A green, foliage garden, calm and lush.
A garden does not need flowers to be beautiful. A green, foliage-led scheme – built from leaf shape, size and texture rather than colour – is one of the calmest, most sophisticated looks there is, and it stays lush and handsome for far longer than any flower display.
First design free · no card needed · UK plants
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BeforeWhy a foliage garden works
When you take flower out of the equation, what is left is form and texture – and that is where lasting beauty lives. A green garden plays fine, feathery ferns against big, bold hostas, glossy leaves against matt, upright grasses against clipped domes. The result is calm, cool and endlessly restful, the perfect antidote to a busy life.
Because foliage lasts, a green scheme looks good for months on end rather than peaking for a fortnight. Work with every shade of green – lime, emerald, blue-green, gold-green – and the odd silver or dark-purple leaf, and the 'all green' garden turns out to be surprisingly varied and rich.
Plants for a green, foliage garden
Your planting plan lists them in full, with how many to buy and where each goes – so the garden in the picture is one you can actually plant.
Ferns
fine, feathery texture for cool green depth
Hostas
big, bold paddle leaves for contrast
Ornamental grasses
movement and fine texture among the leaves
Box and clipped evergreens
solid green structure and form
Euphorbia
architectural mounds with lime-green heads
Alchemilla (lady's mantle)
lime-green froth to knit it together
Fatsia
huge glossy leaves for a lush, exotic note
Acers (green kinds)
graceful foliage and a focal point
Bamboo
vertical green and gentle movement
Hakonechloa
cascading golden-green grass to soften edges
See a foliage garden on your own space
Upload a photo of your garden, choose a green, foliage-led scheme, and see it redesigned as a calm, textural, leafy space – a photorealistic picture of your own borders, keeping your structure as it is.
When you love it, the planting plan names every plant, how many to buy and where each goes. Your first design is free.
Good to know.
Everything people ask about a green & foliage garden.
How does the AI garden design work?
Upload a photo of your garden or a single border, and tell us what you'd like: refresh your borders, keeping your garden's shape, or redesign the whole space with new layout, paths and planting. Pick a style, and we generate a photorealistic redesign of your actual garden. When you love one, unlock its planting plan – every plant, how many to buy, and where each goes.
Are the plants real – can I actually buy and plant them?
Yes. Every design can become a planting plan of real, available UK plants, with quantities, each plant's mature height and spread, where it goes and a month-by-month flowering guide. The plans are built on real horticultural data and shaped by a professional gardener – not generic AI guesses – so the garden in the picture is a garden you can genuinely plant.
Is the first design really free, and what does it cost after?
Your first design is genuinely free, with no card required. After that, subscriptions start at £19 a month. The professional planting plan is a separate one-off you only buy if you want to make a design real.
Is a green garden boring without flowers?
Far from it – a good foliage garden is all about contrast in leaf shape, size and texture, plus every shade of green. It stays lush for months rather than peaking briefly, and it is one of the calmest, most sophisticated looks in gardening.
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See it redesigned in about two minutes. The first one's on us.