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Above, a simple 'potager' garden design, featuring a mix of home garden
vegetables and flower edgings, with walking paths at least 2 1/2
feet wide (just enough room for a wheelbarrow.)

also see: Flower Gardening Vegetable Gardening

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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.

Just up ahead, take a tip from online experts offering garden planning advice complete with interactive diagrams, pictures and illustrations for both kids and grown-up 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 ...

More about how to design & plan a garden around the Web:

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.

Fruit & Vegetable Gardens - Helpful guide to starting up your garden in spring with advice on personal choices to consider, garden location and plant groupings, 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 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.