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Free Garden Layouts & Plans Library

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

Backyard in-ground vegetable garden with Swiss chard, kale, lettuce, rhubarb, peppers, basil, and herbs divided by a mulch path.

Backyard Vegetable Garden Plan

Vegetable garden raised beds surrounded by gravel

Raised-Bed Vegetable Garden Layout: 4 Beds and a Tomato Bed

Square-Foot Garden Harvest

Square-Foot Garden Plan: 7×4 Layout

Small row vegetable garden in front of a gray house

34×40 Row Vegetable Garden Plan

Shade vegetable garden layout with rhubarb, lettuce, beets, radishes, parsley, arugula, and nasturtiums.

Shade Vegetable Garden Plan

Container vegetable garden on a stone patio with zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, berries, and cool-season greens growing in pots and grow bags.

Container Vegetable Garden Layout: A Plan for Growing in Pots

Beginner 4×8 vegetable garden layout showing rows of lettuce, nasturtium, Swiss chard, onions, early potatoes, and bush beans

4×8 Vegetable Garden Layout for Beginners

Flower Garden Plans

Perennial Flower Garden Bed for 3-Season Color

Three-Season Perennial Garden Design Plan: Continuous Color from Spring to Fall

Perennial flower garden layout with coneflowers, bluestar, coreopsis, ornamental grasses, and obedient plant.

Perennial Flower Garden Layout for Backyards and Borders

Flowers in a raised bed. All cutting flowers.

Raised-Bed Cut-Flower Garden Plan

Beautiful garden space with cutting flowers and path

Cut Flower Garden Plan: Perennials and Annuals

flower garden for pollinators

Pollinator Garden Layout: Flower Garden Plan for Bees and Butterflies

Front yard flower garden with a brick-edged walkway, four hydrangeas along the lawn, and layered flowering shrubs and perennials in front of a white colonial-style house.

Front Yard Flower Garden Plan for Curb Appeal

Mixed Garden Plans

Shade foliage garden with canna, purple fountain grass, four-o’clocks, coleus, alternanthera, and sweet potato vine.

Shade Garden Layout for Colorful Foliage

A wooden terraced garden

Raised Bed Vegetable Garden Layout: Seven 4×8 Beds + 2 Bonus Beds

One raised bed herb garden with a few pots of herbs

Herb Garden Plans: 3 Layouts for Beds & Containers

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