Planting design

The Weekend Project Guide bundles the 5 weekend project landscape plans from our Ultimate Planning Guide and offers two bonus plans, as well. With beautifully illustrated plans, design advice, and pla

4 simple ways to arrange flowers and plants in your garden to get that beautiful layered look that you want... even if you're a beginner!

Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx’s 1979 design for the garden of the Clemente Gomes residence in Areias is abstract and simplistically beautiful.

I paid a local landscape design professional to create a landscape design plan for our property that sits on one acre in Zone 8.

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Gallery of natural history, natural science, and sciart illustrations of grardens and gardening techniques by Lizzie Harper; including many step by steps

A variety of garden types, each with unique design elements that reflect specific purposes and contexts within landscape architecture. From the Botanical Garden that emphasizes plant diversity and education, to the Historic Garden which preserves cultural heritage, these spaces are designed not only for aesthetic appeal but also for functionality, sustainability, and social engagement. Station Front Gardens serve as welcoming urban green spaces, often acting as the first point of…

Though I officially learned planting design in college, I didn't begin my real education until I began creating my own garden. These are a collection of tips I've learned over the last twenty years in both capacities. If you'd like more information on some of these tips please check out these posts: Drawing Tree Forms Make Your Garden Pop with Texture Texture in the Garden I hope to expand on additional tips in the future...so keep a look out for those. I'd love to hear your planting design…

It’s tempting to go straight to picking plants without giving much thought to designing a garden layout for your entire yard. But, choosing plants is usually the very LAST step when you lay out a garden plan. It can be a daunting task to design a garden layout or garden plan, especially if you don’t have a landscape design degree. In this beginner-friendly step by step guide, I’ll give you all of the steps you need to plant for peace and privacy so you can finally get your dream garden.

A woodland wildlife garden is the best environmental choice for garden design. Ecologically, a woodland garden using native plants will help to restore native flora and fauna in our urban and suburban areas that are being over run with non-native, exotic plants that are damaging our environment. Here is a design plan complete with a plant list so that everyone can help to save our environment one garden at a time.

When Peter Blum and his wife, Rita, had a modern house built in Irvington, New York, they hired a landscape architect to turn the existing grounds into an