Choose from our free, downloadable, low-maintenance garden plans for greenery and color in your yard.
Each one relies on easy-care, sun-loving plants that will provide color and texture throughout the growing season.
This layered garden plan works well as a foundation planting orin front of a fence.
Credit: Illustration by Gary Palmer
Beautiful Heat-Tolerant Garden
This high-impact, low-care garden plan keeps your yard looking fantastic eventhrough heat waves.
It features a variety ofsummer-blooming favoritessuch assalvias,irises, andzinnias.
Fill a corner of your yard with thisgarden designfor a big display of brightly colored flowers and foliage.
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Tough-as-Nails Perennial Garden
Russian sage,lavender, andcatmintare sure bets for an easy-care garden plan.
These tough plants mix with perennials to produce beautiful bursts of pink, yellow, and purple all summer.
The variety of heights makes this garden perfect forflower beds against fences.
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Heat-Loving Flower Garden
Some plants shut down in hot weather.
Front Yard Corner Garden
Banish front yard blahs by installing thiscorner fencegarden of fast-growing flowers.
Packed with sun-loving selections, the design features a mix of colorful annuals punctuated with just a few perennials.
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Cheeryblack-eyed Susancomplements easy-carecosmos,penstemon, butterfly bush, and more in this long-blooming garden plan.
It features no-fuss favorites such ascoreopsisand purpleconeflowers.
This garden will thrive and bloom through even the warmest summer weather.
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Beat-The-Heat Summer Garden
This ultra-easy garden plan will shine all summer, even as the mercury climbs.
This design includes a variety offlowering perennials that don’t need much care from you.
Just find a sunny spot that needs some cheery color andstart digging.
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
The rich color of its blooms is complemented and contrasted by the surrounding annual flowers.
These reliable plants will come back every year anddon’t require much careother thanoccasional deadheading.
Low-Care Fall Garden
End your growing season with a bang with this simple garden plan.
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
It features colorfulmums,asters, and other easy-care fall favorites that heat up as the weather cools.
Easy Slope Garden Plan
Solve a tough-to-mow slope with this easy-care garden plan.
It combinescolorful annualsand perennials into a gorgeous display that will bloom from spring to fall.
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Enhance Your Garden with an Outdoor Structure
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Credit: Illustration by Gary Palmer
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
Credit: Illustration by Mavis Augustine Torke
