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A garden picture belongs on garden. This page needs the bed edges.
Layer
Sun
Climate
Planting reading
Sun and climate
What the bed must keep
Keep the bed edges
Stone, steel, and the lawn line stay the shape in the photo
Keep plants I named
A tree or shrub you already want stays in place
Keep the path
The walking surface stays clear of new plants
Planting
Planting
Give every plant a job before the bed is pictured
Canopy, shrub, and ground cover are roles, not a bouquet. Sun and climate decide which plants can hold those roles. The edges of the beds stay. This page plans a scheme you could plant. A pretty garden picture with no roles is the wrong result.
Canopy above, shrub in the middle, ground at the edge.
Layers, sun, the border, the oak, a bed with no new tree, the ground, and the path each need a picture. Drop a file into the matching slot and the block fills.
Canopy, shrub, and ground each have a job.
Full sun and shade under an oak are different lists.
Stone, steel, or the lawn line is already built.
A tree you keep is the canopy.
A bed can skip a new canopy on purpose.
The edge is not a ring of pots on bare dirt.
Planting fills the bed. It does not cover the walk.
Roles
A canopy tree shades, frames, or stays out of the bed on purpose. Shrubs hold the middle: screen, flower, or winter structure. Ground cover, perennials, or mulch close the soil so the bed is not a ring of pots floating on bare dirt. If a layer is missing, say it is missing.
Sun and climate
Full sun on a south bed and bright shade under an existing oak are different lists. Note the climate you garden in, and the hours of sun, so a plant that cannot live there is not offered as the structure of the bed. Existing plants you want to keep are named and left in place.
Bed edges
Stone, steel, or the line where lawn meets soil stays. Planting fills that shape. It does not push the bed into the path or erase a bed to make a meadow. A scheme that ignores the edge is a picture, and this page is not that.
Canopy, shrub, and ground are assigned, so the bed is a structure and not a pile of blooms.
Full sun, part shade, or the shade of a tree you are keeping. The list has to match it.
What survives your winter and your dry weeks is part of the brief, not a caption.
A tree or shrub you already want stays. New plants fit around it.
The bed outline in the photo or sketch is the outline in the scheme.
Spacing and layer are readable enough to take outside. A mood board of flowers is not the goal.
A photo or a sketch where the edges, the path, and any plant you refuse to remove are visible.
Hours of sun, the climate, and whether you need canopy, shrub, ground, or all three.
Check that each role is filled or consciously empty, and that the edge did not move. If the border shifted, this pass failed.
Paths, the whole garden picture, and the yard are other jobs. Come back here when you need the plants themselves to have roles.
Roles
The planting planner assigns roles: canopy, shrub, and ground, inside beds that already have edges. It is not a garden rendering with unnamed greenery, and it is not a landscape plan of paths. Climate and sun are part of the brief. A plant that cannot live in the light you wrote does not get a prettier picture as compensation.
Keep the plants you already have and want. The scheme fills the gaps and says what each new plant is for: shade, screen, flower, or a floor of green. A bed of five stars and no ground layer is not a plan. It is a shopping list.
Judge the structure in winter in your head. If only the flowers are doing the work, the bed is empty half the year. This page should still make sense when nothing is in bloom.
Every plant shades, screens, flowers, or covers. If it has no job, it is clutter.
Beds stay where the garden page, or the photograph, put them.
Sun notes are not optional. They are the difference between a living bed and a collage.
Existing plants you refuse to remove are the structure. Design around them.
The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.
Roles, sun, and climate inside beds whose edges are already drawn.
Because each plant needs a role: canopy, shrub, or ground. Sun and climate have to support that role. A pretty border with no structure is not the result this page is for.
No. The outline in the photo or sketch stays. Plants are planned inside it.
Name it. It stays, and it counts as the canopy. Shrub and ground are chosen for the shade it casts.
Sun, climate, and the roles are enough to start. Name species if you have them. Otherwise the scheme can stay at the role until you are ready to buy plants.
Yes. Say there is no new tree. The shrub and ground layers still need to be planned, and any existing canopy you keep still shades them.
Hours, or a plain phrase: full sun, afternoon shade, or shade all day under a tree. Climate belongs in the same note.
Only if the frame includes the bed outline and the plant you refuse to remove. A crop that hides the edge will let the scheme wander.
Edges first, then sun and climate, then which layers you need. The picture comes after the jobs.