By Cathrine StClair

I love looking at garden plans for ideas and inspiration. But I’m also a firm believer that plans are meant to be broken (is that a thing? You know what I mean). My hope is you can take the garden plans we share here - change and tweak them to suit your needs and preferences.

Our first plan offering is a pollinator friendly corner garden for the Mid-Atlantic area.

This garden is planned to have something of interest in spring, summer and fall. It is a mix of native plants and some non-natives that have had very high pollinator activity in our gardens. All of the native plants (or cultivars of natives) are marked with an asterisk.

The plants here will do best in full sun, but can tolerate a little bit of light shade (aim for 6 hours of sun). A well drained, medium moisture soil is preferred but this planting will tolerate some drought once established.

So what is in the plan?

Hopefully this plan can give you some ideas for your own garden. If you would like to print out a copy of the plan and plant list, you can download a PDF of the plan.