Stop guessing where to begin with your garden.

Build your Garden Design Game Plan in one live workshop.

In one live workshop, create a clear direction for your garden, a visual reference for the garden you want, and a first sketch of what might go where.

Thursday, September 24, 2026
4:00 p.m. Pacific / 7:00 p.m. Eastern
Live online workshop - includes replay
Approximately 60 minutes

$27

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Designing your own garden can feel like a series of guesses.

Maybe you have hundreds of saved garden images. Maybe you're starting with a completely blank slate. Or maybe you've been adding plants and features for years, hoping eventually it will all come together.

But when it's time to make bigger decisions — What belongs in this garden?

Where should the dining area go? Where should the planting beds be? What should I do first? — you're still guessing.

That's because garden design isn't a series of separate decisions. There's a process and an order.

Before landscape designers get into plants and details, they establish a direction, take stock of the existing site, and begin working out how the different spaces might relate to one another.

That's what you'll begin doing in the Garden Design Game Plan Workshop.

You want to design your own garden, but you need a professional process to help you make better decisions.

It is especially useful if you:

Are trying to make an existing garden feel more cohesive
Are starting with a blank slate
Are overwhelmed by scattered inspiration and garden photos
Have no clue how to begin deciding what should go where

This workshop is for you if —

You'll create a Design Compass, a Mood Board, and your first rough sketch of what might go where — 3 connected pieces that give you a starting point for moving your garden design forward.

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Build your Garden Design Game Plan

In this live, interactive workshop, you will create 3 connected pieces for your own garden.

1. Your Design Compass

CLARIFY:

Who your garden is for
What you want to happen there
Why that matters to you
How you want the garden to feel
Your priorities and wish list

Your Design Compass gives you a point of reference for your future design decisions.

2. Your Mood Board

Gather visual references that reflect your Design Compass.

You will learn how to use images to identify the styles, materials, colors, atmosphere, and experiences you are drawn to.

Your Mood Board is not just a collection of pretty pictures. It becomes a visual reference you will use to evaluate future garden ideas and decisions.

3. Your Bubble Diagram

Create your first rough sketch of what might go where. Landscape designers call this a bubble diagram. It's a rough, non-scaled way of exploring different use zones and how they might relate to one another.

The connection to your house
Doors and access
Windows and views
Existing elements and site conditions
Possible garden-use zones
Basic relationships between those zones

This is the first spatial step toward landscape design.

Instead of staring at your yard wondering where to start, you'll begin testing where your different garden spaces might actually belong — before worrying about measurements, plant lists, or final details.

Together, your Design Compass, Mood Board, and Bubble Diagram form your Garden Design Game Plan.

You will have a clear direction, a visual reference, and a first-pass spatial concept for continuing your design process.

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This is a guided, interactive workshop — not a passive presentation.

You will apply each exercise to your own garden as we go.

By the end, you'll have made real progress on your Garden Design Game Plan, not simply learned about the process.

YOU WILL WORK THROUGH:

Professional landscape-design principles

Short teaching segments

Garden-style examples

Individual design exercises with timed work periods

Step-by-step guidance

A clearer direction for your garden

A written record of your priorities and wish list

A visual reference for your preferred style and atmosphere

A rough diagram showing possible relationships between garden spaces

A practical next step for continuing your design process

What you will leave with

What this workshop does not include

This workshop is the beginning of the design process, not a finished landscape plan.

Your Bubble Diagram will be a rough, non-scaled concept that helps you explore where different spaces might go and how they relate to one another. You won't be creating a scaled plan, final layout, planting plan, plant list, or construction documents.

That's intentional.

You're doing the direction-setting and early spatial thinking that should happen before those decisions are made.

Meet your instructor —

I'm Tina, a landscape designer with a degree in horticulture and a master's degree in landscape architecture.

I’ve worked with landscape architects around the San Francisco Bay Area, and taught a similar professional design process to thousands through my course on LinkedIn Learning.

Money-Back Guarantee

If you complete the workshop and don't come away with a clearer direction for your garden and a useful starting point for moving forward, email me within 7 days and I'll refund your $27.