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This free guide covers everything from planning your layout and choosing the right flowers to designing container gardens, cottage gardens, shade gardens, and wildflower spaces. Whether you’re working with a full yard or a single patio planter, it starts with a plan and ends with blooms.
Plan your garden before you spend a dollar at the nursery.
Learn how to assess your sun, shade, space, and soil so that every plant you buy has a place it belongs and conditions where it will thrive.
Four garden styles to match the space you actually have.
Cottage gardens, woodland shade gardens, wildflower meadows, and container designs. Find the approach that fits your yard, your light, and your taste.
Growing profiles for 12 popular flowers, from planting to care.
Detailed soil, sun, spacing, and zone guidance for roses, dahlias, hydrangeas, sunflowers, pansies, zinnias, and more. Each one tells you exactly what it needs.
Container gardening that works in any space.
The thrillers, fillers, and spillers method for designing planters that look full and intentional, with plant picks for both sun and shade.
Fall bulbs and companion flowers that keep your garden productive.
Plant in autumn, bloom in spring. Plus, companion flowers that attract pollinators and protect the plants around them.
Free to download. Yours to keep. Come back to it every time you add something new to your garden.
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The guide is free. The design ideas are inside. All that’s left is deciding which flowers belong in your garden this year.