Native Plant Designs
Real designs, ready to download
These are complete native plant designs you can study, adapt, or install. Each design includes site plans, plant schedules, bloom timelines, and per-species profiles.
Front-Yard Savanna
A 1,500-square-foot oak-savanna-inspired front yard for a Twin Cities lot. Replaces conventional turf with native grasses, sedges, and wildflowers across three moisture zones, with a Bur Oak anchor tree, Serviceberry understory, and 18 herbaceous species providing continuous bloom from April through October.
The full booklet
- Design Booklet (PDF) — the complete 30+ page design document with site plan, sections, plant schedule, bloom timeline, and per-species profiles
- Installer's Edition (PDF) — same content reorganized for the contractor or volunteer crew installing the planting
Individual technical drawings
- Site Plan — overhead layout showing every plant placement
- Sections — cross-section views showing height layering and soil profiles
- Construction Details — edging, mulch depths, soil preparation specs
- Bloom Gantt Chart — month-by-month bloom calendar for the planting
Per-species profiles
Each profile is a one-page reference covering identification, growing requirements, wildlife value, and placement notes for one species in the design.
- Combined Plant Profiles (PDF) — all 21 species in one document
Or download individual profiles:
- Blue Flag Iris
- Butterfly Milkweed
- Cardinal Flower
- False Blue Indigo
- Fox Sedge
- Gray Dogwood
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Little Bluestem
- Ninebark
- Prairie Dropseed
- Prairie Smoke
- Purple Coneflower
- Pussytoes
- Serviceberry
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Soft Rush
- Swamp Milkweed
- Tussock Sedge
- Wild Bergamot
- Wild Lupine
- Wild Strawberry
How These Designs Were Made
Each design is generated programmatically from Python scripts that combine the site plan logic, plant schedules, and per-species data with the same images that appear in the Plant Gallery. The source scripts live in the project's landscape-design/ directory on GitHub — adapt them to your own lot, sun exposure, and design goals.