I'm looking for a show or youtube channel that focuses on garden design principles. I loved Monty Don's Big Dreams, Small Spaces because he gave some great practical tips for small gardens (my garden is pretty small). For example, he suggests having one show plant or tree and then designing the garden around it and using no more than 7 different plant varieties. I'm looking for a show with design tips for someone like me who knows nothing about design lol.

I would love it if everyone could answer a couple questions for a project I am working on. Your input is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

1. If you have used any computer (or mobile device) programs for design, what is your biggest complaint about the tool? What did you like most?

2. In what way would you like a computer program help you with gardening or garden design?

I have about 200 square feet of area between my house and pavers that I'd like to fill in with rocks on a cheap budget. My only caveat is that I dont want rruff ones and prefer round since we have small kids. Any feedback as to where we could order some online at a good price?

tl;dr: ideas for how to "bridge" the visual/thematic gap between a cottage style garden and a palm

Hello! I'm in USDA zone 5b and share a large balcony with my neighbor. The balcony is big but unfortunately my only outdoor space. Each summer my neighbor picks up a large palm tree (areca or majesty palm if I had to guess) and plants it in a container on the dividing line where his side and my side of the balcony meet (we each have one half of the deck, though there is no divider between us).

This year I'd like to design my "garden" in a full-on cottage style- container rose, hydrangea, pink and purple and white and soft blue annuals everywhere- the whole deal. However, I don't want to have a harsh juxtaposition between this style and my neighbor's palms. I also don't want to put up a divider between our sides of the deck because our side gets amazing sunsets and I'd feel kinda douchey blocking off his view of those. He's a good dude.

So my question is this: does anyone have any ideas for a "transition" plant or two that I can place physically between his palm(s) and my more traditional cottage garden plants? That way the eye has at least a primer when it wanders between our two sides of the balcony. The plant(s) would receive full sun and will need to survive in a container, though I'm open to perrenials if necessary as I can try to overwinter them in a friend's decently insulated garage. I asked my partner if he could think of any way to blend the cottage style with a tropical style- he responded "you can't", but I refuse to believe that :)

Thanks so much for any ideas!

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Want to upgrade your garden? Here we have certain ideas to make that possible. Every person’s wish is to have an outdoor area which relaxes one’s mind. Garden offers that peaceful environment. People use their outdoor area in many ways, they plant flowers and flowerbeds and add garden accessories. Read More

I would appreciate any ideas on transforming the wall areas as well as the flower beds.

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I would like to work in Photoshop and I saw an excellent video in which they scanned a layout done on graph paper and then dragged the guide lines over from the margins to block out everything first. Later they connected the intersect points and had a nice house plan. The problem is that the property lines and landmarks are not all squared off like the measurements in his house plan. What tools work best for measuring out and placing property lines for a plan? I'm very new to the whole thing and I have a way of always finding the most time consuming methods. I'd like to learn this the proper way from the start (aside from the fact that I should probably be in InDesign in the first place.)