Unlock the secrets of successful planting combinations with our clear, easy-to-follow planting plans.
PDF download include FIVE different layout options. This combination will look great for months on end and would be perfect for adding curb appeal to a front yard garden or courtyard.
Learn More & Download
This foliage-driven plant combination is the basis for an easy-care, drought-tolerant border. These plants can be used to create a backdrop and/or screen in a full sun garden. The palette works as-is or you could choose to add additional sun-loving, water wise perennials for bloom to add further interest.
Learn More & Download
This plant combination, with accompanying planting plan, offers a pleasing progression through the seasons—and attractive foliage from all!
Learn More & Download
Three layout options, thoroughly & artfully illustrated. This plant combination in fiery tones for full sun will hold up to the heat of high summer.
Learn More & Download
Easy to follow planting plan for a flowery plant combination that will thrive in full sun and provide months of beauty and joy.
Learn More & Download
The colorful foliage in varied shapes and textures make an interesting and engaging display that looks good year-round but is particularly effective spring to fall, when all its members are present and in fine form.
Learn More & Download
A focus on foliage ensures that this plant combination will look good for months on end—from spring to fall, fab foliage creates an engaging tableau with its variety of textures.
Learn More & Download
Vivid colors; red and yellow foliage, coupled with a multi-colored rose are tempered by the more neutral tones of the ground-covering grass and cinnamon-colored bark of the Acer griseum.
Learn More & Download
Fantastic foliage provides a strong foundation for this combination. The plant palette has a nice balance of evergreen and deciduous plants, fragrant summer blooms, colorful foliage in a mix of colors and textures, fall color and winter interest.
Learn More & Download
The Natchez crape myrtle is much admired for its gorgeous bark, summer-blooming panicles of white, and excellent its fall color.
Learn More & Download
Stewartia monadelpha is a slow-growing tree selected for its gorgeous bark, summer blooms and excellent fall color.
Learn More & Download
This exciting year-round garden is perfect for a highly visible location on your property—such as your front entry.
Learn More & Download
Two layout options, thoroughly & artfully illustrated. This drought-tolerant planting combination for full sun features a variety of plant shapes, foliage colors and textures, and an evolving sequence of blooms that provide color from spring to fall.
Learn More & Download
Thanks to an emphasis on creating interest using foliage of contrasting size, shape, texture and color, this plant combination looks good from spring to fall. Summer blooms are a bonus!
Learn More & Download
Orange-red foliage of the barberry and fragrant red flowers atop semi-glossy green foliage from the sweetshrub set the tone for the color scheme and are a welcome color treat from late spring to fall.
Learn More & Download
A focus on foliage ensures that this combo provides garden enjoyment for months on end—an evolving display of foliage and flower carries the scene from spring to fall with some elements additionally providing year-round structure.
Learn More & Download
With a focus on foliage and supported by the long-blooming and easy-care flowering shrub and hardy geranium for flower power, this vignette is super low maintenance and looks good from spring to fall.
Learn More & Download
No water, no problem. And no sacrifice necessary—you'll be pleased with how good this combination looks year-round.
Learn More & Download
This full sun plant combination provides enjoyment nearly year-round but is especially showy in spring when the ITOH peony is covered in voluptuous blooms.
Learn More & Download
Thanks to a foliage-first focus and a few carefully selected bloomers, this combo looks great from spring to fall—and it's no slouch in winter thanks to the handsome evergreen foliage of Bupluerum fruticosum and Picea pungens 'Ruby Teardrops'.
Learn More & Download
Follow this ambitious, but ready-made and easy-to-follow, plan to install this long border along the back or side edge of your backyard then sit back and enjoy the view.
Learn More & Download
This planting combination will perform best in bright, open shade or filtered sun with regular water. It relies heavily on foliage to deliver year-round good-looks.
Learn More & Download
This is simple and serene planting scheme is composed of sweeps and drifts of foliage-first, low-maintenance plants enhanced by a summer-blooming panicle hydrangea and a smattering of blue blooms at its feet.
Learn More & Download
This is a front-yard-worthy planting scheme is composed of sweeps and drifts of foliage-first, low-maintenance plants and it has a pleasing seasonal progression.
Learn More & Download
This plant combination relies on low-maintenance shrubs to provide year-round enjoyment with minimal fuss. This palette of plants is deceptively simple at first look. But rest assured, these eight plants provide a nice variety in terms of foliage texture, plant shape, and size.
Learn More & Download
A thread of warm, bronzy to orangish-red tones tie this plant combination together. The blue tones of the slow-growing conifer, Picea pungens 'Montgomery', has a cooling effect.
Learn More & Download
Though the tough and easy-to-grow ground-covering Veronica p. 'Georgia Blue' starts blooming in early spring, this plant combination really comes into its own in high summer when the hydrangea adds floral fun to this otherwise foliage-driven scene.
Learn More & Download
A small palette of simple, but stylish, plant choices provide months of easy-care enjoyment in this handsome, foliage-first plant combination.
Learn More & Download
Strongly contrasting burgundy and yellow foliage and red blooms make a zippy statement in this simple vignette of drought tolerant plants.
Learn More & Download
This casual and cottage-y perennial plant combination for full sun employs a variety of flower shapes to create interest.
Learn More & Download
Foliage and flowers in warm tones provide beauty and attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
Learn More & Download
Planting Plan: This foliage-focused palette of plants is perfect for a front yard garden. It looks good pretty much year-round thanks to its reliance on plants with colorful and evergreen leaves.
Learn More & Download
Planting plan for woodland garden bed that is 20' wide by 10' deep garden bed. Requires full to filtered sun and average to regular water. USDA Zones 6—9.
Learn More & Download
Early blooms, or late depending upon your perspective, of Camellia 'Chansonette' are the color kickoff for this combo in late fall / early winter.
Learn More & Download