You can view and design your dream garden on the Web. Here are a few of the sites that I've been looking at (now if I could only stop killing all the plants that I buy):
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- Landscape Design Course: free email course that takes you step by step through what you need to know to have a gorgeous garden.
- Landscape Design: from the University of Minnesota; over 63 different resources here from rural landscape quality to soil aeration.
- DavesGarden.com: an amazing resource for the gardener. A plant database, a garden catalog watchdog; it's really a great online community for gardeners.
- National Gardening Association: This is a HUGE site full of so much gardening information that it's hard to know where to begin. I highly suggest the How To section, where you can learn to do all kinds of fun things.
- Designing Water-Smart Landscapes: Do you live in a dry area? Then this article about designing hydro-challenged gardens is for you.
- About Gardening: One of the first places I turn to with a gardening question. This is an excellent resource for the beginning gardener.
- GardenPlans.com: A few free garden plans to download.
- Free Garden Design Course: "Our free garden design course has been developed by the GardenAdvice advisors to help you design your own garden at home. The course is aimed at all gardeners from novice the the more experienced. To complete the course you do not need any plant knowledge, landscape knowledge or drawing skills." Sounds like the perfect class for me!
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden Design Articles: all sorts of really great articles here, from autumn pathways to ornamental grasses.
