Beginner-Friendly Vegetable and Flower Garden Plans
We’ve put together a collection of free garden layouts and plans to make planning your garden easier—and a lot more fun. Created by our expert gardeners, these vegetable, flower, and mixed garden designs are easy to adapt to your space. You can fine-tune any plan using our Garden Planner. Check back for more plans over the season.
Vegetable Garden Plans
A Small Backyard Garden Layout with Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit
Four 4×8 beds plus a warm-season tomato bed for a productive garden.
Compact 4×7 raised bed divided into 1×1-foot squares for easy planning, planting, and harvesting.
A traditional, productive row vegetable garden with wide walkways and companion planting.
A Beginner-Friendly Garden Layout for Areas With Limited Sun
A flexible, beginner-friendly vegetable garden you can grow entirely in pots
Flower Garden Plans
A low-maintenance perennial garden plan with reliable blooms year after year
A classic perennial flower garden using dependable flowers and ornamental grasses
An Annual Raised Bed Flower Layout for Cutting and Bouquets
A Mixed Cutting Garden That Blooms Year After Year
Native and seasonal flower garden design to feed pollinators from early spring to late fall.
Easy layers of shrubs, flowers, and bulbs for a welcoming front yard
Mixed Garden Plans
A leafy garden design that relies on colorful leaves instead of flowers.
Seven 4×8 beds plus two bonus beds in a 24×18-foot layout, perfect for expanding over time.
Five flexible herb garden designs you can grow almost anywhere