What should your yard look like? These are walkthroughs of real landscape plans: the layout decisions, the planting masses, the structure that carries a garden through winter. Every design comes with its full plant list.
Permaculture's most reproduced diagram gets taught as a planting list, seven slots waiting to be filled. Read it that way and in ten years you will have shaded out five of them.
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Plantyd's sun analysis maps the light in a real native garden at year 1 and year 15: watch several hundred square feet of full sun turn to part shade as the trees grow, and see how the 26-species planting was designed for it.
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A whole home landscape design on one sheet: a butterfly garden, raised vegetable beds, a pergola terrace, a spruce screen, and a small orchard on a quarter-acre zone 6a lot, with the design moves worth copying in your own yard.
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