GARDEN GURU YARD STYLE BLUEPRINTS
Bold & Eclectic
Turn the style you love into a yard you know how to build.
You already know the look: stronger contrast, unusual plant combinations, distinctive foliage, unexpected color, and a landscape with real personality.
The harder part is figuring out how to create that energy without making the yard feel random, overloaded, or like a collection of unrelated ideas.
The Bold & Eclectic Blueprints turn the style into a practical step-by-step process for your front yard, backyard — or both.
Not sure this is your style? Take the free Yard Style Finder →
Bold & Eclectic — Front Yard Blueprint
$9
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Bold & Eclectic — Backyard Blueprint
$9
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Bold & Eclectic — Front + Backyard Bundle
$16
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You want a yard with personality — not visual chaos.
Bold & Eclectic landscapes have more freedom than most styles.
But the best ones don’t work because everything is interesting.
They work because:
- a few plants or features deserve extra attention
- strong colors and forms repeat
- contrasting foliage creates energy
- quieter green planting gives focal elements room to stand out
- unusual combinations still feel related
- personal details are selective instead of scattered everywhere
The Blueprints show you how to create that personality intentionally — without letting every plant, container, color, and feature compete for attention.
Front Yard Blueprint
Create a front yard that feels expressive, intentional, and unmistakably yours.
Use the Bold & Eclectic design language to improve:
Entry · Bed Shapes · Focal Points · Contrast · Repetition · Color · Details
You’ll learn how to:
- assess the front yard you already have
- decide what to keep, remove, reduce, or add
- create a clear hierarchy instead of several competing focal points
- simplify bed shapes so expressive planting has a strong framework
- use contrasting foliage, texture, and plant form intentionally
- repeat unusual colors and forms so they feel connected
- use strong color without creating a rainbow effect
- add personal details without drifting into theme or clutter
- turn the process into a practical first project
Includes
13-page digital Blueprint - Instant digital access after purchase
Backyard Blueprint
Create a backyard that feels memorable, connected, and comfortable to actually use.
Use the Bold & Eclectic design language around:
Gathering Areas · Focal Points · Privacy · Circulation · Planting · Outdoor Living
You’ll learn how to:
- assess how your backyard actually functions
- decide where the strongest visual moments belong
- organize gathering areas and circulation before adding more features
- create one primary focal moment and a quieter secondary destination
- repeat distinctive foliage across separate backyard areas
- use open space and quiet green planting as visual rest
- connect expressive planting without making every corner a feature
- add materials and personal details with restraint
Includes
13-page digital Blueprint - Instant digital access after purchase
Front + Backyard Bundle
Carry one expressive design language across the whole property.
If you eventually want both spaces to feel related, you don’t need to choose.
Get the complete Bold & Eclectic Blueprint set:
Front Yard Blueprint + Backyard Blueprint
Together, the two guides help you create consistency in:
- focal points
- repeated foliage
- contrast
- color
- plant form
- materials
- personal details
- overall design direction
while still recognizing that the front and backyard have different jobs to do.
Includes Both 13-page Classic & Structured Blueprints
*Best value if you plan to work on both areas.
A repeatable process you can actually use.
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Assess what you already have
Learn how to look at your yard through the same design principles the style depends on.
Edit before adding
Use Keep / Remove / Reduce / Add so another nursery trip isn’t automatically the answer.
Build the structure
Clarify entries, bed shapes, circulation, gathering areas, privacy, and the major framework that keeps stronger design choices organized.
Build repetition and contrast
Learn how unexpected combinations can still feel intentional when the strongest ideas repeat.
The biggest mistake with this style?
Thinking eclectic means “anything goes.”
Bold & Eclectic landscapes can use more contrast, personality, and variety than most styles.
But that doesn’t mean every interesting plant belongs in the same yard.
Without repetition and hierarchy, bold elements stop feeling intentional and start competing with one another.
The Bold & Eclectic Blueprints show you how to create controlled contrast:
- let one or two focal moments lead
- repeat your strongest foliage colors and forms
- surround unusual plants with quieter structure
- use color selectively
- give the eye somewhere to rest
Bold because the contrasts are strong. Eclectic because the combinations are unexpected. Intentional because the strongest ideas repeat.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This Blueprint is a good fit if…
- you know you’re drawn to Bold & Eclectic landscapes
- you like unusual plants, strong foliage contrast, and more personality
- your yard feels flat, generic, or visually forgettable
- you already have lots of interesting plants but they don’t feel connected
- you want more color without creating visual overload
- you like asymmetry and unexpected plant combinations
- you want a yard that feels personal without becoming themed
- you want principles you can adapt to your climate and budget
- you prefer improving the yard gradually instead of starting over
And it may not be the right product if…
You want someone to look at your exact property and tell you specifically what should stay, move, change, or be added.
That’s what the Garden Guru Yard Consultation is for.
ALREADY HAVE THE FREE STYLE GUIDE?
This is the next step.
Your free Bold & Eclectic Style Guide helps you understand the look.
The Blueprint helps you apply it.
Free Style Guide
Understand the style
Blueprint
Use the style
Yard Consultation
Apply the thinking to your specific property
No. The Blueprint teaches plant roles, focal points, repetition, contrast, hierarchy, and design relationships. Exact plant choices should fit your climate, light, soil, moisture, and available mature space.
No. Bold & Eclectic design often improves by editing and organizing what’s already there — repeating successful plants, reducing competing focal points, and adding quieter structure around the strongest ideas. The Blueprint starts with the yard you already have.
No. The Blueprint teaches you how to apply the Bold & Eclectic style in a wide range of ordinary residential yards. For property-specific recommendations, use the Garden Guru Yard Consultation.
A digital Garden Guru Blueprint you can view electronically and reference while planning your yard.
No. Each Blueprint works independently. If you plan to improve both areas, the bundle gives you the complete Bold & Eclectic system while adapting the principles to the different jobs your front and backyard need to do.
YOUR STYLE. YOUR YARD. YOUR NEXT STEP.
Ready to put Classic & Structured into practice?
Choose the area you want to work on first — or get both and carry one balanced, intentional design language across your property.
Bold & Eclectic — Front + Backyard Bundle
Get both 13-page Bold & Eclectic Blueprints and create one expressive, cohesive design language across your front yard and backyard with practical step-by-step guidance.
$16
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Looking for help planning the bigger picture?
The Fix My Yard Workbook helps you step back, identify what isn’t working, establish priorities, and turn a yard full of ideas into a plan.