Brilliant Landscaping is a guide to planning a home landscape that fits where you live. It starts with the basics every yard shares, a plan on paper, a soil test, a hardiness zone and well-placed trees, then goes region by region across the United States.
Every guide is built from public sources: the USDA hardiness zone map, NOAA climate normals, EPA WaterSense, federal building research, state law and university extension services. We do not recommend nurseries, contractors or products.
Climate normals are averages over 1991-2020, not forecasts, and local rules differ. Your county extension office is the best next stop for advice about your own yard.