If you’re dreaming of a prairie-inspired native plant garden for your front yard, this is the design for you. The plants are tidy enough to please your neighbors while evoking the the colors and textures of the prairie. You’ll have plants blooming from spring to fall and a design that looks intentional and cultivated.
This is the right template for you if your intended garden area is in full sun (at least 6 hours of sun each day).
Detailed design drawing showing you exactly what to plant where
drawings with colors filled in for spring, summer and fall
Comprehensive implementation guide that walks you through how to prepare, install, and maintain your new garden
List of plants with their characteristics and the number of each needed to complete the design. All plants are:
no taller than 3ft
hardy down to at least USDA zone 4
native to the U.S. Midwest (and Wisconsin, specifically)
full-sun tolerant
in bloom at different times throughout the growing season
relatively tidy in form, making them appropriate for a front yard garden
perennial (should return year after year)
Size: 30 ft by 20 ft (in a kidney shape, not rectangular, see second product image)
The design provides you with a suggested visually-appealing layout for a kidney-shaped garden of about 20 feet by 30 feet. The plants are selected so that you have blooms throughout the growing season as well as some structure and continuity in the design via some small shrubs, repetition of plants, and a broken river of grasses snaking through the bed.
All of the plants selected are low-maintenance (although there’s no such thing as NO maintenance) and, with some light care, will appear cultivated and intentional to your neighbors, making this a front-yard friendly garden. It should evoke the native prairie landscape without appearing wild. However, this garden template can of course be used in any sunny area of your yard, front, back or side!
If you’re dreaming of a prairie-inspired native plant garden for your front yard, this is the design for you. The plants are tidy enough to please your neighbors while evoking the the colors and textures of the prairie. You’ll have plants blooming from spring to fall and a design that looks intentional and cultivated.
This is the right template for you if your intended garden area is in full sun (at least 6 hours of sun each day).
Detailed design drawing showing you exactly what to plant where
drawings with colors filled in for spring, summer and fall
Comprehensive implementation guide that walks you through how to prepare, install, and maintain your new garden
List of plants with their characteristics and the number of each needed to complete the design. All plants are:
no taller than 3ft
hardy down to at least USDA zone 4
native to the U.S. Midwest (and Wisconsin, specifically)
full-sun tolerant
in bloom at different times throughout the growing season
relatively tidy in form, making them appropriate for a front yard garden
perennial (should return year after year)
Size: 30 ft by 20 ft (in a kidney shape, not rectangular, see second product image)
The design provides you with a suggested visually-appealing layout for a kidney-shaped garden of about 20 feet by 30 feet. The plants are selected so that you have blooms throughout the growing season as well as some structure and continuity in the design via some small shrubs, repetition of plants, and a broken river of grasses snaking through the bed.
All of the plants selected are low-maintenance (although there’s no such thing as NO maintenance) and, with some light care, will appear cultivated and intentional to your neighbors, making this a front-yard friendly garden. It should evoke the native prairie landscape without appearing wild. However, this garden template can of course be used in any sunny area of your yard, front, back or side!