Garden Design Guides and Downloads
The 4-Season Garden Gap Audit
Free Self-Guided Audit
Get a clear, season-by-season look at how your garden is really performing. This free audit guides you through simple observations that reveal when your garden works, where it breaks down and why those gaps keep showing up year after year. No plant lists. No guesswork. Just clarity.
Master the Mixed Border
Free PDF Guide & Checklist
This free guide will shift the way you approach landscape layering. Get my 8-step visual layering process, the “Master the Mixed Border” checklist & a printable planting pyramid — all for free.
13 Pro Garden Design Tips
Free PDF Guide
Unlock the secrets to a stunning garden with my free guide: 13 Pro Garden Design Tips! From creating flow and balance to choosing the perfect plants, these expert tips will help you transform your outdoor space with ease.
Flower Bloom Tracker
Free Printable Charts
A Four-Season Garden Essential! Use these bloom charts to determine when each plant starts blooming, stops blooming (& how long it flowers) so you can maintain color & interest throughout the entire year!
Garden Style Lookbook
Free PDF Lookbook
1-Page reference guides for the main garden styles, including naturalistic, cottage, traditional and modern. Learn how to convert ANY garden to ANY garden style with this free printable lookbook.
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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About 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!