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Experts suggest that for a perfect spring garden your grand plan should begin in winter - even if it's merely to beat the cold weather doldrums.

However, you can start imaginatively lay out your garden anytime of year.

Take a tip from the online experts offering garden planning advice complete with interactive diagrams, pictures and illustrations for both kids and grownup gardeners, with more on last frost dates in the U.S. and Canada and a list of common garden vegetables with planting instructions and harvesting times ...

BBC Garden Design - Sure to wow even the most jaded gardener, featuring an interactive planner that teaches the basics of layout & design, viewable in 3-D. Lay it out online, or download the complete application to your desktop. Shockwave required.

Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice - Garden Design - Pages & pages of pictures, plans & expert advice on laying out the small home garden with information on best times to plan, budget & shop, choosing the best specimens plus more on irrigation, garden furniture & ornaments.

Planning the Vegetable Garden - Helpful guide to starting up your vegetable garden in spring with advice on personal choices to consider, garden location, plant groupings, plus charts illustrating full sun or partial shade plantings, from the Virginia Cooperative Extension.

Flower Garden Design Basics - Beautifully illustrated, with practical tips on location, landscape, soil preparation, sunlight requirements, plus more on designing for backgrounds, borders and islands, from Cornell University.

Basic Design Concepts for Sustainable Landscapes - Get a college education in low-maintenance garden & landscape design with expert tips on plant selection, illustrated plans, how to's on creating a scaled layout, design planning questionnaire, with a printable version also available in PDF format.

Basic Principles of Landscape Design - Get the whole picture with this illustrated course in Landscaping 101 from the University of Florida.

Garden designs, plans and layouts - Four simple viewable plans, with suggested plantings, courtesy of Lewis Gardens.

How to Make Butterfly Gardens - Tips, techniques and suggested plants and flowers, with illustrated plans and pictures for attracting butterflies to your backyard.

Low Maintenance Gardening - A quick hit on how to teach your garden to wait for the weekend, from a sensible master gardener and busy mother of two...

My First Garden Planning Checklist - Simple, printable to-do list for kids of all ages planning their first garden.

Vegetable Planting & Harvesting Times