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After completing the initial drawing of your yard or garden plot to your satisfaction, you can move forward and add the elements for your garden plan. Here are some recommendations:

1 Gather any pictures you’re using for inspiration, and prepare a list of your main goals, assets, and limitations.Go to the earlier section in this chapter, “Evaluating What You Already Have,” for advice on looking at your yard’s challenges and advantages. The earlier section, “Getting Ideas for Your Garden Space,” can help you focus on your gardening goals.

2 Study your current plan carefully.Decide which features you want to incorporate into your final plan, which ones you want to highlight, and which ones you want to downplay or remove.

3 Place a piece of tracing paper over your plan.

4 Use a pencil and sketch in or leave out various features and designs.Try hard to stick to your theme or overall vision and attempt to be organized (see the section, “Zeroing In on Your Ideal Garden Style,” earlier in this chapter for details on themes). When designing your garden plan, you don’t have to get bogged down in details, listing every plant by name. Instead, “sun-loving perennials,” “blue and yellow bed,” or “pots of annuals” may suffice.

When I make my garden plan, I like to use several sheets of tracing paper. I use one sheet for each type of plant: one for trees and shrubs, one for bulbs, one for annuals, and one for perennials. I lay over the base plan with all these tracing papers on poster board; it contains the fixed existing features like the house, trees, and hardscapes. Using multiple sheets make it easier to see how everything will go together.

After all the elements you’ve planned for are in place, take a good look at them to make sure the overall drawing matches the initial image of the dream garden you had in your head. If something looks awkward or looks like it needs to be moved or changed in any way, do so! Keep changing that drawing (and redrawing it if necessary) until you have a final plan that satisfies you. Only when your final plan is in your hands should you prepare yourself to move on to the next step.