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How to Design Your Dream Garden: A Beginning Groundwork Guide for Every Type of Gardener
Every season has its role to play in the garden, even Winter. January starts one of the most exciting, and perhaps daunting, gardening phases: planning. It’s the time when seed catalogs start piling up, saved images start inspiring new ideas, and backyard daydreams start taking shape. For many, though, this stage also brings a familiar feeling of not knowing where to begin.
That’s why we’re starting a new blog series: How to Design Your Dream Garden. Throughout the year, we’ll explore what it really takes to design a garden that fits your space, your needs, and your hopes for the season ahead. We’ll walk through everything from planning basics and layout decisions to plant selection, structures, and creative themes.
We’re gardeners, just like you, and we know that our readers might be total beginners or experts who’ve been at it for years. So, this series is built to meet you wherever you are, with guidance that supports both small containers and full backyards.
This first post focuses on the early groundwork: observing your space, identifying your goals, and building a plan that supports real-life use. It’s the step that sets everything else in motion.
This is the year to bring your dream garden to life.