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| Example of Plant Select single design |
Looking for garden planning help? You don’t have to spend money hiring a garden designer. In some cases it’s as easy as color-by-number paintings when you take advantage of the many detailed designs that local cities, Plant Select, and water conservation organizations have posted for free. Here are a few that offer pre-designed plans that include sketches and plant lists.
Plant Select
Plant Select® is a nonprofit collaboration of Colorado State University, Denver Botanic Gardens and professional horticulturists. Their mission is to seek out and distribute the very best plants for landscapes and gardens from the intermountain region to the high plains and beyond.
They’ve already taken out the difficulty of choosing which
plants go in the front of the bed and which go in back, which colors go
together, choosing plants with similar shade or sun requirements and similar
watering needs. And their designs are done by well-known professional landscape
designers.
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| Plant Select free landscape design examples |
City of Aurora
The city of Aurora offers free landscape designs. You take their
water-wise landscape design class, complete a site map, mail your photos and plant
list and they will make an appointment with you to meet with a landscape
designer.
https://www.auroragov.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=16242704&pageId=16599768
Denver Water
Denver Water also offers free Xeriscape Plans for downloading.
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| Denver Water free design example |
Resource Central
This is a Boulder non-profit dedicated to conserving natural
resources and helping people improve their homes while saving money. Many
local city water organizations send community members to the Resource Central
website which has some innovative ideas to help you like Garden-in-a-Box and
Lose-the-Lawn programs.
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| Resource Central Garden in a Box example |