Determine Your Design Goals
Planning
Print this checklist and walk around your property, maybe with a friend or neighbor
who has an eye for design. The checklist will help you formulate your design goals
and decide what stays, what goes and where to locate new things. Use it in tandem
with your diagram.
Continue selecting plants and products, deciding what goes where and updating
your diagram throughout the planning process.
Garden Desi
gn
Have
Environment
al/
Economic Go
als
Keep
Want
1. Save Wate
r
Mix of high, m
low water us oderate and
e plants
Mix of mode
ra
water use pla te and low
nts
Low water us
e plants only
Graywater sy
stem
Plants / tress
home (Laun downhill from
dry to Landscape Syste
m)
2. Save Energ
y
Deciduous sh
ade tree(s)
on the southw
est side of
our home
3. Create Ha
bitat
Some Califo
rnia native
plants
All California
native plants
More shade
trees
Checklist
Lifestyle Go
Have
Keep
Want
1. Outdo
Front po
Kids' roo
Family ro
BBQ / Kit
Dining roo
Studio/of
Alcove
Lighting
2. Block Un
Shade tree
3. Privacy
Tall shrubs
Shade trees
4. Water
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Fountain(s)
