Garden Design Guide | Plan Your Dream Garden
DESIGN YOUR GARDEN WITH CLARITY AND CONFIDENCE
Designing the Dream Garden is a beautifully illustrated, 24-page garden design guide created to help you move from scattered ideas to a clear, cohesive vision for your outdoor space.
Written by landscape architect Lauren Renz, PLA, this approachable guide introduces professional landscape-design thinking without making the process feel technical or overwhelming.
Through Verdi’s Dream • Design • Grow journey, you’ll learn how to begin with the life you want to live outside, respond thoughtfully to your site, organize the garden around meaningful destinations, and make confident design decisions.
THE VERDI SIGNATURE METHOD
Discover Structure • Story • Stitch—a simple, memorable method for creating gardens that feel layered, personal, and complete.
• STRUCTURE builds the lasting framework with trees, shrubs, hedges, paths, and permanent forms.
• STORY adds seasonal color, fragrance, texture, and personality.
• STITCH connects the garden through groundcovers, repetition, softened edges, and visual continuity.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
• How to define your garden’s central idea
• How to design around the way you want to live
• How to observe light, views, circulation, soil, drainage, slope, and existing conditions
• How destinations organize the garden
• How scale, proportion, balance, rhythm, focal points, and unity shape successful designs
• How to use Structure • Story • Stitch
• How to plan for interest through the seasons
• How to simplify and edit with intention
• How to take meaningful action over the next 30 days
YOU’LL RECEIVE
• One 24-page digital PDF guide
• Beautifully illustrated 8.5 × 11-inch pages
• An annotated garden perspective
• An illustrated plan-view example
• Reflection prompts to apply the ideas to your own garden
• A concise four-week action plan
WHO THIS GUIDE IS FOR
This guide is ideal for homeowners and garden lovers who:
• Have collected plenty of inspiration but do not know where to begin
• Want their garden to feel intentional and connected
• Need a clear process before choosing plants
• Are planning a new garden or improving an existing one
• Want professional guidance presented in an approachable way
USE IT YOUR WAY
Read the guide digitally or print the individual pages you want to reference while observing, sketching, and planning your garden.
This is an educational garden design guide. It is not a site-specific landscape plan, planting plan, or personalized design service. No physical product will be shipped.
DESIGN YOUR GARDEN WITH CLARITY AND CONFIDENCE
Designing the Dream Garden is a beautifully illustrated, 24-page garden design guide created to help you move from scattered ideas to a clear, cohesive vision for your outdoor space.
Written by landscape architect Lauren Renz, PLA, this approachable guide introduces professional landscape-design thinking without making the process feel technical or overwhelming.
Through Verdi’s Dream • Design • Grow journey, you’ll learn how to begin with the life you want to live outside, respond thoughtfully to your site, organize the garden around meaningful destinations, and make confident design decisions.
THE VERDI SIGNATURE METHOD
Discover Structure • Story • Stitch—a simple, memorable method for creating gardens that feel layered, personal, and complete.
• STRUCTURE builds the lasting framework with trees, shrubs, hedges, paths, and permanent forms.
• STORY adds seasonal color, fragrance, texture, and personality.
• STITCH connects the garden through groundcovers, repetition, softened edges, and visual continuity.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
• How to define your garden’s central idea
• How to design around the way you want to live
• How to observe light, views, circulation, soil, drainage, slope, and existing conditions
• How destinations organize the garden
• How scale, proportion, balance, rhythm, focal points, and unity shape successful designs
• How to use Structure • Story • Stitch
• How to plan for interest through the seasons
• How to simplify and edit with intention
• How to take meaningful action over the next 30 days
YOU’LL RECEIVE
• One 24-page digital PDF guide
• Beautifully illustrated 8.5 × 11-inch pages
• An annotated garden perspective
• An illustrated plan-view example
• Reflection prompts to apply the ideas to your own garden
• A concise four-week action plan
WHO THIS GUIDE IS FOR
This guide is ideal for homeowners and garden lovers who:
• Have collected plenty of inspiration but do not know where to begin
• Want their garden to feel intentional and connected
• Need a clear process before choosing plants
• Are planning a new garden or improving an existing one
• Want professional guidance presented in an approachable way
USE IT YOUR WAY
Read the guide digitally or print the individual pages you want to reference while observing, sketching, and planning your garden.
This is an educational garden design guide. It is not a site-specific landscape plan, planting plan, or personalized design service. No physical product will be shipped.