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Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Where can I find a free internet site for DIY garden yard designs?

I have a rather small front yard and a large back yard and I would like to design it myself and try to do all the labour myself aswell.

Here’s a free interactive landscaping website from Better Homes & Gardens. You’ll have register to log on to their website (You don’t need to buy anything or subscribe to their magazine).”Plan-a-Garden lets you design anything from a patio-side container garden to your whole yard. Use your mouse to “drag-and-drop” more than 150 trees, shrubs, and flowers. Add dozens of structures like buildings, sheds, fences, decks — even a pond.” You may also have to close their magazine ad. by clicking on the x

http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/planagardenhome_03022002.xml

Create your design and explore your new garden in 3D:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/virtualgarden_index.shtml

Landscaping design:
http://justgardeners.com/hrsc/articles/art_landscape-design.html (This site contains a gallery of forum users’s own pics too.)

Landscaping Plans from HGTV:

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/pac_ctnt_988/text/0,,HGTV_22056_60914,00.html

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_landscaping_design/

Front yard landscaping view includes a brick landscape retaining wall, & a deck :

http://revver.com/video/434107/front-yard-landscaping-ideas-landscape-design-advicecom/

Landscaping Ideas Design Tutorial for a backyard:

http://revver.com/video/524055/landscaping-ideas-design-tutorial/

Hardscaping:

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/pac_ctnt_988/text/0,,HGTV_22056_60415,00.html?affiliate=blocker&omnisource=landscape%20gardens&c1=Garden%20and%20Landscape&c2=Google&c3=Landscape%20Design&c4=landscape%20gardens&c5=Paid%20Search

Top 10 Tips for Do-It-Yourself Landscaping:

http://landscaping.about.com/od/designexamples1/tp/do_it_yourself.htm

Easy-care perennial rock garden plan, plus links to kitchen gardens, wildflower gardens,etc from Brooklyn Botanic Gardens:

http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/design/2006sp_rockgarden.html

Cottage garden sample plan:

http://www.capecodconnection.com/garden/plan.htm

Perhaps you can get some ideas from this video of low-maintenance, low-water perennials in this garden, using native plants, ornamental grasses, Coneflowers, Salvia, Sedum, Coreopsis, Gayfeathers, Daylilies, etc.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/946018

Here’s a slide show that can give you some ideas:

http://www.bhg.com/bhg/slideshow/slideShow.jsp?slideid=/templatedata/bhg/slideshow/data/frontyard_flowers_032604.xml&page=15

This video shows how evergreens combine with shrubs & perennials (click on the link ‘Formal Landscape Design Ideas’):

http://hcs.osu.edu/plantfacts/movies/largeWMF.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=input&-Database=movieindex&-KeyValue=871

Use of hardscaping with plant foliage & texture:

http://hcs.osu.edu/plantfacts/movies/largeWMF.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=input&-Database=movieindex&-KeyValue=611

Hometime.com provides “How to” landscaping ideas:

http://www.hometime.com/Howto/projects/landgardn/land_1.htm

These landscape design sites might give you some ideas:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=landscape+design&rs=2&fr2=xpl&_adv_prop=image&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush-ans&vf=

Good luck!!! Hope this is helpful.

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