Planting guides
Each guide picks out the plants for one place or one wish from the planner's 1400, says how a designer would use them, and shows a bed the planner designed from them.
Hard places
Deer, rabbits and drought
Pets and safety
Wildlife and native plants
Design
- Low plants for the front of a border 231
- Tall perennials and grasses for the back of a border 123
- Groundcover plants 171
- Evergreen perennials, ferns and grasses 139
- Evergreen shrubs for structure 128
- Ornamental grasses under 3 feet 60
- Shrubs under 4 feet for small gardens 155
- Plants with spires: vertical accents 220
Season and colour
Butterflies and moths
- Host plants for butterflies and moths, by species
- Host plants for the monarch 6
- Host plants for the eastern tiger swallowtail 3
- Host plants for the silvery checkerspot 16
- Host plants for the pearl crescent 9
- Host plants for the spring azure 10
- Host plants for the henry's elfin 8
- Host plants for the brown elfin 3
- Host plants for the fritillary butterflies 4
- Host plants for the northern pearly-eye 3
- Host plants for the common wood-nymph 10
- Host plants for the milkweed tussock moth 3
- Host plants for the wavy-lined emerald 21
- Host plants for the hermit sphinx 4
- Host plants for the hydrangea sphinx 3
- Host plants for the laurel sphinx 3
- Host plants for the imperial moth 8
- Host plants for the promethea moth 3
- Host plants for the orange mint moth 3
- Host plants for the raspberry pyrausta 3