DESIGN

What’s the difference between a garden and a yard? 

A garden is intentionally planned, filled with plants, and has a sense of enclosure.  If you’re looking to create a beautiful, functional garden then this page will lead you to the best garden design links out there.

***If you live in the Memphis area, start here first for important MEMPHIS GARDENING FAQ’S on average temps, rainfall, frost dates, and more.

Designer Interviews-

Want to know the best and worst plants for urban gardens? Ways to minimize maintenance? Easy tip for a quick wow factor? Read on.

• Designing with S.Kalki Winter
• Designing with Greg Touliatos
• Designing with Tom Pellet
• Designing with John Jennings
• Designing with Lisa Orgle
• Designing with Margaret Leggett 
• Native Plants-Carol Reese
• Native Plants – Chris Cosby pdf
• Native Plants with Diane Meucci —
• Native Plants with Mike Larrivee
• Native Plants with Suzy Askew
• Native Plants by Kalki Winter

Design Links- 

Whether you’re a novice or expert gardener, you’re sure to find inspiration and gain knowledge from these in-depth garden design articles, ppt’s, blogs, and pdf’s.

Art + Statuary-

• Garden Design Magazine – Placing Art in the Garden
• Midsouth Ornamental Concrete –(FB), 6488 Highway 72, Michigan City, Mississippi 38647-8839
• Palladio Garden – 741 S. Cox, Memphis, TN 38104 . (gorgeous garden art, statues, fountains, furniture, and more.

Articles-

• acsedu.com = Introduction to Landscaping pdf
• Austin, TX gov. site –  Earthwise Guide to Landscape Design
• British Columbia Forestry – 2.0 Visual Landscape Design Concepts and Principles, pdf
• Catherine Patterson – Landscape Design Principles ppt
• cvc.ca – The 10 Principles of Landscape Design pdf (Great instructive photos)
• Fine Home Building – Creating Rooms, Outside and In, excerpt from Patterns of Home, pdf
• Florida Yards –  A Guide to Florida Friendly Landscaping pdf
• Garden Design Magazine – 8 Landscape Design Principles
• Growing With Plants – Garden Design is Not The Same as Interior Design
• Hudson Valley Magazine – 12 Key Principles for Garden Design
• Kansas State University – Residential Landscape Design ,105 pages
• Kansas State University Extension Service – Residential Landscape Design, 17 pages
• Kentucky Master Gardener Manual – Chap. 17, Landscape Design pdf
• landscape-design.net – Landscape Design Rules
• Landscape Design: Elements + Principles – Gail Hansen
• Luriegardens.org – Exploring Elements of Garden Design: Plant Size
• Luriegardens.org – Principles and Elements for Better Designs
• Mississippi State University Extension – Home Landscape Design PDF
• North Caroline Extension Gardener Handbook – Landscape Design
• Oklahoma University, Cooperative Extension Service – Homeowner Garden Design Series: Elements and Principles of Design
• P. Allen Smith – 12 Principles of Design (fabulous photos)
• Pacific Horticulture- Making Gardens Seem Bigger, Pt. 1
• Pacific Horticulture -Making Gardens Seem Bigger, Pt. 2
• Pithandvigor.com – Garden Design Basics: From Nice to Wow Rules to Make a Garden Look Amazing
• Principles of Landscape Design– Turf Teacher, youtube video
• Queensland University, Jeannie Sim – Planting Design Sourcebook
• Reliance Foundry – The Essential Principles for Exceptional Landscape Design
• Robert Palvis –  24 1/2  Garden Design Ideas
• srp landscape guide – excellent guide
• The Spruce.com – Great Garden Design Principles
• University of Florida Extension Office – Basic Principles of Landscape Design
• University of Hawaii, Cooperative Extension Services –  General Elements and Principles of Landscape Design, pdf
• University of Kentucky College of Agriculture – Creating Outdoor Rooms
• University of Kentucky – Landscape Design, Kentucky Master Gardener Manual, ,Chapter 17
• University of Wisconsin –  Planning and Designing Your Home Landscape

Blogs-

• Dirt Simple –  read all the landscape design posts and get a real education.
• Earth Designs: Bespoke Garden Designs and Build – lovely explanations of the design process
• Garden Aesthetics  – amazing info on garden design
• Garden Design for Living– fab. blog on understanding garden design
• Garden Design Exposed –  good articles on design, lots of ads.
• Garden Designers Roundtable – Pick a topic then ask expert garden bloggers to write their thoughts about it.
• Garden Drum – section on garden design
• Houston Bungalow – great pics/text on choosing garden styles, fences, house colors, front gardens
• Not Another Gardening Blog –wonderful  blog on all aspects of design, great explanations
• Paper Garden Workshop – Lisa Orgler’s colorful, beautiful, garden design blog
  • Lisa Orgler-Pt 1-How to Create An Out of the Ordinary Theme Garden
  • Lisa Orgler- Pt 2–How to Create and Out of the Ordinary Theme Garden
  • Lisa Orgler – Spatial Design in Landscaping Plans
• Pretty Purple Door –
• Tara Dillard – concise, great explanation articles on garden design
• The Room Outside – Lisa Cox, UK, 
• Together We Conserve Landscape – wonderful site on garden design

Borders-

• Earth Designs – How to Nail a Sensational Garden Border Design
•  Proven Winners: Basic Design Principles and Styles for Garden Beds

Color Theory-

• Benjamin Moore – choose a color, get suggestions for colors that work well with it.
• Cornell University – Using Color in the Home Garden
• David Briggs –  The Dimensions of Color
• Eric Stormer – Using Color Design in Landscape Design ppt
• Garden Design Magazine – Garden Color Schemes
• Garden Designed Exposed – Color and Mood
• Garden Design Exposed – Color Schemes
• Ilona’s Garden Blog – Simplifying Garden Color Theory
• Proven Winners – What’s Your Color? Chartreuse.
• Sheryl Williams – Color in the Garden ppt

Design Terms + Tips-

Definition, explanation , examples of Garden Design Terminology.

Historic Designs-

• Boults + Sullivan –  Illustrated History of Landscape Design Book pdf
• Garden.com – Garden History Style Guide
• Library of American Landscape History – Preservation articles, films

Lawns + Negative Space-

• 3 Things You Don’t Think About When Designing a Lawn Space
• Conservation Garden Park– Designing the Central Open Space–(Great photos of lawns designed
• Garden Stew – The Oval Shaped Garden (demonstrates how to  make oval with string)
• Harmony in the Garden – Replacing a Lawn with  a Garden pt. 1, pt. 2, great step by step instructions
• Your Lawn as Art – great photos of reducing lawn
• Abduzeedo.com – Clever Negative Space Artwork   
• The Art of Negative Space –beautiful art portfolio by Tang Yauhoong demonstrating the concept of negative space
• Serenity in the Garden – A Pattern Language, Positive Outdoor Space

Texture-:

• Deborah Silver – Speaking of Texture
• Don Stratham Blog -Texture in the Garden
• Fine Gardening Magazine – Be Bold with Fine Texture
• Garden Walk, Garden Talk – W4W- Texture and Pattern in Design
• Harmony in the Garden – Using Texture in the Garden
• Not Another Gardening Blog -Weaving  Your Garden, The Importance of Plant Texture
• Landscape of Meaning – Texture in the Landscape, A Musical Analogy
• Pam Penick – Contrast Textures to Make a Good Garden Better

Videos- 

Water Features-

• Principles of Sustainable Landscape Design – UW Master Garden Program, 9 videos