Perennial Bed Planner

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All perennials · Zone 6B · Southern Michigan
Open plan

✓Name your garden

New here? to see a finished plan right away.

✓What kind of garden?

Pick what you'd like to grow. The Plants list shows only the plants that match.

Include

✓Plants to watch out for

Leave out plants that could be a problem in your yard, or keep them and they're marked so you know.

✓Your bed

Choose a shape, then set the size. The bed plan beside it updates to fit.

Shape

✓Add objects

Add what's in the bed or going into it before the plants, so they're laid out around it. Click one, then click the bed.

✓How much sun?

Pick every light your bed gets. Count only direct sun on the bed itself. Pick one or more.

Bed plan

Each plant is drawn at its full grown size, so the plan doubles as your spacing guide. Grid squares are 1 foot.

Tip: right-click any plant, object or empty spot on the bed

Garden Timeline

Click a row to highlight that plant on the bed plan and in Small to big; Ctrl-click to highlight several. In "All plants", use + Add to choose a new plant. Striped bars are foliage plants that stay green and carry the bed between flowers. When the bed has sun zones, drag a plant into another sun section to move it there on the bed plan.

Sort
Chosen plants in bloom

Small to big, with spacing

A side view of the chosen plants from shortest to tallest, drawn to one scale. The bar under each plant is how far apart to set that kind. Click a plant to highlight it on the bed plan and in the bloom chart; Ctrl-click to highlight several.

Mixing two kinds side by side? Average their two spacings. Plant the big back-row plants first, then the middle, then the front, and finish by tucking the low plants into the gaps.

Shopping list

What to buy for the bed as arranged above.