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Free Landscape Design Plans

Sample landscape design plans you can build. Each one is a real plan made in Plantyd for a named climate, with the layout and the reasons behind it, where the sun falls as it grows in, and the full plan sheet as a PDF. Free, with no signup.

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Four watercolor views from Plantyd's Render tool: stepping stones to a front door under a big oak, a flagstone walk through a native prairie bed to a front door, a flagstone walk past a magnolia and a white crape myrtle, and a concrete walk past coneflowers and black-eyed Susans

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Front Yard Landscaping Ideas: 8 Plans, Drawn to Scale

Eight front yards drawn as real plans, each for a different problem, such as a tiny lot, a north-facing rowhouse, a big oak or a hot porch. Each has a sun map for planting day and fifteen years later, and a plan sheet you can download free.

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Four watercolor views from Plantyd's Render tool: a prairie planting beside a pale path and a wooden fence, a large oak over a shade bed with a mulch path, an oval rain garden of blue iris and shrubs, and a curving dirt path through a woodland edge of ferns, shrubs and yellow flowers under tall trees

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Native Plant Garden Design: Six Plans for Sun, Shade and Wet Ground

A list of native plants doesn't tell you where they go. These six plans do: a meadow, a pollinator island, a rain garden, a woodland edge, a bed under an old oak and a prairie front yard, each drawn to scale and checked for its own sun.

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15 plans

Front yard · Zone 6b · Columbus, OH

Cheap, Simple Front Yard Landscaping: Keep the Lawn, Buy the Plants Small

Full sun

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Front yard · Zone 7a · Central Maryland

Front Yard Landscaping for a Ranch House Without Hiding the Windows

Full sun

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Front yard · Zone 5b · Madison, WI

Front Yard Native Plant Garden Design That Still Looks Cared For

Full sun

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Front yard · Zone 7b · Philadelphia, PA

Narrow Front Yard Landscaping for a North-Facing Rowhouse

Shade most of the year

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Front yard · Zone 7a · Baltimore County, MD

Shade Front Yard Landscaping: What to Plant Under a Big Oak

Shade under a big oak

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Front yard · Zone 6b · Pittsburgh, PA

Small Front Yard Landscaping: Let the Paving Do the Work

Morning sun

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Front yard · Zone 8a · Raleigh, NC

Southern Front Yard Landscaping for a Hot West-Facing Porch

Afternoon sun

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Front yard · Zone 4b · St. Cloud, MN

Zone 4 Front Yard Landscaping: Start With What You See in February

Morning sun

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Backyard · Zone 6b · Lewisburg, WV

Perennial Garden Plan: A Four-Season Border Along a Fence

Full sun

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Backyard · Zone 7a · Lancaster, PA

Pollinator Garden Plan: An Island Bed That Flowers From April to November

Full sun

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Backyard · Zone 5b · Ames, IA

Prairie Garden Design: A Backyard Meadow You Plant in Modules

Full sun

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Backyard · Zone 8a · Marietta, GA

Privacy Landscaping: How to Hide Your Patio From the House Behind

Sun

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Backyard · Zone 7a · Princeton, NJ

Rain Garden Design: Sized to One Downspout

Full sun

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Backyard · Zone 7b · Knoxville, TN

Shade Garden Design Plan: A Four-Season Bed Around an Old Oak

Shade under a big oak

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Backyard · Zone 7a · Skillman, NJ

Woodland Garden Plan: Where Your Lawn Meets the Trees

Part shade

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