Garden Planning & Design
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From plants to paths — design your dream garden.
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Create a masterpiece worthy of a garden magazine's cover shot - even in a small space. Follow these tips for a small, standout garden. -
Professional garden designer Kerry Ann Mendez will help you transform your landscape and create stunning, easy-care gardens. -
Not an artist? That's ok! -
We share some of our favorite native alternatives to popular ornamental plants.
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Vegetables and fruits don't need to be hidden away in a back bed - include edibles all throughout your landscape for both flavor AND beauty.
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With the right soil, you can design a "dry garden" and grow beautiful lavender just about anywhere.
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New front yard vegetable gardens are sprouting up all over, and gardeners are finding themselves championing causes beyond fresh broccoli and sun-ripened tomatoes.
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Learn how to design a vegetable garden that showcases the plants and invites exploration. -
Move over mums! Freshen up your garden with fall-blooming native plants.
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Flowers are the stars of the garden, but lighting, ornaments, and other garden decor can bring personality and pizzazz when plants are dormant.
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Do you prefer moody moss over sappy sunflowers? Are you more creepy chic than cottagecore cute?
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Winter doesn't have to be bleak and colorless! There are many carefree shrubs that bring texture and color to the winter landscape.
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Shrinking your lawn can be both beneficial and beautiful. Here are 5 garden designs that help you lose some lawn.
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Fragrance, foliage, flowers, and soft lighting keeps the garden inviting, even into the evening hours. -
Learn how one Los Angeles family created a front yard that looks beautiful, tolerates drought, and welcomes pollinators and neighbors.
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This garden design, featuring calendula, black-eyed Susan, and garden thyme, creates a colorful and fragrant oasis for bees. -
Bring butterflies to the yard with the planting plan, which features zinnias, coneflower, and Kobold blazing star. -
Community gardens unite neighbors on a common plot of land over a shared love of fresh flowers and produce.
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Where there's a will, make a path. Our step-by-step guide to making your own garden path.
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If there's anything more enjoyable than spending time in your own garden, it's spending time visiting someone else's. -
Solar-powered lights are an increasingly popular choice for garden lighting — they're affordable, easy to install, and easy to relocate.
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Upgrading your front yard to a vegetable garden is sure to raise a few eyebrows, but if you do it right, you'll impress the skeptics. -
Bring hummingbirds to the garden with this planting plan, which features bold red, orange, and magenta blooms in brilliant hues. -
Don't own your home but still want a garden? Here are some easy ways to make your garden movable. -
Meet Kerry Ann Mendez, an award-winning garden designer, speaker, and author at Perennially Yours, LLC.
