TierramadreLandscape.com

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/planagarde nhome_03022002.xml

Create your design and explore your new garden in 3D:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/vi rtualgarden_index.shtml

Landscaping design:
http://justgardeners.com/hrsc/articles/a rt_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/te xt/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-yar d-landscaping-ideas-landscape-design-adv icecom/
Landscaping Ideas Design Tutorial for a backyard:
http://revver.com/video/524055/landscapi ng-ideas-design-tutorial/

Hardscaping:
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/pac_ctnt_988/te xt/0,,HGTV_22056_60415,00.html?affiliate =blocker&omnisource=landscape%20gard ens&c1=Garden%20and%20Landscape& c2=Google&c3=Landscape%20Design& c4=landscape%20gardens&c5=Paid%20Sea rch

Top 10 Tips for Do-It-Yourself Landscaping:
http://landscaping.about.com/od/designex amples1/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/20 06sp_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/slideSh ow.jsp?slideid=/templatedata/bhg/slidesh ow/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/lar geWMF.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=in put&-Database=movieindex&-KeyVal ue=871
Use of hardscaping with plant foliage & texture:
http://hcs.osu.edu/plantfacts/movies/lar geWMF.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=in put&-Database=movieindex&-KeyVal ue=611

Hometime.com provides "How to" landscaping ideas:
http://www.hometime.com/Howto/projects/l andgardn/land_1.htm

These landscape design sites might give you some ideas:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im ages?p=landscape+design&rs=2&fr2 =xpl&_adv_prop=image&ei=UTF-8&am p;fr=ush-ans&vf=

Good luck!!! Hope this is helpful.

2008-08-11 05:26:54 by m3_shall

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I'm looking for a virtual planner to design a garden that is all done on computer. Any sites i can check out?

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."
P.S. 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/planagarde nhome_03022002.xml

Lowe's Landscape & Garden planner
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg &p=Down_to_Earth/GardenPlanner/garde nplansplash.html&rn=none

3D Garden planner
http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-plann er-1.html (demo)
http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-plann er-15.html

BBC Gardening- Virtual Design
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/vi rtualgarden_index.shtml

Drag & drop planner you can use without having to register; click on the blue triangle for hardscapes like fence, brick, pond, etc. & click each to drag & drop. Click "next layout' several times for the grid's shape to put your plants & hardscapes in.
http://www.gardenerspath.com/gardenplann er/index.html

DIY On-line garden planner
http://www.curbly.com/DIY-Maven/posts/14 96-FREE-On-Line-Garden-Planner

Good luck! Hope this helps.

2008-02-16 23:57:35 by minty76

Price: $19.95

I'm looking to buy Landscape Design software for DIY projects. I'm reading good things about Better Homes and Garden Home Design Suite and Punch! softwares. Anyone used them or have any recommendations for either, both, or something else?

Most of the software available, including Better Homes and Garden Suite, is tricky to use and really leaves you without any real plan.

Honestly, I would recommend using good old fashioned pencil and paper to come up with your initial design. Or perhaps try the free Sketch-up software from Google. Just search for "Google Sketch Up."

Another idea might be to call your local community college and see if one of their design students might put something together for free as a resume' builder or perhaps a class project.

Also, many nurseries will put together a professional design for free if you buy the plants from them.

Hope that helps!

2007-04-11 10:39:44 by offcrferg

Price: $14.95

I would like to make my own Fairy like mini Garden.
Dose anyone have any hints, ideas, webpage links, DIY kits, Designs that one can get ideas from. etc.

A few links

http://www.thefairysgarden.com/
(I fixed this link, it wasn't working on here)

here is a good link to a site that has directions for making your own fairy houses: http://www.fairyamber.com/

http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/shop/ fairies.shtml
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_containers_i ndoor/article/0,1785,HGTV_3559_1667624,0 0.html
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_design_other /article/0,1785,HGTV_3566_3401615,00.htm l

A few years ago, when my daughter was younger, she was a believer in fairies, I think she still is. I made her a small fairy garden of her own for her fairy dolls. We planted a huge, wide planter with miniature size plants and a few larger flowers for fairy trees. We made a fairy house out of scrap pieces of wood that we glued pretty stones and shells to. We even made a fairy hammock out of a shell suspended between two sticks. We made a path leading to the fairy house through the planter using tiny flat stones. We made an arbor with sticks bent and twisted together that the path led under in front of the fairy house. My daughter was in charge of this garden, watering it and weeding and caring for it. She enjoyed doing this, as well as playing with her fairy dolls in the fairy garden. I think most of her friends were a little jealous of her garden and they all loved playing with it. Even my older sons got into the construction of the fairy house, and fixed it a few times when it was coming apart a little, making improvements, even.
Some of the plants we used in the fairy garden... we used tiny Corsican Mint as a ground cover around the house and other plantings, like a fairy lawn, we also had Sweet Allysum, which comes in whites and lavenders and smells so good, And Candytufts were the tall flowers for fairy trees. One year we used Geraniums for the fairy trees.
We used tiny shells for dishes for a fairy tea party setting.
Have fun with your fairy garden!

2006-11-15 20:05:00 by A Lady Dragon

I'm looking to buy Landscape Design software for DIY projects. I'm reading good things about Better Homes and Garden Home Design Suite and Punch! softwares. Anyone used them or have any recommendations for either, both, or something else?

http://landscaping-software-review.topte nreviews.com/

2007-04-11 09:11:34 by offcrferg