how to design my yard??? Any help on internet or any site i can look at or yard pics so i can get an idea of what to do an the plants to get ...thanks..im wantin a little pond and gazebo and along my house to be planted with something ..so help please...

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Try this design trick. Stand at the places where you will be viewing the area (ie the kitchen window, your patio, the approach or front of your house), and take panoramic photos. You can accomplish this by overlapping the photos and taping them together on the back. If your camera is auto focus, focus on the center of the focal area, push the button down 1/2 way, move to the next shot, then push the button the rest of the way. This will keep the focus from changing in each view. You can draw on your photos with dry-erase markers and wipe off. Try different shapes for shrubs and trees and bed lines, draw in the other features you want. Once you have the shapes you want, and an account of the sun exposure, take the info and photos to a garden center to match them to the plants. Good luck!

Here is a good publication from the Extension Service to help understand landscaping plans and give you some guidance: http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/hort/g06901.htm

Better Home and Gardens has excellent garden plans that can give you some great ideas. http://www.bhg.com/bhg/category.jsp?categoryid=/templatedata/bhg/category/data/gardenplans.xml
There is also an online Plan-a-garden thing at BHG that might be fun to play with. You have to register, but it is free.