These garden designs or layouts were intended for the truly committed - or those with a team of gardeners in their employ. Nonetheless, despite the complexity of many of these designs, many Victorian gardeners tried to have at least one flower bed that could demonstrate their bedding skills.

Design One: a Parterre of Embroidery. Parterre means a formal and decorative flower bed, using various bedding plants and/or gravel to achieve geometric forms.

Design Two: A Parterre intermixed with Embroidery and Turf

Design Three: An English Parterre, bordered with verges of Turf

Design Four: An Irregular Garden Plot.

Design Five: a long plot of land divided into parterre, wilderness and kitchen garden.

Design Six: A Mixed Parterre.

Design Seven: A Parterre in sections or cutwork.

Design Eight: The Disposition of a Long Plot of ground.

Design Nine: The distribution of an irregular plot of ground.