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When you’re satisfied with what you’ve drawn, you need to test-drive your design. Now you get to play with a bunch of objects to make your landscape look alive. Grab stakes (of various heights) and string. Pull your garden hoses out of their perpetual nest-of-snakes tangle, collect wire cages, get rope from the garage, drag out the plastic lawn chairs and buckets, pull along a stepladder or two, and prepare a wheelbarrow load of leaves or a bale (or two) of straw … and get ready to play make-believe.

A cool way to make a straight line easily is to invest in a chalkline, a device that looks like a tape measure, but is filled with chalk. The chalk powders a string that you pull out. Tie the chalked string between two uprights, clip the end, and — this is the fun part — lift the taut string in the center with your thumb and forefinger and let it ping hard toward the ground. It snaps against the grass or soil, leaving a perfect straightedge. Use the chalkline to mark potential beds and paths when you’re drawing your design, then use it again later when you start digging.

Start with placing and perhaps tweaking (adjusting the positioning) the bigger elements of your scheme first. After that, you can move on to the rest.