Garden Infographics
Visual quick-reference guides for every stage of gardening — from seed starting to harvest, companion planting to soil care. Save them, print them, use them in the garden.
🌿 Companion Planting Quick Reference
Certain plants thrive together — and some actively repel each other's pests. Use this at-a-glance chart when planning your beds.
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🗺️ USDA Hardiness Zones — Frost Date Reference
Your USDA zone determines your average minimum winter temperature. Use these average last spring frost and first fall frost dates to time transplants and season-end tasks.
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🧪 Soil pH Preference by Plant Type
Soil pH affects nutrient availability. Most garden plants prefer 6.0–7.0, but blueberries, potatoes, and azaleas need distinctly acidic conditions. Test your soil before amending.
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🌸 Annual Flowers: Best Picks
The top annual flowers for color, cut flowers, and pollinators — with sun, water, and spacing requirements at a glance.
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🌺 Long-Blooming Perennials
Perennials that deliver weeks or months of color — with bloom times, zones, and care requirements for building a season-long garden.
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✂️ Cut Flower Garden
Best flowers for cutting, with harvest timing, vase life, and succession-planting tips for continuous blooms from spring through fall.
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🌹 Cottage Garden Style
The essential plants, design principles, and layering techniques for creating an abundant, romantic cottage garden that blooms from spring to frost.
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🌙 Moon Garden
White and pale flowers, silver foliage, and night-fragrant plants that come alive after dark — with placement and bloom-time reference.
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🌼 Edible Flowers
A visual guide to flowers you can eat — flavor profiles, safe varieties, which parts to use, and what to avoid.
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🥕 Children's Vegetable Garden
The best vegetables for kids to grow by age group — with fun activities, easy-win plants, and tips for keeping young gardeners engaged all season.
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🍃 Culinary Herb Garden
The most useful kitchen herbs — with harvest tips, companion plants, container vs. in-ground notes, and flavor pairing at a glance.
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🌿 Herb Garden Design
Layout patterns, companion planting pairs, and design principles for creating a beautiful and functional herb garden in any space.
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💊 Medicinal Garden
Key medicinal herbs — their primary uses, parts used, preparation methods, and safety notes for a home apothecary garden.
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🦠 Common Garden Diseases
A visual symptom key for the most common fungal, bacterial, and viral plant diseases — with diagnosis tips and first-line treatment options.
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🐛 Garden Pests ID & Control
Visual identification for 50+ common garden pests — with symptom-based diagnosis, organic controls, and natural enemy strategies organized by pest type.
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🌲 Fast-Growing Privacy Trees
Top privacy tree options by zone — with mature height, growth rate, spacing, and best-use notes for screening, windbreaks, and property lines.
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🎋 Japanese Garden Elements
The key design elements, plants, and principles of Japanese garden style — from stone placement and karesansui to niwaki pruning and borrowed scenery.
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🏡 Front Yard Curb Appeal
The five elements of curb appeal, three-zone layout principles, and best plants by season for a front yard that makes a great first impression.
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🎨 Plants for Color
Bold annuals, perennials, and foliage plants organized by color — with bloom times and design tips for creating vibrant seasonal combinations.
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🐝 Pollinator Garden
The best plants for attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds — with bloom succession, native plant highlights, and design principles for a wildlife-friendly garden.
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🍕 Pizza Garden
Everything you need to grow your own pizza toppings — tomatoes, peppers, basil, oregano, and more — with spacing, companion planting, and harvest timing.
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🥗 Salad Garden
Fast-growing greens, succession planting schedules, and cut-and-come-again techniques for a continuous harvest of fresh salad ingredients.
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🌶️ Salsa Garden
Tomatoes, peppers, onions, cilantro, and tomatillos — with zone-specific timing, companion planting, and harvest tips for a fresh salsa garden.
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🌸 Plants for Fragrance
The most fragrant garden plants by season — shrubs, perennials, annuals, and vines with placement tips for maximizing scent near paths, windows, and seating areas.
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🪴 Porch Plants
The best container plants for sunny and shady porches — with care requirements, seasonal swaps, and tips for overwintering tender favorites.
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🌧️ Rain Barrel Guide
How to set up a rain barrel system — collection math, installation steps, legal status by state, and tips for getting the most from your stored rainwater.
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📐 Vegetable Spacing Quick Reference
Proper plant spacing prevents disease, reduces competition, and maximizes yield. In-ground spacing, square foot gardening density, seed depth, and days to harvest at a glance.
Click the image to enlarge · For the full guide, see our Square Foot Gardening guide.
💧 Watering Frequency Guide by Plant Category
Overwatering is the #1 killer of container plants and new transplants. Use this guide to dial in the right frequency for every plant type in your garden.
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📚 Reference Guides We Recommend
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Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
The definitive reference for organic gardeners — covers companion planting, soil science, pest management, and hundreds of plant profiles. The kind of book that lives in the potting shed.
- ✓ 800+ pages of plant and garden reference
- ✓ Companion planting charts
- ✓ Organic pest & disease solutions
- ✓ Zone-by-zone planting calendars
The Old Farmer's Almanac Garden Guide
An annually updated visual guide with planting calendars, moon gardening schedules, weather predictions, and zone-specific timing. A classic for a reason.
- ✓ Annual zone-specific planting calendars
- ✓ Visual frost date maps
- ✓ Vegetable growing charts
- ✓ Pest identification guides