Your yard plan

Everything you designed, laid out as a plan you can hold — what to build, what to plant, and when.

🌡 Hardiness zone 6a · OH

18 plants · 3 features

Plan date · July 29, 2026

Today & in twenty years

The same painting of your yard — before the plan, and after two decades of growth.

Today before

Year 20 fully grown

Painting year 20…

From above

An illustrated bird's-eye site plan of the finished yard.

The plan view

Your design from directly above, drawn to scale: every circle is a plant at its full mature spread. Use it to check spacing before anything goes in the ground.

The aerial view hasn't been painted for this version of your design yet.

The year-by-year plan

Work in small phases — each year below is one weekend-sized project list. Everything in between is patience.

Year 17 items

Build: Garden bed

cedar-brown mulch · steel edging

×1

Build: Path

flagstone

×1

Build: Pond

×1

Add: Boulder

×2

Plant: Boxwood

Buxus sempervirens

×4

Plant: Green Giant Arborvitae

Thuja standishii × plicata

×5

Plant: Maiden Grass

Miscanthus sinensis

×2

Year 23 items

Plant: Fountain Grass

Pennisetum alopecuroides

×2

Plant: Hydrangea

Hydrangea paniculata

×2

Add: Pergola

×1

Shopping list

Typical US nursery and install price ranges — local stock sizes and rates vary.

Item	Qty	Typical price
Green Giant Arborvitae Thuja standishii × plicata	×5	$40–$100 each	find it →
Boxwood Buxus sempervirens	×4	$25–$60 each	find it →
Hydrangea Hydrangea paniculata	×2	$30–$60 each	find it →
Maiden Grass Miscanthus sinensis	×2	$15–$35 each	find it →
Fountain Grass Pennisetum alopecuroides	×2	$12–$28 each	find it →
Pergola	×1	$800–$3,500 each	find it →
Boulder	×2	$100–$300 each	find it →
Pond installed	×1	$1,500–$5,000 each
Garden bed installed	×1	$150–$500 each
Path installed	×1	$600–$2,000 each
Estimated total		$3,664–$12,586

Your plants, up close

A care card for everything green in the plan.

Green Giant Arborvitae

Thuja standishii × plicata

Full sun · Medium water · Zones 5–8 · Matures ~40 ft × 12 ft
The classic fast privacy screen — 3 ft a year.

Boxwood

Buxus sempervirens

Part shade · Medium water · Zones 5–9 · Matures ~4 ft × 4 ft
The classic clipped evergreen — structure all year.

Hydrangea

Hydrangea paniculata

Part shade · High water · Zones 3–8 · Matures ~6 ft × 6 ft · White to pink blooms in summer
Big conical blooms; panicle types take more sun.

Maiden Grass

Miscanthus sinensis

Full sun · Low water · Zones 5–9 · Matures ~6 ft × 5 ft · Silvery plumes blooms in late summer
Graceful movement and winter interest; big presence fast.

Fountain Grass

Pennisetum alopecuroides

Full sun · Low water · Zones 5–9 · Matures ~3 ft × 3 ft · Soft bottlebrush plumes blooms in late summer
Soft bottlebrush plumes that catch the light.