Garden Design Guides and Downloads
Master the Mixed Border
Free PDF Guide & Checklist
This free guide will immediately improve your landscape layering skills. Get my easy 8-step layering process, the “Master the Mixed Border” checklist & a printable planting pyramid; all for free.
Plant Form Printouts
Free Printables & PDF Guide
Print & cut out these plant forms, then arrange them over a photo of your garden bed to find the perfect design layout. In addition to the plant layouts, you’ll also get my 4 pro tips for arranging plants in a garden bed!
Plant Pairing Combinations
Free PDF Guide
Never know what to plant together? Use these plant combinations to up your garden design game.
7 Tips For Choosing the Right Plants
Free PDF Guide
7 key questions to ask yourself to help you pick the perfect plants for your landscape.
Gardening Secrets Revealed
Free Video Training & PDF Guide
Learn the 3 Secrets that will help you to overcome the biggest gardening challenges that are preventing you from creating your dream garden.
Gardening Calendar Tasks
Free Gardening Task Lists for Each Season & Gardening Goals Printable Worksheet
Get a free printable gardening calendar with example tasks for each season plus a “Gardening Goals” [bonus] printable worksheet!
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What/Who is Pretty Purple Door?
I’m Amy and I help home gardeners design impressively beautiful landscapes that are colorful in all four seasons, show off your personality and suit your lifestyle.
I teach about garden design so that you’ll have the tools you need to create a landscape that’s uniquely you!