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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

www.GoodFitGuide.com You don#39;t know how to start creating landscape designs ? Are you having trouble coming up with ideas for your landscaping ...

i would like to make a beautiful garden in my front yard to distract from the oldness of the house i am renting. its not the prettiest house, but i think a beautiful garden would help make it look a lot prettier. the only problem is where i want to put it the sun only hits it in the late afternoon. what would my best options be for flowers and design. i wanted it to be a butterfly garden, but there is not enough sunlight.
i live in marlow, oklahoma if that helps ne.

You could try some plants that say partial shade. Depending on where you live, the garden centers are coming alive this time of year, but you may not have a great selection yet. One bush that grows well in partial shade is a hydrangea. It will take a few years to really grow and needs a lot of water, but the huge blooms of flowers look like snowballs. They come in several colors, which can be changed by adding things to the soil. You might be better off with pots and annuals like impatients or new guniea impatients (also need a lot of water). That way you could take them with you when you move. Go to the local garden center in a few weeks and see what is available. Good luck!!

2009-03-17 14:06:03 by jamiethomaz

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i want to plant a garden in my front yard but i would kinda like to see what it might look like. it that possible?

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Looking to have a nice garden with lot of colourful flowers & design for front & back yard.

You can ask at Alden Lane Nursery for references.

You can try Kristin's Garden: Kristin Yanker-Hansen (out of Danville).

2008-06-13 12:15:48 by Lucky D

I'm trying to design a cottage garden in a very weird shaped front yard and would love to be able to send in a picture and get some idea.
Is there such a site ?

Thanks and have a great day !

Yeah, that'd be nice if there was one, like ratemylandscape.com haha. that'd be a great idea for a website, where people can post their landscapes and get comments/suggests on it. but i am unaware of one.

2009-04-08 09:52:46 by applecheeks