Would you like to create a small garden bed using native plants, but don’t know where to start? This presentation (posted May 2023) has design suggestion and ways to create a micro-ecosystem in a 4’x4′ garden bed.
Files to Download
- Small Garden Bed – Details– these details should be decided on before you start to dig
- Small Garden Bed – Grids – for sketching the bed, plants, and hardscapes
- Short plants for small beds (coming soon)
Useful Links
•USDA Web Soil Survey websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov
•Call before you Dig – 811 www.call811.com
Designing
Thanks to Backyard Ecology for collecting these links!
- “Native Plants for the Small Yard” by Kate Brandes, Based out of Pennsylvania, https://lgnc.org/pdfdocs/brandes_book.pdf
- Wild Ones’ Native Garden Designs (Designs for 19 areas across the country) https://nativegardendesigns.wildones.org/
- Grow Native’s Native Landscape Design Plans (Based out of Missouri) https://grownative.org/learn/native-landscape-plans/
- Lexington, KY’s Plant by Numbers Designs https://www.lexingtonky.gov/plant-numbers-0
- University of Maryland Extension’s Landscape Designs with Native Plants https://extension.umd.edu/resource/landscape-designs-native-plants