Garden Plans Gallery

The gallery is based on Google Maps, so it's easy to navigate around. There are many ways to browse the plans, starting with a view which shows the most recent plans from around the world. Don't worry if there's nothing shown for where you live - only the latest 25 plans are shown by default, so it's possible that no-one from your area has published a plan in the last few hours.

Beautiful Garden Plans

We find ourselves constantly amazed by the wonderful creative ideas people have for their gardens, and the way they have used the Garden Planner to highlight particular features. Every day there are new and interesting plans to view. As you browse down the list, you'll see many people have added background information or explanations about why they planned their garden in this way, which can be very helpful when trying to work out what will be best for your own garden.

For example, if you have limited space and are looking for ways to increase your harvest, take a look at some of the interesting bed shapes and plant arrangements that others with similar gardens have created. Click on the title or the plan thumbnail to see the full published page. This is where you can explore the whole plan, click to view it full size, view the quantities of each plant, see the planting times for that particular location and read notes that the gardener has added. Often, browsing other similar gardens can prompt you to discover a creative solution for your own garden that you'd never find in a gardening manual.

Plans are only listed here if the author has allowed public access and has explicitly published their plan. When you publish a plan you can choose not only whether you want to share your plan with others, but also which parts you wish to share, such as your location, your Plant List or Notes.

You can share the plan with others using the social media buttons at the top to post it onto your Facebook wall, tweet about it or add it to a Pinterest board that you're creating – great if you want to collect a scrapbook of possible layout ideas before planning your own garden.

Plants That Work Well in Your Location

If you want to discover which plants grow best in your area, you can use the Garden Plans Gallery to see what successful gardeners in or near your location are growing. Just enter your location into the search box and click Find.

Plans near you will be displayed and you can further expand or refine the list by changing the map. Drag to a new area, zoom in or out and the list of plans automatically refreshes, showing just those within your chosen area. Often, varieties that grow well in your climate will be listed, sometimes with notes about how they performed. With this information at your fingertips you'll be able to quickly find out the best crops and varieties that gardeners near you have had success with.

You can discover what gardeners are growing in similar conditions to yours using the drop-down filters below the map. You can choose to view just plans of a particular type such as community gardens, only a certain style of garden such as intensive square foot layouts, find gardens planted in sunny or shady positions, or ones with a particular soil type.

You can also combine filters, such as searching for backyard gardens in partial shade along with a location search for your country or state. The more you narrow it down the fewer gardens there will be to view however, so try to pick the factors that are most important to you.

There are many different ways to use the Garden Plans Gallery and each one shows you different kinds of plans to browse through. It's simply the best place to discover, learn from and be inspired by great ideas from other gardeners!

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