foundation Garden

Beds & Borders

Cut Flower Garden Plan with Colorful Annuals

Colorful Spring Garden Bed with ‘Hino-Crimson’ Azalea

Spring Shade Garden Plan with Cowslip

Fall Garden Border with ‘Nicholas’ Dahlia

Grow a Drought-Tolerant Border with ‘Millenium’ Allium

Colorful Backyard Flower Border

Decks & Patios

Yoga garden

An edible landscape for around the patio

Planting around a gazebo

Add Colorful Plants Around Your Deck

Patio Garden Plan

Small-space patio border

Wildlife Friendly

Multiseason Garden Bed with Hesse Cotoneaster

Attract More Hummingbirds with this Garden Plan

Butterfly Garden Plan

Hummingbird Flower Garden

Plant a garden that will attract pollinators all season