25 Garden Plans and Ideas to Inspire Your Planting

A garden shouldn’t only be attractive in summer.

If your garden lacks winter interest, consider planting trees and shrubs with peeling bark and unique textures, which provide interest to your garden year-round.

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If you’ve always wanted to grow your very own cutting garden to gather blooms for bouquets you can enjoy or sell, look no further than this perennial garden plan full of color, fragrance, and beauty that evolves with the growing season.

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Even if your space is limited, you can grow herbs right outside your door. Assemble a collection of pots and plant the herbs that you use most often, as well as some varieties that are less familiar to you (you may discover a new fave!).

Some herbs are annual, so you’ll need to replant every year, while other herbs are perennial and will come back for many years. Make sure to plant perennial herbs in a spot in your garden where they have plenty of room to spread.

Read more: 20 Best Perennial Herbs for the Tastiest Edible Garden Ever

Also read: Everything You Should Know Before Starting an Herb Garden

Why plant new flowers every year? By incorporating perennial flowers, which return for many years, you’ll be able to build a garden that will need little care from you to bloom.

But be patient! There’s an old saying that perennials walk, then crawl, then run. So expect them to start out slow and finally kick into high gear in the garden during their third year in the ground.

Read more: 27 Best Perennial Flowers and Plants to Love in Your Garden

If you’re constructing or repairing your patio, plan for a planting bed as part of the design. It’ll help to define the space and make it feel more like an outdoor room.

Read more: 20 Best Patio Plants for a Lush Outdoor Space

Nothing’s more refreshing after a long, dark winter than greeting spring with bright and cheery flowering bulbs. But if critters are an issue, stick with bulbs they don’t like, such as daffodils and hyacinths.

Plant bulbs in fall for a show next spring.

Read more: 16 Best Flower Bulbs to Plant in the Fall

Did you know many plants, such as these stunning hellebores shown here, can bloom in the winter? Plant winter-blooming flowers so you can enjoy your garden even when the weather is frightful.

Pick them now, plant them this fall, and they’ll be making your winter landscape beautiful next year.

Read more: 19 Best Winter Flowers to Add Color to Your Garden